Amy Utter�s Journeys: TB and Other Tragedies in Rural America�s Heartland chronicles a young woman, devastated by a broken marriage in 1924, who searches for �Fun, with a capital �F,�� yet embraces her Christian fundamentalist beliefs along with her �Romeos.� Then comes the �Great White Plague� � tuberculosis. In a Missouri sanatorium she balances faith in her God with trust in 1930 medical science, until the end. The book, taken from her diaries, provides a striking background of the rural heartland of more than 75 years ago, and includes genealogical references to generations of Utter ancestors and descendants.