The Canyon Chronicles, Volume I

Spanning an epoch from 1845 to the beginning of the 20th century,
the story of the Gentile Nicholsons, the Mexican miner Juan Alicante
and his son, and their long-running feud with the Mormon Apostle
Ephraim Taylor, his son Ezra, and other assorted “prophets” and Danite
assassins, The Canyon Chronicles constitutes an astonishingly realistic
and totally believable story. So palpable are its characters, so solidly
based on what we know in real life, that distinguishing which aspects of
the story are historical and which are fictional becomes a task that can
be resolved only by consulting the history itself.
“K. Gray Jones is in the forefront with the best writers alive today in
his ability to capture the essence of a heart-rending situation, a tense
confrontation, and the description of a scene, whether it be a shootout
in the streets of Salt Lake City, the dining salon of a 19th Century
Western hotel, or a wild canyon.” - Penelope Leight.