Plate 2 - Bootshop Sunset Winter RFPH nor is he lost

nor is he lost

She smiles as she reflects on the joy she feels when thinking of her son

An element that made this work so unique was Christensen’s choice to depict the widow as a young woman

and the lives of others

Plate 2 - Bootshop Sunset Winter RFPH nor is he lostI had been carefully studying Thomas Kanes account of his visit to the abandoned city of Nauvoo in September 1846. His account is unlike any other. About 15,000 Latter day Saints had left their homes and shops behind and headed west just months earlier. Kane recorded:****No one met me there. I looked, and saw no one. I could hear no one move; though the quiet everywhere was such that I heard the flies buzz, and the water ripples break against the