This is "the tale of one family torn apart by mob violence in Nauvoo, making their way West across lifeless plains in the dead of winter. . . . The Richards' face impossible odds as they head for the basin of the Great Salt Lake. Faced with the spine-chilling possibility of being scalped by the Blackfoot and the sober reality of meeting members of the Missouri mob out on the plains, the Richards' struggle to go the way of their God" -- book jacket.