As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.
As a twelve-year-old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby as her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her.
Examines the Mormon journey from Illinois to Utah between 1846 and 1869 in order to escape religious persecution, and describes the individual hardships along the trail, the Mormon doctrine and practice of polygamy, and much more.
Discusses the experiences of people of the Mormon faith who left Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846-47 and traveled nearly 1,300 miles through the frontier to find a safe haven to practice their religion in Utah.
