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Very different from what I expected. I expected western, but there is much more in this fictionalized account, the author took stories of his grandmother and mother and others of the period, of the goldrush and the settling of the west. The story begins at the end of the Civil War, the gold rush in the territory and the mining camps it spawned, to the development of freight routes from the mining camps to St. Louis and Salt Lake City.
I was surprised at the discrimination of all types of people, for whatever reason, and am surprised at the breadth and depth of it. North against South, religion (Mormon) against religion (Gentile though not Jewish), white against any color be it Indian, Mexican. This is book 1 of a trilogy that I will be reading through this year.

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I learned so much in this book; of the discrimination practiced by the ex-Union soldiers and the ex-Rebel soldiers against one another. The emotions stirred by that war were not just over slavery but from families divided by taking sides, enhanced by barbarities that took place on both sides of the conflict.
The irresponsible behavior of Army Commanders who would not see the difference between peaceful and warring Indians, and the atrocities they perpetuated in the taming of the west.
The discrimination of Mormons in Arkansas and Missouri which resulted in an off-shoot militia of embittered Mormons and the Mormon Church itself attacking and massacring wagon trains travelling through Salt Lake City from those states; this in retaliation for the death of Joseph Smith and the discrimination the Mormons had faced, and for the money and property the wagon trains carried.
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Bettesbooks | Jan 13, 2018 |

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7
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7
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3.8
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1
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5