Coyote Moon

Coyote Moon: How a Pioneer Woman Survived a Religious Cult, Personal Heartbreak, and Denied Justice

In June 1862, a cannon blast at a remote Utah fort shatters a young girl's faith and binds her fate to a little-remembered frontier war. Coyote Moon follows Emma Thompson from immigrant poverty and a breakaway Mormon sect to steamboat dreams, Montana mining towns, and the rough new settlements of Idaho, tracing the quiet revolutions of a woman who keeps surviving when systems and men fail her.

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