first edition Hardcover
1940 · Salt Lake City, UT
by Alter, J. Cecil (Editor)
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 251pp. Octavo [23 cm] Burgundy cloth over boards with the title stamped in gilt on the backstrip. Very good, with only a bit of minor warping to the front cover. There is a former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. This volume presents the journal of Leonard E. Harrington. Harrington was the mayor of American Fork, Utah for 29 years. The second portion of the volume concerns the State of Deseret, addressing many misconceptions of the origins of government in Utah, and exploring lesser-known sequels to that first government in the forty-five year struggle for statehood. (Inventory #: 45673)