Lawlessness in Utah? What "fringe"? For starters, bootlegging was common in the 1920s. A fire in one neighborhood spread from house to house -- one spectacular explosion after another as basement stills ignited. Other issues--"Mountain Common Law, " lynchings of Blacks and Asians, the admissibility of divine revelation as courtroom evidence, Salt Lake's experiment with managed prostitution -- all contribute to a genuine page-turner.