The Great Salt Lake
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. First Edition. 432pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket is price clipped. Item #10951
Signed on a special tipped-in sheet that is attached to front flyleaf. Bobbs-Merrill's series on American lakes was sponsored as an attempt to recapture a market share from Farrar & Rinehart's widely successful Rivers of America Series. Great Salt Lake dealt more with the historical context of the lake than the body of water itself, describing the epochal history of the lake itself, early exploration and mapping, the settlements of Salt Lake City, tourism and recreation, and the advent of railroads beside and across the lake. Besides his incomplete history of the Mormons, this work contains the only published example of Morgan's historical treatment of his religious culture. Saunders 19. Fitzgerald AL3
Dale L. Morgan (1914 – 1971), was an American historian, accomplished researcher, biographer, editor, and critic. He specialized in material on Utah history, Mormon history, the American fur trade, and overland trails. His work is known both for its comprehensive research and accuracy and for the fluid imagery of his prose.
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