By Stanley B. Kimball

The writer of this book is listed as an ancestor of the apostle, Heber Kimball. His background does show that he was imbued with all that the Great Basin and its inhabitants had to offer. Heber, himself, is a very interesting man. In ‘Holy Joe!” we meet Heber often: when he first visits Joseph Smith, when he struggles with the new law of plural marriage, when he takes his first plural wife, during a visit at Liberty Jail, etc. In the second book (Nefarious Elders and Long-suffering Saints) we find him almost continually beside his lifelong friend, Brigham Young. He will be a very prominent character and a very interesting one.