Mormon Wife

By Peggy Alley

Most Mormon pioneers who immigrated to Utah in the 1800s settled in and around Salt Lake, but some were sent to homestead more remote areas. Goshen was such a place, settled in the 1850s by converts who had come mostly from Europe. These tough immigrants struggled for years to turn an inhospitable area of high desert into a real town. They moved from one cluster of dugouts and crude adobes to another until they found land that would support them.Mary Ann was born into that hard-scrabble life, growing up among industrious faithful Mormons, knowing little else. By the time she was a young woman, Goshen had a few hundred residents, a handful of stores and public buildings. But the railroad tracks were still years away from reaching the town. There was no newspaper or library or theatre. Like other residents of her isolated town, Mary Ann lived life according to daily demands for survival and the principles of her Mormon faith. She looked forward to marriage and motherhood, perhaps as a polygamous wife; perhaps not. But, in the summer of 1880, a young man arrived in Goshen, giving her a peek into the outside world and forcing some difficult choices. This book is based on the author's great grandmother.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484065824
• ISBN13: 9781484065822
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"