[…] this book May has accomplished what he set out to do. Utah: A People’s History by Dean L. May (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987), 210 pp., illus., index, $25.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.
[…] quotation marks, do little credit to the literary excellence previously established by these scholars. Mormons and Their Historians by Davis Bitton and Leonard Arrington (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988), 213 pp., $20.00.
[…] later, the assistant managing director called me into his office and gave me hell for my auda city. How dare I write a letter to a General Authority. How dare I try to tell […]
[…] Nephi is careful to include, though to us they seem strangely irrelevant—such as that he entered the city not knowing where he would go and his insistence that the Lord delivered Laban into his […]
[…] was the first public acknowledgment of the growing body of Mecham humor, and it received considerable publi city, partly because local newspapers had been looking for a way to print some of the jokes […]
[…] The Preacher tells us, To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose un der heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and […]
[…] historical community is much better off for having known Gene Campbell. Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869 by Eugene E. Campbell. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988, ix, 346 pp., $20.95.
[…] nowhere to go. His self-realization has brought him, ironically, to an impasse—to the edge of the reservoir. The Edge of the Reservoir by Larry E. Morris (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988), 233 pp., $7.95.
[…] face?” over and over from my daughter. I ponder birth, burning, frostbite, and the ice in a city street crackling under the burden of rubber, and hear someone’s words that ice splits starwise, then […]