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Show Book Reviews and Notices 223 of country railroad stations as dim, listing eight major reasons for their decline in importance. T h o u g h faced with conclusive evidence that the small town railroad station is a structure of t h e past, the authors succeed in documenting one of the most vital elements of community life in America for a t least half a cen- tury. An excellent essay a n n o t a t i n g sources for further reading on both u r ban a n d rural railroad stations concludes this interesting book. TEDDY GRIFFITH Ogden 1 m Book Notices M/M/fy{\y^< '< 1 An Enduring SON UTAH Legacy. Compiled by L E S - COMMITTEE, PIONEERS. DAUGHTERS (Salt Lake OF City: Daughters of U t a h Pioneers, 1978. X + 447 p p . $10.00.) listing of post office openings a n d closings throughout the state. The Kirtland Economy Revisited: A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics. By M A R V I N S. H I L L , C. K E I T H ROOKER, A new D U P series in U t a h history has been launched, the fourth to be issued by t h e group. Similar in format t o its predecessors — Heart Throbs of the West, Treasures of Pioneer History, a n d Our Pioneer Heritage — the first volume in An Enduring Legacy includes some bibliographic d a t a a n d footnotes, features absent in most previous D U P p u b lications. T h e most detailed piece is "Historic Cosumnes a n d the Slough House Pioneer Cemetery," a seventy-page account of a M o r m o n family's activity in California gold rush country. Like most D U P compilations, the current work brings together a mass of information about less well-known people and events. The Post Offices of Utah. By J O H N S. G A L L A G H E R . (Burtonsville, M d . : The Depot, 1977.83 p p . $7.50.) Contains a short history of post offices in U t a h as well as a county-by-county and LARRY T. WIMMER. (Provo, U t . : Brigham Y o u n g University Press, 1977. Viii + 88 p p . Paper, $4.95.) This work employs economic statistics and d a t a to evaluate the highly emotional a n d heretofore moralistic conclusions about M o r m o n economics during t h e Kirtland period, particularly as they related to the banking experiences. I n so doing, the authors challenge most of the premises of both Brodie a n d Fielding. This very scholarly study argues t h a t the primary cause for the bank's failure was t h e absence of a "legal" charter. I n other economic aspects, M o r m o n leaders' behavior paralleled quite closely t h a t of western O h i o non-Mormons. Further, their expectations a n d hopes were, for their frontier, Jacksonian times, quite reasonable. Although this booklet m a y not satisfy everyone, it is a n excellent piece of economic detective work a n d a n important addition to M o r m o n history in Ohio. |
