Television

[bdrummond]

For anyone like me, that sees a historical show/movie and has to read up on to see what's accurate/not accurate it I've found a few good wiki entries:

Mountain Meadows Massacre - Wikipedia (at no point did they stop, or were near Fort Briger - it appears the whole Briger story was just tossed in).

Fort Bridger - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Jim Bridger - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Brigham Young - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Wild Bill Hickman - Wikipedia (also unexpected Jim Bridger link in the "Beheading of Old Elk" section)

 

[bdrummond]

Also a good read:

The real massacre was ‘so much more brutal’ — ‘American Primeval’ and the truth about Mountain Meadows

In a "Mormon Land" podcast, a historian and a tribal leader discuss the facts and fiction in "American Primeval"

www.sltrib.com

 

[LeSamourai]

Mountain Meadows was one of those things they somehow completely jumped over when singing the praise of "our pioneer forbears" in Sunday School growing up... Only learned about it as an adult when I started reading the kind of books the leaders labeled as "anti-Mormon."

 

[bdrummond]

Mountain Meadows was one of those things they somehow completely jumped over when singing the praise of "our pioneer forbears" in Sunday School growing up... Only learned about it as an adult when I started reading the kind of books the leaders labeled as "anti-Mormon."

As a Canadian it's not something we're ever taught, so I kind of started down one long rabbit hole when I googled Brigham Young and realized the story is loosely based on historical events.

 

[LeSamourai]

As a Canadian it's not something we're ever taught, so I kind of started down one long rabbit hole when I googled Brigham Young and realized the story is loosely based on historical events.

My wife is from Utah, and she never even heard a mention of it growing up, in school or otherwise.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

My wife is from Utah, and she never even heard a mention of it growing up, in school or otherwise.

I think I first learned about this after watching the excellent FX adaptation of Under The Banner Of Heaven piqued my interest in the seedy underbelly of the churches founding. I then found one of those poorly acted History Channel documentaries available streaming and while it was a bit of a slog it did highlight some of the more unpleasant areas of the LDS past.

 

[ranbalam]

I read a Peaky Blinders book recently and figured I'd take a pic and post the soundtrack they included.
The book was published before S5, which I didn't know when I bought it, should have looked at the pub date.