Forgotten Utah
The History
The novel is fiction. These events are not. Short accounts of what the dolls witness, with places to read further.
- 1846–1847Illinois to Winter Quarters
The Exodus from Nauvoo
In February 1846, families began crossing the Mississippi out of Nauvoo, Illinois, starting a migration that would end in the Salt Lake Valley.
- September 1857Southern Utah
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
An emigrant wagon train bound for California was attacked and roughly 120 men, women, and older children were killed in a mountain valley near present-day Enterprise.
- March 8, 1924Carbon County, Utah
The Castle Gate Mine Disaster
A coal dust explosion in Castle Gate Mine No. 2 killed 172 miners, one of the deadliest mining accidents in Utah history.
- 1720–1850sGlasgow, Tyrone, and the Mohawk Valley
Two Roads West
How a Scottish linen family and a New England merchant family both ended up in the Utah desert by entirely different routes.