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English
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Open Midnight : Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet
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San Antonio, Texas
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Trinity University Press
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232
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[2017 Association for Mormon Letters Finalist for Creative Non-Fiction]
Open Midnight weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness--Brooke Williams's year alone with his dog ground truthing wilderness maps of southern Utah, and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the wilderness almost to Utah, dying a week short. The book is also about two levels of history--personal, as represented by William Williams, and collective, as represented by Charles Darwin, who lived in Shrewsbury, England, at about the same time as Williams.