Novel, Historical Fiction

Mormons--Fiction

Storm Testament V is set in Utah Territory in the 1880s when the U.S. Congress, federal judges, appointed governors, U.S. marshals and the President of the United States are determined to crush the Mormon Church, with polygamy as the central issue. Polygamist Dan Storm, several of his children, and others find their families being torn apart in what they see as a one-sided and unfair conflict. With Church leaders on the run, wives being forced to testify against husbands, good men going to jail without bail, foreign immigrants being refused U.S. citizenship and the vote, Church property being confiscated by determined U.S. marshals, and the Mormon people themselves unable to agree on the issue of polygamy, this is a story of tragic proportions as everyone, Mormon and gentile, plays the great Utah guessing game of trying to figure out who is really married to whom. (Publisher website)

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335p.