We never sit still for long, do we? Another great book is in progress. Tentatively titled “Murder on a Still Morning,” Dan Neal’s book traces his family of Mormon pioneers from Missouri to Utah, and onward to their homestead in Idaho. His family endures a murder over water rights, the murderer’s trial and incarceration in the penitentiary, imprisonment for polygamy, the flu of 1918, multiple marriages, births, and deaths, and an enduring faith in their close-knit community of Latter Day Saints.

Polygamists at the territorial penitentiary near Salt Lake City in 1888.