William Taylor was eleven when a Mormon elder knocked on his grandfather’s door at No. 3 Engine Lane, Beggarley Bottom, England. To the young collier, who had worked in the coal mines since he was eight, the call of the Church to gather to America—land of Indians, buffalo, and enough food for all—sounded like a dream come true. In Show Me the Rocky Mountains! author Thelma Hatch Wyss skillfully recreates the world of the collier in England, the rigors of a long and sometimes terrifying sea voyage to the New World, and the courage of the pioneers who pushed handcarts across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley.