Uncle Will Tells His Story
Salt Lake City: Taggart & Company, 1970. First Edition. 249pp. Octavo [25 cm] Gray cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Prospectus laid in. Item #10230
Signed by the author on the front free endsheet. Biography of Will Brooks by the noted historian and the subject's wife. 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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