Silk and Cactus: The Story of the Builder of the Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ

Silk and Cactus is the remarkable story of a young man who seemed destine to migrate from London to Salt Lake City in the 1800s to build the world renown Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ. Along the way, he and his wife nearly circumnavigated the globe, mined gold in Australia, buried their second and third child in California, and participated in the Utah War. The Salt Lake Tabernacle Organ was a cultural wonder in the untamed American West.