For starters, 19th-century Mormon pioneers were immigrants and refugees themselves, fleeing what they then viewed as a hostile United States to seek refuge in Mexican territory. Fast-forward to 2011.

In 1845 mob violence against the Mormon community increased, and the Illinois legislature revoked the city's charter. In April 1847, an advance party of 25 wagons led by Young left the Winter ...

Now the second largest city in metro Phoenix, Mesa was once a small community of Mormon pioneers. The city is no longer the bedroom community it once was. It now has more than 517,000 residents ...

From the first years of its existence, the Mormon Church sparked violent opposition from other Americans. This violence claimed many lives, including Mormon prophet Joseph Smith's, and eventually ...

I ordered a margarita, a decidedly un-Mormon thing to do. But otherwise I was faithfully following in the footsteps of the pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, many of whom ...

Together with its sister community of Hildale, Utah, it is the birthplace of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamous offshoot of the Mormon Church ...

The Mormon pioneers crossed the plains of North America in the mid-1800s, many of them atop covered wagons that rolled across the dry grass. Today a wagon wheel continues to travel between Provo and ...