Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier

Book Description

Salt Lake City, UT Howe Brothers, Publishers 1982 Hardcover First Edition 342pp. Octavo [23.5 cm.] Full red cloth with gilt titles on backstrip. Near Fine/Near fine. Jacket shows subtle rubbing to extremities, with subtle nicking to corners. Short gift inscription in ink on the front free endsheet. Historian Dale Morgan started urging Brooks to write this work in the mid-forties. Memoir by the renowned and highly respected Western historian. Descended from Southern Utah pioneers who were sent to colonize Utah's Dixie. Juanita Brooks grew up among the red rock country of Southern Utah. Brooks is best known for her groundbreaking histories of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and John D. Lee.

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