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Faith And Betrayal
A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West
Denton, Sally
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.

In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rios great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rios experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rios enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence against nonbelievers, as well as the harshness of frontier life. She sets out for California, where she finds a new religion and the freedom she longed for. Unusually intimate and full of vivid detail, this is an absorbing story of a quintessential American pioneer.

BOOK REVIEWS
An authentic American epic. . . . A harrowing and heartbreaking tale of the Old West that we have not heard before. Los Angeles Times Book Review

A great, often scary American story. The New York Times Book Review

Rich in the history of the time and redolent with strong personalities, Sally Dentons newest book is a compelling look at a slice of America through the lens of an unlikely pioneer. Santa Fe Journal

As taut as a mytery and as lucid as journalism, Faith and Betrayal is both intimate and epic.The New Mexican

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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1400034736
ISBN(13-digit): 9781400034734
Dewey Decimal: 978/.02092
Library of Congress: bl2006024661
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 216
Paper Weight (lb): .55 lb

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