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Show 224 Victorian Utah Historical West. By LAMBERT FLORIN. (Seattle: Superior Publishing Co.. 1978. 190 p p . $14.95.) Florin's camera records more than a h u n d r e d Victorian structures in California, Oregon, a n d Washington a n d a sprinkling in Colorado, British Columbia, M o n t a n a , Nevada, I d a h o , a n d U t a h (one derelict house in Park C i t y ) . T h e book looks as if it were hurriedly thrown together from easily available materials to take advantage of current interest in the topic. Neither the photographs nor the text does justice to the architecture. Canyon Country Geology for the Layman and Rockhound. By F . A. BARNES. (Salt Lake City: Wasatch Publishers, 1978. 160 p p . Paper, $3.95.) Intended for the layman, this h a n d y guide describes the spectacular geology of southeastern U t a h a n d adjacent parts of Colorado a n d Arizona. Geologic time periods a n d their principal shaping events, the various rock strata characteristic of the Colorado Plateau country, the major a n d minor surface features, a n d information on collecting mineral specimens are included in the contents. If you can't tell a rincon from an anticline, you will w a n t a copy of Barnes's guide in your glove compartment or back pack. "Soul-Butter and Hog Wash." and Other Essays on the American West. Ed. THOMAS G. ALEXANDER. Quarterly the American West mirrored attitudes from their traditional Victorian American upbringing in such areas as religion, sense of propriety, a n d the need for order. T h e individualism of the cowboy is brought into question by D o n Walker, and Helen Papanikolas explores the sources of strain between M o r m o n s a n d new immigrants to U t a h around t h e t u r n of the century. Finally, in his article on U t a h politics, J. Keith Melville concludes that n o n - M o r m o n s m a y d o well even in the predominantly M o r m o n population of U t a h . Land of the Iron Dragon. By ALIDA E. Y O U N G . (Garden City, N . Y . : Doubleday a n d Co. 1978. 213 p p . $7.95.) This is an excellent, well-written novel about a fourteen-year-old immigrant who toils with other Chinese to build the Central Pacific Railroad across California, Nevada, a n d U t a h in the 1860s. Contrary to the author's assertion in an afterword that "the Chinese were still given n o credit for their great contribution to the building of the railroad" during the centennial celebration in 1969, one of the nine articles in The Last Spike is Driven {Utah Historical Quarterly, volume 37, n u m b e r 1 ) , the official publication of the Golden Spike Centennial Commission, is "Chinese Laborers a n d the Construction of the Central Pacific." Charle s Redd M o n o g r a p h s in Western History, no. 8. (Provo, U t . : Brigham Young University Press, 1978. 155 p p . Paper, $4.95.) T h e five articles printed here were edited for publication from a lecture series on aspects of the American WTest presented in 1975-76. I n his essay, Jeffrey Holland discusses the early years of M a r k T w a i n ' s religious thought. According to H o w a r d L a m a r , migrants to Hispano Folklife of New Mexico: The Lorin W. Brown Federal Writers Project Manuscripts. Edited by MARTA WEIGLE and CHARLES L. BRIGGS. (Albuquerque: University of N e w Mexico Press, 1978. 336 p p . $15.00.) Collected in the 1930s, these m a n u scripts d o c u m e n t the folklife of Hispanic northern N e w Mexico and include folk songs, proverbs, riddles, folk tales, impressionistic sketches, a n d field reports. |
