The Ferry Woman: A Novel of the Mountain Meadows Massacre

The Ferry Woman, a novel of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, is a critically acclaimed account of John D. Lee and his relationship with his fictional wife, Emeline, who stays loyal to him up to the day of his execution.

Selected as Best Book of the Year by the Salt Lake Tribune, runner-up in the Utah Center for the Book competition, The Ferry Woman is a fictional account of the tragedy at the Mountain Meadows where 127 unarmed men, women,and children of the Fancher-Baker wagon train were brutally slain and left as feed for the wolves. The Mormon Church, without doubt, was directly responsible for the massacre committed by fifty white men. These murderers were from nearby Cedar City, the strongpoint in the Mormon controlled territory of Utah which was vast extending as far as California, and including Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada. To this day the Mormon Church the Mormon Church refuses to accept responsibility, and John D. Lee was the only man ever tried and executed for the crime. The Salt Lake Tribune called it a 'great novel.'