Alamosa Public Library

When a lost Mormon boy wanders into Absaroka County, Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire teams up with feisty deputy Victoria Moretti and longtime friend Henry Standing Bear on a high plains scavenger hunt that leads them to a violent interstate polygamy group.

In order to encourage Mormon converts to immigrate to Salt Lake City, a plan was implemented by Brigham Young himself. Outfitted with two-wheeled handcarts, the immigrants were then expected to walk, pulling the handcarts, for the 1,300-mile journey from Iowa City. Several "companies", as they were called, completed this perilous trek and successfully reached Salt Lake City. But for the Martin Company, the last group to leave that year, the trip proved...

A shroud of secrecy cloaks a new nineteenth-century sect known simply as the Saints. But that veil is about to be drawn away. Amidst the majestic beauty of 1857 Utah, the members of one secluded religious group claim to want nothing more than to practice their beliefs without persecution. Yet among them are many who engage in secret vows and brutal acts of atonement... all in the name of God. But one young woman, Hannah McClary, dares to question...

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.

Documented historical account of the Trail, westward--from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, during the early period of Mormon migrations, 1845-1869.

After his family moves to Utah, sixteen-year-old Bart Elderberry has to adjust to a new school and new friends, as well as to the discovery that he can travel out-of-body--an ability that proves useful when he discovers a gang of dangerous criminals in his "travels."

"After a tragic accident took the lives of his wife and youngest son, as well as destroying his body to the brink of death, [the author] experienced a miracle. His out-of-body, near-death, and after-death communication experiences have guided him to a life of purpose and gratitude"--

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities--fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their...