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Hi, this is William Ramsey.

Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I have a very special guest.

Her name is Sally Denton.

She just published a book June 28, 2022.

Title of that book is The Colony, Faith and Blood in a Promised Land.

Really fascinating book.

Her publisher sent me a copy of it read through most of it really fascinating

this is not her first book she's a very accomplished writer with a really a great cv and i'll go through

a list some of her titles but her bio is that she is an investigative reporter author and historian

he writes about the subjects others ignore, from a drug conspiracy in Kentucky

to organized crime in Las Vegas, from corruption within the Mormon church to murdered women in New

Mexico, from one of America's bitterest political campaigns to the powerful forces arrayed

against Franklin D. Roosevelt. While the subject of her books at first glance

seemed varied or disparate, they are actually unified by a central theme of the exploration

of subjects in American history that have been neglected or marginalized, and characters whom I

return to their rightful places in history. She's a Guggenheim fellow, a Woodrow Wilson

public scholar, a Black Mountain

Kluge fellow, and the recipient of the Robert Laxalt Distinguished Writers Award and two Western Heritage

Awards. Her book, The Propheteers Beckdale and the men who built the world, one best

investigative book of 2016 from investigative reporters and editors for the

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