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Writer-historians and co-authors Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown tell the story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, offering key points and lessons from the darkest episode in Latter-day Saint history.

After 14 years, a new book by Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown is finally available: \

Authors Richard Turley and Barbara Jones Brown devoted more than two decades worth of research and writing to tell the aftermath of the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Authors of "Vengeance Is Mine" discuss the Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath, including what Brigham Young knew or did about the atrocity.

The Mormon Church on Friday released photographic copies of an 1825 letter written by church founder Joseph Smith Jr., the oldest ever found in his hand, in which he suggests occult methods for finding treasure guarded by "some clever spirit."

The ‘unfathomable’ scandal behind Netflix’s Murder Among the Mormons Car bombings, necromancy and fraud – a new true crime series sheds new light on a case that almost blew up the secretive religion Hofmann pictured after his arrest in 1985 Credit: third hour  “Welcome to Salt Lake City,” runs an old airline pilot joke. “Remember to set your watches back 10 years.”  It’s a tired gag. But it neatly captures the air of fusty eccentricity that most people – if they think abou...

How an accidental historian won over critics and shed light on two of Mormonism’s darkest hours (Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Richard Turley holds one of Joseph Smiths personal documents during a news conference to announce a release in the "Joseph Smith Papers" project in 2013. Turley recently retired. | Updated: March 4, 2021, 3:33 p.m. It was 1986, a dark time for Mormon historians. Just months earlier, infamous document collector Mark Hofmann had forged his way into the market ...

In the 1800s, humans were busy scurrying across the globe prying into the blank spots on the map, why? Because, of course, they were there. From the frozen poles of the Earth to its darkest jungles, we had a guy on it. Here in the United States, the transcontinental railroad had opened up the nation. But, despite nearly a century of poking around by native peoples, Spanish padres, men military, mountain and Mormon, there remained one big question mark over the terrain through which flowed the ...