Bud's
Third Book
The
Mormon and Mr. Sullivan
By Hugh F. Wynn
Hammonites
are going to love this book big time. Not just because of the excellent
story line, but because they will recognize places and people. While it's a
historical novel, Hammon natives will recognize some characteristics of people and
places they know well.
For
example, Busch City is Elk City. Did you know that Elk City's original
name was "Busch?" A post office was established there on
March 18, 1901. On July 20, 1907, Busch changed it's name to Elk
City. "Cade" is Carpenter. And believe it or not, "Whiteshield
Creek" that flows northward through the edge of Cade is Whiteshield
Creek. The book is fascinating. But Hammon readers familiar with
names and places alluded to in the book will certainly not want to miss
the great story line. This book will fun for anyone to read.
The
following excerpt is from the Barnes & Noble.Com Website. You may
order Bud's book online by clicking on this link: The Mormon and Mr. Sullivan
Synopsis
America
has suffered two September 11 terrorist attacks. You know about
the appalling World Trade Center/Pentagon atrocity...but are you
familiar with Mountain Meadows?
From
the Publisher
On the
southern rim of the Great Basin, north and east of a sun-baked
ninety-mile desert coils lush Mountain Meadows. It is a
serpentine pass located in what will become Washington County,
Utah's extreme southwestern corner, beginning about eight miles
south of the tiny community of Pinto. The Meadows, five miles in
length and generally one mile wide, dramatically narrows near
its southwest terminus. At its midpoint a gentle divide rises
and falls between the Basin and the Pacific Slope. Life-giving
fountains gurgle on opposite ends of the valley. The large
western spring supports a coverlet of coarse mountain grass on
the southern surface of the pass's thin ankle. An eight-foot
bank rises from the spring, a monument to its ageless trickle.
Below the bank stretches 300 yards of level ground, ideal for
encampment. On this spot, 140 men, women, and children, oxen and
mules for forty wagons and six carriages, 900 head of thirsty
cattle, and 250 horses stopped to quench their thirst and to
seek temporary refuse from the interminable heat and dust of a
four-month journey. Avenging angels lurked in the canebrakes
nearby.
Vengence is mine; I will repay, saith the
Lord. |
-- David Flick |