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Author: James R. French
In the year 1838, with the Indians pushed west of Missouri and land values growing along the Mississippi, a new plague confronts the hardworking farmers: the Mormons. Feared because of the size and unity of the fast-growing church, Mormons are at first welcomed for their industrious nature, then tolerated, then persecuted as they seem to dominate the voting in every county in which they settle.
Attackers marched against Mormon settlements at Far West and Haun's Mill, killing scores of innocent Latter-day Saints. The Mormon survivors straggled into a makeshift winter camp on the Banks of the Mississippi.
Into the Illinois countryside came Andrew Sharp, a correspondent for the Quincy, Illinois Argus, and his assignment is to write a series of undercover reports on the Mormons from within their new stronghold, soon to become the fastest growing city in Illinois-Nauvoo. There he meets Louisa Stephens, a young lady whose parents were killed at Haun's Mill. She has come to Nauvoo to start over, and that's where the story begins.
Mr. French has skillfully taken fictitious characters and mixed them with known historical figures of that era, interlacing them together until they all emerge as real people.
He has not sugar-coated everyone and everything. His characters do have flaws nicked into their personalities which make them much more believable. His descriptions are excellent. Under his pen flow words and sentences that mingle together and bring to life the historical people we have read about all our lives.
