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Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West (2005)

door Sally Denton

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Biography & Autobiography. History. Nonfiction. HTML:In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio�??s great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rio�??s experience. While she marvels at the great natural beauty of Utah, Rio�??s enthusiasm for her new life turns to disillusionment over Mormon polygamy and violence against nonbelievers, as well as the harshness of frontier life. She sets out for California, where she finds a new religion and the freedom she longed for. Unusually intimate and full of vivid detail, this is an absorbing story of a quintessential American… (meer)

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Based on the diaries of her grandmother, the author recounts the story of Jean Rio. Born into some wealth in England, she became convinced of the Mormon faith and after the death of her husband, came with her children to the United States. She became part of many from England who were recruited by Brigham Young to settle in the West where the group could form their own culture and basically a government to themselves.

I heard the author interviewed on NPR regarding another book she has written and having just read "The Prophet's Wife" this book also about the founding of Mormonism sounded interesting.

Eventually Jean Rio becomes discouraged with the faith and leaves. Interesting in places, draggy in others. (

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maryreinert | Sep 22, 2022 |

Excellent, eye opening read. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read about pioneer life in the United States, especially from a woman's perspective. I felt almost connected to Jean Rio, having Latter-day Saint ancestry myself.

21stcbibliogoddess | Jul 21, 2013 |

Fair writing. Okay story about a woman that leaves England's religious oppression to become more oppressed by the Mormon's that she has joine din th US. Interesting history of how the MOrmon's recruited immigrants and how they eventually make it to Utah. (

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