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Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier

by Brooks, Juanita

Second printing

Price: $25.00

  • Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
  • Seller Inventory #: 17453
  • Format: Paperback
  • Edition: Second printing
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN 10: 0935704396
  • ISBN 13: 9780935704396
  • Publisher: Howe Brothers Publishers
  • Place: Salt Lake City, UT
  • Date published: 1984

Book Description

Salt Lake City, UT Howe Brothers Publishers 1984 Paperback Second printing 342pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. Near fine. The covers are slightly yellowed. Illustrated. 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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