Quicksand and Cactus
A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier
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introduction by Charles S. Peterson
Now in its eighth printing, Emma Lee is the classic biography of one of John D. Lee's plural wives. Emma Lee experienced the best and worst of polygamy and came as near to the Mountain Meadows Massacre as anyone could without participating firsthand.
Juanita Brooks was a historian of the American West and of Mormon history.