Author Catherine H. Ellis is a descendant of these early Mormon families and has spent nearly 30 years researching Navajo County history. With images drawn from the Taylor/Shumway and Snowflake Heritage Foundations, as well as from numerous shoeboxes in private homes, this retrospective chronicles the legacy of the pioneers who first answered the call to settle the area in 1876 and the towns that they--and their descendants--worked so hard to build.