In the Company of Angels
True Stories of Angelic Encoungers

This is one of my all time favorite novels I have ever read. So well written, so honest and so faith affirming in ways I'd have never expected. Absolutely loved this book and recommend it to anyone with any interest in the early members of the LDS church. Not preachy, not always kind, but very worth......more

Like many Mormons with pioneer heritage, my husband's parents love to tell the stories of their illustrious ancestors: the grandfather who lived with two wives in Salt Lake City into the 1950s, the uncle who should have won a Nobel Prize, the many-times great-grandfather whose hymns figure prominent......more

As I have two ancestors from the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies, I was excited to read David's manuscript of this horrifying, yet courageous and heartbreaking story. With the early Saints selling their homes to come to Zion in 1856, there were some that had to come by handcart. Due to unforese......more

Eliza Chapman [Gadd:] was my 4th great grandmother, and her daughter, Mary Ann Gadd, was my 3rd great grandmother. Samuel Gadd of course was my 4th great grandfather. I had five other direct-line ancestors in the Willie handcart company, including William James, who was buried at the common grave at......more

It is impossible for me to be objective in rating this book because I identify so closely with the story. I have been inspired by it since my youth when my mother used to tell me of my great-great-grandmother, Mary Smith’s journey with the Willie Company. I have read every primary and secondary acco......more