Faith And Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage In The American West - Hardcover

Denton, Sally

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140004135X ISBN 13: 9781400041350

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Based on the diaries of the author's great-great-grandmother, the story of one courageous pioneer woman describes how Jean Rio, a recent widow and mother of seven, lured by the promises of Mormon missionaries, embarked on a long and difficult journey to Utah, where she found disillusionment, zealotry, violence, the loss of her wealth, and the repellent practice of polygamy, until she escaped to California and freedom. 30,000 first printing

About this title

Review:

"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 Denton's 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

About the Author:

Sally Denton is the author of American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857; The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs, and Murder; and, with Roger Morris, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947--2000. She received Western Heritage Awards in 2002 and 2004, a Lannan Literary grant in 2000, and, for her body of work, the Nevada Silver Pen Award of 2003 for distinguished literary achievement. Her award-winning investigative reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and American Heritage. She lives with her three children in New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 140004135X
• ISBN 13: 9781400041350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216