JUNE 1907 NORA AND DANIEL When John Reilh left Daniel's side and rode out of Nora's sight (she'd been hiding at a nook in the Butte) she...

1906 JOHANNSON First thing in the morning, Emmaline Johannson rides Opal, their farm horse, for over an hour to get to the Big Fill. She...

1906 NORA AND DANIEL On the way down to Livingston's camp on what would soon be the Lowline, Daniel and Nora came upon a loose herd of...

DANIEL My first day in Blackfoot, after breakfasting with Lewis and suffering through his prayer entreating Joseph Smith and then seeing...

MCCANDLESS AND DANIEL As we made our short way north out of Blackfoot, Lewis greeted every other passerby with a Brother or Sister...

1904 DANIEL It was John Garrison's and Hugh Fleming's duet, a pair of lectures at MIT under the banner of "Measuring (and Winning) the...

MAY 1897 THE UNITED AND THE SKEENS "'Preciate you coming up, Lewis," says Lyman Skeen. "Tis an honor," McCandless says. "It would be...

FEBRUARY 1897 CHAPMAN Charles Chapman's face drains of movement. He is a painting, a statue, frozen in a moment, a place between a past...

JANUARY 1897 CHAPMAN Sam Lowe's son's telegram, a single word as instructed—"Time"—signaled Wiggins. He went to the Governor, fairly...

JUNE 1896 THE UNITED "But we be a Mormon ditch," Hans Christiansen protests, appalled at the suggestion of appointing Gentiles to Board...

MAY 1896 MCCONNELL "Damn the man!" Governor McConnell slams his fist on the Blackfoot courthouse desk. His two aides take care to be...

MARCH 1896 THE SKEENS "It's going to take more outside money. Lots." Moroni Skeen looked to his brother, Lyman, then let his eyes...

FEBRUARY 1896 THE SKEENS AND THE UNITED "Just how do you figure?" Moroni's voice cuts, accusatory and thwarting. John Griffiths...

1895 THE UNITED Charles Chapman closed his office door after showing the United's President, Benjamin Cluff, to the chair opposing his...

CHRISTMAS 1895 THE SKEENS "Not my notion of Christmas, Mr. Skeen," Harold Wiggins says, the Governor's aide speaking through a...

MARCH 1895 THE UNITED Just seven years ago only two Mormon families lived in Blackfoot, now there were enough to hold their Sunday...

PART TWO THE UNITED  APRIL 1894 THE UNITED Though the Church did its best to separate itself from worldly affairs, the economic panic...

NOVEMBER 23, 2012 DAVID It's a convergence event. A stationary snowstorm sitting over the Snake River Plain that rotates, two weather...

NOVEMBER 2012 DAVID David's impulse, a child's or an animal's, is to run. But logic emerges, stifles his initial instinct. He considers...

1908 REILH BROTHERS "If preacher-man is right, we should be coming up on where the new branch is supposed to take off from." Charles...