The Work and the Glory Vol 9. “all Is Well”
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The Work and the Glory, Vol. 9
This is the last installment of the widely successful series of the fictional Steed family and their lives in early “Mormonism”. The series, which ends with Vol 9, “All is Well”, is lengthy and owes much of its “non-fictional aspects to the writings and journals of early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The author uses end notes at the chapter end to show which characters were fictional and which were real.
This volume finds the Steed family split up again as the different couples and young families find themselves, do to the authors devices, in different situations of the early expansion of the country and the exodus of the church. One couple is on the Brooklyn, sea going vessel which carried Mormon pioneers around the southern tip of South America to land in San Francisco, California.
Another couple in the Steed family was employed by the ill-fated Donner-Reed party. Gerald Lund, the author, uses this device to tell not only the tragic story of the Donner party, but also he splits the couple up so the wife can leave at Fort Bridger and take up with some other members of the church heading to Santa Fe.
He uses yet another