It's homecoming in Absaroka County, Wyoming, but the festivities are interrupted when a homeless boy wanders into town. A Mormon "lost boy, " Cord Lynear is searching for his missing mother. Sheriff Longmire and companions Victoria Moretti and Henry Standing Bear embark on a high plains scavenger hunt to reunite mother and son. The trail leads to an interstate polygamy group that's harboring a stockpile of weapons and a vicious vendetta.

John Shefford rides into a Utah valley in search of a new life and finds it in Fay Larkin. Even when she is accused of murder, Shefford risks everything to break her out of jail and trek across a trackless wasteland. Reissue.

It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. A rich account of her family's polygamous history is revealed, including how both she and her mother became plural wives. Yet soon after Ann Eliza's story begins, a second narrative unfolds - a tale of murder involving...

Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women that draws on nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts created by first-generation Latter-Day Saints.

1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel in the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way.

"In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how [Joseph] Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: How his most seismic revelation?the doctrine of polygamy?created a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. Mormonism is America?s largest and most enduring native religion, and the ?martyrdom? of Joseph Smith is one of its transformational...

A remarkably illuminating biography of one of America's most fascinating political figures--including news-making revelations from Mitt Romney himself about dissension within today's Republican Party--written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic. Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump's GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing...

Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....

Detective Abish Taylor left Utah for a reason, but with her husband's passing she's come home to reconnect with her family. Now she's serving as the sole police detective in the small town of Pleasant View. When the quiet Mormon suburb in the Wasatch Mountains is shaken by a macabre death-- with the hallmarks of a sacred ritual dating back to the days of Brigham Young-- Abbie uncovers the dark side of the picturesque neighborhood. She'll discover...

A gripping account of Rebecca Musser's struggle to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints led by Rulon Jeffs and his son, Warren, and her subsequent decision to take the witness stand against the new prophet of the FLDS in order to protect her little sisters and other young girls from being forced to marry at shockingly young ages.