survived and succeeded against incredible odds. An unwilling polygamous wife at age fifteen, Margaret McConnell Allen Hornback grew up in Cedar City, Utah, and came to hate plural marriage so passionately that she walked away and lost her son in the process. Breaking the stern religious code of Utah, she fled, penniless and destitute. The author weaves into the story "whispers" from her great-grandmother Margaret, who has long since passed on. Packed with thought-provoking examination of Utah's early times, laws, and attitudes. Extensive (233)footnotes and bibliography for Indiana, Iowa, Utah, and Idaho. Includes the stories of Jehiel McConnell — Irish convert, emigrant, explorer; Rufus Chester Allen — Mormon explorer and zealot; Anthony Hornback — Gold Rush '49er turned frontiersman, mule packer, and Indian fighter.

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