I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail by Susan Arrington Madsen (Deseret Books, 1994).
Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Lyman Bushman (Oxford University Press, 2008).
“The United States Marshals in Utah Territory” to 1896 by Vernal A. Brown (Graduate Thesis, Utah State University, 1970).
The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South by Patrick Q. Mason (Oxford University Press, 2011).
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley (University of Oklahoma Press, 2004).
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Once again, I’m forever indebted to my husband, Rob, for believing not only that I could write this story but that I must; and to Judithe Little, Julie Kemper, Lois Stark, Rachel Gillett, and Bryan Jamison whose input shaped every scene and whose encouragement sustained me when the blank page loomed large.
My gratitude goes each person at Skyhorse Publishing for keeping the written word alive; to my editors Herman Graf and Kim Lim for their determined commitment to this novel; and to Bill Wolfsthal for his unwavering can-do, will-do spirit.
I owe a debt to my editors Josie Humber and Maria Rejt at Mantle in the United Kingdom for seeing possibilities that I didn’t and for pushing and pulling me to make the book the best it could be. My thanks go to everyone at Pan Macmillan for their commitment to the written word including Jon Mitchell for his problem-solving ability and for casting a wide net.
My thanks go to Mary Chamberlain, copy-editor, for her extraordinary talent and for making the process fun; and to my agent, Margaret Halton, who understands when a phone call is needed and then knows what to say.
My appreciation goes to Ellen Feldman for her friendship and wisdom; and to Sharron Vaughn, Al Kazmir, and Shelia Armstrong for their spirited and funny pep talks.
Lastly, my thanks go to the staff at Utah’s Bicknell Public Library for opening the library early so I could do research; and to the entire staff at Capitol Reef National Park in Utah for allowing me to read oral histories in the park’s archives and for being guardians of the orchards that were planted by the first white settlers in the 1880s.
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