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 ...

What inspired you to write Race and the Making of the Mormon People? Let me be a bit confessional. I’m not a Mormon, but Mormon culture has probably formed me more than any other religious culture ...

KIMBERLY — In less than eight hours Sam Anderson would leave on a trip that would require her to walk for three days and leave her cellphone at home. And the 17-year-old couldn’t be more excited.

The trek starts at Sixth Crossing — a pioneer crossing point on the Sweetwater River in south-central Wyoming — and snakes its way over a hilly landscape. It climbs the jagged limestone of Rocky Ridge ...