relates the hardships they endured in Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois - and on the trek to Utah. They were stripped of their property and shot down by armed mobs, and they died by the hundreds as they were driven from their homes

someone to go to Santa Fe in 1846 to bring back the pay of the Mormon Battalion, Lee had to drop everything and make the difficult trip. Lee had no more than settled down in Salt Lake when Brigham called on him to uproot himself and lead the settlers into the southern Utah district. Young knew that Lee was not solely responsible for the Mountain Meadows affair, yet Mrs. Brooks shows no evidence that Brigham ever raised a hand in Lee's defense as he alone shouldered the blame. But nothing became Lee like his death; and he went to his doom without a whimper, loving his leader, Brother Brigham, to the end. The book is written in a spritely style, has some useful photos of Lee's Ferry, two good maps, and a valuable summary of data on Lee's eighteen or nineteen wives and their sixty children. In a critical vein this reviewer has reservations about Mrs. Brooks' use of direct quotes of conversations for which there cannot possibly be any reliable documentation. Documentation generally is spotty, but no doubt this can be excused by the economics of publishing and the public contempt for footnotes. The chronology sometimes is difficult to follow; i.e., the day of the week is mentioned, but the date in the month and the year frequently are obscure. It is by no means clear from the text, for instance, exactly on what day the Mountain Meadows Massacre occurred. Perhaps no one knows precisely, but a statement of that fact would save the reader some puzzling. All in all, this is a useful and readable work by a thorough scholar of the subject. Certainly it catches the spirit of the times when John D. Lee lived. It presents him as he was