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Show (continued from front flap) Nettie May knew that entering plural marriage with John meant taking on a lifetime of insecurity. For seven years after her marriage she couldn't even admit that she was married, although she had borne her husband three children. As politics changed, she was alternately a child-producing "widow" on the underground and one of the elite of Mormondom as the respected wife of an Apostle. She had married a plunger and a speculator who even without the uncertainty of the times would have given her a chaotic married life. John's grandscale schemes ranged from land speculation in Canada and the Utah desert to gold mining in Mexico and wild gambles on such unlikely inventions as a rungless ladder. He made fortunes one month and lost them the next. But Nettie May had a wonderful and breathless ride on the coattails of John W. Taylor in a life that was at best precarious, at worst never dull. FAMilY KINGDOM tells a story that is highly unusual to say the least, and tremendously interesting. It is filled with the warmth and humor of a big family that stuck together in spirit no matter how hot the persecution or how far they were physically separated. Both as an unusual and absorbing story and as a unique contribution to a little-known side of American history, FAMilY KINGDOM is an important and extremely rewarding book. WESTERN EP!CS, INC. 254 Sou h ~1 ain Stre et Sal! L.:;!xe City, Utah 34 101 ....... ''''.. - .. :':.', <;...::~~ .: . ,;};: . . . ./ . . '" ~'-t.~: ..-:~:~~::. ' \ . ~...,. • -;.... - ~.~ l' , ' ~~. - 'l...... ..... y~~ .... '?: . \; :.~~:_ . ...-~ .-: :... . ,- . =.: ' . |
