Utah Historical Quarterly Volume XXVII

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REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS Hole-in-the-Roc\. By DAVID E. MILLER. (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1959, 222 pp., $5.50) Mormon colonization of San Juan County via a short-cut across the Colorado River has long been a subject for romantic writing and confusion of facts. Hole-in-the-Roc\ by David E. Miller represents years of patient research among written and oral sources as well as several trips by foot, horseback, and jeep over the entire course in­volved in the study. The book is well written to hold reader interest and inspire confidence in reliability of subject matter. It will undoubt­edly remain as the definitive work in the field. To ten chapters deline­ating interesting details of the historic pioneer ventures are added eighty pages of revealing appendixes, six helpful maps (plus end sheets), and a dozen pages of selected illustrative photographs. The author deals at length with problems of responsibility in choice of route and of leadership in an expedition which was undertaken with a sense of mission and brought to a conclusion through disillusion­ment, struggle, and heroism. The reader emerges from the work with a feeling of satisfying familiarity with a subject heretofore left hanging at loose ends. He is fully converted to the courage and tenacity of the pioneer band, if not wholly reconciled to claims for divine guidance in the choice of route. The historian might raise a question as to the author's leniency in interpreting the episode. What happened is fully explained, but one is 414 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY left to wonder why it should have been allowed to happen as it did. Agreed that there is "no better example of indomitable pioneer spirit" it might be questioned if it presents "an excellent case study of highest type of pioneer endeavor." For here is a case of departure from die usual Mormon way of doing things. The preliminary scouting by way of Lee's Ferry and Monument Valley and return by way of the Old Spanish Trail represented the typical caution involved in Mormon expansion, but the decision of the leaders of the main company of men, women, and children to ignore known routes in favor of an unknown short cut did not. Like the Donners they blundered into the unknown at terrific cost. Like the ill-fated handcarters of 1856 they learned the bitter consequences of moving against negative reports. In view of the preliminary scouting by way of southern and northern routes one can hardly join with the author in excusing an error by asking "who shall say that another route would have proven better?" However, having taken the chance and having heroically con­quered the unnecessary obstacles of the short cut the pioneers did intro­duce a worthy stock into San Juan County which came to play a significant role in its development. The reader of Hole-in-the-Rock arrives with the exhausted expedition at Bluff with a wish that another chapter might appear on how the valiant pioneers expanded their mis­sion from the pitifully few acres to which they anchored themselves on the banks of the San Juan. _ _ T GUSTIVE O. LARSON Brigham Young University A Ram in the Thicket. By FRANK C. ROBERTSON. (New York, Hast­ings House, 1959, 312 pp., $4.95) "My parents were strong people. They lived in a period of the frontier that has been generally overlooked by the historians of the West. This is largely their story...." Thus does Frank C. Robertson introduce his cantankerous, neer-do- well father, his long-suffering but strong-willed mother, his two older brothers and himself, the subjects of this disturbingly candid biography. Much of the story is about the parents and their hardships grubbing a poor living out of the timbered mountains of the Idaho panhandle and later on dry farms in southern Idaho. In the ultimate it, however, is most revealing about Frank Chester Robertson, the sage of Mapleton, Utah, "Chopping Block" columnist in the Provo Herald, REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 415 rebel extraordinary, the author of more than one hundred hardback books and an uncounted number of articles of Western fiction. Just as historians have neglected the period of history and the little people about which Robertson writes, Utahans for a time neglected this state's best-known Western fiction writer. It is something of a commentary that some of his novels had a better sale in England than in Utah. Maybe this is just more proof that this state, settled to a New England blueprint, never has cottoned to the romantic Old West and its traditions. While the Robertsons suffered their raw and almost incredible hardships in Idaho, their adventures included journeys into Utah. These were occasioned by hard necessity and by the elder Robertson's restless search for "poor land for a poor man." In the spring of 1906, Frank Robertson and his middle-aged par­ents quit Chesterfield, Idaho, and set out for the "promised land" of Utah's Wayne County in a covered wagon, some household goods and $116.00. "When we drove up South Temple Street in Salt Lake City . . . I was unable to withstand the stares and the jocular comments of the people whose ancestors had come to the city in just such a rig as ours," says Mr. Robertson. "I crawled back under the wagon cover and did my sight-seeing through a slit in the canvas. "We were, I am sure, among the very last of the covered wagon pioneers. The difference between us and our predecessors was diat they were called sterling pioneers while we were called wagon tramps. In later years those same streets would see many a jalopy filled with transients even seedier than we were. But that would be in a new era, and we were hangovers from the old." The Robertsons got as far as Loa, when disenchantment and the truth about the country they had thought they could help colonize, plus a flash flood, caught up with them and "we turned back without laying eyes on the poor man's paradise we had traveled so far to' see." The father hired out on a wheat farm on the Levan Ridge, and Frank, at sixteen, went to work for $35.00 and board in Dog Valley, eight miles west of Nephi. There a group of professors from Brigham Young University, headed by the late Dr. John A. Widtsoe, were "reclaiming" a large tract of sagebrush land and growing wheat. At Dog Valley (named for the coyotes so numerous there) young Robertson had some disappointing experiences which supported his conviction that some of the finest people are rough in manner and 416 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY appearance, and some of the most pious lack the milk of human kindness. "That summer at Dog Valley ended my hopes of ever getting an education . . . It was an interlude, a lost portion of our lives. . . . I don't think Mother was surprised when one day Father came back from the ridge and, as in days of old, said, 'Start Packin', Ma. We're going back to Chesterfield.' " Frank herded sheep, went on the road, joined the army of unem­ployed, gravitated toward Salt Lake City's notorious Commercial Street, where he found the "red light district" girls kinder than most of the men with whom he sought employment and the landladies from whom he sought room and board. The story of Robertson's writing career should be required reading for all who aspire to' become authors. The current president of the Western Writers of America and the founder of the Utah Writers League had modest beginnings in his profession, and several ups and downs occurred before he finally hit his stride, ran his earnings up into five figures, and baled out the family. "Ram in the Thicket," to which his mother figuratively turned in adversity, was published first by a little-known firm nine years ago. Characteristically, the printing plant burned down, destroying most of the volumes and the plates. The new edition is not a reissue in the ordinary sense. It has been completely rewritten, smoothed out, and vastly improved. It is excellent history. „ , T T ' r ' ERNEST H. LINFORD Salt Lake Tribune The Fancher Train. By AMELIA BEAN. (New York, Doubleday and Company, 1958, 356 pp., $3.95) I believe it was Wallace Stegner who said that it was almost im­possible to "fictionize" the Mormons because the facts were so prepos­terous. Certainly even a seasoned writer might balk at trying to create romance out of the grisly massacre at Mountain Meadows. Yet in this, her first novel, Amelia Bean manages not only to hold the reader's interest, but to create the illusion of actuality. And this is the more remarkable for the fact that her characters are all out of stock Western: the golden-haired heroine who becomes more and more the pioneering wife; the brave buckskin-clad hero; the villains mean as sin. In fact, Mrs. Bean's horses come more alive than her people! And it is also true that her incident are not overly original; her wagon train might REVIEWS AND RECENT P U B L I U A I I U I . O 417 be any wagon train going west. For instance, The Fancher Train never evokes the buffalo dung and trail dust of Guthrie's Way West, and Mrs. Bean's Indians are never the flesh-and-blood creations of La Farge's Laughing Boy. Moreover, Mrs. Bean's literary style not only gushes with purple passages occasionally, but positively reeks with such constructions as "pleasedly anticipated," "itchingly jumpy," and "plan-nedly." Still, in the field of narration Mrs. Bean has unusual gifts, and I would like to see more of her writing - but I do hope her next book is all fiction. For while as a story The Fancher Train is entertaining, as history it comes near to being cause for libel. Mrs. Bean is unpardonably careless with the facts. She remarks in her preface that the "bones (of the Fanchers) still lie about one hun­dred miles from where I write this." It is too bad that she never crossed that hundred miles. It is obvious that Mrs. Bean used Juanita Brooks's scholarly Mountain Meadow Massacre as source material, since the latter is the only existing definitive history of the subject, yet it is equally obvious that Mrs. Bean did not take the trouble either to visit the site or to study Mrs. Brooks's footnotes. For certainly all her "years of study of history" failed to teach her anything of the character of Brigham Young, or of such men as William Leany and Isaac Haight. And finally her book ends where it should begin, since even if her hero manages to escape peritonitis, there is only one way he can get out of the trap she leaves him in, and that is by helicopter! To mention some of the book's historical blunders: 1. The episode of Haun's Mill is not detailed enough or suffi­ciently explicit. See the Journal of David Lewis, an eyewitness. 2. Jim Bridger was never "driven out of his fort" by the Mor­mons. In fact, on page 107 of Mrs. Brooks's book there is a note to the effect that Fort Bridger was "recently purchased" for $8,000.00 by the Mormon Church. 3. Mrs. Bean has her hero, Jed Smith, simultaneously born the bastard son of both Jim Bridger and Jedediah Smith, the Mountain Man. Indubitably a feat! Still, it is doubtful that Jedediah Smith could claim the honor. On page 132 of Dale Morgan's fine biography, Jede­diah Smith, there appears this statement: "So far as the record shows, Jedediah had no interest in women, and there is no suggestion that he ever admitted a squaw . . . to his bed." 4. It seems to me a shade dishonest to use the names of people who once lived and whose descendants still live and to manufacture 418 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY personalities out of whole cloth to fit such names. For instance, Brig­ham Young would never under any circumstances have prefaced his remarks with "By God." Used as a byword, that expression meant "taking the Lord's name in vain" to the early Mormons, and even today is considered by most of them as an "unforgivable sin." Nor would Brigham have referred to "John Doyle Lee" or "Isaac Haight" as such; instead, he would have said "Brother John D. Lee," and "Brother Isaac Haight." And never would he have been guilty of the term "Injuns!" While it is true that Brigham Young could be earthy, he was always a leader; Mrs. Bean fails to make him this. Repeatedly she has him groaning over his "paper work." Apparently she has not taken the trouble to learn that Brigham Young, Prophet, Seer, and Revelator was never without at least three full-time secretaries! Mrs. Bean also mentions "ambitious" John Higbee, and "slovenly" Phillip Klingensmith. As for William Leany: far from aggressively bedeviling the Fanchers, William Leany forsook "counsel" to the extent of trading them grain and "greens," and was actually beaten with a fence railing by an irate fellow Mormon for his pains! Isaac Haight was never the cold-blooded and wily schemer Mrs. Bean depicts; it is a fact that when he received Brigham Young's message to protect the Fanchers, he burst into tears and cried, "Too late, too late!" 5. At the end of Mrs. Bean's novel, three people escaped the mas­sacre. According to Mrs. Brooks's history, three people tried to' escape but were killed. Mrs. Bean insists she is right. How then does she explain the personal effects of the fleeing three men that Piute Chief Jackson brought to Jacob Hamblin ? 6. As I have said, the final indignity occurs at the end of the book. Mrs. Bean has two people on horseback pull a wounded man on a travois from the massacre site to the Virgin River. Even on today's good roads it would take a horse at least fourteen hours at a fast gallop to make such a journey. Yet she has her people not only outwit three hundred determined Indians but, forced to a slow walk, reach the river bed overnight and find a cave high on its banks! Then she has Jed, the wounded man, plan to reach Wyoming's Powder River. The banks of the Powder River and the cool retreats of the Cana­dian Rockies sound like the delirium of a fevered brain. How a wounded man, an Indian boy, and a girl - without supplies, bedding, or tools - could travel north toward Powder River would make a sequel far more exciting than the original book. Over this terrain, at this time of year, the struggle for survival would be keen indeed. To REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 419 leave the three stranded at the confluence of the Santa Clara Creek and the Virgin River with only dreams of so distant a paradise is to leave the reader skeptical and dissatisfied. „ ,T7 MAURINE WHIPPLE St. George, Utah The Diaries and Letters of Henry H. Spalding and Asa Bowen Smith Relating to the Nez Perce Mission, 1838-1842. With Introductions and Editorial Notes by Clifford Merrill Drury. (Glendale, Cali­fornia, The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1958, 379 pp., $12.50) Presented here are hitherto unpublished documents which help materially to round out the story of the Oregon Mission of the Ameri­can Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Henry Harmon Spalding, missionary to the Nez Perce Indians at Lapwai (near the present town of Lewiston, Idaho) for a dozen troubled years, gains more and more height as an impressive figure in die early history of the Pacific Northwest as his story becomes better known. Although he could even descend to methods like the whip to keep his converts on the path of righteousness, Spalding obviously achieved virtual miracles with the gentle Nez Perces and showed them, as well as the white men who were to follow, the way to make their land fruitful. His usually bright optimism and unswerving faith in the worth of his labors to make industrious Christians of this famous tribe color all his extant writings. Oddly enough, these very qualities drew down upon him the wrath of the disgruntled missionary at Kamiah, Idaho, Asa Bowen Smith. It is hard to like the Reverend Mr. Smith. His pen he em­ployed solely for the advancement of his views with the American Board's home officials. In letters as long as novelettes he spilled out his hopeless discouragement at trying to achieve anything worthwhile with a small and dwindling tribe like the Nez Perces. Since Spalding's optimism about the work had found its way into print back east, he became Smith's target. Smith objected to the teaching of agriculture to redskinned savages: better to keep them savage, indeed better to for­get the whole thing. Eventually all this backbiting played a large role in the Board's order for Spalding's discharge and for the closing of the Lapwai and Waiilatpu Missions, which in turn led to Whitman's eastern ride of 1842. Spalding sums up the basic issue in a passage in his diary under date of September 1, 1839: "Sabbath. Rev. Mr. Smith preaches against 420 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY all efforts to settle the poor Indians, thinks they should be kept upon the chase to' prevent dieir becoming worldly minded." These documents contain much more, however, than the record of petty differences among the laborers in the Oregon Mission. For the first time a picture of the shortlived Kamiah Mission emerges. The unbelievable hardships under which all these people lived and worked are once more described. There is the woman, for instance, so ill with spinal disease that she could not sit or stand and several months gone in pregnancy, traveling by canoe from Fort Walla Walla to Lapwai so that her husband could set up a printing press to publish Spalding's Nez Perce translations of the Scriptures. Much additional data accu­mulates on Whitman and his Waiilatpu; Drury even prints the com­plete inventory of property lost as a result of the 1847 massacre. Indeed, historians are fortunate that Drury is the presenter of these papers. His introductions bear the stamp, of course, of years of signifi­cant labor in the field. For the editing this reviewer has only awed praise. One final note: Spalding's diary offers nearly incontrovertible evi­dence that he it was, appropriately enough, who baptized Chief Joseph, the appealing leader of the tragic Nez Perce revolt a generation later. PHILIP C. STURGES University of Utah Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska. By MERRILL J. MATTES. National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 28. (Wash­ington, D.C, 1958, 60 pp., 30<0 This little booklet, highly illustrated with original sketches and informative maps, tells the history of the country along the great North Platte Valley trunkline of the Oregon Trail. Early exploration, the fur traders and the rediscovery of the Central Overland Route, the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade, traders, missionaries and adventurers, the migration to Oregon, Scotts Bluff and the Forty-Niners, trail geog­raphy at Scotts Bluff, gold rush trading posts at Scotts Bluff, and even the prehistory are discussed in some detail. Scotts Bluff National Mon­ument was created to keep alive the epic story of our ancestors who dared cross the wilderness of plains and mountains to plant the west­ern stars in the American flag. REVIEWS AND RECENT P U B L I C A i i u n a 421 Centennial Colorado: Its Exciting Story. By ROBERT G. ATHEARN and CARL UBBELOHDE. (Denver, Colorado, 1959,95 pp.) This colorful hard-cover booklet published commemorating Colo­rado's centennial year is "excitingly" written. A sampling of the chapter headings indicates the range of subject matter covered and the colorful manner of presentation: "The Mesa Verde: Fairyland of Cliff-dwelling"; "Explorers' Frontier: Spanish and American"; "Fur Trad­ing: Early Trails and Forts"; "Gold in '59: Wealth in the Wilder­ness"; "The Red Barrier: Peace Pipes and Blood-Baths"; "Railroads: Race to the Mountain Treasure Chest"; "A New Monarch: Queen Silver"; "The Cow Kingdom: An Empire of Grass"; and so on down to the last chapter, "Dude Wranglers Frontier: A Rare Inheritance." Extensive use of black and white along with four-colored photographs beautifully illustrate Colorado's past as well as her present in diis interesting little book. Our Strip of Land: A History of Daggett County, Utah. By DICK and VIVIAN DUNHAM. (Manila, Utah, 1947,106 pp., $2.00) Attention is called to this little booklet which was first published several years ago. Although Daggett County is politically one of the youngest in the West, it was the first to be settled in the Great Basin. The rugged beauty of the Uinta Mountains, the canyons of the Green River - Flaming Gorge, Horseshoe, Hideout, and Red Canyons - and the geological formations make this land unique. Daggett is primarily devoted to stock-raising, but the rich phosphate deposits, the natural gas produced from Clay Basin in the eastern end of the county, and the undeveloped deposits of manganese, oil, coal, copper and oil-bearing shales, as well as gilsonite, sooner or later are bound to stimulate the economic development of this sparsely settled region. The material presented is lightly written but very readable. Long John Dunn of Taos. By MAX EVANS. (LOS Angeles, California, Westernlore Press, 1959,174 pp., $5.75) Volume XV, Great West and Indian Series, Long John Dunn of Taos, is the incredible life story of John Dunn, gunman, professional gambler, stage driver, saloon keeper and general opportunist, whose name and existence are so well known to natives of northern New Mexico that he has become almost legendary. His story is one of the strangest to come out of the West. The hard cruel facts of building 422 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the West - cattle drives, gun-slinging, gambling, homesteading, min­ing, and the building of communities in an arid land is told by Max Evans who spent many months as close confidant of Dunn. It is a book for every person who loves the West in all its truth, humor and pulse-stirring pageantry. Prairie Schooner Lady. The Journal of Harriet Sherrill Ward, 1853. Edited by WARD G. DEWITT and FLORENCE STARK DEWITT. (Los Angeles, California, Westernlore Press, 1959, 180 pp., $5.75) Volume XVI, Great West and Indian Series, Prairie Schooner Lady, is the first-hand account of the Ward family's journey across the plains in 1853 from Wisconsin to Indian Valley, California, written by the wife and mother of the family, Harriet Sherrill Ward. Mrs. Ward was sensitive to the things she observed daily about her- the people she met, the Indians, die oddity and industry of the Mormons, the beauty of the days and nights on die prairie, the savagery of the storms and the beauty of the landscape through which they toiled. Her jour­nal proves her to be an educated and lucid writer, and through publica­tion of it one more classic is added to our knowledge of die great West­ern migration to California during die Gold Rush. American Murder Ballads and Their Stories. By OLIVE W. BURT. (New York, Oxford University Press, 1958) Beyond a Big Mountain. By PETER DECKER. (New York, Hastings House, 1959) Bill Sublette: Mountain Man. By JOHN E. SUNDER. (Norman, Univer­sity of Oklahoma Press, 1959) Clarence King: A Biography. By THURMAN WILKINS. (New York, Macmillan Co., 1958) Financial and Economic Analysis: Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects. A Study Prepared by the United States Department of the Interior. (Washington, D.C, G.P.O., 1958) From Wilderness to Empire. By ROBERT GLASS CLELAND. A Combined and Revised Edition of From Wilderness to Empire (1542-1900) and California in Our Time (1900-1940). Edited by GLENN S. DUMKE. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1959) REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 423 Grand Canyon: Today and All its Yesterdays. By JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH. (New York, William Sloane Associates, 1958) The Great West, A Panorama. By CHARLES NEIDER. (New York, Coward-McCann, 1958) Journal of Travels from St. Josephs [sic] to Oregon. By RILEY ROOT. (Reprint of Galesburg, Illinois, 1850 ed., Oakland, Biobooks, 1955) Journey Through the Rocky Mountains and the Humboldt Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. By JACOB H. SCHIEL. Translated and edited by Thomas N. Bonner. (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1959) Massacres of the Mountains. A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West, 1815-1875. By J. P. DUNN. (New York, Archer House, 1958) Montana, An Uncommon Land. By K. Ross TOOLE. (Norman, Uni­versity of Oklahoma Press, 1959) The Outlaw Trail. A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch. By CHARLES KELLY. (Revised and enlarged, 1938 ed., New York, Devin-Adair Co., 1959) The Pictorial History of Southern Oregon and Northern California. By JACK SUTTON. (Jacksonville, Oregon, The Southern Oregon Historical Society, 1959) Portrait of America. Letters of HENRY SIENKIEWICZ. Translated and edited by Charles Morley. (New York, Columbia University Press, 1959) Present Relations of the Federal Government to the American Indian. (Washington, D.C, G.P.O., 1959) Relations with the Indians of the Plains, 1857-1861. A Documentary Account of the Military Campaigns, and Negotiations of Indian Agents - with Reports and Journals of P. G. LOWE, R. M. PECK, J. E. B. STUART, S. D. STURGIS, and other Official Papers. Edited by LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen. Volume IX The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series 1820-1875. (Glendale, The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1959) 424 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase 1540-1804. By CARL I. WHEAT. Volume I, Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540- 1861. (San Francisco, Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957) From Lewis and Clark to Fremont 1804-1845. By CARL I. WHEAT. Volume II, Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540-1861. (San Francisco, Institute of Historical Cartography, 1958) GENE M. GRESSLEY, "The Turner Thesis - A Problem in Historiog­raphy," Agricultural History, October, 1958. MARION CLAWSON, "Reminiscences of the Bureau of Land Manage­ment, 1947-1948," ibid., January, 1959. FITZHUGH TURNER, "Railroad in a Barn" [Central Pacific in the Sierra Nevadas], American Heritage, December, 1958. AUGUST C. BOLINO, "Brigham Young as Entrepreneur," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, January, 1959. "Sketches which Went to Congress to Prove a Myth and Preserve a Park" [Yellowstone] (Thomas Moran, painter), American Scene, Spring, 1958. MAURINE CARLEY, "Oregon Trail Trek No. Six," Annals of Wyoming, April, 1958. , "Oregon Trail Trek No. Seven," ibid., October, 1958. MRS. A. R. BOYACK, "Oregon Trail Trek No. Eight," ibid., April, 1959. THELMA GATCHELL CONDIT, "The Hole-In-The-Wall," Part V, Sections 2, 3, and 4, ibid., April, October, 1958, April, 1959. DALE L. MORGAN, "Washakie and the Shoshoni" (conclusion), ibid., April, 1958. , "The Ferries of the Forty-Niners," ibid., April, 1959. HENRY C. PARRY, "Letters from the Frontier, 1867," ibid., October, 1958. JOHN W. CAUGHEY, "The American West: Frontier and Region," Arizona and the West, Spring, 1959. REVIEWS AND RECENT P U B L I C A i i u no 425 WALTER RUNDELL, JR., "Concepts of the 'Frontier' and the West," ibid. NILS-ERIC BRODIN, "The Swedes and the Swedish Language in Utah," Augustana Bulletin, February, 1958. LEONARD J. ARRINGTON, "An Economic Interpretation of the 'Word of Wisdom,'" Brigham Young University Studies, Winter, 1959. WILLIAM WILKES, "John Tullidge: Utah's First Music Critic," ibid. STEPHEN R. WILSON, "Gold Hill, Utah" (Clifton District, Tooele County), Bulletin of the Mineralogical Society of Utah, March, 1959. AMELIA EVERETT, "The Ship Brooklyn," California Historical Society Quarterly, September, 1958. DELLO G. DAYTON, "Polished Boot and Bran New Suit" (The Cali­fornia Militia in Community Affairs), ibid., March, 1959. ROBERT G. ATHEARN, "The Denver and Rio' Grande and the Panic of 1873," Colorado Magazine, April, 1958. , "Origins of the Royal Gorge Railroad War," ibid., January, 1959. JANET LECOMPTE, "Charles Autobees," ibid., April, 1958. "Rush to the Rockies Centennial Edition," ibid., April, 1959. L. GLEN SNARR, "Mormon Angels of Mercy," Coronet, April, 1959. NOLIE MUMEY, "Writers of Western History" (James Watson Webb, 1802-1884), Denver Westerners Monthly Roundup, June, 1958. , "Writers of Western History" (Zebulon Montgomery Pike, 1779-1815), iWJ., July, 1958. , "Writers of Western History" (Warren Angus Ferris), ibid., August, 1958. , "Writers of Western History" (Benjamin L. E. Bonneville and Francis Parkman), ibid., November, 1958. "From Nauvoo to Kirtland," Church News [Deseret News], July 4, 1959. NELL MURBARGER, "Trail-Blazer of Grand Canyon," Desert Magazine, October, 1958. 426 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY , "Ghost Town Dwellers," ibid., February, 1959. , "Discovering Fable Valley," ibid., March, 1959. RANDALL HENDERSON, "Canyon Boat Ride in Utah," ibid., December, 1958. MARY BECKWITH, "Life from the Earth" (Southwest Basketmakers 300 to 700 A.D.), ibid., January, 1959. THELMA BONNEY HALL, "Progress at Glen Canyon Dam," ibid., Feb­ruary, 1959. CECIL M. OUELLETTE, "Exploring the Fiery Furnace" [Arches National Monument], ibid., June, 1959. FRANK A. TINKER, "Utah Creates State Parks," ibid. CHRISTIAN JENSEN, "The Canal on the Canyon Wall" [Virgin River], Ford Times, December, 1958. GENE AHRENS, "Farewell to Glen Canyon," ibid., April, 1959. ROCKWELL D. HUNT, "Fifteen Decisive Events of California History," Part II, Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, June, 1958. "The Mormon Tabernacle" [in the series, "Landmarks of the World"], Holiday, December, 1958. EARL H. SWANSON, "Problems in Shoshone Chronology," Idaho Yes­terdays, Winter, 1957-58. R. J. NEWELL, "Water for the West," ibid., Spring, 1958. SVEN LILJEBLAD, "The Bannock of Idaho, An Essay Review," ibid. "Presidents of the Church" [with colored portraits], Improvement Era, November, 1958. VIRGINIA BAKER, "Brigham Young, Leader of the Mormons," The Instructor, April, 1959. CARL J. CI-IRISTENSEN, "The Iron Mission of Pioneer Utah," ibid. MARIE F. FELT, "Jefferson Hunt of the Mormon Battalion," ibid. "With the Mormon Battalion," ibid. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 427 G. ROBERT RUFF, "Racing Rails that United a Nation in Utah," ibid., May, 1959. "Sheldon Jackson Invades the Rocky Mountains, 1869-76," Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, June, 1959. "How the West Was Won" (Exploring the Wild New Land), Part I - Part VII, Life, April 6 - May 18,1959. "The Glories of the Mountain West" (A Life trip to the Rockies Region), ibid., June 8, 1959. BERNICE EASTMAN JOHNSTON, "Navaho Education - The First Thirty Years," The Master\ey, January-March, 1959. RICHARD A. BARTLETT, "Freedom and the Frontier: A Pertinent Re­examination," Mid-America, An Historical Review, July, 1958. DONALD H. WELSH, "The Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861, and Its Centennial Observance in Missouri," Missouri Historical Re­view, April, 1958. "Copper and Communications," Monitor, November, 1958. GERALD P. PETERS, "Recent Economic Development of The Mountain- Plains States," Mountain-Plains Library Quarterly, Winter, 1959. BARTLETT BODER, "The Pony Express," Museum Graphic, Spring, 1959. CONRAD L. WIRTH, "Heritage of Beauty and History: The National Parks," National Geographic Magazine, May, 1958. "Guide to Scenic Playgrounds and Historic Shrines of the United States and Canada," ibid. WILLIAM BELKNAP, JR., "Nature Carves Fantasies in Bryce Canyon," ibid., October, 1959. SALLY A. JOHNSON, "Fort Atkinson on the Council Bluffs," Nebraska History, March, 1959. "The Colorado River in Nevada," Nevada Highways and Par\s, No. 2, 1958. GEORGE E. PERKINS, "On the Trail of a Renegade Pahute," Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, March, 1958. FRANK D. REEVE, "Navaho-Spanish Wars 1680-1720," New Mexico Historical Review, July, 1958. 428 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY , "The Navaho-Spanish Peace: 1720's-1770's," ibid., January, 1959. S. LYMAN TYLER AND H. DARREL TAYLOR, "The Report of Fray Alonso de Posada in Relation to Quivira and Teguayo," ibid., October, 1958. "Roundup Time on the Western Range" (Beyond the Frontier, Writ­ers have found the Myths and Symbols Americans Live By), New York. Times Book Review, August 17,1958. E. C. BLACKORBY, "Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation Policies and Their Impact upon America and the American West," North Dakota History, October, 1958. WILLIAM H. ELLISON, "San Juan to Cahuenga: The Experiences of Fremont's Battalion," Pacific Historical Review, August, 1958. HERMAN J. DEUTSCH, "Geographic Setting for the Recent History of the Inland Empire," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, October, 1958. MAURICE E. COOLEY, "Physiography of the Glen-San Juan Canyon Area," Part I - Part III, Plateau, October, 1958, January, April, 1959. ALEXANDER MAJORS, "Pony Express and Brave Riders," Pony Express, August, 1958. "Alexander Majors, 1814-1900," ibid. " 'Cross the Plains goes the Harlan Party - California Bound," ibid., November, 1958. "History in Glen Canyon," Reclamation Era, May, 1959. PEARL WILCOX, "Reminiscing in Kirtland," Part I - Part V, Saints' Herald, August 25 - September 22,1958. "Nauvoo in Perspective," ibid., September 15, 1958. FRANK J. TAYLOR, "The Saints Roll up Their Sleeves," Saturday Even­ing Post, October 11,1958. ARTHUR W. BAUM, "Battle Against the Lake" (the Southern Pacific Railroad building the Causeway across the Great Salt Lake), ibid., December 13, 1958. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLlbA i l u n o 429 CHARLES EGGERT, "Forbidden Passage" (a vignette about the most beautiful stretch of the Colorado River), Sierra Club Bulletin, November, 1958. "Rambling Down Western River Trails," ibid., March, 1959. NONA SHIBLEY, "Ophir - Where a Fortune was Won and a Life was Lost on a 'Pair of Fours,' " SUP News, March, 1958. , "Thumb-Nail History, Tooele County," ibid. , "Mercur, Tooele County's Fabulous Ghost Town," ibid., April, 1958. LOWELL M. DURHAM, "Utah's Pioneer Music," ibid. JAMES P. SHARP, "The Old Spanish Trail Through Utah," ibid. "Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich Honored as Colonizers of Southern California Centers," ibid. DAVID E. MILLER, "Strategy in Echo Canyon -100 years ago," ibid. , "Chinaman's Arch" [east of Promontory Summit], ibid., April-May, 1959. WALTER L. WEBB, "Notes on Fairfield, Once Roistering Army Camp," ibid., August, 1958. CLARENCE A. REEDER, JR., "The Crossing of the Fathers," ibid., Septem­ber- October, 1958. HAROLD H. JENSON, "The First Christmas in the Valley," ibid., De­cember, 1958. NEWELL KNIGHT, "A House of Government," ibid., February, 1959. GUSTIVE O. LARSON AND CLAIR KILTS, "Finding a Home for Utah's Legislature," ibid. Dix LARSON, "Tumbleweed Towns" (Overland Express Route - Fair­field to Gold Hill), Part I, ibid. , "Tumbleweed Towns" (The Desert Trail from Callao to Gold Hill), Part II, ibid., March, 1959. /'Tumbleweed Towns" (The Mighty Tintic Area), Part III, ibid., June, 1959. 430 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY -, "Tumbleweed Towns" (National, Consumers, and Sweets - Pioneers of the Coal Era), Part IV, ibid., July, 1959. BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON, "The Corinne Opera House," ibid., April- May, 1959. BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON AND JESSE H. JAMESON, "The Saga of the Good Ship City of Corinne," ibid. JESSE H. JAMESON, "The Last Fourteen Miles" [Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads], ibid. , "Corinne, Utah - 'The Burg on the Bear,' " ibid. HAROLD H. JENSON AND JESSE H. JAMESON, "A Railroad to the Pacific," ibid. ADOLF REEDER, "Before the Railroads," ibid. "One Surprise After Another" [Utah's Pine Valley Mountains], Sun­set, September, 1958. "Into the Needles Country by Jeep Tour," ibid., October, 1958. "Old Virginia City," ibid. DOUGLAS ALLEN, "Drama Among the Mormons," Theatre Arts, De­cember, 1958. BURR JERGER, "Medicine Men to the Navajo," Think, January, 1959. RICHARD L. NEUBERGER, "The Legacy of Lewis and Clark," ibid., June, 1959. ERIC ENNIS, "The Platte Bridge Battle, July 26, 1865," Tradition, April, 1959. LAUREN C. BRAY, "Louis Vasquez, Mountain Man," Trail Guide, De­cember, 1958. GENE CAESAR, "King of the Mountain Men" [Jim Bridger], True, May, 1958. SAM WELLER AND KEN REID, "The Deseret Alphabet," True West, October, 1958. FREEMAN H. HUBBARD, "Wife of the Chief," ibid., December, 1958. LESLIE G. KENNON, "Pony Express," ibid. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 431 NELL MURBARGER, "Ghostly Belmont" [Nevada], ibid., January-Febru­ary, 1959. , "Murder on the Trail," ibid., March-April, 1959. KATHRYN D. GROESBECK, "The Mountain Meadows Massacre," ibid. , "Utes at the Whiterocks Dance Grounds," ibid., May-June, 1959. KAY MCDEARMON, "Silver Queen" [Baby Doe Tabor], ibid., March- April, 1959. EVAN A. IVERSON, "History and Organization of Utah Counties," Utah Counties, 1958. "The Counties of Utah," ibid. OSMOND L. HARLINE, "What a New Resource Development Means to' an Area" (Uranium and Petroleum in Grand and San Juan Coun­ties), Utah Economic and Business Review, October, 1958. JAY M. BAGLEY, WAYNE D. CRIDDLE AND R. KEITH HIGGINSON, "Water Going to Waste in Southwest Utah," The Utah Farmer, Septem­ber 18, 1958. WAYNE D. CRIDDLE, " H OW can our Water Resources Best Be Used?" ibid., April 2, 1959. DAN DUFPHEY, "Glen Canyon . . . Boom or Bust," Utah Fish and Game, April, 1959. LEE KAY, "Bird Day in Utah," ibid. "Historic Alta," USS Westerners, February, 1959. "Pinkerton's and die Hole-in-the-Wall Gang" [Butch Cassidy], West­erners Brand Boot\ [Chicago], November, 1958. THERON H. LUKE, "Utah's 40 Years of Historical Amnesia," ibid., April, 1959. K. Ross TOOLE, "The War of the Copper Kings," Westerners New York Posse Brand Book, N ° - h 1 9 5 9. [Entire issue devoted to Utah Folklore], Western Folklore, April, 1959. S. GEORGE ELLSWORTH, " 'Dear Ellen': A Utah-California Correspond­ence, 1856-1857," Western Humanities Review, Spring, 1959. 432 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY RALPH FRIEDMAN, "Cottonwood Wash Road" (short cut road to Glen Canyon dam), Westways, September, 1958. DAN L. THRAPP, "South Pass - Gateway to Empire," ibid., October, 1958. JUANITA BROOKS, "There's a Dixieland in Utah," ibid., December, 1958. RUSSELL QUINN, "He Made His Mark Here" [Lt. Col. Philip St. George Cooke], ibid., March, 1959. JOSEF MUENCH, "Interlude on the Colorado" (photographs), ibid., May, 1959. VIOLA LOCKHART WARREN, "History in Paper Bags" [Hubert Howe Bancroft], ibid., June, 1959. CHARLES O. BURGESS, "Green Bay and Mormons of Beaver Island," Wisconsin Magazine of History, Autumn, 1958.