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Contents
Utah 2
Geology; Land Use ..................................................................................... 2
History ........................................................................................................ 2
Miscellaneous ............................................................................................. 7
County, Local, and Regional Utah Histories, Guidebooks, etc. ................. 8
Native Americans 17
The West 22 General ...................................................................................................... 22
Arizona ..................................................................................................... 32
California .................................................................................................. 32
Idaho ......................................................................................................... 34
Montana .................................................................................................... 34
Nevada ...................................................................................................... 35
New Mexico ............................................................................................. 35
Wyoming .................................................................................................. 35
The West (Time-Life Books Series) ........................................................ 36
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 39 Bibliography ............................................................................................. 39
Biography and History; Folklore .............................................................. 39
Teachings of Joseph Smith ....................................................................... 49
Doctrinal Works ....................................................................................... 49
Hymnals and Songbooks .......................................................................... 50
Relief Society ........................................................................................... 51
Temples .................................................................................................... 51
Other ......................................................................................................... 51
Related Sects ............................................................................................ 51
Miscellaneous Books 52
United States History ............................................................................... 52
Rentmeister Family ................................................................................... 53
Railroads ................................................................................................... 53
Folklore Collecting ................................................................................... 55
Germany; German Language and Literature ............................................ 55
English-Language Fiction, Short Stories, Essays, etc. ............................. 55
Communism ............................................................................................. 58
Nature and the Environment .................................................................... 58
Building Construction and Mathematics .................................................. 58
Other ......................................................................................................... 61
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Utah
Geology; Land Use
Barnes, Fran A. Canyon country geology for the layman and rockhound; a guide to understanding the unique and spectacular geology of the
canyon country of southeastern Utah and vicinity, with a special section on rockhounding. By F.A. Barnes. [Salt Lake City]
Wasatch Publishers, 1978.
160 p. illus. 22 cm. (Canyon country series, 11)
ISBN 0-915272-17-2.
Location: Shelf 4
Boutwell, John Mason. Economic geology of the Bingham mining district. By John Mason Boutwell, with a section on areal geology by Arthur
Keith, and an introd. on general geology by Samuel Franklin Emmons. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1905.
412, p. illus. 30 cm. (United States Geological Survey. Professional paper, no. 38)
“Series A: Economic geology, 47; B: Descriptive geology, 59.”
At head of title: House of Representatives, 58th Congress, 3d session, Document no. 410.
Location: Shelf 16
Doelling, Hellmut H. Geology and mineral resources of Box Elder County, Utah. By Hellmut H. Doelling [with Jack A. Campbell, J. Wallace
Gwynn and Lee I. Perry. Salt Lake City, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey, 1980]
vi, 251 p. illus. 28 cm. (Utah Geological and Mineral Survey. Bulletin, 115, 1980)
Bibliography: p. p. 247-251.
Location: Shelf 16
Hintze, Lehi F. Geologic history of Utah. [By] Lehi F. Hintze. [Provo, Utah, Brigham Young University, 1973]
181 p. illus. 23 cm. (BYU geology studies, v. 20, pt. 30)
Cover title.
Bibliography: p. 164-181.
Location: Shelf 4
Powell, John Wesley. Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States; with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah. Cambridge,
Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962.
xxvii, 202 p. illus. 24 cm. (The John Harvard library)
Fold. maps in pocket.
Location: Shelf 16
History
Anderson, George Edward. The Utah photographs of George Edward Anderson. [Text] by Rell G. Francis for the Amon Carter Museum of Western
Art. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [c1979]
xi, 155 p. illus. 26 cm.
Spine title: The Utah photographs of G.E. Anderson.
Portions of the introd. were published in different form in the American West, v. 15, no. 6, Nov./Dec. 1978.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8032-1952-0.
Location: Shelf 18
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Arrington, Leonard J. Beet sugar in the West; a history of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966. By Leonard J. Arrington. Seattle,
University of Washington Press, 1966.
xiv, 234 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 09-220.
Location: Shelf 17
Carr, Stephen L. The historical guide to Utah ghost towns. By Stephen L. Carr. Salt Lake City, Western Epics [1972]
166 p. illus. 29 cm.
Bibliography: p. 162-163.
Location: Shelf 16
copy 1 (hardcover)
copy 2 (paperback)
Churchill, Stephanie D. Utah: a guide to 11 tours of historic sites. Compiled by Stephanie D. Churchill. Salt Lake City, Utah Heritage Foundation,
1972.
42 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 18
copy 1-2
Creer, Leland Hargrave. The founding of an empire; the exploration and colonization of Utah, 1776-1856. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft [c1947]
xv, 454 p. maps. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [419]-443.
Location: Shelf 13
Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Lesson.
[Salt Lake City]
v. illus. 22 cm. monthly.
Compiled by Kate B. Carter.
Each issue has also a distinctive title.
Also in binder with issues for Sept. 1963-May 1964: The Pony Express, v. 30, no. 4-5, Sept.-Oct. 1963.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 1
Sept. 1963-May 1964
Dellenbaugh, Frederick S. A canyon voyage; the narrative of the second Powell expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the
explorations on land, in the years 1871 and 1872. By Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, artist and assistant topographer of the
expedition. With a foreword by William H. Goetzmann. New Haven, Yale University Press [c1962]
xxxvi, 277 p. illus. 21 cm. (Yale western Americana paperbound, YW-4)
Originally published in 1908.
Valentine’s Day card, in envelope, inserted: “To Grandpa Jack. Love, Denni & Kimbo.”
Location: Shelf 11
Ellsworth, S. George. Utah’s heritage. [By] S. George Ellsworth. Rev. ed. Santa Barbara, Peregrine Smith, 1977.
526 p. illus. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 15
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An Enduring legacy. v. 1-
1978-
Salt Lake City, Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
v. illus. 24 cm.
Compiled by the Lesson Committee.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 2
v. 1-8; 1978-85
Esshom, Frank.
Pioneers and prominent men of Utah; comprising photographs, genealogies, biographies... the early history of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ... Salt Lake City, Utah Pioneers Book Pub. Co., 1913.
1319 p. illus. 31 cm.
Location: Shelf 2
Fitzgerald, John D. Papa married a Mormon. [By] John D. Fizgerald. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall [c1955]
x, 298 p. illus. 22 cm.
Imperfect: some loose pages.
Location: Shelf 12
Hance, Irma Watson. Johnston, Connor, and the Mormons: an outline of military history in northern Utah. Compiled by Irma Watson Hance and
Irene Warr. [n.p., 196-]
ii, 178 leaves. 28 cm.
“Intended to be a somewhat comprehensive historical outline of the establishment of military forces in Utah, and particularly
Camp Floyd (Fort Crittenden) and Fort Douglas, Utah, prepared for the National Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of
America and the Daughters of the American Colonists, and particularly for the local Utah chapters of said organizations, and for
the Utah Historical Society.”
“Published in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Fort Douglas, Utah, October 22, 1962.”
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 5
Heart throbs of the West; a unique volume treating definite subjects of Western history. Compiled by Kate B. Carter. Salt Lake
City, Daughters of Utah Pioneers [1939]-
v. illus. 22 cm.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 1
v. 1 (3d ed., 1947)
v. 2-3
v. 6
v. 12
Hunter, Milton R.
Utah in her western setting. By Milton R. Hunter. Salt Lake City, Deseret News Press, 1943.
xxii, 604 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 14
Hunter, Milton R. Utah: the story of her people, 1540-1947; a centennial history of Utah. By Milton R. Hunter. Salt Lake City, Deseret News
Press, 1946.
xvi, 431 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 4
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Kelly, Charles. Salt Desert trails; a history of the Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter
road to California. Salt Lake City, Western Epics, 1969.
182 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 5
Kelner, Alexis. Skiing in Utah; a history. [Salt Lake City, A. Kelner, c1980]
256 p. illus. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 15
Larson, Gustive O. The “Americanization” of Utah for statehood. [By] Gustive O Larson. San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library [c1971]
x, 328 p. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 305-316.
Location: Shelf 12
Morgan, Dale L. The Great Salt Lake. [By] Dale L. Morgan. Introd. by Ray Allen Billington. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico
Press [1973]
xxxi, 432 p. illus. 21 cm.
Originally published in 1947.
ISBN 0-8263-0280-7.
Location: Shelf 4
Neff, Andrew Love. History of Utah, 1847 to 1869. Edited and annotated by Leland Hargrave Creer. [1st ed. Salt Lake City, Printed by the
Deseret News Press, c1940]
xviii, 955 p. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. [911]-924.
Location: Shelf 5
Our pioneer heritage. v. 1-
1958-
Salt Lake City, Daughters of Utah Pioneers.
v. illus. 22 cm. annual.
Compiled by Kate B. Carter.
Holdings:
copy 1
Location: Shelf 1
v. 1-19; 1958-76
copy 2
Location: Shelf 1
v. 1; 1958
v. 8-9; 1965-66
Peterson, Charles S. Utah; a bicentennial history. [By] Charles S. Peterson. New York, Norton [c1977]
ix, 213 p. illus. 22 cm. (The States and the nation series)
Bibliography: p. 206-209.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 4
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Stansbury, Howard. An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. [n.p.] Readex Microprint [c1966]
267 p. illus. 22 cm. (Great Americana)
Reprint of An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, published in 1852 in London by Sampson Low and in
Philadelphia by Lippincott, Grambo.
Location: Shelf 4
Treasures of pioneer history. Compiled by Kate Carter. Salt Lake City, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1952-57.
6 v. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 1
Utah historical quarterly.
[Salt Lake City] Utah State Historical Society.
v. illus. 27 cm.
Began in 1928.
Suspended Nov. 1933-1938.
Also in binder with issues for 1965-66: Utah State Historical Society newsletter, v. 15, no. 3, May 1965, v. 15, no. 6, Nov.
1965, v. 16, no.3, May 1966; with issues for 1967-68: Sons of Utah Pioneers. SUP news, v. 6, no. 4/5, Apr./May 1959; with
issues for 1969-70: Utah State Historical Day, Jan. 5, 1970. Various other items inserted.
ISSN 0042-143X.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 6
v. 33-42; 1965-74
v. 79, no.3; summer 2011
INDEXES:
Vols. 1-33, 1928-65. 1 v.
Utah history atlas. Compiled by David E. Miller. 2d ed., rev. and enl. [1980 ed. Salt Lake City?] D.E. Miller [1980] c1968.
1 v. (unpaged) illus., maps. 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 15
Utah’s history. Richard D. Poll, general editor. Thomas G. Alexander, Eugene E. Campbell, David E. Miller, associate editors.
Provo, Brigham Young University Press [c1978]
xix, 757 p. illus. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Imperfect: Paper cover loose.
ISBN 0-8425-0838-4.
Imperfect: Paper cover loose.
Location: Shelf 14
Warrum, Noble. Utah since statehood: historical and biographical. [By] Noble Warrum, editor, assisted Charles W. Morse for bench and bar
and W. Brown Ewing for the medical chapter. Chicago, S. J. Clarke, 1919-20.
4 v. illus. 28cm.
Spine title: History of Utah since statehood.
Location: Shelf 9
Whitney, Orson F. History of Utah, comprising preliminary chapters on the previous history of her founders, accounts of early Spanish and
American explorations in the Rocky Mountain region, the advent of the Mormon pioneers, the establishment and dissolution of
the provisional state of Deseret, and the subsequent creation and development of the territory. By Orson F. Whitney. Salt Lake
City, G.Q. Cannon, 1892-94.
4 v. illus. 28 cm.
Vol. 4 lacks subtitle.
Location: Shelf 9
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Young, Levi Edgar. The founding of Utah. New York, Scribner [c1924]
xv, 445 p. 19cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Miscellaneous
Carpenter, Allan. Utah: from its glorious past to the present. By Allan Carpenter. Illustrations by Roger Herrington. Chicago, Childrens
Press [c1965]
95 p. illus. 24 cm. (Enchantment of America)
Location: Shelf 4
Gadd, John D. C. What’s in Utah; facts, places, and history. By John D.C. Gadd, Sheldon Bliss [and] John M. Querry. Salt Lake City, JSJ
Enterprises, c1978.
65 p. illus. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
The Grand beehive. Compiled and with an introd. by Hal Cannon. Designed by Brian Jones. Photographed by Bent Herridge.
Produced by Skip Branch. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1980.
[88] p. illus. 21 cm.
“This book is an extension and to a degree a record of the Grand Beehive Exhibition, presented at the Salt Lake Art Center
from September 12 through October 19, 1980, and in another version at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C., from April 24 until December 6, 1981.”
Includes bibliography.
Imperfect: loose cover.
ISBN 0-87480-190-7.
Location: Shelf 18
Hubbard, Lester A. Ballads and songs from Utah. Collected and edited by Lester A. Hubbard. Music transcription by Kenly W. Whitelock.
Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1961.
xxi, 475 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. p. 464-466.
Location: Shelf 5
Inventory of the county archives of Utah. Prepared by the Historical Records Survey, Division of Women’s and Professional
Projects, Works Progress Administration. Ogden, Historical Records Survey, 19 -
no. 28 cm.
CONTENTS. —no. 2. Box Elder County (Brigham City)
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 4
no. 2
James, George Wharton. Utah, the land of blossoming valleys: the story of its desert wastes, of its huge and fantastic rock formations, and of its
fertile gardens in the sheltered valleys; a survey of its rapidly developing industries, an account of the origin, development, and
beliefs of the Mormon Church; and chapters on the flora, fauna, and on the scenic wonders that are a heritage of all Americans.
Boston, Page Co., 1922.
xix, 371 p. illus. 25 cm. (The “See America first” series)
Bibliography: p. 359-360.
Location: Shelf 13
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Leigh, Rufus Wood. Five hundred Utah place names; their origin and significance. [1st ed.] Salt Lake City [Manufactured by Deseret News
Press, c1961]
vi, 109 p. fold. map. 19 cm.
An excerpt from the author’s Indian, Spanish, and government survey place names of the Great Basin and Colorado
plateaus.
Location: Shelf 4
Lore of faith & folly. Compiled by the Folklore Society of Utah. Edited by Thomas E. Cheney, assisted by Austin E. Fife and
Juanita Brooks. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press [c1971]
ix, 274 p. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 12
Moffat, Riley Moore. Printed maps of Utah to 1900; an annotated cartobibliography. [Santa Cruz?] Western Association of Map Libraries, 1981.
xvi, 176 p. 23 cm.
Cover title: Maps of Utah to 1900.
Bibliography: p. 169-172.
Location: Shelf 4
Muench, David. Utah. Photography, David Muench. Text, Hartt Wixom. [Portland, Ore., C.H. Belding, c1973]
iv, 188 p. illus. 35 cm.
ISBN 0-912856-11-4.
Location: Shelf 13
100 years of Utah painting; selected works from the 1840s to the 1940s. Narrative and documentation by James L. Haseltine.
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Art Center [c1965]
62 p. illus. 23 x 27 cm.
Catalog of an exhibition held Oct 22-Nov. 23, 1965, at the Salt Lake Art Center.
Bibliography: p. 50-51.
Location: Shelf 18
County, Local, and Regional Utah Histories, Guidebooks, etc.
Allen, Earle W. Home in the hills of Bridger land. [Hyrum, Utah, City of Hyrum, c1969]
xxi, 401, [1] p. illus. 24 cm.
By Earle W. Allen, Bessie Brown, and Lila Eliason.
Errata: p. [402]
Three inscriptions to President Kimball on inside front fly leaf.
Location: Shelf 4
Anderson, Bernice Gibbs. Corinne, the city of the un-godly. [n.p., 1959]
19 p. illus. 21 cm.
Cover title.
Location: Shelf 4
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Anderson, J. Leon. History of Blacksmith Fork Canyon and my life on the C.L. Anderson’s ranch. By J. Leon Anderson. Hyrum, Utah, Downs
Printing, 1977.
67 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Arrington, Leonard J. “The richest hole on earth”; a history of the Bingham Copper Mine. By Leonard J. Arrington and Gary B. Hansen. Logan,
Utah State University Press, 1963.
103 p. 23 cm. ([Utah State University] Monograph series, v. 11, no. 1)
Bibliography: p. 96-100.
Location: Shelf 4
Baker, Pearl.
Robbers Roost recollections. Logan, Utah State University Press [c1976]
194 p. illus. 24 cm. (Western Text Society series)
ISBN 0-87421-083-6.
Location: Shelf 16
Baker, Pearl. The Wild Bunch at Robbers Roost. Completely rev. and certain new material added by the author. New York, Abelard-
Schuman [c1971]
224 p. illus. 24 cm.
ISBN 0-200-71782-0.
Holdings:
copy 1 (Autographed by the author)
Location: Shelf 11
copy 2
Location: Shelf 11
Beckwith, Frank. Trips to points of interest in Millard and nearby. Written and compiled by Frank Beckwith for the Boy Scouts of Millard
County, Utah. [n.p., Boy Scouts of Millard County, Utah] 1947.
144 p. illus. 23 cm.
Cover title: Millard and nearby.
Location: Shelf 4
Belnap, John M. History of Hooper, Utah, land of beautiful sunsets. By John M. Belnap. [Hooper, J.M. Belnap, 197-]
220 p. illus. (some col.) 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 4
Box Elder lore of the nineteenth century. Brigham City, Box Elder Chapter, Sons of Utah Pioneers, 1951.
169 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Cache Valley; essays on her past and people. Edited by Douglas D. Alder. Logan, Utah State University [c1976]
iii, 89 p. illus. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 4
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Carter, Norine K. Our one hundred years, 1870-1970; Park Valley Centennial. [n.p., 1970?]
49 leaves. illus. 28 cm.
By Norine K. Carter, Letitia W. Palmer, and Dorothy K. Morris.
Location: Shelf 4
Christensen, Vera. The big Cache; fantasy, fact, folklore. Written by Vera Christensen and Elizabeth Nuhn. Illustrated by Lorraine Burgon.
Bicentennial ed. [Logan, Utah, Herald Print. Co.] 1976.
84 p. illus. 16 x 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 82-84.
Errata slip mounted on inside front cover.
Location: Shelf 4
Crookston, Newell J. The story of Old Ephraim. By Newell J. Crookston. North Logan, Utah, N.J. Crookston, c1959.
22 p. illus. 23 cm.
Cover title: Old Ephraim; the story of the last giant grizzly of Bridgerland.
Location: Shelf 11
Czerny, Peter G. The great Great Salt Lake. [By] Peter G. Czerny. [Provo] Brigham Young University Press [c1976]
vii, 121 p. illus. 28 cm.
Bibliography: p. 119.
ISBN 0-8425-1073-7.
Location: Shelf 15
Diggings and doings in Park City. [By] Raye Carleson Ringholz [and others] Rev. and enl. 3d ed. Salt Lake City, Western
Epics [c1972]
161 p. illus. 26 cm.
Half title: Park City.
ISBN 0-87480-063-3.
Location: Shelf 4
Dilley, J. W. History of the Scofield Mine disaster; a concise account of the incidents and scenes that took place in Scofield, Utah, May 1,
1900, when mine number four exploded, killing 200 men. J.W. Dilley, author. [Provo, Skelton Pub. Co., 1900]
298 p. illus. 23 cm.
Wedding invitation and other material inserted.
Location: Shelf 16
East of Antelope Island. [This history gathered and compiled by Annie Call Carr with the loyal support of the sixteen D.U.P.
camps of Davis County. 4th ed. n.p., Daughters of Utah Pioneers, North Davis County Company, c1971]
519 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 14
Emery County; reflections on its past and future. Edited and with an introduction by Allan Kent Powell. [Salt Lake City] Utah
State Historical Society, 1979.
x, 134 p. illus. 23 cm.
A project of the Emery County Historical Society.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-913738-29-8.
Location: Shelf 4
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Flickering memories. [Compiled by Bonnie Thompson. Salt Lake City, Printed by Printers Inc., c1977]
ix, 148 p. illus. 22 cm. (Folklore in the Bear Lake valley, v. 2)
Bibliography: p. 145-148.
Location: Shelf 4
Foy, Leslie T. The city Bountiful; Utah’s second settlement, from pioneers to present. [By] Leslie T. Foy. [Bountiful] Horizon Publishers
[c1975]
xvi, 350 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-88290-057-9.
Location: Shelf 4
Golden nuggets of pioneer days; a history of Garfield County. [Panguitch, Garfield County Chapter of the Daughters of Utah
Pioneers, c1949]
374 p. illus. 23 cm.
Errata list on p. 374.
Location: Shelf 5
Grand memories. Grand County, Utah, Daughter of Utah Pioneers, c1972.
xv, 321 p. illus. 22 cm.
“A collection and arrangement of essential material forming Grand County’s history as taken from the earliest pioneer
histories, the Times-Independent, county and church records, old letters, a diary, post office information from Washington, D.C.,
and the Green Light, a little paper printed by a railroad company.”
Holdings:
copy 1
Location: Shelf 1
copy 2
Location: Shelf 2
Haglund, Karl T. The Avenues of Salt Lake City. [By] Karl T. Haglund & Philip F. Notarianni. Prepared by the Utah State Historical Society
for the City of Salt Lake. [1st ed. Salt Lake City, Utah State Historical Society, c1980]
ix, 166 p. illus. 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Imperfect: some loose pages.
Location: Shelf 16
Harris, Beth Kay. The towns of Tintic. Denver, Sage Books [c1961]
180 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. [179]-180.
Location: Shelf 4
The History of a valley: Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho. Editor, Joel E. Ricks. Associate editor, Everett L. Cooley. Logan, Utah,
Cache Valley Centennial Commission, 1956.
xvi, 504 p. illus. 24cm.
Maps in pocket.
“Bibliographical essay. By S. George Ellsworth”: p. [458]-478.
Location: Shelf 4
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History of Kane County. Compiled, arranged, and edited by Adonis Findlay Robinson. [n.p.] Kane County Daughters of Utah
Pioneers, 1970.
xxix, 626 p. illus. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 4
Jensen, J. Marinus. History of Provo, Utah. By J. Marinus Jensen. [Provo?] The author, 1924.
414, [1] p. illus. 20 cm.
Errata: p. [415]
Location: Shelf 4
Johnson, Don Carlos.
A brief history of Springville, Utah, from its first settlement, September 18, 1850, to the 17th day of September, 1900; fifty
years. [2d ed. Springville, Art City Pub. Co., 1973]
124, [1] p. illus. 23 cm.
Originally published in 1900.
Errata: p. [125]
Location: Shelf 4
Kuehl, Barbara. Discover Salt Lake City. [By] Barbara Kuehl and Beverly Uhlenberg. [Salt Lake City, c1975]
v, 103 p. illus. 18 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Lambert, Roy. High Uintas—hi! [2d ed.] Kamas, Utah, R. Lambert [1965, c1964]
287 p. illus. 24 cm.
Inscribed by the author.
Location: Shelf 16
Larson, Andrew Karl. The red hills of November; a pioneer biography of Utah’s cotton town. [Salt Lake City] Deseret News Press, 1957.
xvi, 330 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [319]-321.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 14
Lehi centennial history, 1850-1950; a history of Lehi for one hundred years. [Compiled and written by Lehi Centennial
Committee. Lehi, Utah, Free Press Pub. Co., 1950]
928 p. illus. 24cm.
CONTENTS.—Pt. 1. Reprint of first publication of “History of Lehi,” 1850-1913.—Pt. 2. History of Lehi, including
biographical section up to 1950.
Pt. 1 is a reprint of History of Lehi, by Hamilton Gardner, first published by Deseret News in 1913.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 4
copy 1-2
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McCormick, John S.
Salt Lake City, the gathering place. An illustrated history by John S. McCormick. Photos. selected and captions written by
Nancy D. McCormick. [1st ed.] Woodland Hills, Calif., Windsor Publications [1980]
130 p. illus. 29 cm.
Sponsored by the Utah State Historical Society.
Bibliography: p. 127.
ISBN 0-89781-018-X.
Location: Shelf 4
McCune, Alice Paxman. History of Juab County; a history prepared for the centennial of the coming of the pioneers to Utah, 1847-1947.
[Springville, Utah?] Juab County Co. of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1947.
301 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Memories that live; Utah County centennial history. Compiled by Emma N. Huff. Assistants: Nettie Brown, Edith B. Jones
[and] Emma C. Beardall. [Springville?] Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Utah County, 1947.
488 p. illus. 22 cm.
Map on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 4
Merrill, Yvonne Young. Cache Valley; a guide the northeastern Utah. By Yvonne Young Merrill, assisted by Ruth Stanfield Rees. Designed by Jon
Anderson, assisted by Glen Edwards. [n.p.] Printed by Herald Print. Co. [c1970]
73 p. illus. 28 cm.
Cover title: Cache Valley: in and out and ’round about.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 4
Miller, David E. Great Salt Lake: past and present. By David E. Miller. 2d ed. rev. & enl. Salt Lake City, Publishers Press, 1977, c1969.
48 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Miller, David E. Hole-in-the-Rock; an epic in the colonization of the great American West. [By] David E. Miller. [2d ed.] Salt Lake City,
University of Utah Press, 1966.
xiv, 229 p. illus. 26 cm.
Bibliography: p. [223]-226.
Location: Shelf 15
Miller, James H. Brigham City centennial, 1867-1967. [Brigham City, Brigham City Corp., 1967]
56, [48] p. illus. 27 cm.
Cover title.
Stamped on cover: Compiled and written by James H. Miller.
Published by the city corporation, the Brigham City Chamber of Commerce, and Peach Days, 1967.
“Official Peach Days program, 1967; 63rd annual celebration”: p. [57-104]
Location: Shelf 4
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Miller, Marilyn McMeen. Provo: a story of people in motion. [By] Marilyn McMeen Miller [and] John Clifton Moffitt. [Provo] Brigham Young
University Press [c1974]
106 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8425-0882-1.
Location: Shelf 4
Morningstar, Connie VanOrden. Early Utah furniture. By Connie Morningstar. Logan, Utah State University Press [c1976]
92 p. illus. 21 cm.
Directory of cabinetmakers: p. [14-39]
Bibliography: p. [40-41]
Location: Shelf 16
Newey, LaVerna Burnett. Remember my valley; a history of Ogden Canyon, Huntsville, Liberty, and Eden, Utah, from 1825 to 1976. Salt Lake City,
Hawkes Pub. [c1977]
377 p. illus. 28 cm.
Bibliography: p. 366-369.
Location: Shelf 15
100 years of history of Millard County. Sponsored by East and West Millard Chapters of Daughters of Utah Pioneers. East
Millard compiled by Stella H. Day. West Millard compiled by Sebrina C. Ekins. West Millard pictures gathered and
arranged by Josephine B. Walker. [Fillmore?] D.U.P. of Millard County, c1951.
xvi, 808 p. illus. 24 cm.
Cover title: Milestones of Millard.
Location: Shelf 4
Perkins, Cornelia Adams. Saga of San Juan. By Cornelia Adams Perkins, Marian Gardner Nielson [and] Lenora Butt Jones. [n.p.] San Juan County
Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1957.
367 p. illus. 26 cm.
Spine title: History of San Juan County, Utah.
Location: Shelf 2
Peterson, Charles S. Look to the mountains; southeastern Utah and the La Sal National Forest. By Charles S. Peterson, with the cooperation of
the Manti-La Sal National Forest. [Provo] Brigham Young University Press [c1975]
261 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [245]-252.
ISBN 0-8425-0152-5.
Location: Shelf 4
Price, Raye Carleson. Barrier of salt; the story of Great Salt Lake. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1970.
95 p. illus. 20 x 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 91-94.
“SBN no. 87747-370-6.”
Location: Shelf 4
Rainbow views; a history of Wayne County. Compiled by Anne Snow. Presented by Wayne County Chapter of Daughters of
the Utah Pioneers. [n.p.] Daughters of the Utah Pioneers of Wayne County, c1953.
304 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
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Rose, Josephine. This is the place. By Josephine Rose [and] Terrell Dougan. Illustrated by Stephanie Churchill. [n.p., c1976]
99 p. illus. 23 cm.
Cover title: This is the place: Salt Lake City.
Location: Shelf 4
Simmonds, A. J. The gentile comes to Cache Valley; a study of the Logan apostasies of 1874 and the establishment of non-Mormon churches
in Cache Valley, 1873-1913. [By] A.J. Simmonds. Logan, Utah State University Press, 1976.
xvi, 143 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [131]-137.
ISBN 0-87421-088-7.
Location: Shelf 4
Staheli, Mary Esther. Descendants of Pine Valley pioneers. [Saint George, Utah, Printed by the Art Press, c1980]
xii, 156 p. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 149.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 4
Tales of a triumphant people; a history of Salt Lake County, Utah, 1847-1900. Compiled and published by Daughters of Utah
Pioneers of Salt Lake County Company. [Editors: Francis W. Kirkham and Harold Lundstrom. Associate editors: Pearl B.
Wonnacott and Annie Clark Kimball. 1st ed. Salt Lake City, Stevens & Wallis Press, c1947]
xvi, 356 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Tanner, Faun McKonkie. The far country; a regional history of Moab and La Sal, Utah. [2d ed.] Salt Lake City, Olympus Pub. Co. [c1976]
359 p. illus. 26 cm.
First published in 1936 under title A history of Moab.
Bibliography: p. 333-342.
ISBN 0-913420-63-8.
Location: Shelf 4
copy 1-2
Thompson, Bonnie. Folklore in the Bear Lake valley. Salt Lake City, Granite Pub. Co. [c1972]
viii, 219 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 217-219.
Location: Shelf 16
Thompson, George A. Treasure Mountain home; a centennial history of Park City, Utah. By George A. Thompson and Fraser Buck. Salt Lake
City, Deseret Book Co., 1968.
viii, 268 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 19
Thru the years; Sevier County centennial history. Compiled and edited by Irvin L. Warnock. [n.p.] Published by Sevier County
Centennial Committee, assisted by Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Sevier County, 1947.
469 p. illus. 22 cm.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 4
copy 1-2 (copy 1 imperfect: some loose pages; deteriorating binding)
Rentmeister Book Collection
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Utah’s Dixie: the cotton mission. Edited by A.R. Mortensen. Salt Lake City, Utah State Historical Society, c1961.
112 p. illus. 23 cm.
“The greater part of this story was written or compiled by Dixie’s own Juanita Brooks”—Acknowledgments.
Reprinted from Utah historical quarterly, v. 29, no. 3, July 1961.
Inscribed on t.p.: Juanita Brooks, Aug. 4, 1964.
Location: Shelf 4
Utley, Robert M. Golden spike. By Robert M. Utley and Francis A. Ketterson, Jr. [Washington, D.C.] U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National
Park Service [1969]
58 p. illus. 23 cm. (National Park Service historical handbook series, no. 40)
Location: Shelf 4
Welling, Gale.
Fielding; the people and the events that affected their lives. [n.p., 198-]
327 p. illus. 29 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Rentmeister Book Collection
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Native Americans
Aikens, C. Melvin. Hogup Cave. [By] C. Melvin Aikens. Chapters on textiles and wooden artifacts by J.M. Adovasio and G.F. Dalley.
Ancillary studies by K.T. Harper [and others] Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press [1970]
xiii, 286 p. illus. 28 cm. (University of Utah anthropological papers, no. 93, Apr. 1970)
Includes bibliographies.
Location: Shelf 8
Bailey, Paul.
Ghost dance messiah. Los Angeles, Westernlore Press, 1970.
206 p. 21 cm.
The story of Wokova, the Paiute messiah, whose visions inspired the Indians to dreams of power, freedom, and peace but
also led to bitter wars.
Original invoice for the book inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 8
Bailey, Paul. Walkara; hawk of the mountains. Los Angeles, Westernlore Press [c1954]
185 p. illus. 21 cm. (Westernlore Great West and Indian series, 2]
Bibliography: p. 177-179.
Location: Shelf 8
Bennett, Kay.
Kaibah; recollection of a Navajo girlhood. Los Angeles, Westernlore Press, 1964.
253 p. illus. 21 cm. (Great West and Indian series, 27)
Original invoice for the book inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 8
Brown, Dee. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee; an Indian history of the American West. [Bantam ed.] Toronto, New York, Bantam
Books [1972? c1970]
xiii, 458 p. illus. 18 cm.
Bibliography: p. 437-445.
Location: Shelf 12
Brown, Thomas Dunlop. Journal of the Southern Indian Mission; diary of Thomas D. Brown. Edited by Juanita Brooks. Logan, Utah State
University Press [c1972]
xx, 175 p. illus. 23 cm. (Western Text Society. [Publication] no. 4)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 8
Castleton, Kenneth B. Petroglyphs and pictographs of Utah. By Kenneth B. Castleton. Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Natural History, 1978-79.
2 v. illus. 28 cm.
Includes bibliographies.
CONTENTS.—v. 1. The East and northeast.—v. 2. The South, central, west, and northwest.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 8
v. 1-2
Rentmeister Book Collection
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Cressman, L. S.
Prehistory of the far west; homes of vanished peoples. [By] L.S. Cressman. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press
[c1977]
248 p. illus. 29 cm.
Bibliography: p. 209-241.
ISBN 0-87480-113-3.
Location: Shelf 15
Dalley, Gardiner F. Swallow Shelter and associated sites. By Gardiner F. Dalley. Chapters on Remnant Cave and No Name Valley by Michael
S. Berry. Appendices by James M. Adovasio, Gardiner F. Dalley [and] Frank W. Hull. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press,
1977.
vi, 179 p. illus. 28 cm. (University of Utah anthropological papers, no. 96, Jan. 1976)
Includes bibliographies.
Location: Shelf 8
Dockstader, Frederick J. Indian art of the Americas. Text by Frederick J. Dockstader. Photography by Carmelo Guadagno. New York, Museum of
the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1973.
304 p. illus. 28 cm.
A touring exhibition organized by the museum.
Bibliography: p. 297-304.
Location: Shelf 8
Dunn, J. P. 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?]
669 p. illus. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Hallmark Easter card from “Helen” to her husband inserted; with a newspaper clipping.
Location: Shelf 8
Fry, Gary F. Analysis of prehistoric coprolites from Utah. By Gary F. Fry. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1977.
xi, 45 p. illus. 28 cm. (University of Utah anthropological papers, no. 97, Apr. 1976)
Bibliography: p. 41-45.
Location: Shelf 8
Graham, W. A. The Custer myth; a source book of Custeriana. Written and compiled by W.A. Graham. To which is added Important items
of Custeriana and A complete and comprehensive bibliography, by Fred Dustin. New York, Bonanza Books [c1953]
xxii, 413 p. illus. 27 cm.
Bibliography: p. 380]-405.
Location: Shelf 8
Grinnell, George Bird. By Cheyenne campfires. [By] George Bird Grinnell. With photos. by Elizabeth C. Grinnell. New Haven, Yale University
Press [1962]
xxiv, 305 p. illus. 22 cm.
Folk tales of the Cheyenne.
“A Yale Western Americana paperbound.”
Location: Shelf 8
Rentmeister Book Collection
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Jackson, Helen Hunt. A century of dishonor; the early crusade for Indian reform. Edited by Andrew F. Rolle. [1st Harper torchbook ed.] New
York, Harper & Row [1965]
xxii, 342, 10 p. 21 cm. (American perspectives)
“Harper torchbooks. The university library.”
Originally published in 1881.
The final group of pages is a catalog of the Harper torchbooks.
Original invoice for the book inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 8
Jennings, Jesse D. Danger Cove. By Jesse D. Jennings. [Salt Lake City] University of Utah Press, 1970.
xii, 328 p. illus. 28 cm. (Anthropological papers, no. 27, Oct. 1957)
Reprint of the 1957 ed., which was also published as no. 14 of the Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology and as
a supplement to American antiquity, v. 23, no. 2, pt. 2.
Bibliography: p. 288-297.
Location: Shelf 13
Jennings, Jesse D. Prehistory of Utah and the eastern Great Basin. By Jesse D. Jennings. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press [c1978]
xii, 263 p. illus. 28 cm. (University of Utah anthropological papers, no. 98, 1978)
Bibliography: p. 257-263.
Location: Shelf 13
Jones, Daniel W. Forty years among the Indians; a true yet thrilling narrative of the author’s experiences among the natives. By Daniel W.
Jones. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft [c1960]
378 p. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 8
Jones, Louis Thomas. Aboriginal American oratory; the tradition of eloquence among the Indians of the United States. Los Angeles, Southwest
Museum, 1965.
xx, 136 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
“The crimsom [sic] carnage of Wounded Knee; an astounding story of human slaughter, by Frank B. Zahn”: booklet (with
original invoice) inserted.
Location: Shelf 8
McCreight, Major Israel. Firewater and forked tongues; a Sioux chief interprets U.S. history. By M.I. McCreight. Illus. by Charles M. Russell. [1st
ed.] Pasadena, Calif., Trail’s End Pub. Co. [1947]
xxiv, 180 p. illus. 22 cm.
“The historic writings covered herein, largely the dictation of Chief Flying Hawk, a survivor of the Custer fight, are a
faithful series of tales as known and handed down by the Sioux”—Foreword.
Location: Shelf 8
Madsen, Brigham D. The Bannock of Idaho. By Brigham D. Madsen. Illustrated by Maynard Dixon Stewart. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers,
1958.
382 p. illus. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 8
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Madsen, Brigham D.
The Northern Shoshoni. By Brigham D. Madsen. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1980.
259 p. illus. 28 cm.
Bibliography: p. 245-248.
ISBN 0-87004-266-1.
Location: Shelf 8
Martineau, LaVan. The rocks begin to speak. [Edited by Gweneth Reed DenDooven. 1st ed.] Las Vegas, KC Publications [1976, c1973]
xiv, 210 p. illus. 26 cm.
Bibliography: p. 197-199.
ISBN 0-916122-30-1.
Location: Shelf 8
Pratt, A. G. Rock art of the Uintah Basin. [By] A.G. Pratt. [1st ed. Roosevelt, Utah, Printed by the Uintah Basin Standard, 1972]
36 p. illus. 23 cm.
Cover title.
Location: Shelf 18
Sandoz, Mari. Crazy Horse, the strange man of the Oglalas. A biography by Mari Sandoz. New York, Hastings House [1965, c1942]
x, 428 p. fold. map. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 417-422.
Original invoice for the book inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 8
Schaafsma, Polly.
The rock art of Utah; a study from the Donald Scott Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.,
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1971.
xix, 169 p. illus. 27 cm. (Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, v. 65)
Bibliography: p. [165]-169.
Location: Shelf 8
Stokes, William Michael. Messages on stone; selections of native western rock art. [By] William Michael Stokes [and] William Lee Stokes. [Salt
Lake City, Starstone Pub. Co., c1980]
vii, 57 p. illus. 20 x 27 cm.
Bibliography: p. 57,
Location: Shelf 18
Trenholm, Virginia Cole. The Shoshonis; sentinels of the Rockies. By Virginia Cole Trenholm and Maurine Carley. Norman, University of
Oklahoma Press [1976, c1964]
xiii, 369 p. illus. 23 cm. (The Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 74)
Bibliography: p. 321-347.
ISBN 1-8061-1055-4.
Location: Shelf 8
Rentmeister Book Collection
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Utah. Division of State History. Antiquities Section.
Antiquities Section selected papers. v. 1- (no. 1/3- ) [Salt Lake City] Division of State History, 1975-
v. illus. 28 cm.
Holdings:
copy 1
Location: Shelf 19
v. 1-6
copy 2
Location: Shelf 19
v. 1
Wilson, Elijah Nicholas. Among the Shoshones. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft 1969.
247 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 8
Rentmeister Book Collection
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The West
General
Alter, J. Cecil. Jim Bridger. By J. Cecil Alter. [New ed.] Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [17979, c1950]
xi, 357 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 343-352.
Location: Shelf 11
The American West.
Tucson, Ariz. [etc.] American West Pub. Co.
v. illus. 28 cm. bimonthly.
Began with winter 1964.
Issued 19 - by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and sponsored by the Western History Association.
Vol. 16, no. 3 has also title: Native Americans: a special issue.
ISSN 0003-1534.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 6
v. 12, no. 5; Sept. 1975
v. 13, no. 6; Nov./Dec.1976
v. 14, no. 2; Mar/Apr. 1977
v. 16-v. 18, no. 1; Jan./Feb. 1979- Jan./Feb. 1981
The Art of the Old West; from the collection of the Gilcrease Institute. Selections and text by Paul A. Rossi and David C. Hunt.
[New York, Knopf; distributed by Random House, 1971]
335 p. illus. 32 cm.
“A Borzoi book.”
Bibliography: p. 332-335.
ISBN 0-394-46669-1.
Location: Shelf 13
Betenson, Lula Parker. Butch Cassidy, my brother. [By] Lula Parker Betenson, as told to Dora Flack. Provo, Brigham Young University Press
[c1975]
xiii, 265 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 259-260.
ISBN 0-8425-1222-5.
Location: Shelf 16
Birney, Hoffman. Roads to roam. By Hoffman Birney. Drawing by Charles Hargens. Philadelphia, Penn Pub. [1930]
305 p. illus. 21 cm.
Invoice inserted.
Location: Shelf 19
The Book of the American West. Jay Monaghan, editor-in-chief. Clarence P. Hornung, art director. Authors: Ramon F. Adams
[and others] 1st ed. New York, J. Messner [c1963]
608 p. illus. 29 cm.
Bibliography: p. 593-595.
Location: Shelf 15
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Brown, Dee. Trail driving days. Text by Dee Brown. Picture research by Martin F. Schmitt. New York, Scribner, 1952.
xxii, 264 p. illus. 31 cm.
Bibliography: p. 255-264.
Location: Shelf 15
Brown, Mark H. The frontier years: L.A. Huffman, photographer of the plains. By Mark H. Brown and W.R. Felton. New York, Bramhall
House [c1955]
272 p. illus. 28 cm.
Bibliography: p. 261-269.
Tattered dust jacket inserted.
Location: Shelf 16
Burdett, Charles. The life of Kit Carson, the great western hunter and guide. New York, A.L. Burt [c1902]
xiii, 376 p. illus. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 11
Burton, Richard F. The City of the Saints, and across the Rocky Mountains to California. By Richard F. Burton. New York, Harper, 1862.
xii, 574 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Consult museum staff.
Burton, Richard F. The look of the West, 1860; across the plains to California. By Richard Burton. Foreword by Robert G. Athearn. Lincoln,
University of Nebraska Press [1963]
xviii, 333 p. illus. 21 cm.
“A Bison book.”
“The text and appendix of this book originally comprised part of The City of the Saints, and across the Rocky Mountains to
California, published by Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts in London in 1862. The present text is reproduced from the
second edition.”
ISBN 0-8032-5029-0.”
Location: Shelf 16
Carr, Harry. The West is still wild; romance of the present and the past. By Harry Carr. With illustrations by Charles H. Owens.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.
iv, 257 p. illus. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 11
Caruthers, William. Loafing along Death Valley trails; a personal narrative of people and places. 2d ed. Ontario, Calif., c1951.
191 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 11
Cerquone, Joseph. In behalf of the light; the Domínguez and Escalante expedition of 1776. [Denver?] Domínguez Escalante Bicentennial
Expedition [1976?]
23 [14] p. illus. 21 x 23 cm.
Cover title: The Domínguez and Escalante expedition of 1776.
Some of the unnumbered pages are folded.
Bibliography: p. [33]
Location: Shelf 11
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Christensen, J. Arbon. Bridgerland: your land and mine; stories of America, the great West, and the Cache Valley. By J. Arbon Christensen.
[Providence, Utah, K.W. Watkins, c1976]
xii, 210 p. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Covered-wagon centennial and ox-team days. Oregon Trail memorial ed., 29 Dec. 1931. Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y., Published
for Oregon Trail Association by World Book Co. [c1932]
viii, 156, 318 p. illus. 22 cm.
“Covered-wagon centennial bibliography”: p. 97-100 (1st group)
CONTENTS.—Covered-wagon centennial (1830-1930) By Howard R. Driggs. Edited by Arthur W. Procter. Illustrated with
drawings by William H. Jackson and with photographs.—Ox-team days. By Ezra Meeker and Howard R. Driggs. Illustrated
with drawings by William H. Jackson and F.N. Wilson and with photographs.
Inscribed on t.p.: From the authors.
Location: Shelf 11
DeVoto, Bernard. Across the wide Missouri. By Bernard DeVoto. Illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and
George Catlin. With an account of the discovery of the Miller collection by Mae Reed Porter. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [c1947]
xxvii, 483 p. illus. 25 cm.
Bibliography: p. 457-468.
Location: Shelf 17
DeZeng, R. P. The fur rendezvous (rendezvous on the green) By R.P. deZeng. Pen-and-ink sketches by V. James. [1st ed.] New York,
Vantage Press [c1981]
ix, 45 p. illus. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 8
Draper, Mabel Hobson. Though long the trail. New York, Rinehart [c1946]
xii, 313 p. illus. 21 cm.
Based on the experiences of the author’s mother, Mary Quinn Hobson.
Location: Shelf 11
Driggs, Howard R. The Old West speaks. By Howard R. Driggs. Water-color paintings by William Henry Jackson. New York, Bonanza
Books [1956]
220 p. illus. 28 cm.
Bibliography: p. 203-205.
Newspaper clipping inserted.
Location: Shelf 15
Driggs, Howard R. The Pony Express goes through; an American saga told by its heroes. By Howard R. Driggs. Illustrated in color and black-
and-white by William H. Jackson. New York, F.A. Stokes, 1935.
xvi, 208 p. illus. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. 202-203.
“Pony Express route, April 3, 1860-October 24, 1861”: map tipped in.
Location: Shelf 11
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Driggs, Howard R. Westward America. By Howard R. Driggs. With reproductions of forty water-color paintings by William H. Jackson.
Collectors ed. New York, American Pioneer Trails Association [c1942]
x, 312 p. illus. 30 cm.
“No. 375”: inked on t.p.
Signatures of the author and artist on sheet tipped in.
Location: Shelf 15
Egan, Howard. Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878; Major Howard Egan’s diary. Also, thrilling experiences of pre-frontier life among
Indians; their traits, civil and savage, and part of autobiography inter-related to his father’s, by Howard R. Egan. Edited,
compiled, and connected in nearly chronological order by Wm. M. Egan. Richmond, Utah, H.R. Egan Estate, 1917.
302 p. illus. 20 cm.
Location: Shelf 11
Faris, John T. Seeing the far west. By John T. Faris. With 113 illustrations and 2 maps. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1920.
301 p. illus. 23 cm.
Volume imperfect: loose binding.
Location: Shelf 11
Francaviglia, Richard V.
The Mormon landscape; existence, creation, and perception of a unique image in the American West. [By] Richard V.
Francaviglia. [1st AMS Press ed.] New York, AMS Press [1978]
xviii, 177 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 163-171.
ISBN 0-404-16020-4.
Location: Shelf 4
Frémont, John Charles. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. [n.p.] Readex Microprint [c1966]
327 p. illus. 24 cm. (Great Americana)
Reprint of Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California
in the years 1843-’44, originally issued as Senate Ex. document 174, 2d session, 28th Congress.
Location: Shelf 19
Geiger, Vincent. Trail to California; the overland journal of Vincent Geiger and Wakeman Bryarly. Edited with an introd. by David Morris
Potter. New Haven, Yale University Press [1962, c1945]
xvii, 266 p. map. 21 cm.
“A Yale Western Americana paperbound.”
Bibliography: p. [233]-245.
Location: Shelf 17
Ghent, W. J.
The road to Oregon; a chronicle of the great emigrant trail. By W.J. Ghent. [1st ed., reprinted] London, New York,
Longmans, Green, 1929.
xvi, 274 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 11
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Gowans, Fred R. Rocky Mountain rendezvous; a history of the fur trade rendezvous, 1825-1840. [By] Fred R. Gowans. [Provo] Brigham
Young University Press [1978, c1976]
viii, 308, [1] p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. [294-309]
ISBN 0-8425-0787-6.
Location: Shelf 15
The Great West. Edited, with introd. and notes by Charles Neider. New York, Bonanza Books [c1958]
457 p. illus. 26 cm.
Location: Shelf 15
Hungerford, Edward. Wells Fargo: advancing the American frontier. New York, Bonanza Books [c1949]
xvi, 274 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 259-262.
Location: Shelf 15
Ingersoll, Ernest. The crest of the continent; a record of a summer’s ramble in the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Chicago, E.R. Donnelley,
1885.
344 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 11
Johnson, Clifton. Highways and byways of the Rocky Mountains. [New ed.] New York, Macmillan [1913]
x, 280 p. illus. 20 cm. (American highways and byways)
Cover title: The Rocky Mountains.
Location: Shelf 19
Journals of forty-niners, Salt Lake to Los Angeles. With diaries and contemporary records of Sheldon Young [and others]
Edited with historical comment by LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen. Glendale, Calif., Arthur H. Clark, 1954.
333 p. illus. 25 cm. (The Far West and the Rockies historical series, 1820-1875, v. 2)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 19
Kluckhorn, Clyde. To the foot of the rainbow; a tale of twenty-five hundred miles of wandering on horseback through the south-west enchanted
land. London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1928.
xi, 242 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Laut, Agnes C. Through our unknown Southwest. By Agnes C. Laut. New York, R.M. McBride, 1921 [c1913]
xxx, 271 p. illus. 22 cm.
“The wonderland of the United States—Little known and unappreciated—Home of the cliff dweller and the Hopi, the forest
ranger and the Navajo—The lure of the painted forest.”
Location: Shelf 16
Lewis, Meriwether. The journals of Lewis and Clark. Edited by Bernard DeVoto. Maps by Erwin Raisz. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [c1953]
liii, 504 p. maps. 21 cm. (Houghton Mifflin Company sentry edition, 31)
Based on the Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, published 1904-05.
Location: Shelf 11
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Lienhard, Heinrich. From St. Louis to Sutter’s Fort, 1846. Translated and edited by Erwin G. and Elisabeth K. Gudde. Norman, University of
Oklahoma Press [c1961]
xix, 204 p. illus. 24 cm. (The American exploration and travel series)
Bibliography: p. xi-xii.
Location: Shelf 19
Loomis, Leander V. A journal of the Birmingham Emigrating Company; the record of a trip from Birmingham, Iowa, to Sacramento, California,
in 1850. By Leander V. Loomis. Together with five early itineraries covered in part by this company. With supplementary data
compiled from historical sources and notes and photographs taken along the line of travel. Edited by Edgar M. Ledyard. Salt
Lake City [Legal Print. Co.] 1928.
198 p. illus. 24 cm.
Inserted in pocket is a reprint of the 1848 ed. of The Latter-day Saints’ emigrants’ guide, by W. Clayton.
Location: Shelf 19
McGlashan, C. F. History of the Donner Party; a tragedy of the Sierra. By C.F. McGlashan. With foreword, notes, and a bibliography by
George H. Hinckle and Bliss McGlashan Hinkle. [Rev. ed.] Stanford, Stanford University Press [1957, c1947]
lvii, 261 p. illus. 22 cm.
Reprint of the 4th ed., published in San Francisco by A.L. Bancroft in 1881, with new material added.
Pages xxxiii-lvii follow p. 261.
Bibliography: p. xli-xlviii.
Location: Shelf 16
McPhee, John. Basin and range. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux [c1981]
215 p. illus. 22 cm.
Originally published in the New Yorker.
Location: Shelf 11
Madsen, Betty M. North to Montana! Jehus, bullwhackers, and mule skinners on the Montana trail. By Betty M. Madsen and Brigham D.
Madsen. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press [c1980]
xviii, 298 p. illus. 25 cm. (University of Utah publications in the American West, v. 13)
Bibliography: p. [265]-285.
Location: Shelf 15
Magoffin, Susan Shelby. Down the Santa Fe trail and into Mexico; the diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847. Edited by Stella M. Drumm.
With a foreword by Howard R. Lamar. New Haven, Yale University Press [1962]
xxxv, 294 p. illus. 21 cm. (Yale Western Americana paperbounds, YW-3)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 19
Meeker, Ezra. The ox team; or, the Old Oregon Trail, 1852-1906; an account of the author’s trip across the plains, from the Missouri River
to Puget Sound, at the age of twenty-two, with an ox and cow team in 1852, and of his return with an ox team in the year 1906, at
the age of seventy-six, with copious excerpts from his journal and other reliable sources of information—a narrative of events
and descriptive of present and past conditions. Omaha, The Author [1906]
248 p. illus. 20 cm.
Valentine card, in envelope, inserted.
Location: Shelf 15
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Miller, James Knox Polk. The road to Virginia City; the diary of James Knox Polk Miller. Edited by Andrew F. Rolle. [1st ed.] Norman, University
of Oklahoma Press [c1960]
xxiii, 143 p. illus. 24 cm. (The American exploration and travel series)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 19
Moody, Ralph. Stagecoach west. [New York] Crowell [c1967]
x, 341 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 323-333.
Location: Shelf 17
Morgan, Dale L. Jedediah Smith and the opening of the West. By Dale L. Morgan. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [c1953]
458 p. illus. 21 cm.
“A Bison book.”
Includes bibliographical references.
Father’s day card and “American Express calendar of the New York World’s Fair, 1964-65” inserted.
Location: Shelf 16
Mormon Battalion trail guide. By Charles S. Peterson [and others. Salt Lake City] Utah State Historical Society, 1972.
74 p. illus. 28 cm. (Western trail guide series, no. 1)
Bibliography: p. 69-73.
Location: Shelf 5
Murbarger, Nell. Ghosts of the Glory Trail; intimate glimpses into the past and present of 275 western ghosttowns. Palm Desert, Calif.,
Desert Magazine Press [c1956]
xi, 291 p. illus. 24 cm.
Signed by the author.
Location: Shelf 11
Murbarger, Nell. Sovereigns of the sage; true stories of people and places in the great sagebrush kingdom of the western United States. [1st
ed.] Palm Desert, Calif., Desert Magazine Press [c1958]
xiv, 342 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Signed by the author.
Location: Shelf 17
Overland in 1846; diaries and letters of the California-Oregon trail. Edited by Dale Morgan. Georgetown, Calif., Talisman
Press, 1963-
v. illus. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Vol. 1 has map in pocket; v. 2 has errata slip tipped in.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 15
v. 1-2
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Paden, Irene D. Prairie schooner detours. By Irene D. Paden. New York, Macmillan, 1949.
ix, 295 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 281-287.
Location: Shelf 11
Paden, Irene D. The wake of the prairie schooner. By Irene D. Paden. New York, Macmillan, 1943.
xix, 514 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 479-504.
Imperfect: spine torn.
Location: Shelf 15
Parkman, Francis. The Oregon trail: being sketches of prairie and Rocky Mountain life. By Francis Parkman, Jr. New York, A.L. Burt [n.d.]
320 p. 18 cm.
Location: Shelf 19
Pointer, Larry. In search of Butch Cassidy. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [c1977]
xvii, 294 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 277-284.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 16
Powell, John Wesley. The exploration of the Colorado River. Abridged from the 1st ed. of 1875. With an introd. by Wallace Stegner. [Chicago]
University of Chicago Press [1957]
xxi, 137 p. illus. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 19
Pyle, Ernie. Home country. New York, W. Sloane Associates [c1947]
vii, 472 p. 22 cm.
“Merry Xmas to John, 1947—Helen”: inscribed on front fly leaf.
Location: Shelf 19
The Reader’s encyclopedia of the American West. Edited by Howard R. Lamar. [1st ed.] New York, Crowell [c1977]
ix, 1306 p. illus. 24 cm.
“A Crowell reference book.”
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-690-00008-1.
Location: Shelf 16
Remington, Frederic. The American West. [Illus. by] Frederic Remington. Selected and edited by Philip R. St. Clair. [1st ed.] Kent [Ohio]
Volair Ltd., 1978.
xix, 329 p. illus. 25 x 35 cm.
An official publication of the American Museum of Natural History.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-931480-15-9.
Location: Shelf 13
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Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington: paintings, drawings, and sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation
collections. [Text] by Peter H. Hassrick. Foreword by Ruth Carter Johnson. [New York?] Published by Harrison House by
arrangement with Abrams in association with Amon Carter Museum of Western Art [1987]
218 p. illus. 31 x 34 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-517-62821-X.
Location: Shelf 0
Remington, Frederic. Frederic Remington’s own West. Edited and with an introd. by Harold McCracken. New York, Dial Press, 1960.
254 p. illus. 26 cm.
Location: Shelf 18
Robertson, Frank C. Boom towns of the Great Basin. By Frank C. Robertson and Beth Kay Harris. Denver, Sage Books [c1962]
331 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 322-324.
Location: Shelf 4
The Route of the Domínguez-Escalate expedition, 1776-77; a report of trail research conducted under the auspices of the
Domínguez-Escalante State/Federal Bicentennial Committee and the Four Corners Regional Commission. Edited by David
E. Miller. [n.p] 1976.
vi, 175 p. illus. 28cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 19
Russell, Charles M. Charles M. Russell: paintings, drawings, and sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum. [Text] by Frederic G. Renner.
Foreword by Ruth Carter Johnson. New York, Published by Abradale Press in association with the Amon Carter Museum of
Western Art [1984, c1974]
296 p. illus. 31 x 33 cm.
Bibliography: p. 291-292.
ISBN 0-8109-8062-2.
Location: Shelf 0
Russell, Charles M. Trails plowed under. By Charles M. Russell. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [c1927]
xx, 210 p. illus. 27 cm.
Location: Shelf 15
Satterfield, Archie. The Lewis & Clark trail. [By] Archie Satterfield. Illustrated by Marilyn Weber. [Harrisburg, Pa.] Stackpole Books [c1978]
224 p. illus. 24 cm.
ISBN 0-8117-0935-3.
Location: Shelf 11
Schmitt, Martin F. The settlers’ West. By Martin F. Schmitt and Dee Brown. New York, Scribner, 1955.
xxviii, 258 p. illus. 31 cm.
Bibliography: p. 253-258.
Location: Shelf 15
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Schulmerich, Alma.
Josie Pearl. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1963.
xi, 273 p. illus. 24 cm.
Invoice inserted.
Location: Shelf 11
Smith, Jedediah S. The southwest expedition of Jedediah S. Smith; his personal account of the journey to California, 1826-1827. Edited with
an introd. by George R. Brooks. Glendale, Calif., A.H. Clark, 1977.
259 p. maps (1 fold.) 24 cm. (Western frontiersman series, 18)
Bibliography: p. 247-252.
Location: Shelf 11
Stegner, Wallace. The sound of mountain water. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969.
286 p. 22 cm.
Original invoice for the book inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 15
Stewart, George R. The California trail: an epic with many heroes. By George R. Stewart. [1st ed.] New York, McGraw-Hill [c1962]
339 p. illus. 24 cm. (The American trails series)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 19
Stone, Irving. Men to match my mountains; the opening of the far West, 1840-1900. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [c1956]
459 p. maps. 24 cm. (Mainstream of America series)
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography: p. 436-442.
Location: Shelf 17
Toponce, Alexander. Reminiscences of Alexander Toponce. With an introd. by Robert A. Griffen. [New ed.] Norman, University of Oklahoma
Press [c1971]
xxiii, 221 p. illus. 20 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Tyler, Daniel. A concise history of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846-1847. Chicago, Rio Grande Press [1964]
376 p. 24 cm. (A Rio Grande classic)
Reprint of the 1881 ed.
Location: Shelf 11
Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre. The Domínguez-Escalante journal; their expedition through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776. Translated
by Angelico Chavez. Edited by Ted. J. Warner. [Provo, Brigham Young University Press, 1977, c1976]
xix, 203 p. illus. 28 cm.
Bibliography: p. 201-203.
ISBN 0-8425-0121-5.
Location: Shelf 19
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Ward, Harriet Sherrill. Prairie schooner lady; the journal of Harriet Sherrill Ward, 1853, as presented by Ward G. De Witt and Florence Stark
DeWitt. Los Angeles, Westernlore Press, 1959.
180 p. illus. 21 cm. (Great West and Indian series, 16)
Location: Shelf 11
Wolle, Muriel Sibell. The bonanza trail; ghost towns and mining camps of the West. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1958 [c1953]
xvi, 510 p. illus. 26 cm.
Bibliography: p. 483-489.
Birthday card taped to dedication page.
Location: Shelf 15
Arizona
Bailey, Paul. City in the sun; the Japanese Concentration Camp at Poston, Arizona. Los Angeles, Westernlore Press, 1971.
222 cm. illus. 22 cm.
Packing slip inserted in envelope inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 19
Harvey, Fred. Grand Canyon National Park in photo gravure. Grand Canyon, El Tovar Studio [1915?]
25 leaves. illus. 32 x 25 cm.
Cover title.
Inked inside front cover: July 4, 1926.
Location: Shelf 16
Murbarger, Nell. Ghosts of the adobe walls; human interest and historical highlights from 400 ghost haunts of old Arizona. Los Angeles,
Westernlore Press, 1964.
398 p. illus. 24 cm.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 8
California
Archuleta, Kay. The Brannan saga; early-day Calistoga. By Kay Archuleta. Drawings by Joe Seney. [n.p., K. Archuleta, c1977]
116 p. illus. 26 cm.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 12
Asbury, Herbert. The Barbary Cost; an informal history of the San Francisco underworld. [1st ed.] New York, Knopf, 1933.
319, xi p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. [315]-319.
Location: Shelf 15
Bidwell, John.
Echoes of the past about California. By John Bidwell. In camp and cabin. By John Steele. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife.
Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1928.
xxii, 377 p. illus. 18 cm. (The Lakeside classics)
Location: Shelf 11
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Hunt, Rockwell D. New California, the golden. [By] Rockwell D. Hunt. New York, Silver, Burdett [c1933]
x, 398, xxi p. illus. 19 cm.
Bibliography: p. iii-iv (second set)
Location: Shelf 11
Manly, William Lewis. Death Valley in ’49: an important chapter of California pioneer history; the autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life
from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band
of men, women, and children who gave Death Valley its name. By William Lewis Manly. With a foreword by John Steven
McGroarty. Illustrated by Alson Clark. New York, W. Hebberd [c1929]
xiii, 523 p. illus. 21 cm.
Newspaper article glued on p. facing t.p.
Location: Shelf 19
Peirson, Erma. The Mojave River and its valley; an ancient river, and the story of its discovery, its paradoxical nature, its service as a
pathway for migration, and the progress of its valley. Glendale, Calif., A.H. Clark, 1970.
229 p. illus. (part fold.) 24 cm. (Western lands and waters series)
Includes bibliographical references.
Original invoice for the book inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 4
Shaw, D. A. Eldorado, or California, as seen by a pioneer, 1850-1900. By D.A. Shaw. Los Angeles, Baumgardt, 1900.
313 p. illus. 20 cm.
Cover title: El Dorado.
Location: Shelf 17
Stellman, Louis J. Sam Brannan, builder of San Francisco; a biography. By Louis J. Stellman. [1st ed.] New York, Exposition Press [c1953]
254 p. 21 cm.
“Exposition-Lochinvar book.”
“In lieu of a bibliography”: p. [243]-252.
Newspaper clippings inserted in envelope inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 11
Westways. [Los Angeles, etc.] Automobile Club of Southern California.
v. illus. 29 cm. monthly.
Began with v. 26 in 1934.
Continues: Touring topics.
ISSN 0043-4434.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 6
v. 49-55; 1957-63
v. 59-63; 1967-71
Wynn, Marcia Rittenhouse. Desert bonanza; the story of early Randsburg, Mojave Desert mining camp. [Rev. ed.] Glendale, Calif., A.H. Clark, 1963.
xvi, 275 p. illus. 24 cm. (Western lands and water series, 2)
“Birthday from Helen, 1973”—Inscription on series t.p.
Invoice in envelope mounted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 16
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Idaho
Fredrickson, Lars. History of Weston, Idaho. Edited by A.J. Simmonds. [Logan] Utah State University Press [c1972]
78 p. illus. 23 cm. (Western Text Society. [Publication] no. 5)
Map of Weston inserted in back of volume.
Includes bibliographical references.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 19
copy 1-2
Grover, David H. Diamondfield Jack; a study in frontier justice. By David H. Grover. Reno, University of Nevada Press, 1968.
xi, 189 p. 21 cm. (The Lancehead series)
Bibliography: p. 179-182.
“SBN 87417-022-2.”
Invoice inserted.
Location: Shelf 11
Haines, Francis. The story of Idaho. By Francis Haines. Illus. by Conan E. Mathews. Boise, Syms-York Co. [c1942]
169, [5] p. illus. 20 cm.
Bibliography; p. [171]
Location: Shelf 17
Jordan, Grace. Home below Hell’s Canyon. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [c1954]
243 p. map. 21 cm.
“A Bison book.”
Location: Shelf 17
Montana
Barsness, Larry. Gold camp; Alder Gulch and Virginia City, Montana. New York, Hastings House [c1962]
x, 312 p. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. [299]-304.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 19
Dimsdale, Thomas J. The vigilantes of Montana; or, Popular justice in the Rocky Mountains. Being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase,
trial, capture, and execution of Henry Plummer’s road agent band, together with accounts of the lives and crime of many of the
robbers and desperadoes, the whole being interspersed with sketches of life in the mining camps of the “Far West,” forming the
only reliable work on the subject ever offered to the public. By Thomas J. Dimsdale. With an introd. by E. DeGolyer. [New ed.]
Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1963, c1953]
xii, 270 p. 20 cm. (The Western frontier library, 1)
Originally published as a series of articles in the Montana post and subsequently published in book form in 1866.
Location: Shelf 19
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Pace, Dick. Golden Gulch: the story of Montana’s fabulous Alder Gulch; being a true, quite partial and somewhat humorous history of
Alder Gulch, Montana, the states richest placer mining district and the cradle of Montana history. By Dick Pace. With sketches
by Sindy Cosens. [Virginia City, Mont., To order copies, write the Information Center in Virginia City, c1962]
vi, 106 p. illus. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 19
Nevada
Labbe, Charles. Rocky trails of the past. By Charles Labbe. Las Vegas, C.H. Labbe, c1960.
222 p. illus. 23 .
Location: Shelf 19
Lyman, George D. The saga of the Comstock Lode; boom days in Virginia City. By George D. Lyman. New York, Scribner, 1934.
xii, 407 p. illus. 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 17
Reid, Ed. The green felt jungle. [By] Ed Reid and Ovid Demaris. A Pocket cardinal ed. New York, Pocket Books [1964]
241 p. illus. 18 cm.
Location: Shelf 19
New Mexico
McKee, Robert E. The Zia Company in Los Alamos; a history. By Robert E. McKee. El Paso, C. Hertzog, 1950.
71 p. illus. 22 cm.
Letter of transmittal tipped in.
Location: Shelf 19
Wyoming
Gowans, Fred R.
Fort Bridger: island in the wilderness. [By] Fred R. Gowans [and] Eugene E. Campbell. [Provo] Brigham Young
University Press [c1975]
ix, 185 p. illus. 28 cm.
Based in part on the author’s thesis.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8425-0420-6.
Location: Shelf 4
Gowans, Fred R. Fort Supply; Brigham Young’s Green River experiment. [By Fred R.] Gowans and [Eugene E.] Campbell. [1st ed. Provo,
Brigham Young University Publications, c1976]
83 p. illus. 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
“ISBN # 0248-3.”
Location: Shelf 5
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The West (Time-Life Books Series)
The Alaskans. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Keith Wheeler. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books
[1980, c1977]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Canadians. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Ogden Tanner. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books
[1979, c1977]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Chroniclers. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Keith Wheeler. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books
[1979, c1976]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Cowboys. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by William H. Forbis. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books
[1977, c1973]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236.
Location: Shelf 2
The Expressmen. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by David Nevin. New York, Time-Life Books [1976, c1974]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Forty-niners. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by William Weber Johnson. New York, Time-Life Books
[c1974]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Frontiersmen. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Paul O’Neil. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books
[1980, c1977]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Gamblers. By the editors of Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [c1978]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
ISBN 0-8094-23109-3.
Location: Shelf 2
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The Great chiefs. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Benjamin Capps. [Rev.] New York, Time-Life Books [1976,
c1975]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Gunfighters. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Paul Trachtman. [Rev.] New York, Time-Life Books [1976,
c1974]
238 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 234-235.
Location: Shelf 2
The Indians. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Benjamin Capps. [Rev.] New York, Time-Life Books [1976,
c1973]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Mexican war. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by David Nevin. Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [c1978]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 234-235.
Location: Shelf 2
The Miners. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Robert Wallace. Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [c1976]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Pioneers. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Huston Horn. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [1979,
c1974]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Pioneers. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Huston Horn. New York, Time-Life Books [1976, c1974]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Railroaders. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Keith Wheeler. New York, Time-Life Books [1975 c1973]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Ranchers. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Ogden Tanner. Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [c1977]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
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The Rivermen. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Paul O’Neil. [Rev.] New York, Time-Life Books [1977,
c1975]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Soldiers. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by David Nevin. Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [c1974]
239 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 234-235.
Location: Shelf 2
The Spanish West. By the editors of Time-Life Books. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [1979, c1976]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Texans. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by David Nevin. New York, Time-Life Books [c1975]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Townsmen. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Keith Wheeler. New York, Time-Life Books [1976, c1975]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Location: Shelf 2
The Trailblazers. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Bil Gilbert. [Rev.] Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [1979,
c1973]
236 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 232-233.
Location: Shelf 2
The Women. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by Joan Swallow Reiter. Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books [c1978]
240 p. illus. 28 cm. (The Old West)
Bibliography: p. 235-237.
ISBN 0-8094-1514-3.
Location: Shelf 2
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Bibliography
Flake, Chad J. A Mormon bibliography, 1830-1930; books, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides relating to the first century of
Mormonism. Edited by Chad J. Flake. Introd. by Dale L. Morgan. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1978.
xxxi, 825 p. illus. 29 cm.
Offprint of introd., together with announcements of the publication, inserted.
Location: Shelf 5
Biography and History; Folklore
Among the Mormons; historic accounts by contemporary observers. Edited by William Mulder and A. Russell Mortensen.
[Bison Book ed.] Lincoln, University of Nebraska [1973, c1958]
xiv, 482, xiv p. 20cm.
ISBN 0-8032-5778-3.
Location: Shelf 5
Arrington, Leonard J. Building the city of God; community & cooperation among the Mormons. [By] Leonard J. Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox
[and] Dean L. May. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1976.
xiii, 497 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87747-590-3.
Location: Shelf 12
Arrington, Leonard J. Great Basin kingdom; an economic history of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900. [By] Leonard J. Arrington. Lincoln,
University of Nebraska Press [1966, c1958]
xviii, 534 p. illus. 20 cm.
“”A Bison book.”
Bibliography: p. [415]-420.
ISBN 0-8032-5006-1.
Location: Shelf 16
Ashton, Wendell J.
Theirs is the kingdom. By Wendell J. Ashton. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft, 1945.
xiv, 371 cm. illus. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. 361-366.
Location: Shelf 14
Bailey, Paul. The armies of God. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1968.
ix, 300 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. [285]-291.
Location: Shelf 5
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Bailey, Paul. Grandpa was a polygamist; a candid remembrance. Los Angeles, Westernlore Press, 1960.
181 p. illus. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
Bailey, Paul. Jacob Hamblin, buckskin apostle. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft [c1948]
408 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 401-402.
“Historical sketch of Jacob Hamblin—pioneer missionary, buckskin apostle”: 1 p. taped in.
Location: Shelf 11
Bailey, Paul. Polygamy was better than monotony. With some home-town primitives by Don Louis Perceval. Los Angeles, Westernlore
Press, 1972.
200 p. illus. 22 cm.
Portion of the book taken from the author’s Grandpa was a polygamist.
Envelope with invoice mounted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 12
Barrett, Ivan J. Joseph Smith and the restoration; a history of the church to 1846. [By] Ivan J. Barrett. [Rev. ed. Provo] Brigham Young
University Press [1980]
ix, 675 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p 651-666.
ISBN 0-8425-0672-1.
Location: Shelf 14
Bigler, Henry William. Bigler’s chronicle of the West; the conquest of California, discovery of gold, and Mormon settlement as reflected in Henry
William Bigler’s diaries. [Edited] by Erwin G. Gudde. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1962.
x, 145 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 136-138.
Location: Shelf 19
Birney, Hoffman. Zealots of Zion. By Hoffman Birney. Drawings by Charles Hargens. Philadelphia, Penn Pub. Co. [c1931]
317 p. illus. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. [315]-317.
Location: Shelf 12
Brigham Young University: the first one hundred years. Edited by Ernest L. Wilkinson. [Provo] Brigham Young University
Press [c1975-76]
4 v. illus. 24 cm.
Vol. 3 edited by Ernest L. Wilkinson and Leonard J. Arrington; v. 4, by Ernest L. Wilkinson with Leonard J. Arrington and
Bruce C. Hafen as associate editors.
Includes bibliographical references.
Vols. 1 and 4 signed by the editors of the vols.
ISBN 0-8425-0708-6.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 14
v. 1-4
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Brodie, Fawn M. No man knows my history; the life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet. By Fawn M. Brodie. 2d ed., rev. and enl. New
York, Knopf, 1979 [c1971]
xiii, 499, xx p. illus. 22 cm.
“A Borzoi book.”
Bibliography: p. 489-499.
ISBN 0-394-46967-4.
Location: Shelf 12
Brooks, Juanita. Dudley Leavitt, pioneer to southern Utah. [n.p., J. Brooks] 1942.
vi, 115 p. illus. 24 cm.
“Descendants of Dudley Leavitt”: p. 109-115.
Location: Shelf 11
Brooks, Juanita. John Doyle Lee; zealot, pioneer builder, scapegoat. [New ed. with corrections] Glendale, Calif., A.H. Clark, 1972 [c1961]
404 p. illus. 24 cm. (Western frontiersmen series, 9)
Includes bibliographical references.
Invoice mounted inside back cover.
ISBN 0-87062-007-X.
Location: Shelf 5
Brooks, Juanita. John Doyle Lee; zealot, pioneer builder, scapegoat. Glendale, Calif., A.H. Clark, 1962 [c1961]
404 p. illus. 24 cm. (Western frontiersmen series, 9)
Includes bibliographical references.
Inscribed on t.p: Juanita Brooks, Aug. 4, 1964.
Invoice in envelope mounted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 5
Brooks, Juanita. The Mountain Meadows massacre. [New ed.] Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [c1962]
xiii, 316 p. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 290-308.
Inscribed on t.p: Juanita Brooks, Aug. 4, 1964.
Location: Shelf 5
Brooks, William. Uncle Will tells his story. As recorded by his wife, Juanita Brooks. [Limited ed. Salt Lake City, Taggart, c1970]
249 p. illus. 25 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Brown, James S. Giant of the LORD; life of a pioneer. [By] James S. Brown. Salt Lake City, Bookcraft [1960]
542 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Brown, Joseph E. The Mormon trek west. [By] Joseph E. Brown. Photos. by Dan Guravich. Introd. by Stanley B. Kimball. [1st ed.] Garden
City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1980.
xiii, 184 p. illus. 29 cm.
ISBN 0-385-13030-9.
Location: Shelf 5
Rentmeister Book Collection
42
Butterworth, Edwin. Brigham Young University: 1000 views of 100 years. [By] Edwin Butterworth, Jr. [Provo] Brigham Young University
Press [c1975]
xiii, 354 p. illus. 32 cm.
“Published on the occasion of the centennial of Brigham Young University.”
Location: Shelf 16
Carter, Kate B. The Mormon battalion. By Kate B. Carter, assisted by Clara B. Steele. [Salt Lake City?] Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1956.
144 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Corbett, Pearson H. Jacob Hamblin, the peacemaker. By Pearson H. Corbett. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1976 [c1952]
538 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [488]-501.
Location: Shelf 11
Day, Robert B. They made Mormon history. [By] Robert B. Day. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1968.
viii, 364 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [345]-354.
Signed by the author.
Location: Shelf 16
Dwyer, Robert Joseph. The gentile comes to Utah; a study in religious and social conflict (1862-1890) [Rev. 2d ed.] Salt Lake City, Western Epics
[c1971]
xi, 270 p. 24 cm.
Thesis (Ph.D)—Catholic University of America.
Bibliography: p. 250-263.
Location: Shelf 12
England, Eugene. Brother Brigham. [Salt Lake City, Bookcraft, 1980]
ix, 256 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 13
Evans, John Henry. Ezra T. Benson: pioneer—statesman—saint. By John Henry Evans and Minnie Egan Anderson. Salt Lake City, Deseret
News Press, 1947.
ix, 376 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 13
The Exodus and beyond; essays in Mormon history. Edited by Lyndon W. Cook [and] Donald Q. Cannon. Salt Lake City,
Hawkes Pub. [c19 -
v. 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 14
v. 2
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Fife, Austin. Saints of sage & saddle; folklore among the Mormons. By Austin and Alta Fife. Bloomington, Indiana University Press,
1956.
xiv, 367 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. [339]-342.
Location: Shelf 11
Flanders, Robert Bruce. Nauvoo, kingdom on the Mississippi. [Paperback ed.] Urbana, University of Illinois Press [1978, c1965]
vii, 364 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 342-350.
ISBN 0-252-00561-9.
Location: Shelf 12
Fox, Frank W. J. Reuben Clark: the public years. [By] Frank W. Fox. [Provo] Brigham Young University Press, 1980.
xviii, 702 p. illus. 24 cm.
“First of a multivolume set on the life and work of J. Reuben Clark, Jr.”
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-8425-1832-0.
Location: Shelf 14
Furniss, Norman F. The Mormon conflict, 1850-1859. By Norman F. Furniss. New Haven, Yale University Press [1966, c1960]
viii, 311 p. illus. 20 cm.
“A Yale Western Americana paperbound.”
Includes bibliographical essay (p. 235-249) and bibliographical references.
Envelope with invoice inserted.
Location: Shelf 12
Hafen, LeRoy R. Handcarts to Zion; the story of a unique western migration, 1856-1860, with contemporary journals, accounts, reports, and
roster of members of the ten handcart companies. By LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen. Pioneers ed. Glendale, Calif., A.H.
Clark, 1960.
328 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Hansen, Klaus J. Mormonism and the American experience. [By] Klaus J. Hansen. Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1981]
xviii, 257 p. 21 cm. (Chicago history of American religion)
Includes bibliographical references.
Autographed by the author.
ISBN 0-226-31552-5.
Location: Shelf 12
Harmon, Appleton Milo. The journals of Appleton Milo Harmon, a participant in the Mormon exodus from Illinois and the early settlement of Utah,
1846-1877. Edited by Maybelle Harmon Anderson. Glendale, A.H. Clark, 1946.
xiv, 208 p. illus. 24 cm.
Added t.p. title: Appleton Milo Harmon goes west.
“No attempt has been made to publish Appleton Harmon’s journal verbatim. Considerable portions of it, particularly while
he was in England, recorded routine matters, often highly repetitive and of little historical or biographical value, and therefore
have been omitted.”
Includes also material from other sources.
Invoice inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 12
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Heywood, Martha Spence. Not by bread alone; the journal of Martha Spence Heywood, 1850-56. Edited by Juanita Brooks. [1st ed.] Salt Lake City,
Utah State Historical Society [c1978]
141 p. illus. 24 cm.
ISBN 0-913738-27-1.
Location: Shelf 14
Hickman, Bill. Brigham’s destroying angel; being the life, confession, and startling disclosures of the notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite
chief of Utah. With explanatory notes by J.H. Beadle. Salt Lake City, Shepard Pub. Co., 1904.
221 p. illus. 17 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
Kane, Elizabeth Wood. Twelve Mormon home visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona. Introd. and notes by Everett L. Cooley.
Salt Lake City, Tanner Trust Fund, University of Utah Library.
xi, 149 p. illus. 24 cm. (Utah, the Mormons, and the West, no. 4)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 5
Kimball, Stanley B. Heber C. Kimball, Mormon patriarch and pioneer. [By] Stanley B. Kimball. Urbana, University of Illinois Press [c1981]
xv, 343 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Autographed by the author.
ISBN 0-252-00854-5.
Location: Shelf 5
Kjelgaard, Jim. The coming of the Mormons. By Jim Kjelgaard. Illustrated by Stephen J. Voorhies. New York, Random House [c1953]
183 p. illus. 22 cm.
“Landmark books.”
Location: Shelf 5
Knight, Hal. 111 days to Zion. By Hal Knight and Stanley B. Kimball. Illustrations by Robert R. Noyce. Maps by Richard F. Carter.
[Salt Lake City, Deseret News, c1978]
253 p. illus. 15 x 22 cm.
“The day-by-day trek of the Mormon pioneers.”
Location: Shelf 5
Larson, Andrew Karl. “I was called to Dixie”; the Virgin River basin—unique experiences in Mormon pioneering. [Salt Lake City] Deseret News
Press [c1961]
xi, 681 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [657]-663.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 14
Rentmeister Book Collection
45
Lee, John Doyle. Journals of John D. Lee, 1846-47 and 1859. Edited by Charles Kelly. Introd. by Charles S. Peterson. Salt Lake City,
University of Utah Press, 1984.
xxviii, 244 p. illus. 24 cm.
Reprint of the 1938 ed., originally published in Salt Lake City by Western Print. Co.
Location: Shelf 11
Lee, John Doyle. A Mormon chronicle: the diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876. Edited and annotated by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita
Brooks. San Marino, Calif., Huntington Library, 1955.
2 v. illus. 24 cm.
Inscribed on the t.p. of each vol.: Juanita Brooks, Aug. 4, 1964.
Location: Shelf 5
Lee, John Doyle. The Mormon menace; being the confession of John Doyle Lee, Danite, an official assassin of the Mormon Church under the
late Brigham Young. Introd. by Alfred Henry Lewis. New York, Home Protection Pub. Co. [c1905]
368 p. 19 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
Long, E. B.
The Saints and the Union; Utah Territory during the Civil War. [By] E.B. Long. Urbana, University of Illinois Press
[c1981]
xiii, 310 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 279-289.
ISBN 0-252-00821-9.
Location: Shelf 12
McClintock, James H. Mormon settlement in Arizona; a record of peaceful conquest of the desert. By James H. McClintock. Phoenix [State of
Arizona?] 1921.
xi, 307 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 279-280.
Location: Shelf 5
The Mormon role in the settlement of the West. Richard H. Jackson, editor. [Provo] Brigham Young University Press [c1978]
xiii, 169 p. illus. 23 cm. (Charles Redd monographs in Western history, no. 9)
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS.—The overland journey to Zion. By Richard H. Jackson.—Mormon exploration in the lower Colorado River
area. By Melvin T. Smith.—Defunct Mormon settlements: 1830-1930. By Lynn A. Rosenvall.—Mormon settlement in its
global context. By Alan H. Grey.—Imprint of agricultural systems on the Utah landscape. By Charles S. Peterson.—Population
growth in the Mormon core area: 1847-1890. By Wayne L. Wahlquist.—Mapping Mormons across the modern West. By Dean
Louder and Lowell Bennion.
ISBN 0-8425-321-3.
Location: Shelf 16
Mulder, William. Homeward to Zion; the Mormon migration from Scandinavia. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press [c1957]
xii, 375 p. 24 cm.
“Huntington Library publications.”
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 5
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Nibley, Preston. Brigham Young; the man and his work. [4th ed.] Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1960.
553 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 5
Nielsen, Vaughn J. The history of Box Elder Stake. Written in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of Brigham Young’s setting in
order a stake for Box Elder County by Vaughn J. Nielsen, principle [sic] author and compiler. Assisted by Centennial
Committee. 1st ed. Brigham City, Utah, Pat’s Print Shop, 1977.
142 p. illus. 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 15
Patton, Annaleone D. California Mormons by sail and trail. By Annaleone D. Patton. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co. [c1961]
viii, 197 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [173]-178.
Location: Shelf 5
Poulsen, Ezra J. Joseph C. Rich, versatile pioneer on the Mormon frontier; a story of achievement under difficulties. By Ezra J. Boulsen.
Salt Lake City, Granite Pub. Co. [c1958]
xvi, 371 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Pratt, Parley Parker. Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
embracing his life, ministry and travels, with extracts, in prose and verse, from his miscellaneous writings. Edited by his son,
Parley P. Pratt. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1980 [c1938]
471 p. illus. 18 cm.
Cover title: Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt.
ISBN 0-87747-014-6.
Location: Shelf 13
Rich, Russell R. Ensign to the nations; a history of the church from 1846 to 1972. [By] Russell R. Rich. Provo, Brigham Young University
Publications [c1972]
xviii, 678 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 645-654.
ISBN 0-8425-1540-2 (cloth); 0-8425-0671-3 (paper)
Location: Shelf 12
Romney, Thomas C. The life of Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By Thomas C. Romney. [Salt
Lake City, Deseret Book Co., c1955]
512 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 5
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Schindler, Harold. Orrin Porter Rockwell: man of God, son of thunder. By Harold Schindler. Illustrated by Dale Bryner. Salt Lake City,
University of Utah Press, 1966.
399 p. illus. 26 cm.
Bibliography: p. 366-385.
Newspaper clippings and invoice inserted in envelope pasted inside back cover.
Smith, Eliza R. Snow. Biography and family record of Lorenzo Snow, one of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Written and compiled by his sister, Eliza R. Snow Smith. [Salt Lake City, Zion’s Book Store, 1975]
xvi, 581 p. illus. 24 cm.
Running title: Biography and autobiography.
Other title: Autobiography and family record of Lorenzo Snow.
Reprint of 1884 ed. published in Salt Lake City by Deseret News Co.
Location: Shelf 14
Smith, Pauline Udall. Captain Jefferson Hunt of the Mormon Battalion. By Pauline Udall Smith, assisted by Alison Comish Thorne. Salt Lake
City, Nicholas G. Morgan, Sr., Foundation, 1958.
308 p. illus. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 13
Stegner, Wallace. The gathering of Zion; the story of the Mormon trail. [1st ed.] New York, McGraw-Hill [c1964]
331 p. illus. 24 cm. (The American trails series)
Bibliography: p. 313-319.
Invoice inserted inside back cover.
Location: Shelf 5
Stegner, Wallace. Mormon country. Edited by Erskine Caldwell. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce [c1942]
x, 362 p. 22 cm. (American folkways)
Location: Shelf 12
Stout, Hosea. On the Mormon frontier; the diary of Hosea Stout, 1844-1861. Edited by Juanita Brooks. [1st ed. Salt Lake City]
University of Utah Press [c1964]
2 v. illus. 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS.—v. 1. 1844-1848.—v. 2. 1848-1861.
Inscribed on half-title p.: To J.B. Rentmeister with all good wishes, Juanita Brooks, Aug. 20, 1965.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 11
v. 1
Location: Shelf 12
v. 2
Taylor, Samuel W. Family kingdom. [By] Samuel W. Taylor. London, Hodder and Stoughton [1951]
320 p. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 19
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Taylor, Samuel W. The kingdom or nothing; the life of John Taylor, militant Mormon. By Samuel W. Taylor. New York, Macmillan [c1976]
x, 406 p. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 386-396.
ISBN 0-02-616600-3.
Location: Shelf 12
Taylor, Samuel W. Rocky Mountain empire; the Latter-day saints today. [By] Samuel W. Taylor. New York, Macmillan [c1978]
xi, 273 p. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. p. 261-266. Location: Shelf 4
Van Alfen, Nicholas. Orrin Porter Rockwell, Mormon frontier marshal. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1974.
72 p. illus. 19 cm.
Cover title: Porter Rockwell, Mormon frontier marshal and body guard of Joseph Smith.
Condensed from the author’s master’s thesis.
“The purpose is only to tell what is known of the interesting story of the life of Porter Rockwell. The detailed controversial
material has been omitted here but is included in the thesis.”
“ISBN no. 87747-468-0.”
Location: Shelf 11
Wadsworth, Nelson B. Through camera eyes. [By] Nelson B. Wadsworth. [Provo] Brigham Young University Press [c1975]
xi, 180 p. illus. 29 cm.
Bibliography: p. 175-176.
Location: Shelf 19
Walker, Charles Lowell. Diary of Charles Lowell Walker. Edited by A. Karl Larson and Katherine Miles Larson. Logan, Utah State University
Press [c1980]
2 v. (xviii, 953 p.) 26 cm.
Bibliography: p. [893]-928.
Location: Shelf 13
Werner, M. R.
Brigham Young. By M.R. Werner. London, J. Cape [1925]
xvi, 478 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 463-469.
Volume imperfect: T.p. tattered and detached.
Location: Shelf 5
West, Ray B.
Kingdom of the saints; the story of Brigham Young and the Mormons. By Ray B. West, Jr. New York, Viking Press, 1957.
xxii, 389 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 367-371.
Location: Shelf 5
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Whitney, Orson F. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an apostle [and] the father and founder of the British mission. By Orson F. Whitney. [3d ed.]
Salt Lake City, Bookcraft [1967, c1945]
xv, 515 p. illus. 24 cm.
Valentine inserted.
Location: Shelf 14
Woodruff, Wilford. Wilford Woodruff’s journal; 1833-1898 typescript. Edited by Scott G. Kenney. Midvale, Utah, Signature Books [c1983-
85]
9 v. illus. 24 cm.
ISBN 0-94121-13-3.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 14
v. 1-9
Young, Brigham. Diary of Brigham Young, 1857. Edited and introd. by Everett L. Cooley. Salt Lake City, Tanner Trust Fund, University of
Utah Library [c1980]
xxvi, 105 p. illus. 24 cm. (Utah, the Mormons, and the West, no. 10)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 13
Young, Brigham. Manuscript history of Brigham Young, 1846-1847. [Edited by] Elden J. Watson. [Limited ed. Salt Lake City, E.J. Watson,
c1971]
672 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Young, Kimball. Isn’t one wife enough? [1st ed.] New York, Holt [c1954]
xiv, 476 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
Teachings of Joseph Smith
Smith, Joseph.
Joseph Smith’s teachings; a classified arrangement of the doctrinal sermons and writings of the great latter-day prophet.
Compiled by Edwin F. Parry from the authorized History of the Church of Latter-day Saints. 3d ed. Salt Lake City, Deseret
News, 1919 [c1912]
192 p. 16 cm.
Location: Shelf 2 Doctrinal Works
Berrett, William E. Teachings of the Doctrine and covenants. By William E. Berrett. Salt Lake City, Deseret Sunday School General Board
[c1954]
209 p. 23 cm. (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Gospel Doctrine Department for the Sunday Schools. Course,
no. 27)
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 14
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The Juvenile instructor.
Salt Lake City, G.Q. Cannon.
v. illus. 30 cm. biweekly.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 13
v. 8-10; 1873-75 (vol. imperfect: loose binding with spine missing)
Pratt, Parley Parker. Writings of Parley Parker Pratt, one of the first missionaries and a member of the first Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Edited and published by Parker Pratt Robison. 1st ed. Salt Lake City, P.P.
Robison, 1952.
xvii, 385 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 14
Roberts, B. H. Why “Mormonism”? [By B.H. Roberts. Independence, Mo.? Missions of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in
America, n.d.]
64 p. 18 cm.
Location: Consult museum staff
Tanner, Joseph M. Old Testament studies. Written for the Deseret Sunday School Union by Joseph M. Tanner. Salt Lake City, Deseret Sunday
School Union, 19 -17.
2 v. 19 cm.
CONTENTS. —v. 2. From the establishment of the kingdom under Saul.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 13
v. 2
Widtsoe, John A. The Word of Wisdom; a modern interpretation. By John A. Widtsoe and Leah D. Widtsoe. [Salt Lake City] Deseret Book
Co., 1937.
263 p. illus. 20 cm.
Location: Shelf 13
The Young woman’s journal.
Salt Lake City, Printed by G.Q. Cannon.
v. illus. 24 cm. monthly.
“Published by the Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Associations of Zion.”
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 14
v. 3; Oct. 1891-Sept. 1892
Hymnals and Songbooks
Deseret Sunday School songs; for the use of Sunday schools and suitable for Primary associations, religion classes, quorum
meetings, social gatherings, and the home. Salt Lake City, Deseret Sunday School Union, c1909.
1 v. (unpaged) 20 cm.
Location: Shelf 13
The Primary song book; including marches and voluntaries. Salt Lake City, General Board of Primary Associations [n.d.]
1 v. (unpaged) 20 cm.
Alphabetical list of titles, at end of vol., paged [i]-vi.
Location: Shelf 13
Rentmeister Book Collection
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Relief Society
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Relief Society.
The Relief Society magazine.
Salt Lake City, General Board of the Relief Society.
v. illus. 22 cm.
Began in 1914; ceased in 1970 with v. 57.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 5
v. 2; 1915 (volume imperfect: front cover loose)
Temples
Olsen, Nolan Porter. Logan temple: the first 100 years. By Nolan Porter Olsen. Pictures by Calvin C. Cornia. [Providence, Utah, Printed by
K.W. Watkins, 1979, c1978]
xv, 274 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 4
Other
Evans, Richard L. From the crossroads. By Richard L. Evans. New York, Harper [c1955]
256 p. 21 cm.
Talks from the CBS broadcast Music and the Spoken Word.
Brigham City “Out of state courtesy traffic ticket” inserted.
Location: Shelf 13
Related Sects
Strang, James Jesse. The diary of James J. Strang. Deciphered, transcribed, introduced, and annotated by Mark A. Strang. With a foreword by
Russel B. Nye. [East Lansing] Michigan State University Press [c1961]
xlv, 78 p. illus. 21 cm.
Covering the period 1831-36.
Bibliography: p. 65-78.
Location: Shelf 12
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Miscellaneous Books
United States History
American Association for State and Local History. Commemoration: the promise of remembrance and new beginnings; AASLH annual meeting, September 14-17, 2001, in
Richmond, Va. [Nashville, TN, 2011]
32 p. illus. 28 cm.
Program of the meeting.
Cover title.
Location: Shelf 16
Asquith, Margot. My impressions of America. New York, G.H. Doran [c1922]
217 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 15
DeVoto, Bernard. The course of empire. By Bernard DeVoto. With maps by Erwin Raisz. Boston, Houghton Mifflin [c1952]
xvii, 647 p. maps. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 11
DeVoto, Bernard. The year of decision: 1846. With an introductory essay on the author by Catherine Drinker Bowen. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin, 1961 [c1943]
xix, 538 p. map. 21 cm. (Sentry editions, 11)
Introductory essay originally appeared in the Dec. 1960 issue of the Atlantic monthly.
Includes bibliographical references.
Invoice inserted.
Location: Shelf 12
History news.
Nashville, Tenn., American Association for State and Local History.
v. illus. 28 cm.
At head of title: AASLH.
ISSN 0363-7492.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 16
v. 66, no. 2; spring 2011.
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United States. President.
A compilation of the messages and papers of the presidents. [Compiled] by James D. Richardson. [n.p.] Bureau of National
Literature, 1911.
11 v. illus. 25 cm.
Spine title: Messages and papers of the presidents.
“With additions.”
Vols. 1-10 paged continuously.
Vol. 11: index.
Holdings:
copy 1
Location: Shelf 7
v. 1-7
v. 9-11
copy 2
Location: Shelf 7
v. 10
Rentmeister Family
Rentmeister, John B.
[Journal] 1969-78.
9 v. illus. 25 cm.
Holograph.
Covers the period of 1924 through May 8, 1978. Entries for 1975-78 written by Edith Rentmeister.
Includes mounted photos. Obituaries and other material inserted.
Location: Shelf 3
Railroads
Beal, Merrill. E. Intermountain railroads, standard and narrow gauge. By Merrill D. Beal. Caldwell, Idaho, Caxon Printers, 1962.
xxii, 252 p. illus. 22 cm.
“An Idaho State College contribution to the Idaho Territorial Centennial.”
Bibliography: p. [250]-252.
Invoice, German Christmas card, and Knott’s Berry Farm information inserted.
Location: Shelf 16
Combs, Barry B. Westward to Promontory: building the Union Pacific across the plains and mountains; a pictorial documentary. With text by
Barry B. Combs. Published by American West Publishing Company and the Oakland Museum with the cooperation of the
American Geographical Society. Palo Alto, Calif., American West Pub. Co. [c1969]
77 p. illus. 29 cm.
Location: Shelf 15
Fulton, Robert Lardin. Epic of the overland; an account of the building of the Central and Union Pacific Railroad. Los Angeles, N.A. Kovach,
1954.
xiii, 109 p. illus. 20 cm.
Reprint of the 1924 ed. published in San Francisco by A.M. Robertson.
“Edition limited to 275 copies. This is no. 51.”
Location: Shelf 16
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Howard, Robert West. The great iron trail; the story of the first transcontinental railroad. New York, Bonanza Books [c1962]
376 p. illus. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. 362-365.
Location: Shelf 15
Jensen, Oliver. The American heritage history of railroads in America. New York, American Heritage Pub. Co.; distribution by McGraw-
Hill [c1975]
320 p. illus. 31 cm.
Bibliography: p. [314]
Location: Shelf 15
Jones, Helen Hinckley. Rails from the West; a biography of Theodore D. Judah. By Helen Hinckley. San Marino, Calif., Golden West Books
[1969?]
207 p. illus. 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. 201-203.
“Standard book number 87095-002-9.”
Location: Shelf 16
Klein, Maury. Union Pacific; birth of a railroad, 1862-1893. [1st ed.] Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [c1987]
xiii, 685 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [663]-664.
ISBN 0-385-17728-3.
Location: Shelf 15
Kraus, George. High road to Promontory; building the Central Pacific (now the Southern Pacific) across the High Sierra. Palo Alto,
American West Pub. Co. [c1969]
317 p. illus. 25 cm.
Bibliography: p. 292-293.
Anniversary card, in envelope, inserted.
Location: Shelf 15
Lewis, Oscar. The big four; the story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the building of the Central Pacific. New
York, Knopf, 1941 [c1938]
xii, 418, vi p. illus. 25 cm.
Part of the book appeared in the Atlantic monthly under title Men against mountains.
Bibliography: p. 413-418.
Location: Shelf 15
McCague, James. Moguls and iron men; the story of the first transcontinental railroad. [1st ed.] New York, Harper & Row [c1964]
viii, 392 p. illus. 25 cm.
Bibliography: p. 379-382.
Location: Shelf 15
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Stewart, John J. The iron trail to the golden spike. [By] John J. Stewart. Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Co., 1969.
x, 297 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. 285-286.
Location: Shelf 15
White, John H. The American railroad passenger car. [By] John H. White, Jr. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press [c1978]
xii, 699 p. illus. 33 cm. (Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology)
Bibliography: p. [685]-688.
ISBN 0-8018-1965-2.
Location: Shelf 15
Folklore Collecting
Brunvand, Jan Harold. A guide for collectors of folklore in Utah. Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press [c1971]
124 p. illus. 24 cm. (University of Utah publications in the American West, v. 7)
Bibliography: p. [121]-124.
ISBN 0-87480-080-3.
Location: Shelf 4
Germany; German Language and Literature
Deutsche Novellen des 19. Jahrhunderts. [Hrsg. von] Robert O. Röseler. New York, H. Holt [1949, c1941]
xii, 328, lxxiv p. 20 cm.
Includes English biographical sketches of the authors.
CONTENTS.—The German Novelle.—Kleider machen Leute. Von Gottfried Keller.—Gustav Adolfs Page. Von Conrad
Ferdinand Meyer.— Die Söhne des Senators. Von Theodor Storm.— Die hamelschen Kinder. Von Wilhelm Raabe.— Das
Heidedorf. Von Adabelt Stifter.—Vocabulary.
Location: Shelf 2
Mühlberg, Fried. Bonn. [Von] Fried Mühlberg. Aufgenommen von Helga Schmidt-Glassner. [München] Deutscher Kustverlag [1951]
30, 72 p. illus. 26 cm. (Deutsche Lande, deutsche Kunst)
Location: Shelf 13
English-Language Fiction, Short Stories, Essays, etc.
Bailey, Paul.
For this my glory; a story of a Mormon life. [3d ed. Los Angeles, Westernlore Press] Hollywood, Calif., Murray & Gee,
distributors, 1944 [c1943]
336 p. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Brady, Cyrus Townsend. Under tops’ls and tents. New York, Scribner, 1917 [c1901]
252 p. illus. 20 cm.
“Patriotic novels and stories.”
Location: Shelf 17
Ellis, John Breckenridge. Lahoma. By John Breckenridge Ellis. With illus. by W. B. King. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [c1913]
360 p. illus. 19 cm.
Location: Shelf 15
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Emmons, Della Gould. Sacajawea of the Shoshones. Portland, Ore., Binfords & Mort [c1943]
316 p. illus. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. [313]-316.
Location: Shelf 11
Fisher, Vardis.
Children of God; an American epic. Boise, O.L. Homes [c1939]
xviii, 769 p. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
Fisher, Vardis. Children of God; an American epic. New York, Grosset & Dunlap [c1939]
769 p. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
Fitzgerald, John D. Uncle Will and the Fitzgerald curse. By John D. Fitzgerald. [1st ed.] Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [c1961]
250 p. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
Greenwood, Annie Pike. We sagebrush folks. New York, Appleton-Century Co., 1934.
xi 483 p. illus. 23 cm.
Note from Allene and Howard inserted.
Location: Shelf 19
Grey, Zane. The last trail. New York, Triangle Books [1943, c1909]
300 p. 19 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Grey, Zane. The thundering herd. 1st ed. New York, Harper, 1925.
400 p. illus. 19 cm.
“To Helen from John”: tipped in.
Location: Shelf 11
Holley, Marietta. Samantha at Saratoga; or, “Racin’ after fashion.” Chicago, M.A. Donohue [n.d.]
373 p. illus. 19 cm.
Imperfect: loose binding.
Location: Shelf 17
Hunter, Rodello. A house of many rooms; a family memoir. [By] Rodello Hunter. Drawings by Roy Olsen. [1st ed.] New York, Knopf,
1965.
240 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 5
Hurst, Fannie. Back Street. Broadway ed. New York, P.F. Collier [c1931]
481 p. 20 cm.
Imperfect: spine ripped.
Location: Shelf 17
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Jackson, Helen. Ramona; a story. By Helen Jackson (H.H.) Boston, Roberts, 1890.
490, 7 p. illus. 19 cm.
“Ramona’s home: a visit to the Camulos ranch, and to scenes described by ‘H.H.’ By Edwards Roberts”: p. [1]-7 (2d set)
Location: Shelf 17
Kingsley, Charles.
Alton Locke. With a prefatory memoir by Thomas Hughes. The Bideford ed. New York, Co-operative Publication Society
[c1898]
v. illus. 21 cm. ((Novels, poems & letters of Charles Kingsley)
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 18
v. 1
Metalious, Grace. No Adam in Eden. New York, Trident Press, 1963.
312 p. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 18
Metalious, Grace. Peyton Place. [New York, Dell, 1958, c1956]
512 p. 17 cm.
“F61.”
Location: Shelf 12
Modern English short stories, first series. Selected by Phyllis M. Jones. London, Oxford University Press [1963]
vii, 403 p. 15 cm. (The World’s classics, 477)
Originally published in 1939.
CONTENTS.—The three strangers. By Thomas Hardy—The holy man. By Frank Harris.—A garden plot. By W.W.
Jacobs.—A slip under the microscope. By H.G. Wells.—The Lion’s share. By Arnold Bennett.—The open window. By H.H.
Munro (“Saki”)—The music on the hill. By H.H. Munro (“Saki”)—The door of opportunity. By W. Somerset Maugham.—Fifty
pounds. By A.E. Coppard.—Other kingdom. By E.M. Forster.—Lord Emsworth and the girl friend. By P.G. Wodehouse.—The
last laugh. By D.H. Lawrence.—Juxtapositions. By Stacy Aumonier.—Sun and moon. By Katherine Mansfield.—Submarine.
By Stella Benson.—The Tillotson banquet. By Aldous Huxley.—She was living with his people. By T.O. Beachcroft.—The
revelation. By H.E. Bates.—The last inch. By Constance Holme. The pain in the neck. By Viola Meynell.—Joining Charles.
By Elizabeth Bowen.—Saturday Afternoon. By Stella Gibbons.
Location: Shelf 11
The Reader’s digest 40th anniversary treasury; a selection of outstanding articles, book condensations, and humor published by
the Reader’s digest during its first 40 years, 1922-1961. Pleasantville, N.Y. Reader’s Digest Association [c1961]
576 p. illus. 20 cm.
In slipcase.
Location: Shelf 17
Slade, Caroline. Margaret. New York, Vanguard Press [c1946]
280 p. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Smith, Mabell S. C. Ethel Morton at Rose House. By Mabell S.C. Smith. Cleveland, World Syndicate Pub. Co. [19--?]
248 p. illus. 20 cm. (The Ethel Morton books)
Location: Shelf 17
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Werfel, Franz. The song of Bernadette. Translated by Ludwig Lewisohn. New York, Viking Press [c1942]
xiv, 459 p. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 11
Whipple, Maurine. The giant Joshua. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1942.
637 p. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. [635]-637.
Location: Shelf 17
The World’s greatest books: twentieth century series; being one publisher’s selection of what might be considered the most
popular literature published during the twentieth century. New York, Wise, 1941.
x, 1140 p. illus. 22 cm.
Bibliography: p. 1129-1130.
Imperfect: binding loose.
Location: Shelf 17
Wormser, Richard. Battalion of saints. New York, David McKay Co. [c1961]
249 p. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 11
Communism
Skousen, W. Cleon. The naked communist. By W. Cleon Skousen. [10th ed.] Salt Lake City, Ensign Pub. Co. [1961]
408 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p. [379]-384.
Location: Shelf 12
Stormer, John A. None dare call it treason. By John A. Stormer. Florissant, Mo., Liberty Bell Press [c1964]
254 p. 18 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 12
Nature and the Environment
Carson, Rachel. Silent spring. By Rachel Carson. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. [Special ed. for Consumer reports subscribers only]
Boston, Houghton Mifflin [c1962]
xii, 368 p. illus. 21 cm.
Portion of the book first published as a series of articles in the New Yorker.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 12
Building Construction and Mathematics
Arithmetic. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook. Co., 1928.
2 v. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 81-82)
CONTENTS.—Bk. 1. Elements of arithmetic. Fractions. Decimals. Weights and measures.—Bk. 2. Ratio and proportion.
Powers and roots. Mensuration.
Location: Shelf 3
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Aston, James. Wrought iron: its manufacture, characteristics, and applications. By James Aston and Edward B. Story. 4th ed. Pittsburgh,
A.M. Byers [c1957]
vi, 103 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 19
Aston, James. Wrought iron: its manufacture, characteristics, and applications. By James Aston and Edward B. Story. 2d ed. Pittsburgh,
A.M. Byers [c1939]
vi, 97 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 19
Audel’s carpenter’s and builder’s guide. #1-
New York, T. Audel [c1939-
v. illus. 17 cm.
“A practical illustrated trade assistant on modern construction for carpenters--joiners--builders--mechanics and all wood
workers...”
By Frank D. Graham and Thomas J. Emery.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 3
no. 1 (1943 printing)
Builders’ hardware. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook. Co. [c1908]
iv, 165 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 266)
Location: Shelf 3
Building contracts. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1907]
84 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 271)
Location: Shelf 3
Common brickwork, architectural terra cotta. Prepared under supervision of William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., Internatioinal
Textbook Co. [c1920]
iv, 70, 78 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 246)
CONTENTS.—Common brickwork. By D. Knickerbocker Boyd.—Architectural terra cotta. By Charles E. White, Jr.
Location: Shelf 3
Concrete construction, areas, retaining walls. Prepared under supervision of William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International
Textbook Co. [c1920]
iv, 96, 73 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 247)
CONTENTS.—Concrete construction. By H. A. Sauerbry. Ed. 2—Areas, vaults, and retaining walls. By William S.
Lowndes. Ed. 2.
Location: Shelf 3
Design of roof trusses and mill buildings. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1907]
v, 87, 60 p. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 273)
CONTENTS.—Design of roof trusses.—Mill design.
Location: Shelf 3
Emerson, David B.
Specification writing. By David B. Emerson. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1930]
iv, 130 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 267)
Location: Shelf 3
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Face and ornamental brickwork, plastering. Prepared under supervision of William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International
Textbook Co. [c1923]
iv, 62, 90 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 248)
CONTENTS.— Face and ornamental brickwork. By George J. Jervis.—Plastering. By D. Knickerbacker Boyd.
Location: Shelf 3
Formulas, cube root, logarithms. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1925]
iv, 57, 24, 20, 31 p. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 235)
CONTENTS.—Formulas. Ed. 2.—Cube root.—Table of common logarithms of numbers from 1 to 10,000.—Logarithms. Ed.
5.
Location: Shelf 3
Geometrical, projection, and freehand drawing. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1924]
iv, 63, 58, 60 p. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 238)
CONTENTS.—Geometrical drawing.—Projection drawing. Ed. 3.—Freehand and ornamental drawing.
Location: Shelf 3
Geometry and mensuration. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1923]
34, 3, 35, 3 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 236)
CONTENTS.—Geometry and mensuration. Part 1. Ed. 2.—Geometry and mensuration. Part 1. Examination questions.
Ed.2. .—Geometry and mensuration. Part 2. Ed. 2.—Geometry and mensuration. Part 2. Examination questions. Ed.2.
Location: Shelf 3
Gore, George. Electro-chemistry: inorganic. By G. Gore. 2d ed. London, Electrician Print. & Pub. Co., 1888.
viii, 134, 31 p. 22 cm. (The Electrician series)
Last group of pages contains the publisher’s catalog.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 3
Hollow tile and fireproofing. Prepared under supervision of William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co.
[c1919]
iv, 82, 96 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 249)
CONTENTS.—Hollow title. By Charles E. White, Jr.—Fireproofing of buildings. By J. J. Cosgrove. Ed. 2.
Location: Shelf 3
Kidder, Frank Eugene.
Kidder-Parker architects’ and builders’ handbook; data for architects, structural engineers, contractors, and draughtsmen.
By the late Frank E. Kidder. Compiled by a staff of specialists and Harry Parker, editor-in-chief. 18th ed. New York, Wiley;
London, Chapman & Hall [1945, c1931]
xxvi, 2315 p. illus. 19 cm.
Location: Shelf 3
Lowndes, William Shepherd. Building stone, foundations, masonry. By William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1930]
iv, 55, 58, 66 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 245)
CONTENTS.—Building stone. Ed. 2.—Foundations.—Stone masonry. Ed. 2.
Location: Shelf 3
Lowndes, William Shepherd. Carpentry. By William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1923-28]
3 v. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 250-252)
Location: Shelf 3
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Lowndes, William Shepherd.
Estimating building costs. By William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1927-
v. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 269)
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 3
v. 1-2
Lowndes, William Shepherd. Painting and wood finishing. By William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1926]
v, 98 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 253)
Location: Shelf 3
Lowndes, William Shepherd. Preliminaries, excavating piling, mortars. By William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1930]
iv, 40, 36, 53p. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 244)
Location: Shelf 3
CONTENTS.—Operations prelimary to building.—Limes, cements, and mortars.—Excavating, shoring, and piling. Ed. 3.
Lowndes, William Shepherd. Reading architects’ blueprints. By William S. Lowndes. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1922]
vi, 78, 57, 39 p. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 274)
“Parts 1-3.”
Location: Shelf 3
Lowndes, William Shepherd. Roofing and sheet-metal work. By William S. Lowndes and I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1923]
iv, 130, 61 p. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 256)
CONTENTS.—Roofing.—Sheet-metal work.
Location: Shelf 3
Mechanics of carpentry, stair building. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1907]
24, 57 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 255)
CONTENTS.—Mechanics of carpentry.—Stair building.
Location: Shelf 3
Specification-writing memoranda. By I.C.S. staff. [Ed. 2] Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1924]
90, vi p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 268)
Location: Shelf 3
The Steel square. By I.C.S. staff. Scranton, Pa., International Textbook Co. [c1930]
56, 79 p. illus. 20 cm. ([International Textbook Company. Bluebooks] 254)
“Parts 1-2.”
“Framing squares: description and directions; fully warranted”: leaflet inserted.
Location: Shelf 3
Other
American Society of Municipal Improvements. Proceedings of the twentieth annual meeting of the American Society of Municipal Improvements, held at Wilmington,
Delaware, October 7, 8, 9, and 10, 1913. Indianapolis, 1914.
376 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
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Bennett, Iam. Book of American antiquities. London, New York, Hamlyn [c1973]
96 p. illus. 29cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-600-30130-3.
Location: Shelf 19
The Book of knowledge; the children’s encyclopaedia. Editors-in-chief: Arthur Mee [and] Holland Thompson. With an introd.
by John H. Finley. Departmental editors: M. Alston Buckley [and others] New York, Grolier Society [c1923-
v. illus. (some col.) 25 cm.
Imperfect: some vols. mildewed.
Miscellaneous material inserted in some vols.
Holdings:
copy 1
Location: Shelf 18
v. 1-3
v. 5-20
copy 2
Location: Shelf 18
v. 15 (c1926)
Cousins, Frank. The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work. By Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley. Boston, Little
Brown, 1916.
xx, 168 p. illus. 24 cm.
Imperfect: loose binding, loose pages, water stains.
Location: Shelf 16
DaCosta, John Chalmers. Selection from the papers and speeches of John Chalmers DaCosta. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1931.
vii, 440 p. illus.
Spine title: The papers and speeches of John Chalmers DaCosta.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 17
De Haan, M. R. The chemistry of the blood, and other stirring messages. By M.R. De Haan. 4th ed. Grand Rapids, Zondervan [c1943]
183 p. 20 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Drummond, Henry. Natural law in the spiritual world. New York, United States Book Co [18--?]
xxiv, 414 p. 19 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 12
Favretti, Rudy J. Landscapes and gardens for historic buildings; a handbook for reproducing and creating authentic landscape settings. [By]
Rudy J. Favretti and Joy Putman Favretti. Nashville, American Association for State and Local History, 1978.
202 p. illus. 24 cm.
Bibliography: p 195-197.
ISBN 0-910050-34-1.
Location: Shelf 16
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Ford, Herbert. Flee the captor. By Herbert Ford. Design by Homer Norris. Nashville, Southern Pub. Association [c1966]
373 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 18
Francis, Rell G. Cyrus E. Dallin: let justice be done. [By] Rell G. Francis. Springville, Utah, Published for Springville Museum of Art in
cooperation with Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission [c1976]
xv, 262 p. illus. 29 cm.
Bibliography: p. 255-259.
Location: Shelf 18
Haines, T. L. The royal path of life; or, Aims and aids to success and happiness. By T.L. Haines and L.W. Yaggy. Rev. ed. Chicago,
Western Pub. House, 1882.
vi, 607 p. illus. 23 cm.
Imperfect: some loose pages.
Location: Shelf 12
Higgins, Marguerite. War in Korea; the report of a woman combat correspondent. [By] Marguerite Higgins. Photographs by Carl Mydans and
others. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday [c1951]
223 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 18
Innis, Harold A. The fur trade in Canada; an introduction to Canadian economic history. By Harold A. Innis. Based on the rev. ed. prepared
by S.D. Clark and W.T. Easterbrook. With a foreword by Robin W. Winks. [Paperbound ed.] New Haven, Yale University
Press, 1962.
xv, 446 p. map. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. [405]-425.
Location: Shelf 19
Kent, Raymond P. Corporate financial management. By Raymond P. Kent. Homewood, Ill., R.D. Irwin, 1960.
xv, 851 p. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Location: Shelf 17
Koues, Helen. How to be your own decorator. [1st ed.] New York, Good Housekeeping [c1926]
224 p. illus. 19 cm.
Location: Shelf 18
McCoy, Patrick Terrance. Kiltie McCoy; an American boy with an Irish name fighting in France as a Scotch soldier. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill
[c1918]
246 p. illus. 19 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
The McKee Collection of paintings. [El Paso] El Paso Museum of Art [c1968]
67 p. illus. 29 cm.
Location: Shelf 19
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McMullen, Fred. Out of the jaws of Hunland; the stories of Corporal Fred McMullen, sniper [and] Private Jack Evans, bomber—Canadian
soldiers three times captured and finally escaped from German prison camps. New York, Putnam, 1918.
vii, 248 p. illus. 19 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Cinerama present How the west was won. [New York] Random House, c1963.
[34] p. illus. 28 cm.
Spine title: How the west was won.
Location: Shelf 15
Mexico. [Washington, D.C., Haskin Information Bureau, 192-?]
31 p. illus. 23 cm.
Cover title.
“The chapters of this booklet on the geography and cities of Mexico, and those on the agriculture, mining, highways,
education, constitution, and government, are reprinted, sometimes in abridged form, from the publication of the Pan American
Union on Mexico.”
“For distribution thru the newspapers represented by Frederic J. Haskin.”
Imperfect: cover pages loose.
Location: Shelf 17
Monson-Fitzjohn, G. J. The city of the three crowns, being letters upon prominent episodes in the history of Kingston upon Hull from the date of its
first charter onwards. By G.J. Monson-Fitzjohn. London, A. Brown, 1927.
xvi, 174 p. illus. 19 cm.
Autographed by the author.
Location: Shelf 18
Murbarger, Nell.
30,000 miles in Mexico; adventures of two women and a pickup-camper in twenty-eight Mexican states. [1st ed.] Palm
Desert, Calif., Desert Magazine Press [c1961]
viii, 310 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Murphy, Joseph. The power of your subconscious mind. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [c1963]
224 p. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 12
The New student’s reference work for teachers, students, and families. Edited by Chandler B. Beach. Associate editor, Frank
Morton McMurry. Chicago, F.E. Compton, 1909.
4 v. illus. 25 cm.
Includes bibliographies.
CONTENTS. —v. 2. Draper-longitude.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 13
v. 2
Nicholson, H. Alleyne. The ancient life-history of the earth; a comprehensive outline of the principles and leading facts of palaeontological science.
By H. Alleyne Nicholson. [Werner ed.] Akron, Werner [1876?]
xix, 428 p. illus. 20 cm. (International science library)
Location: Shelf 18
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The 1955 Idaho state brand book; a complete list of recorded brands registered in the office of the State Brand Inspector, Boise,
Idaho. Compiled by the State Brand Inspector’s Office. [Boise, State Brand Inspector, 1955]
vi, 488 p. 21 cm.
Cover title: Brand book, State of Idaho, 1955.
Mailing label inserted.
Location: Shelf 16
Olpin, Robert S. Dictionary of Utah art. [By] Robert S. Olpin. [Salt Lake City] Published by the Salt Lake Art Center in cooperation with
the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission [c1980]
311 p. 18 cm.
Bibliography: p. 295-311.
Imperfect: some loose pages.
Location: Shelf 18
Outdoor life secrets of successful fresh-water fishing; scores of fishing tips and hints by the fishing editors and experts of
Outdoor life magazine. New York, Outdoor Life [c1952]
250 p. illus. 23 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Rolfe, Mary A. Our national parks. By Mary A. Rolfe. Chicago, Benj. H. Sanborn, 1935-
v. illus. 20 cm.
Holdings:
Location: Shelf 17
bk. 1
Samuels, Peggy. The illustrated biographical encyclopedia of arts of the American West. [By] Peggy and Harold Samuels. Garden City,
N.Y., Doubleday, 1976.
xxvi, 549 p. illus. 27 cm.
Bibliography: p. xv-xxvi.
ISBN 0-385-01730-8.
Location: Shelf 18
Sears, Stephen W. Hometown U.S.A. [By] Stephen W. Sears, Murray Belsky [and] Douglas Tunstell. New York, American Heritage Pub.
Co.; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster [c1975]
221 p. illus. 31 cm.
Bibliographical references included in Acknowledgements.
“ISBN 671-22079-9.”
Location: Shelf 19
Secrets of India. [n.p., c1931]
154 p. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Sharp, Hal. Sportsman’s digest of fishing. New York, Barnes & Noble [1959, c1953]
279 p. illus. 21 cm.
“No. 247.”
Location: Shelf 12
Skousen, W. Cleon. So you want to raise a boy? [By] W. Cleon Skousen. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1962.
384 p. illus. 22 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
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The Smithsonian book of invention. 1st ed. [Washington, D.C.] Smithsonian Institution; New York, Distributed to the trade
by Norton, c1978.
256 p. illus. 28 cm. (Smithsonian exposition books)
ISBN 0-89599-002-4.
Location: Shelf 16
The Smithsonian experience; science—history—the arts... the treasures of the nation. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian
Institution; New York, Distributed to the trade by Norton, 1977.
255 p. illus. 28 cm.
Location: Shelf 16
Stewart, Ross. Home decoration: its problems and solutions. [By] Ross Stewart and John Gerald. Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Pub.
Co. [1938, c1935]
x, 324 p. illus. 24 cm.
Location: Shelf 17
Thomas, Charles Swain. Your command of written English. New York, P.F. Collier [c1941]
xi, 370 p. illus. 22 cm. (Your mastery of English, bk. 3)
Location: Shelf 17
White, William Lindsay.
The captives of Korea; an unofficial white paper on the treatment of war prisoners: our treatment of theirs, their treatment of
ours. New York, Scribner [c1957]
xiii, 347 p. illus. 22 cm.
“A-4.57 [H]”
Location: Shelf 18
Wilhelm, Donald. Writing for profit; a manual of professional patterns and procedures. Including the opinions and advice of many
distinguished authors and editors. [Tower book ed.] Cleveland, Ohio, World Pub. Co. [1942, c1937]
xii, 386 p. 21 cm.
Bibliography: p. 369-373.
Location: Shelf 18
Wright, Milton. Managing yourself. New York, Whittlesey House [c1938]
ix, 319 p. 21 cm.
Location: Shelf 18