Charles S. Peterson

CHARLES S. PETERSON is a professor emeritus of history at Utah State University, professor of history at Southern Utah University, former editor of the Western Historical Quarterly, and former director of the Utah Historical Society (1969-71). He and his wife, Betty, live in St. George.

Apostle of the Outposts | Andrew Karl Larson, Erastus Snow: The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church

Articles/Essays – Volume 06, No. 3

Andrew Karl Larson’s Erastus Snow: The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church is a biography written, as the author candidly points out in his preface, “at the behest of Erastus…

Dale Morgan, Writer’s Project, and Mormon History as a Regional Study

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 2

At the 1968 annual meeting of the Utah Historical Society, Juanita Brooks read a paper about the Southern Utah Records Survey of the early and mid-1930s that had been a forerunner to the Federal Writers’…