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Show 336 Utah Historical Quarterly MEIER and FREDERICK H. SCHAPS- MEIER. (Danville, 111.: T h e Interstate Printers & Publishers, Inc., 1975. xviii + 374 pp. Paper, $6.50.) Less an analysis of farm policy than an apologia for conservatism, this document will be of very limited value to the historian. T h e writing, pedestrian at best, is further marred by open partisanship and heavy didacticism. Reproduced from typewritten copy and bound in paper, the book lacks aesthetic quality and appears to be overpriced. A Few Thoughtful Reflections of the Past. By C H A R L E S R I C H SNELGROVE. (Salt Lake City: Author, 1974. 63 PP) Fodor's Rockies and Plains: Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana. Edited by E U G E N E FODOR, BIRNBAUM, and ROBERT STEPHEN FISHER. (New York: David M c K a y Co., Inc., 1974. 319 p p . Paper, $4.95.) Fodor's guide books are well known to travelers in all parts of the world. This volume on the Rockies and Plains seems well done. T h e essay o n U t a h by Harry E. Fuller, Jr., of the Salt Lake Tribune offers more than the usual travel blurb in the way of historical background and insight into what makes U t a h the kind of place to visit and live in that it is. I n many ways Fuller's piece is a better statement about U t a h than some more pretentious books offer. T h e only fault worth mentioning is the implication on p . 121 that Wilford Woodruff was Brigham Young's direct successor rather than a later successor. Towns New Mexico. and Mining Camps of By J A M E S E. S H E R M A N BARBARA H. SHERMAN. (Nor- More than one hundred thirty ghost towns a n d mining camps are included in this well-organized guide. Entries are arranged alphabetically a n d accompanied by more than four hundred fifty historic and contemporary photographs. Maps and m a p coordinates locate each settlement. Index to Literature on the American Indian, 1972. Edited by JEANNETTE H E N R Y . (San Francisco: T h e Indian Historian Press, Inc., 1974. vi + 354 pp. $4.95.) John Mr. Snelgrove, founder of several Salt Lake ice cream stores, dictated his memoirs at age eighty-six. Ghost and m a n : University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. x + 270 p p . Paper, $4.95.) Tanner GEORGE and His Family. SHEPHERD TANNER. By (Salt Lake City: John T a n n e r Family Association, 1974. xiv + 466 pp. $8.00.) T h e prolific Tanners seem to have been everywhere in the West: San Bernardino, Arizona, Canada, a n d Payson, Utah. T h e story of this important family has been done well by George S. Tanner, a long-time L D S seminary teacher. T h e reader sees the Mormon experience from the viewpoints of different family members. An unusual and welcome feature of this family history is the use of footnotes. Wit and Whimsey in Mormon History. By DAVIS BITTON. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1974. x + 72 p p . Paper, $1.95.) Dr. Bitton has p u t together a choice collection—mostly from newspapers and diaries—of Mormon pioneer humor that should be well received by readers of all ages in U t a h and elsewhere. T h e serious business of pioneering, courtship, and church affairs were to the early settlers targets for satire, anecdote, humorous verse, and wry commentary. Lula Greene Richards's poem on the Cullom Bill is easily worth the price of the book. |
