For Mormons, July 24 is Pioneer Day, a holiday commemorating the date when Brigham Young and an original band of Mormon pioneers entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. My grandmother’s grandmother, ...

2,500 Mormons created a settlement called “Cutler’s Park” in August 1846 in what is now Omaha. The settlement is considered Nebraska’s first town. The settlers got permission from a U.S. Indian Agent ...

July 24th is Utah’s unique holiday. It commemorates the arrival of religious pioneers fleeing persecution in the Midwest. For many in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, their arrival ...

Now the second largest city in metro Phoenix, Mesa was once a small community of Mormon pioneers. It's home to the Chicago Cubs and the Athletics spring training facilities. Mesa covers more than 138 ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the U.S. government came to a violent head in the 1850s. The Mountain Meadows ...

DAVENPORT -- Before they went back to school, a group of about 70 teens went back even further. They slipped back to the mid-1840s and took a three-day "Faith in Every Footstep" Mormon Pioneer Trek, ...

The Museum of Mormon Mexican History was started by Fernando and Enriqueta Gomez. Though he attended church in Mexico as a young boy, Fernando still learned about the pioneers in the United States.

Utah officials, along with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, unveiled a monument Friday honoring African American pioneers at a park in Salt Lake City. The monument, entitled ...