I am going to post my novel about Provo, Utah. THE EARTHKEEPERS is about hardy people who wanted to find a safe place to colonize the bare country of the vast west. They went to the Salt Lake desert because Indians were inhabiting the lush Bear River Valley to the north, and the Utah Valley to the south. The farmers scratched out a living in the heat, but their cows gravitated toward the greener grasses.
When the Indians began killing the cows, Brigham Young sent thirty families down to tame the natives, and build PROVO, UTAH. In 2006 it was named by the Sperling List the "Least Stressful" city in the entire United States of America. That's a good award. I'm not saying we are not stressed out sometimes! But I am now gathering photographs of old Provo, and taking some new ones for an Arcadia Publishing book about the city that will knock your socks off. But my novel will also tell it all! Here is the first paragraph:
The flat miles across the floor of the valley lay under a late March frost. On her way out the door to fetch water, Mara pulled Papa's leather jerkin from its nail beside the milk pan and flung it over her white robe. Though it felt stiff against her skin, it cut off the sharp wind whistling down Emmigration Canyon.
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