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“The saga of frontier Provo continues with this meticulously documented account of two of the growing settlement’s most difficult and bittersweet years. Millions of grasshoppers and a severe draught ravaged the crops in 1855, a year sweetened only by the appearance of manna on the leaves of the trees along the lower stretches of the Provo River. Deadly cold winter weather, a traumatic Indian uprising, and near starvation plagued 1856, the year the Great Mormon Reformation began. Troubled Times tells how the determined colonists managed to survive.”