Hammy and Boam in the Utah War
Detailed Description:
Breathe new life into your Utah social studies curriculum with the adventures of Abraham Harris and Jeroboam Sullivan. Written with the Utah educational standards in mind by prominent Utah storyteller Marvin Payne, this entry in Utah Adventure Series is based on the writings of the very participants in the Utah War!
…Abraham slipped out of bed as silently as he could. He dressed in his warmest clothes and tiptoed into the kitchen. There, he filled his pockets with bread and cheese and a couple of potatoes. He eased through the door and across the yard to the little shed where his father kept tools. He reached up to the highest shelf and carefully hefted down a bag of black powder. In a drawer he found several pounds of lead balls, about the size of marbles, which he poured into another bag. There was only one rifle in the family, and his father had taken it with him. When Abraham arrived at wherever the Nauvoo Legion was camped, surely someone would come up with an extra gun. He looked back across the yard at his mother’s dark window. Then he struck off into the cold night. Abraham Harris was going to war…
For as long as he can remember, Jeroboam’s only home has been Saint Timothy’s orphanage. Then, On an October night, Jeroboam watches Saint Timothy’s burn to the ground. There’s not much of a future, it seems, for an orphan in St. Louis. But Jeroboam’s luck changes when a mysterious stranger whisks him away on an outlandish adventure---selling medicine to the army on its way to Utah to put down the Mormon rebellion.
Abraham Harris has spent nearly all of his life in Salt Lake City. But when word arrives that the United Sates Army is on its way to Utah and looking for war, it seems that the Mormons will have to fight to keep their desert home. As his father takes the family rifle and heads for Echo Canyon, Abraham wonders what’s in store for his people.
Can war between the Army and the Mormons be avoided? With every passing day, Abraham and Jeroboam come closer meeting---and to finding out!
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