Follows the lives and loves of those settling the West in the years 1857 to 1869 and highlights events taking place in Great Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and the desert Southwest.

This book is the first comprehensive history of the Civil War as it was fought from the western fringe of the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean, and it portrays in rich detail the battles, personalities, and issues involved.--[book cover]\\Details the Civil War as it war fought from the western edge of the Mississippi Valley to the Pacific Ocean.

Another testament of Jesus Christ. An account written by the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi. A basic book of scripture which undergirds the teachings and doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

A brief history of the Mormons in America: their journey westward, their founding of Salt Lake City, and their influence on and development of the West.

In Draper, Utah, a tight-knit Latter-day Saints community is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor-one of the bishop's right-hand men-is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Carl Ashby was known as a devout Mormon, a pillar of the community, and a loving husband and father. Who would want him dead? Linda Wallheim, the wife of the bishop, can't rest as long as the ward is suffering. She is particularly worried...

Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen.

Zane Grey wrote this splendidly thrilling sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage in 1915, but for almost ninety years it existed in a profoundly censored version. Young John Shefford, escaping from his troubled past in Illinois, heads west to follow up the curious legend of three people living imprisoned in Utah’s isolated Surprise Valley, one of whom is a beautiful girl named Fay Larkin. Shefford, half in love with the girl he’s never met, is determined...

"Solomon, daughter of Rulon Clark Allred, was twenty-eighth of forty-eight children born to her father's seven plural wives. She recounts growing up in a family often split up, living on the run or in hiding. Choosing monogamy for herself, she struggles to remain close to her polygamous family"--Provided by publisher.

Rose Madsen will do anything to keep from being married off to one of the men in her Fundamentalist Mormon (FLDS) community, even endure the continued beatings and abuse of her mother. But when her mentally handicapped baby sister is forced to strangle the bird she loves at the behest of the Prophet, Rose frees the bird and runs away. Adan Reyes will do anything to escape the abusive foster care system in Phoenix, even leaving his good friends and...