Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.

A rancher having 6000 head of cattle to get to market hires two gangs that hate each other. He figures each gang will not let the other rustle the cattle. Tex arrives looking for the man that killed his wife and took his horses. Finding his horses he joins the gang that are now riding them.

A lovely girl, who has been reared among Mormons, learns to love a young New Englander. The Mormon religion, however, demands that the girl shall become the second wife of one of the Mormons -- Well, that's the problem of this great story.

Thoroughly updated and revised, this guide covers fifty-six hikes in the two featured parks as well as the surrounding areas-Cedar Breaks National Monument, the Markagunt high country, and the Paunsaugunt area.

In Draper, Utah, a tight-knit Latter-day Saints community is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor-one of the bishop's right-hand men-is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Carl Ashby was known as a devout Mormon, a pillar of the community, and a loving husband and father. Who would want him dead? Linda Wallheim, the wife of the bishop, can't rest as long as the ward is suffering. She is particularly worried...

When a southern Utah community torn apart by environmentalists, landowners, and businessmen becomes divided even further by the death of a local environmental group leader, the local sheriff turns to a newly-appointed Bureau of Land Management ranger for help.

In the spring of 1983, Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same spring, Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the birds that Williams had come to guage her life by. Interweaving these narratives of dying and accommodation, this book transforms tragedy into a document of renewel and spiritual grace.

This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: There are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives, the demands of family, of friends, of work, and social obligation.

Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Includes maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated materials.

To save Jack Hare from Dene's outlaw gang, August Naab sends him with Mescal to his sheep camp in a isolated valley; even though Mescal knows that she is morally bound to marry August's son, Snap, the two fall in love.