Embark on An Extraordinary Journey with My Own Pioneers!

DENVER - Feb. 18, 2015 - PRLog -- the American West, and even Mexico.

This memorable journey is the culmination of fifteen years of painstaking research as the author carefully reconstructs the pioneer struggles from before 1830 to 1918 using information from family journals, memoirs, histories and letters.  Through this vivid true account, the author illuminates, in a highly readable way, the experiences of family members as they struggled on, through sacrifice, persecution and desperate circumstances, to open up the hostile Western deserts as they helped to establish a new religion.  My Own Pioneers (in three volumes) paints an authentic picture, rich in detail and emotion, of the early Latter-day Saints who sacrificed everything for their new faith.

      Volume I - Pioneering the Borders / The New Saints, 1830-1847

The first volume of My Own Pioneers tells how family members gave up their homes and fortunes to join a new church; how they journeyed among Indians on the frontier and sailed through nearly catastrophic ocean storms to preach in England; how they were driven from three states by mobs and mob wars, losing everything time after time; how dozens of family members were among the Mormon refugees who died in exile by the hundreds, of illness, starvation and exposure at the Missouri River; and how, despite everything, they joined the U.S. Army’s Mormon Battalion and marched down the Old Santa Fe Trail to the war with Mexico.

My Own Pioneers is an important work illuminating the legacy of the Mormon pioneers.  It is a compilation of true chronological accounts through which their lives, their sacrifices, and their considerable accomplishments, despite terrible hardship, may be honored.  With its extensive index, this book provides an excellent research tool for academics as well as history enthusiasts; and it uplifts every reader by showcasing the enduring strength and mighty faith of these pioneers.

         My Own Pioneers

Volume I:   Pioneering the Borders / The New Saints, 1830 - 1847
Volume II:  Pioneering the West / Defending Zion, 1847 - 1880
Volume III: The Last Pioneers / Refuge in Mexico, 1876 - 1918