Papa Married a Mormon [Paperback]

John D Fitzgerald (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 298 pages
• Publisher: Western Epics; 1st Edition edition (July 31, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914740385
• ISBN-13: 978-0914740384
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Papa Married a Mormon, May 5, 2001

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Alice Quan (Beijing, China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Papa Married a Mormon (Hardcover)

This is my all time favorite book and I highly recommend to anyone interested in American history. A story about the old "wild west" and the people who made America the strong nation that it is today. A Catholic man falls in love with a Mormon woman and the what happens as they raise their family in Utah in the late 1860s, which had gunfights, saloon kings, and also faithful reverends, charitable women, and people whose lives changed for the better. Once you start, you won't be able to put it down. Author also wrote "Uncle Will's Saloon," a story which comes before this book, and aforementioned, "Mama's Boarding House." Both are not as good as this one, but still fun to read. Too bad they are out of print.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story of the Mormons & Old American West, October 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Papa Married a Mormon (Hardcover)

This was and continues to be one of my all-time favorite books. Reflects an accurate picture of early Utah and taming of the early west. Great reading for any adult who enjoyed the "Great Brain" books as a child, or for any young person or advanced child reader as well. I read this book when I was around 10 or 12 years old. The love story of Papa & Mama became my model for my own grown-up love story, and it pretty much happened to me as well. A great story with strong family values as the major theme. Incidently, John D. Fitzgerald also wrote, "Mama's Boarding House," which I have yet to find as an out of print book to purchase.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An American Classic, July 10, 2000

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Aaron (Ogden, UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Papa Married a Mormon (Hardcover)

Papa Married a Mormon is an American Classic. It has long been one of my favorite books ever written and is recommended to anyone interested in the true Mormon story and the American West. If you've read the Great Brain books as a child, don't miss Papa Married a Mormon. Rarely do we have such a writer as John D. Fitzgerald. It's too bad that we don't have such writers as him today. An American classic.