American Primeval recently premiered on Netflix. The series featured the character of Brigham Young, a controversial figure ...

Smith may have received a revelation on polygamy as early as 1831 ... When told he should practice plural marriage too, Brigham Young said, "It was the first time in my life that I desired ...

Opinion was divided (as it still is) as to whether Smith was a martyr for the faith he believed in or a dangerous and cynical fanatic whose propagation of polygamy was done for his own selfish and ...

Mormon leader Brigham Young was appointed territorial governor ... "[We] were not nearly so much opposed to polygamy as we were to the political domination of the Church ...