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 long-lost diary to re-create
Rio’s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of
關於作者：
Sally Denton is the author of American Massacre: The Tragedy
at Mountain Meadows, September 1857; The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An
Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs, and Murder; and, with Roger
Morris, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its
Hold on America, 1947--2000. She received Western Heritage Awards
in 2002 and 2004, a Lannan Literary grant in 2000, and, for her
body of work, the Nevada Silver Pen Award of 2003 for distinguished
literary achievement. Her award-winning investigative reporting has
appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and American
Heritage. She lives with her three children in New Mexico.
目錄：
Jean Rio''s Family Tree
Preface: An Extraordinary Woman of Ordinary Virtues
ONE: "Worth a Long Walk to See"
TWO: A Wine Cask on the Channel
THREE: These Latter Days
FOUR: Committed to the Deep
FIVE: Snags and Sawyers
six: The Crossing
SEVEN: A Life of Toil
EmHT: Through the Veil
NINE: One Household of Faith
Epilogue: Peace at Last
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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