Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Comprising Photographs, Genealogies, Biographies. Pioneers are those men and women who came to Utah by wagon, hand cart or afoot, between July 24, 1847, and December 30, 1868, before the railroad. Prominent men are stake presidents, ward bishops, governors, members of the bench, etc., who came to Utah after the coming of the railroad. The early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913. First Edition. 1319pp. Quarto [31 cm] Full pebbled brown leather with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip and 'Pioneers' blind stamped on the front board. A very good copy with only minor rubbing to extremities. Front hinge starting. Name on verso of front free endsheet. Nicer than unusually seen copy of this mammoth work that offers short biographies and portraits of hundreds of early settlers of Utah. Original printed prospectus laid in (something we've not encountered previously). Flake/Draper 3182. Second Auerbach 158.

"The greatest inheritance of man is a posterity; the greatest inheritance of a posterity is a Christian Ancestry - that these greatest inheritances may live in record, this volume is issued." - Frank Esshom

"The historical value of such a work can hardly be overestimated. The compiler and publishers have rendered an important service in collecting and printing the vast amount of data it contains, and bringing them together in a convenient form. We have no doubt that the children and children's children for many generations, will find in this volume not only information concerning the ancestors but inspiration to emulate them in all that is good and praise worthy." - Deseret News (12/24/1913).