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