Summary of the Book

A Hundred years of Mormon history, told in novel form in the story of the pioneer town named for the Great Colonizer Brigham Young. It is a tale of toil, of hope, of sacrifice, of trouble, of lost love, and an odyssey, beginning in early nineteenth-century Denmark, and encompassing a dangerous sea-voyage, a trek to Utah by horse and ox team, Indian troubles, the tense "Move South" ahead of the coming of the U. S. Army, the building of two railroads, the founding of a city, and the building of a highly successful co-operative economic order. It is, besides all that, a testimony of a life lived under difficult circumstances, and the explanation of why the pioneer settlers went through what they did, and their feelings about it all, at the end.