Utah Historical Quarterly Volume XXX

Reviews and recent publications - 4

REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States With a More Detailed Account of the Lands of Utah. By JOHN WESLEY POWELL. Edited by WALLACE STEGNER. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard Press, 1962. xxvvii + 195 pp. $5.00) The name of John Wesley Powell is well known to most Utahns, but to many what he did for the arid region is too little known. This publication edited by one of America's foremost historians and conser­vation writers, Wallace Stegner, "is one of the most significant and sem­inal books ever written about the West." In the opinion of the late Ber­nard DeVoto "it is one of the most remarkable books ever written by an American. In the whole range of American experience from Jamestown on there is no book more prophetic. It is a scientific prophecy and it has been fulfilled - experimentally proved." "Wes" Powell submitted more than a bureaucratic report or a sci­entific work. He established the conditions under which, in Powell's own words, "these lands must be utilized - a system for their disposal which would be adapted to the wants (needs) of the country." The early western settlers had been reared in a country of adequate rainfall. They had never heard about irrigation. Powell in Stegner's words, Almost alone among his contemporaries looked at the Arid Region (centered in Utah) and saw neither desert nor garden. What he saw was the single compelling unity that the region possessed . . . its rainfall was less than twenty inches a year. His program . . . went far beyond the limits of his own REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 353 survey . . . and it went far beyond any possible definition of his duties as a public servant. His program was supplemented by two decades of hard missionary effort. Stegner states, Essentially Powell's report was a sober and farsighted warning about the consequences of trying to impose on a dry country the habits that have been formed in a wet one. In the West which characteristically has not been so much settled as raided - first for its furs, then for its minerals, then for its grass, then in some places for its timber, in some for its wheat, in some for its scenery - consequences have habitually been ignored and yet the very con­dition of aridity from which Powell's warning stemmed makes the conse­quences of mismanagement catastrophic. In essence this is the major point of the report. Stegner also said, "It was also one of his [Powell's] distinctions that in an age of boodle he would persist in an ideal of public service which most public men of the time neither observed nor understood." Powell's study and intimate knowledge of the arid region convinced him that unless the nature of the region was recognized it could be "chopped to ruinous bits." The chapter on irrigable lands of the Salt Lake Drainage System, by G. K. Gilbert; the treatise on the valley of the Sevier, by C. E. Dut-ton; and the section on the lands of Utah drained by the Colorado River and its tributaries, by A. H. Thompson, will be of particular interest to readers in Utah. These reports, no doubt reviewed and edited by Powell, are outstanding examples of the excellence of this book. The West in general and Utah in particular owe "Wes" Powell much for the farsightedness he exhibited eighty-four years ago. His book is one which should be read by every good citizen of our state. CHESTER J. OLSEN Ogden The Lewis and Clark Expedition. By MERIWETHER LEWIS. Introduc­tion by ARCHIBALD HANNA. Three volumes. The 1814 Edition Un­abridged. (Philadelphia and New York: L. B. Lippincott Com­pany, 1961. Vol. I, xxi + 286 pp.; Vol. II, x +287-590 pp.; Vol. Ill, xi +591-889 pp. $12.50) This excellent account of America's most famous official exploring expedition is the product of several pens. As the editor says, it consists 354 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY of "Lewis's journals, supplemented by those of Clark, edited and cast into narrative form by Biddle, and finally revised by Allen. . . . The present work, however, if not exactly as Lewis planned it, comes closest to his original design" (p. xii). This edition is the latest in a long series of reprints, among which are included issues in English, French, and German. It is a popular reprint, not a scholarly work with annotations. Dr. R. G. Thwaites gave us in 1904 the most complete account (eight volumes) of the Lewis and Clark expedition, "printed from the original manuscripts," and "for the first time published in full and exactly as written" (from his title page). But Dr. Thwaites says of the 1814 edition, "[it] will always remain one of the best digested and most interesting books of American travel" (p. xiv). That is a considered judgment, and one in which the present reviewer concurs as he appraises the volumes here being reviewed. Little more need be said. The editor might have gone on to tell us of developments since the issuance of the Thwaites edition of 1904 - of the publication of the Lewis journal of his trip from Pittsburgh to the Missouri River, and of Ordway's diary, the only personal journal kept daily without interrup­tion throughout the journey, both published in 1916; and of the Clark papers that have recently come to light. This publication is the first in a series of reprints of "classic narra­tives of Western history" undertaken by the present editors and pub­lisher. It is a commendable undertaking. LEROY R. HAFEN Brigham Young University Stories of Our Mormon Hymns. By J. SPENCER CORNWALL. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1961. x4-300 pp. $3.95) This is the second volume from the pen of Mr. Cornwall since his retirement after a quarter-century's distinguished service as conductor of the Salt Lake Mormon Tabernacle Choir. His A Century of Singing was a historical resume of that unique choral ensemble. Stories of Our Mormon Hymns is just that - whenever a story is available. It is the continuation and completion of the late George D. Pyper's Stories of Latter-day Saint Hymns (Deseret News Press, 1939). Mr. Cornwall acknowledges incorporation of that volume within his own. Those familiar with the Pyper book will recognize immediately that Mormon hymns with most fascinating "stories" were contained REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 355 therein. Most hymns treated extensively in the Cornwall volume are reprints from the Pyper. The most interesting hymns are "Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning," "O My Father," "Our Mountain Home So Dear," "O Ye Mountains High," "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet," "The Spirit of God Like a Fire," and "The Morning Breaks, the Shadows Flee." All are rich in Utah-Mormon history. The significant service performed by Mr. Cornwall is in making available, as complete as possible, a "story" catalogue of the current hymnal. This has required painstaking research, endless correspondence with distant kin of authors and composers, patient waiting for requested information, etc. His success as to "completeness" can be measured by the fact that only one of the hymnal's three hundred and eighty-seven numbered selections (No. 338, "Come, Lay His Books and Paper By," for male voices only) is omitted. Mr. Cornwall's job was essentially that of compiler, and this he did with thoroughness. But he is even more gifted as a writer, which is evidenced in his occasional brief introductory notes. One wishes that time might have permitted him to couch the "story" material in his own words rather than quoting directly from his heterogeneous inform­ants. This would have made for more unity and reader interest. The volume is a welcome addition to Mormon-lore. It will be most valuable to Mormon choir directors and Sunday school choristers hell­bent for successful song practices. It should also be of interest to the general reader. Apparently, it was whipped together in some haste during the time just prior to publication, as well as during printing. The material deserves a more effective, tasteful (especially in view of the subject matter) format. Printer and publisher should have devoted more time and money to the appearance of the book's "inners." It has an attractive outer jacket, a mediocre permanent cover, and a poor inner format. The Table of Contents is nonprofessional, confusing, and of little value. The Index, on the other hand, is better. Proofreading was hur­ried. Numerous misspellings occur (i.e., "Pesus, Mighty King in Zion," p. 292). On the ledger's positive side is the helpful cross-listing of com­poser- authors who have multiple hymns to their credit. Worthy of a more prominent spot is Mr. Cornwall's own essay, "The First Latter-day Saint Hymn Book," buried just prior to the Index. It points out that fifty-three of the original ninety hymns con­tained in Emma Smith's hymnal remain in the current version. Of the original ninety, twenty-nine were by W. W. Phelps, fourteen by Isaac 356 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Watts, two by the Wesleys, two by Eliza R. Snow, five by the Pratt brothers, and twenty were anonymous. "The First Latter-day Saint Hymn Book," might very well be the title of a worthwhile future volume "in depth." Finally, another noteworthy contribution of this volume is infor­mation concerning recent and present-day Mormon composers. LOWELL M. DURHAM University of Utah The War in the Far West: 1861-1865. By OSCAR LEWIS. (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 263 pp. $3.95) The primary value of this study is that it brings together some of the Civil War military operations occurring in the Far West along with the operations of California troops in the East. The author analyzes the attitudes of Far Westerners toward the war and the conditions in Cali­fornia upon its outbreak. In entertaining fashion he tells about the recruitment of the "California Regiment" and the "California Hun­dred" and their participation in eastern campaigns. The major military actions in the Far West centering around the march of the California volunteers into Utah to guard the overland trails and the Confederate invasion of New Mexico, which was repulsed by Colorado volunteers, are told. The importance of the California Column in the campaigns of the Southwest is also treated. Chapters six through nine contain a strange hodgepodge of miscel­laneous items largely pertaining to California. Although the author devotes considerable space to San Francisco harbor defenses and to only one of the two visits of Russian warships to that port, he overlooks the important role of the United States Pacific Squadron along the entire West Coast as well as the army's occupation of Catalina Island. A ten-page account of the "Chapman incident," a Confederate attempt at outfitting a privateer in San Francisco to capture gold shipments, is disappointingly superficial and appears to be based mainly upon Asbury Harpending's The Great Diamond Hoax. Throughout, Alfred Rubery is referred to as "Rubrey." This is undoubtedly a typographical error, but to refer to Rubery as a nephew of John Bright is an historical error merely repetitious of Harpending's own error. Among other topics dis­cussed are the press and pulpit in California and the sanitary com­mission. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 357 To the literature of its subject this small book makes no substan­tial contribution. The quotations, particularly those from secondary sources, appear too numerous, lengthy, and distracting. Also disconcert­ing to this reviewer was the occasional neglect of a person's first name and use of initials instead of given names. Hence, the mention of "Gov­ernor Andrews" of Massachusetts (p. 59) at first was confusing, until it was realized that this was a typographical error and obviously in refer­ence to John A. Andrew. It seemed puzzling that the author in his Foreword should refer to Elijah R. Kennedy as "one regional histor­ian," who had criticized historians for not recognizing the significance of the West Coast in the Civil War. Albeit this 1912 criticism still holds true, Kennedy should not be called a historian because of his unreliable account of The Contest for California in 1861. Although Lewis uses the term "Far West" to mean the area between the Rockies and the Pacific, he tends to overstress what happened in California, particularly to the neglect of the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately, the book has neither a bibliography nor an index. BENJAMIN F. GILBERT San Jose State College J. E. J.: Trail to Sundown, Cassadaga to Casa Grande, 1817-1882, the Story of a Pioneer Joseph Ellis Johnson . . . . By RUFUS DAVID JOHNSON. (Salt Lake City: Joseph Ellis Johnson Family Committee, 1961. xu-r-516pp. $5.00) This entertaining and informative history of Joseph Ellis Johnson and his numerous progeny is authored by Rufus David Johnson, pres­ently residing at Washington, Utah. He is the youngest and only sur­viving member of Joseph E. Johnson's twenty-nine children. It was a happy choice when the Johnson clan commissioned Rufus D. to write the family history. One is at once impressed with the devotion, skill, humor, and the careful scholarship that produced this excellent biog­raphy. Through its pages moves J. E. J. (1817-1882), tall, thin, and frail - a man of driving, restless energy. Weaving his sources into the narrative, the author bases his account on numerous family letters, legal papers, diaries, and newspapers, many of them J. E. J.'s own. The book is well illustrated with photographs but has no maps, bibliography, or index. These would add much to this otherwise splendid volume. As a youth J. E. J. was inclined to bronchial trouble. Realizing his problem, he determined to learn all he could to overcome this handi- 358 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY cap. He studied medical books and combed the lovely Pomfret area of his youth (New York) for the many medicinal roots, leaves, barks, and herbs that were common remedies for every human ailment. This ex­perience led to his lifelong interest in botany and his later forays into the manufacture and sale of family medicines, good for man or beast. At an early date J. E. J. joined the Mormon Church with his mother and other members of the family (the father, Ezekiel Johnson, never joined but remained congenial). During his busy life J. E. J. engaged in many varied activities and occupations. He became "Yankee schoolmaster," postmaster, job print­er, nurseryman, and superintendent of schools. He liked merchandising and established stores in nearly every place he called home. He directed his vast energy to making family medicines; producing seeds, fruit trees and vines, and flowers; and organizing gardeners' clubs and pomo-logical societies. Wherever he alighted his green thumb was soon in evidence. He was manager of what was probably the first Indian wild west show in America, and even established an "ice cream saloon." As a newspaper reporter he was a "natural," and with his acqui­sition of the Kanesville Frontier Guardian, newspapering got into his blood. He edited and published the Council Bluffs Bugle, the Omaha Arrow, the Crescent City Oracle, and the Huntsman s Echo. Freighting his press to Utah (1861) he successively published the Farmers' Oracle at Spring Lake, Our Dixie Times (later the Rio Virgen Times) and the Utah Pomologist and Gardener at St. George, and the Silver Reef Echo. It is difficult to write about one's own father and family and avoid the temptation to make them saints and paragons of virtue. Sympathetic but honest with his subject, Rufus D. Johnson sprouts no wings on the Johnson tribe; one will look in vain for the faintest hint of smugness. From his gifted son's charming narrative J. E. J. emerges as a fascinat­ing, many-sided character whose activities make a valuable addition to the Mormon story and the history of the West. ANDREW KARL LARSON Dixie College Edward Kern and American Expansion. By ROBERT V. HINE. Yale Western Americana Series, I. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1962. xix+180pp. $6.00) Robert V. Hine has presented in this slim, well-made, and attrac­tive volume an excellent account of the role played by the artist-topogra- REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 359 pher and amateur natural scientist, Edward M. Kern, during 1840-1860. The name of Edward Kern, as that of his brothers Richard H. and Benjamin, is familiar to most students of the American West in the pre-Civil War period. A river, a lake, a city, and a county in California were named for him, yet he has remained a dim background figure to all but a few until quite recently. "Ned" Kern was one of that legion of persons who took part in the United States government's scientific explorations in the West. He participated by sketching, painting, map-making, specimen-collecting, note-taking, measuring, and aiding in the gathering of data and its preparation for official publication in written and illustrated form. He accompanied and assisted officers of the U.S. Army's Topographical En­gineers - Fremont, Abert, Simpson, Parke, Pope, and others - in their field explorations and surveys. He took part in the conquest of Cali­fornia as an officer in Fremont's California Battalion, serving as com­mander of Fort Sutter for a time. After again accompanying Fremont on the disastrous private expedition to the southern Rockies in the winter of 1848^19, Kern was a civilian member of the army's inconclu­sive military expedition against the Navajo tribes of New Mexico in 1849. Turning from the army to the navy, and from topographic to hydrographic survey work, in the 1850's Ned was a valuable party member in two prolonged cruises of the U. S. Navy's North Pacific Ex­ploring Expedition which followed up Commodore Perry's opening of Japan to the western world. After brief service as a Union officer in Fremont's short-lived command of the army of the West in the first year of the Civil War, Ned returned to his native Philadelphia. There, in his family home, Ned Kern died in November, 1863, at the age of forty years. The author claims neither too much nor too little for his subject's role in American history. He has diligently researched in the scattered source collections of material by and about the Kerns, and has skillfully presented his findings in a highly readable and informative narrative. The book makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the scien­tific data-gathering side of the federal government's exploring activities, which subject has been receiving special attention from historians in the past decade. The Bibliography, Index, and fifty-four illustrations keyed to the text enhance the utility and value of the book, and the footnotes are in their proper places. EDWARD H. HOWES Sacramento State College 360 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Pioneer Theatre in the Desert. By ILA FISHER MAUGHAN. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1961. xii-f-172 pp. $2.50) In the Introduction to Pioneer Theatre in the Desert, the author worries as to whether there is need for a new work about the theatre in Utah. Much of the trouble with the book derfves from this concern. Actually, she need not have worried for what has already been written on Mormon drama has barely scratched the surface. Mrs. Maughan's problem is principally that she has shouldered the impossible task of cramming eighty-five years of intensive theatrical activity into one hun­dred and fifty pages of print. Pioneer Theatre is obviously a labor of love. While the author is frequently beguiled from the mainstream of her thesis, she has produced a charming etude full of anecdotes and tidbits of pioneer theatrical lore. Perhaps it was not Mrs. Maughan's intention to follow the dramatic history of the Mormon people. If not, then she has succeeded in what she set out to do. Her collection of data is a sort of hors d'oeuvre to a more serious and entensive study. It is wonderfully entertaining read­ing for the dilettante of Utah's admittedly fascinating history. One of the more obvious faults of the composition is the tendency to idealize the participants. In fact this tendency is carried to the ex­tent of dehumanizing the early actors who were in reality pretty robust and rebellious. Brigham Young is always the victim of this dehuman­izing process. His omnipotence and omniscience are fables which de­stroy the fundamental greatness of the man because they make him a kind of plaster saint. With so much to tell, the book is sometimes crowded. In her desire to tell as much as possible, Mrs. Maughan rushes along at a prodigious rate. Facts come dashing at the reader so furiously that they cannot be savored before they are succeeded by others. The effect is the same as hooking onto a chain-drive roller coaster and being dragged to a summit and flung uncontrolled into a series of breath-taking drops. All the wonderfully interesting things clammering for attention flash past the corner of the mind's eye which is focused on the next drop. The author's great love for her subject and her profound respect for the environment which produced it have drawn her into occasional errors of fact. The book, unfortunately, perpetuates some of the mis­takes recorded by Lindsey, Lambourne, Pyper, and Henderson even though subsequent research has disproved them. For example some of REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 361 the material concerning the visit and career of Julia Dean Hayne is pure folklore and speculation. Nevertheless, and in spite of these minor mistakes, I recommend highly Mrs. Maughan's charming little volume. Written with loving reverence for a way of life, this book is a monument to the gentleness and sincerity of its author and as such deserves a place in the growing body of research and investigation into the history of the theatre among the Mormon people. RALPH E. MARGETTS University of Utah Indian Art in America, The Arts and Crafts of the North American Indian. By FREDERICK J. DOCKSTADER. (Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1961. 224 pp. $25.00) Frederick J. Dockstader, director of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, has written a lucid and long-needed survey of Amerindian art. Printed in Holland, the book sings with one hun­dred and eighty black and white illustrations in gravure and seventy color plates of high quality. If there is any significant weakness in the volume, it is also a strength. As the author states, circumstances connected with the Car­negie study, out of which die volume grew, dictated that the bulk of the specimens come from the collection of the Museum of the American Indian. A great collection this is, and a great thrill it is to see so many of its masterpieces reproduced. The greatest number of examples from any one culture - over a quarter of the total - is of Northwest Coast Indian art. This is under­standable, since this region was probably most consistent in maintaining a high level of quality and plastic expressiveness in its art, which was often created out of purely aesthetic concerns as opposed to the usual utilitarian motivation. The works are well chosen and the accompany­ing text - here as elsewhere - is quietly informative. Less flamboyant, but possessing the timeless, intense, and poignant qualities which characterize Sumerian and Etruscan sculpture are the fine examples shown of the moundbuilders' work. These remarkable people were equally at home in the creation of striking ornaments of mica or copper, finely modeled pottery, and fiercely beautiful sculpture. 362 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY The superb animal effigies from Key Marco show yet another side of American Indian art and forcefully demonstrate - if still necessary - that there is much more to Indian art than "totem" poles and toma­hawks. The richness, the diversity of style and medium strike one again and again throughout these pages. The work of the Key Dwellers has such grace and sophistication that one deeply regrets that most of the pieces immediately warped and shrank when excavated. Although they do perhaps bring the selections "up-to-date," one, I think, may question the inclusion of a half-dozen examples of con­temporary Indian painting - especially when such words and phrases as "spirited," "outstanding," and "remarkable feeling" are used to de­scribe them. They look somehow pathetic here, pale and flaccid. Dr. Dockstader cautions that, in any discussion of the art of the American Indian, or to achieve an under­standing of what it represents, it is imperative that many preconceptions and judgments based on an evaluation of European art must be thrown out. All very well and good - but when a contemporary Indian paints watercolors in the European easel-painting tradition, even though the subject be Indian-traditional, we must judge the results according to European standards. Otherwise we are lost in nostalgia and must con­sider the objects as items of curiosity, not art. As it becomes better known, another culture, only touched upon in the text and plates (again largely because of the limitations of the Car­negie study) will surely gain recognition. Recently many outstanding examples of Columbia River stone sculpture and ornaments have been unearthed. Dignity, repose, rugged bulk, and, occasionally, great sophis­tication distinguish diis art, which has excited a number of contempo­rary American sculptors. Why more American artists have not responded to, and been influ­enced by, American Indian art is something of a mystery. Other primi­tive art, especially African sculpture, has had potent effect. One reason may be that our indigenous art has not been favored with such lavish and loving treatment as in the present volume. Its publication fills a lacuna and should stimulate the artist and the general public to gain a greater understanding of the rich heritage we have too long neglected or distorted. JAMES L. HASELTINE Salt Lake Art Center REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 363 On Desert Trails, Today and Yesterday. By RANDALL HENDERSON. (Los Angeles: Westernlorc Press, 1961. 357 pp. $5.00) Desert lovers will welcome this book by a man who has dedicated his life to exploring and interpreting the natural and human wonders of our great arid Southwest. In fact, if the expression were not too trite, Randall Henderson might well be called "Mr. Desert." While a young reporter on the Los Angeles Times in 1912, the wide, unfenced places called him and, except for service in two world wars, he has lived on the southern California desert ever since. First a reporter and newspaper­man, Mr. Henderson established the Desert magazine in 1937 and was its editor for twenty-one years. Seldom has a publication so thoroughly reflected the personality of one man, and every page glowed with his transcending devotion to everything Southwestern. In 1958 Mr. Hen­derson sold the magazine and retired to become a full-time writer. On Desert Trails is the first of a scries of books he intends to produce. In easy, readable style the author roams a vast territory in southern and Baja Calilornia, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. He includes history and geography, water supply and development of resources, immigra­tion, settlement, Indians, desert characters, and the Southwest's unique recreational features. There are chapters on Death Valley Scotty; leg­ends of lost mines and treasure; exploration of remote desert wilder­ness; the mysterious fate of the nomad artist, Everett Ruess, in southern Utah; and the life and customs of the red man, ancient and modern. There is even a chapter called "Sahara Interlude," in which the author tells of his experiences as a World War II air corps officer on the African desert. Although largely factual, the text is warmed and colored by the Henderson philosophy, familiar to thousands of readers through his Desert magazine editorial page, which he still writes each month. The book is perhaps a bit elementary for desert-wise Southwestern- LTS, but it may be read as a pleasant refresher course. The treatment, too, is somewhat choppy, discontinuous, and sprinkled with information easily obtainable elsewhere. This is disappointing because Randall Hen­derson himself is an outstanding desert phenomenon. Although we ap­preciate his modesty, we keep hoping that he will drop the objectivity of observer, recorder, and philosopher, and meet us face to face on the pages of his book. This he never does. So we can only look forward to another Henderson saga relating the chronological story of his amazing lifty-ycar love affair with the desert, and the many and varied experi­ences along the way. 364 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Westernlore Press, as usual, is to be congratulated on an excellent job of bookmaking - materials, cover, binding, and printing are all superior. There are thirty-one photographic illustrations bound together in the middle of the book, striking black and white designs by Don Louis Perceval, and fifteen graphic map illustrations by Norton Allen. WELDON F. HEALD Tucson, Arizona Story of The Amalgamated Sugar Company, 1897-1961. By J. R. Bach-man. (Caldwell: The Amalgamated Sugar Company, 1962) The Everlasting Fire. By Jonreed Lauritzen. (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1962) [historical-fiction concerning the Mormon Church] Indians and Outlaws: Settling of the San Juan Frontier. By Albert R. Lyman. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Inc., 1962) The Last of the Indian Wars. By Forbes Parkhill. (Riverside, New Jersey: Collier Books, 1961) Mission to the Navajo. By Betty Stirling. (Mountain View, California: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1961) The Navajo Yearbook- Compiled, with articles by Robert W. Young. (Window Rock, Arizona: Navajo Agency, 1961) AIA [American Institute of Architects] Architecture - Summer 1962: "Downtown Planning, A Progress Report [Salt Lake City]," 7-11; "Main Street 1868," by A. R. Mortensen, 13-15. Agricultural History - XXXVI, July 1962: "The American Frontier as a Safety Valve - the Life, Death, Reincarnation, and Justifica­tion of a Theory," by Ellen von Nardroff, 123-42. Annals of Wyoming - XXXIV, April 1962: "1852 On The Oregon Trail," by Mae Urbanek, 52-59. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 365 Arizona Highways - XXXVII, August 1962: "God's Dog, Story of the Coyote," by Charles C. Niehuis, 2-9; "Charlie Spencer and His Wonderful Steamboat [largest craft ever put on the Colorado River]," by W. L. Rusho, 34-39. Arizoniana - III, Summer 1962: "John C. Fremont: Territorial Gover­nor," by Harold C. Richardson, 41-47. The California Historical Society Quarterly - XLI, June 1962: "Vigna Dal Ferro's Un Viaggio Nel Far West Americano, translated and edited by Frederick G. Bohme, 149-61. Deseret News and Salt Lal{e Telegram, Church News - May 19, 1962: "Brigham Young Farmhouse Still in Use [photographs of the farmhouse |," by Arnold J. Irvine, 8-9; June 30, 1962: "More Room for Genealogists [photographs of the new quarters]," Iff. Corral Dust, Potomac Corral of the Westerners - VII, June 1962: "The Peripatetic Press - A First Class Mystery," by Neil West Kimball, 21. The Colorado Quarterly - XI, Summer 1962: "Notes on America [Salt Lake City is mentioned]," by Charles Oscar Gridley, 67-96. Ensign - Spring 1962: "Freedom to Farm," by Ezra Taft Benson, 17-22. Esquire, the Magazine for Men - LVIII, August 1962: "Utah - How Much Money Hath the Mormon Church ? A Million Dollars a Day . . . What With Tithing, Real Estate and Commerce. . . ." by Neil Morgan, 86-91. The Improvement Era - XLV, July 1962: "Nauvoo," by Stanley Buch-holz Kimball, 512ff.; August 1962: "Trek To The North [Mormons in Canada]," by C. Frank Steele, 568ff. The Instructor - July 1962: "A Mountain Full of Records [vaults built to store the Mormon Church records]," by Virgil B. Smith, 224. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society - LV, Summer 1962: "Nauvoo Times and Seasons [newspaper published by Mormon Church]," by Parry D. Sorensen, 117-35. 366 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY La Palacio, A Quarterly Journal of the Museum of New Mexico - LVIX, Summer 1962: "The Significance and Value of the Overland Journal," by Dale L. Morgan, 69-76; "Hoskaninni: A Gold Mining Venture In Glen Canyon," by Dwight L. Smith, 77-84. The Master key - XXXVI, July-September 1962: "Navaho Silver [con­clusion]," by Elizabeth Compton Hegemann, 102-13. Millennial Star - CXXIV, May 1962: "This is the Place [the BBC producer and scriptwriter describes his visit to Salt Lake City and Temple Square]," by Charles Chilton, lOOff. Plateau - XXXIV, April 1962: "Further Baldrock Crescent Explora­tions: San Juan County, Utah, 1960," by Christy G. Turner, II, 101-12. Saints' Herald - CIX, June 15,1962: "Section 132 Utah D.&.C., A New Look At That Document on Polygamy," by Charles A. Davies, 13ff. The Saturday Evening Post - CCXXXV, June 2,1962: "Scooter Maker [under the title, 'People on the Way Up,' Ralph Bonham, invented the 'Tote Gote']," 24; May 26,1962: "George Romney: The G.O.P.'s Fast Comer," by Stewart Alsop, 15-21. Sierra Club Bulletin - XLVII, February 1962: "Adventure on Wilder­ness Waters [Colorado River]," 8ff.; June 1962: "Glen Canyon: The Year of the Last Look," 7. Time, The Weekly Newsmagazine - LXXIX, May 18, 1962: "Stam­ina's Reward [under the tide, 'The Press,' awarding to David Mullins, Deseret News, the Pulitzer Prize]," 59-60. True West - IX, July-August 1962: "Coming of the Iron Monster [wedding of the rails at Promontory]," by Glen W. Perrins, 44ff. USA * 1, Monthly News & Current History - April 1962: "The Strug­gle for Michigan [George Romney]," by Rodney Campbell, 24-33. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 367 Utah Archaeology, A Newsletter - VIII, March 1962: "A Preliminary Report of 1961 Excavations in Harris Wash and on the Kaiparowits Plateau," by Don D. Fowler and C. Melvin Aikens, 5-13; "Report of an Indian Skull Find," by John L. Cross, 14-19; "A Burial From an Open Site in Willard Reservoir, Box Elder County," by David M. Pendergast and Francis K. Hassel, 22-24. Utah Farmer - LXXXI, July 19, 1962: "Flaming Gorge Dam Site," by David H. Mann, 5; August 2, 1962: "Indian Farm of Long Ago [Sanpete County]," by David H. Mann, 18. Utah Fish and Game - XVIII, July 1962: "Canyonlands Question," by Harold S. Crane, 8-9; "Utah's Lake Superior," by Arnold Ban-gerter, 10-11. Utah Law Review - VII, Fall 1961: "The Utah Marriage Counseling Experiment: An Account of Changes in Divorce Law and Pro­cedure," by Brigette M. Bodenheimer, 443-77. Utah Science - XXIII, June 1962: "Changing Patterns in Utah Agri­culture, 1950-1960," by Brigham D. Madsen, 46ff. The Westerners Brand Book ~ XIX> MaY 1 9 6 2 : " I r o n ° r e i n U t a h a nd Wyoming," speech delivered by Alvin L. Krieg, 19ff.