On the long road to California, in the midst of forbidding and barren wastes, a religious sect, the Mormons, had planted a colony destined to a stormy career.

——在通往加利福尼亚的漫长道路上， 在荒凉贫瘠的荒地中，一个宗教教派摩门教徒建立了一个注定要风雨飘摇的殖民地。