Pioneer Tales

<p><strong>Tracing one family's settler generations to the American West an epic narrative spans decades and continents. </strong></p><p> </p><p> From the establishment of Kirtland Ohio to the mass wagon and handcart migration over the Mormon Trail to the formidable challenges of settling the Utah Territory Alan and Janet Clark's ancestral stories fill in the landscape between the founding years of Church history through the early settlement of the Mountain West. </p><p> </p><p> This book gathers stories and traces these family lineages over time in an amazing tapestry of family lines which sometimes overlap in surprising ways with ancestors from different families sharing friends settlements and pivotal historical experiences. </p><p> </p><p> <strong>Highlights include: </strong></p><ul><li>Ancestral conversion stories of Alan Clark and Janet Ruppe Clark's lineages. </li><li>Stories from Nauvoo. </li><li>Ancestral experiences relating to Joseph Smith's Martyrdom and Brigham Young's transfiguration. </li><li>John Lowe Butler the beginnings of the Mormon War and an unusual mission to the Emmett Expedition. </li><li>Family pioneer stories from Winter Quarters and the Mormon Trail. </li><li>Polygamy Pathways (seven of Alan and Janet's ancestral families practiced polygamy and each family ran differently. Their stories context and challenges play out here.) </li><li>Johnson's Army and the migration south.</li><li>Western settlement and homesteading stories. </li><li>Stories of noted settler Ebenezer Bryce. </li><li>Stories of ancestral support for temples at Nauvoo St. George Salt Lake and more. </li><li>The organization of the Primary. </li><li>Missions served by Alan and Janet Clark's ancestors. </li></ul><p><strong>Ancestral families with stories included in this book include:</strong></p><ul><li>The <strong>Clarks</strong> (Timothy Baldwin Clark and Polly Keeler Clark Ezra T. Clark and family Edward B. Clark and family). </li><li>The <strong>Stevensons<em> </em></strong>(Elizabeth Stevens Stevenson and her children). </li><li>The <strong>Randalls</strong> (Alfred Randall and family). </li><li>The <strong>Christensens</strong> (Karen Hansen Christensen Mads Christensen and family Jens and Trene Christensen and family Joseph and Emma Christensen and family). </li><li>Leven <strong>Simmons</strong> and family. </li><li>The <strong>Butlers</strong> (John Lowe Butler and family Kenion Taylor Butler and family). </li><li>The <strong>Durfeys</strong> (Royal Durfey and Lydia Able Durfey). </li><li>The <strong>Parks</strong> (David Park and Ann Brooks Park).</li><li>The<strong> Bryces </strong>(Ebenezer Bryce and Mary Ann Park Bryce William Bryce and Rosanna Goulding Bryce).</li><li>The <strong>Gouldings </strong>(Daniel Goulding and family).</li></ul><p>The stories of three generations of Alan and Janet Clark's ancestors unfurl through this book illuminating the pathway the families followed through distance and time building their legacies and living lives of adventure in the West. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong>If you love stories of the American West and the Utah Pioneers buy this book today!</strong></p>