Editing Brigham Young (section)

==In culture==
{{In popular culture|date=March 2025}}
===In comics===
[[Florence Claxton]]'s  ''The Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights'' (1872), satirizes a would-be emancipated woman whose failure to establish an independent career results in her marriage to Young before she wakes to discover she's been dreaming.

Brigham Young appears at the end of the [[bande dessinée]] ''[[Le Fil qui chante]]'', the last in the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' series by [[René Goscinny]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Homer |first1=Michael |title=From Sherlock Holmes to Godzilla: The Mormon Image in Comics |magazine=[[Sunstone (magazine)|Sunstone]] |date=September 2010 |page=73 |url=https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/160-68-73.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.sunstonemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/160-68-73.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===In literature===
The Scottish poet [[John Lyon (poet)|John Lyon]], who was an intimate friend of Young, wrote ''Brigham the Bold'' in tribute to him after his death.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lyon|first=T. Edgar|date= 1989|title=John Lyon: The Life of a Pioneer Poet|location=Provo, Utah|publisher=[[Brigham Young University]]|isbn=0-88494-708-4|url=https://rsc.byu.edu/book/john-lyon-life-pioneer-poet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/john-lyon-life-pioneer-poet/fair-home-my-choice-1853-1889|title="Fair Home of My Choice" (1853–1889)| publisher=[[Brigham Young University]]|access-date=January 24, 2018}}</ref>

[[Arthur Conan Doyle]] gave Brigham Young a minor but pivotal in-person role in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] [[short novel]] ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]''. Young appears here in a scene set in 1860, some time before the novel's publication in 1887. Doyle had based this work, the first Holmes story, in part on Mormon history and portrays the Mormons and Young unsympathetically. When asked to comment, Doyle responded that he "provoked the animosity of the Mormon faithful"  and that "all I said about the [[Danite Band]] and the murders is historical so I cannot withdraw that though it is likely that in a work of fiction it is stated more luridly than in a work of history." Doyle's daughter stated that, "You know father would be the first to admit that his first Sherlock Holmes novel was full of errors about the Mormons."<ref>{{cite news |first=Harold |last=Schindler |author-link=Harold Schindler |date=April 10, 1994 |title=The Case of the Repentant Writer: Sherlock Homes' Creator Raises The Wrath Of Mormons |newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |page=D1 |id=Archive Article ID: 101185DCD718AD35 ([[NewsBank]])}}. [http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/041094.html Online reprint] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923063139/http://historytogo.utah.gov/salt_lake_tribune/in_another_time/041094.html |date=September 23, 2006}}, with permission, at HistoryToGo.utah.gov by the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage and Arts, State of Utah.</ref>

[[Mark Twain]] devoted a chapter and much of two appendices to Young in ''[[Roughing It]]''. In the appendix, Twain describes Young as a theocratic "absolute monarch" defying the will of the U.S. government, and alleges using a dubious source that Young had ordered the Mountain Meadows massacre.{{sfn|Turner|2012|pp=301–302}}

[[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.]], talking about his fondness of trees, joked in his ''[[The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table]]'': "I call all trees mine that I have put my wedding-ring on, and I have as many tree-wives as Brigham Young has human ones."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table|last=Holmes |first=Oliver Wendell|publisher=J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd|year=1952|location=London|page=222}}</ref>

In [[Fitz James O'Brien|Fitz-James O'Brien]]'s 1857 short story, "My Wife's Tempter", Brigham Young is depicted as an "apostle of hell", whose villainous disciple compels the hero's wife to annul her marriage and marry a Mormon.<ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Fitz James |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ALbITKK2PgQC&pg=GBS.PA188&hl=en |title=Collected Stories |date=1925 |publisher=A. & C. Boni |language=en}}</ref>

===In film and television===
Young's character has appeared in a number of films. [[Dean Jagger]] played him in the eponymous 1940 film ''[[Brigham Young (film)|Brigham Young]]''. In ''[[The Avenging Angel]]'' (1995), he is played by [[Charlton Heston]]. [[Terence Stamp]] plays him in the 2007 film ''[[September Dawn]]''. In ''[[Hell on Wheels (TV series)|Hell on Wheels]]'' (2011–2016), he is portrayed by [[Gregg Henry]]. He is played by [[Kim Coates]] in the Netflix miniseries ''[[American Primeval]]'' (2025).

===In theater===
In the 2011 satirical musical ''[[The Book of Mormon (musical)|The Book of Mormon]]'', Young is portrayed as a tyrannical American regional warlord, cursed by God to have a [[clitoris]] for a nose—a parable cautioning against [[female genital mutilation]].<ref name="auto1">{{Cite book|title=The Book of Mormon: The Testament of a Broadway Musical|last1=Parker|first1=Trey|last2=Lopez|first2=Robert|last3=Stone|first3=Matt|last4=Harris|first4=Mark|publisher=Newmarket Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-06-223494-0|pages=113}}</ref>