Mary Brown Firmage Woodward

Interesting stories about four generations of women on the Mormon frontier, from western New York state, to Missouri and Illinois, to Utah Territory, to western Canada, to the front stages of the modern Mormon Church. This isn't a history of major events and powerful figures, although these women all played on the public stage of Mormon leadership in some way. This is really the story of real women on the frontier and in the home. It is about how they raised children, kept homes, lived and believed. Without real people's stories history is distorted for the sensational.… (mere)