AWARDS AND HONORS:

Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006.  (Passion and Principle)

New York Times “Notable Book” of 2003.  (American Massacre)

Western Heritage Wrangler Award, 2003.  (American Massacre)

Nevada Writers’ Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, 2003.

New York Times “Notable Book” of 2001.  (The Money and the Power)

Western Heritage Wrangler Award, 2001.  (“The Truth at Mountain Meadows” Magazine article published in American Heritage Magazine,  November 2001.)

Lannan Foundation Literary Grant, 2000.

REVIEWS:

“As Denton shows, Bill and Hillary are not the first American power couple.” (Passion and Principle, Publishers’ Weekly)

“With this book Sally Denton establishes herself as a first-rate historian of the American West.”  (Faith and Betrayal, Page Stegner)

“A splendid piece of writing…Not only a compelling read, but an important and illuminating one.”  (Faith and Betrayal, Judith Freeman)

 “An authentic American epic…A harrowing and heartbreaking tale of the Old West that we have not heard before.”  (Faith and Betrayal, Los Angeles Times Book Review)

“A great, often scary American story.”  (Faith and Betrayal, New York Times)

 “Gripping…An excellent introduction to one of the most controversial events in Western American history.”  (American Massacre, New York Times)

“It’s a story told almost as often as the Donner Party’s but never better than when Sally Denton tells it.”  (American Massacre, Harper’s)

“Harrowing in its detail, American Massacre is a brilliantly researched and elegantly written work.”  (Douglas Brinkley)

“From its first harrowing pages to the potentially explosive discovery described in the epilogue, American Massacre is hard to put down, a vivid account of persecution and paranoia, deceit and self-deception, cruelty and cover-up.”  (Geoffrey Ward)

“Sally Denton’s heavily documented account of what happened at Mountain Meadows is presented without bias—the signature of a true historian.  This monstrous incident may never be more sharply illuminated.”  (American Massacre, Evan S. Connell)

“American Massacre brilliantly captures a forgotten episode in our country’s history.  It is a fascinating story.”  (Howard Zinn)

“Magisterial.”  (The Money and the Power, New York Times)

“A must-read. . . . One of the most important non-fiction books published in the U.S. in [a] half century.” (The Money and the Power, Los Angeles Times)

 “The history of Vegas’s dark underside . . . has seldom been so abundantly and compellingly told.” (The Money and the Power,  Washington Post Book World)

“Riveting. . . Absorbing. . . A saga of underworld subculture that intersects with that of government agents, senators, and presidents and ranges from Cuba to Dallas to Watergate.”  (The Money and the Power, The Wall Street Journal)


“Something on every page hits like a meat ax. In their unsparing, meticulous reporting, Denton and Morris produce a compelling, important dossier.”  (The Money and the Power, New York Daily News)

“A dramatic picture of a lengthy, unresolved criminal investigation and a shockingly corrupt power structure.”  (The Bluegrass Conspiracy, Publishers Weekly)