
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio’s great-great-granddaughter, uses the lo...
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (July 11, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400034736
ISBN-13: 978-1400034734
Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1554525
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This was a totally unexpected summer read. I decided to look up ancestors and found that this book was written about my great, great, great grandmother. I knew of the piano crossing the prairie and even have visited her grave in Antioch, but to read...
ry to re-create Rio’s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rio’s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence against nonbelievers, as well as the harshness of frontier life. She sets out for California, where she finds a new religion and the freedom she longed for. Unusually intimate and full of vivid detail, this is an absorbing story of a quintessential American pioneer.