The real Fort Bridger is much smaller — and set in an entirely different state — than the one featured in ‘American Primeval’

Westerns – thanks to shows like Yellowstone – have come back in a huge way. And what’s more: American Primeval tackles a fascinating subject, which is America’s only indigenous religion: Mormonism and it’s (literal) war for legitimacy.

American Primeval” revolves mostly around a woman and her young son making their way west in the hopes of reaching a faraway settlement where, the woman assumes, her husband will be waiting for her. She and her boy go as far as they can on the still-unbuilt railroad.