Nancy G. (ComfyReader) reviewed on 12/10/2008 + 330 more book reviews

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Denton interprets a British ancestors experiences in crossing an ocean and a continent to join the Latter Day Saints in Utah. Jean Rio Baker was, by Dentons assessment, a wealthy Victorian woman who fell sway to the message of Mormon missionaries in the 1840s. Not long after her husband dies, she packed up her children and other members of her extended family and embarked from England on the arduous voyage to Utah.

Maybe it was her reality, but there seemed to be too much Mormon bashing in this book. It might have been that way, but as a biographer she certainly didnt take an unbiased view of the whole situation.

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