Villages on Wheels: A Social History of the Gathering to Zion - Paperbackby Stanley Buchholz Kimball (Author) The enduring saga of Mormonism is its great trek across the plains, and understanding that trek was the life work of Stanley B. Kimball, master of Mormon trails. This final work, a collaboration which he began and which was completed after his death in 2003 by his photographer writer wife, Violet, explores that movement westward as a social history, with the Mormons moving as "villages on wheels." Like a true