Emma Lee
Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1975. First Edition. 113pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust boards with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Closed tear to the head of jacket's rear panel. Item #10221
Classic biography of Emma Lee, who was the plural wife of John D. Lee. Juanita Brooks (1898-1989) is one of the major historians of Utah history and particularly of the history of southern Utah. She was born and raised in the southern Nevada outpost of Bunkerville. After high school she focused on her education first at Dixie College, and then Brigham Young University. After obtaining a master's degree from Columbia University, she returned to St. George, where she was appointed dean of women for Dixie College. She then embarked on a career of research. In 1934, Brooks' "A Close-Up of Polygamy" was published in Harper's Monthly Magazine, the first of over forty articles and fifteen books published during her career.
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