Robinson, Clay Mulford

Clay Mulford Robinson was born in November 1920 in Caineville, Utah - now a ghost town. Years ago it was a thriving village on the Mormon frontier. His parents, grandparents, and great grandparents lived under circumstances similar to those of the people of fiction depicted in this novel, Await the Dawn on a Mormon Frontier. As a youth, Clay - riding his mustang friend, Whinny - tended sheep on the family-farm range and helped in the harvest on the farm. In 1938 he entered college, got a degree in journalism and English and began a career in journalism in 1941 with the Salt Lake Tribune. After...