“It may be that the facts here presented will have some effect upon the conscience of a nation too long indifferent.”—New York Tribune.
“Gives fresh and breezy pictures of pioneer life, and portrays the ideas, principles, and modes of the Mormons, showing the strange and curious ramifications of that remarkable system of government, and giving the key to many puzzling questions.”—Detroit Free Press.
“Not only literature but statesmanship of a high order ... handled with remarkable skill, delicacy, and reserve, and marked throughout by a temperateness of language and a reserve of feeling.... The story itself fires the imagination.”—Literary World (Boston).
“Thrilling enough to interest the most exacting lover of fiction, while solemn enough in its facts and in its warnings to engage the attention of the most serious statesmen.”—The Critic (N. Y.).
Part II.—An Appendix giving a concise History of Utah from 1870 to 1881: completion of Pacific railroads; incoming of Gentiles; opening of Mines; clash of Christianity with Mormonism; first Gentile Church; Mission Work; Hebrews and Catholics; Utah Legislature; Woman Suffrage; Need of Schools and free Education; Polygamous Marriages in 1880; the 70,000 Mormons in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada; a compact volume of information on the question of the day.
“An Appendix of many pages bristles with information to parallel the narrative’s fiction.”—Rochester Rural Home.
“A most valuable part is the Appendix of seventy pages, filled with historical confirmatory statements.”—St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
“A trustworthy history of Mormonism.... Never have its mysteries been more skillfully unraveled, never have the sympathies of the reader been more intensely aroused.”—Providence Journal.
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