Salt Lake City — A.R. Riefe

LAND OF PROMISE, LAND OF PERIL

The Utah territory. A forbidding land of mountains and desert, savage Indian and hostile trapper. Here the Catton family came, following the Mormon leader Brigham Young, believing in his promise to make the desert bloom and create God's Kingdom on Earth. Ahead lay the hardships and dangers that would weld the family together, and needs and desires that would split it apart. Then came the moments of decisions that set father against son, with Mormon settlers and U.S. soldiers on the brink of catastrophic conflict, in the most momentous and moving drama the west had ever known…