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The Rainbow Trail is a tale of survival, rescue, and revenge, all steeped in the atmosphere of the Wild West. Twenty years ago, Jane Withersteen and her adopted daughter Fay Larkin were trapped in a remote canyon by evil men, and have not been heard from since. John Shefford, a preacher from Illinois, is determined to find out what happened to Jane and Fay. But will he be able to overcome all of the obstacles in his way including a harsh landscape,...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders -- some call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now Bill and Evelyn Wright, parents to 13 children and grandparents to many more, find themselves struggling to hang on to the majestic landscape where they've been running cattle for 150 years as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land...
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Pub. Date
1982
Description
Seared into Rebecca's memory were her mother's final words, "The trunk, guard it carefully. There is in it your only hope." Orphaned while still a young girl, Rebecca's only tangible heritage was a trunk which contained a wedding dress and a small black book. Concluding that her only hope was associated with the dress and the future marriage it symbolized, her life became a search for the one man who would make her dream come true. A trip west in...
12) Carousel dreams
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Series
Salt Lake dreams volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Ellie Weathers is a pioneer in her chosen profession, finding life in nineteenth-century Utah filled with romance and fraught with danger, intrigue and mystery. Resort owner Ellie Weathers is furious when she discovers her late grandfather spent his entire life savings to purchase a carousel for their Salt Lake resort. ... Bascom Anthony hasn't built a carousel since his wife and son died in a fire two years ago. Now it looks like the arsonist has...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The priceless ruby necklace secretly given to Ophelia Oatman by her dying mother isn't easily given away--nor is her virginity. But Ophelia must choose between them. The necklace becomes both Ophelia's ticket to freedom and shackles of shame. Fate, family legacy, hair color, the shape of her skull, sex, survival, the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and the tension between Mormons and Gentiles in the Utah Territory converge to shape her...
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Pub. Date
2008
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Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no "Indian" legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it -- once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. On Zion's Mount tells the story of this curious shift. It is a quintessentially American story about the fraught process of making oneself "native" in a strange land. But it is also a...
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