Tschanz Rare Books List 95 Utah & the

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1- Bagley, Will. Blood of the Prophets: The Forgotten Massacre at Mountain Meadows. Salt Lake City: Prairie Dog Press, March 23, 200. 363pp. Quarto [28 cm] Comb bound wrappers. Rare.

This is the typescript of 'Blood of the Prophets' that was sent to University of Oklahoma Press for consideration to be published. Two-page cover letter to John Drayton, the then director of the press, begins the work. Notes, marginalia, underlining, and post-its throughout.

"Here at last is the manuscript 'Blood of the Prophets: The Forgotten Massacre at Mountain Meadows.' As I've worked on this draft, I've become increasingly certain that its interpretation matches the facts of the case. I've also become more conscious of how important and demanding it is to maintain its objectivity, and how easily that balance can be upset. This is as clean a manuscript as any I've sent to readers, but I do so anticipating that I'll completely rewrite once, if not twice, to get it right. I fully expect that this book will evoke a profoundly negative reaction from many. I told Brig Madsen that I feared it would make me a pariah. In his inimitable way, Brig Said, 'That's our job as historians.' I hope that it will emulate the fate of Juanita Brooks' The Mountain Meadows Massacre, and that the initial hostile reaction will gradually give way to acceptance, and an appreciation that the initial hostile reaction will gradually give way to acceptance, and an appreciation that the book has done a service to both my people and to history." - excerpts from the cover letter

This is the beginnings of this award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the Baker-Fancher wagon train by Mormons in the local militia and a few Paiute Indians. This work won numerous awards and is now considered a classic.

$675

2- Bigler, David L. and Will Bagley. The Mormon Rebellion: America's First Civil War, 1857-1858. South Jordan, UT: Bear Hollow Books, 2011. 1/26. 392pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue leather with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine.

This signed limited edition was limited to 26 lettered copies, this is copy 'U.' Signed by both authors on the limitation page. Limited edition keepsake 'What Want of Common Humanity' present. Housed in a custom wood slipcase.

Long overshadowed by the Civil War, the tragic story of this conflict involved a tense and protracted clash pitting 's against Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston and the U.S. Army's Utah Expedition. In response to Buchanan's deployment of troops, Young proclaimed martial law, declared independence, ordered his militia to fortify the Echo Canyon passage to Salt Lake Valley, and stopped all travel across a vast western region, virtually cutting the nation in half. The Utah War spawned acts of violence, including the massacre of 120 men, women, and children at a resting spot near Cedar City, Utah - known as Mountain Meadows. In the end, the conflict between the two armies saw no pitched battles, but in the author's view, Buchanan's decision to order troops to Utah, his so-called blunder, eventually proved decisive and beneficial for both Mormons and the American republic.

$300

3- Evans, John Henry. Charles Coulson Rich: Pioneer Builder of the West. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. First Edition. 400pp. Octavo [22 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Jacket price clipped, otherwise book and jacket are better than very good.

Biography of the apostle and settler of San Bernardino, and later settler of the Bear Lake area, by the famed Mormon educator. Rare in jacket.

"To read the story of this pioneer, preacher, fighter, legislator, and patriarch is to see the Mormon movement in intimate detail; the persecution and violence in Missouri and Illinois; the martyrdom of the Prophet, , and his brother Hyrum; the trek westward by covered wagon; the development of Utah and the Mormon settlements in California. Mr. Evans's biography shows that Rich's domestic life was no less successful than his public career. Blessed with six wives and fifty children, he never had a family quarrel. A zealous follower of the Mormon faith, his personality typifies his people - their industry and perseverance, their stormy wanderings and the religion which they made part of their daily lives." - from the jacket.

$100

4- Jeffs, Rulon T. Priesthood Articles. Hildale, UT: Twin City Courier Press, 1995. First Edition. 426pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Publisher's black buckram with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Name gilt stamped on the front board. About very good. Minor overall wear and soiling. Underlining in pencil sporadically throughout.

Priesthood manual for the FLDS Church compiled by Rulon T. Jeffs. Rulon T. Jeffs (1909-2002) was the son of early Fundamentalist David W. Jeffs (1873-1953), who began following John Y. Barlow and Joseph Musser in 1938. When Rulon joined with the Fundamentalists, Musser told him that he was admitted on the strength of his LDS , and no additional baptism was required. He married his first wife Zola Brown who was the daughter of future Apostle, Hugh B. Brown in 1939, and married a plural wife in 1941 (Zola divorced him soon after). In the following six decades he would marry 65 more, and father dozens of children. He was the Prophet of the FLDS Church from 1986 until his death.

"He then set us apart and placed us under covenant that while we lived we would see to it that no year passed by without children being born in the principle of plural marriage. We were given authority to ordain others if necessary to carry this work on, they in turn to be given authority to ordain others if necessary, under the direction of the worthy senior (by ordination), so that there should be no cessation in the work. he then gave each of us a copy of the revelation." - Lorin C. Woolley. p. 183

Rare work that was never intended for the general public and never publicly distributed. This is the only time I've handled this title. We locate one institutional holding (Weber State).

$175

5- Young, Brigham; John Y. Barlow, Rulon T. Jeffs, and LeRoy S. Johnson. In Light and Truth: Raising Children in the Family Order of Heaven. The Word of the Lord Through His Servants, the Prophets. Hildale, UT: Twin City Courier Press, 1994. First Edition. 897pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Publisher's black buckram with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Name in ink on the front pastedown. Faint scribbling to front free endsheet and title page. A few spots to fore-edge .

FLDS work on the family from the sermons of Brigham Young (Journal of Discourses), John Barlow, Rulon T. Jeffs, and LeRoy S. Johnson

"If we don't know how to teach our children correct principles and how to get evil out of them, go to the scriptures and read. This Priesthood has tried to place in every home among the saints a set of the Journal of Discourses; and, in there, you will find an answer to every question that you want." - LeRoy S. Johnson

Leroy S. Johnson (1888-1986) spent much of his childhood in Big Horn County, Wyoming, among family and friends, some of whom questioned the validity of the First Manifesto (1890). He became acquainted with fundamentalist ideas in 1928 after his brother Price introduced him to John Woolley in Centerville, Utah. Soon thereafter, after a number of unsuccessful proposals, he quietly entered plural marriage. In the following five decades he would marry at least 15 more, and father dozens of children. He was the Prophet of the FLDS Church from 1954 until his death.

Rulon T. Jeffs (1909-2002) was the son of early Fundamentalist David W. Jeffs (1873-1953), who began following John Y. Barlow and Joseph Musser in 1938. When Rulon joined with the Fundamentalists, Musser told him that he was admitted on the strength of his LDS baptism, and no additional baptism was required. He married his first wife Zola Brown who was the daughter of future Apostle, Hugh B. Brown in 1939, and married a plural wife in 1941 (Zola divorced him soon after). In the following six decades he would marry 65 more, and father dozens of children. He was the Prophet of the FLDS Church from 1986 until his death.

Rare work that was never intended for the general public and never publicly distributed. This is the only time I've handled this title. We locate two institutional holdings (UU, Weber State).

$150

6- Quinn, D. Michael. Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. First Edition. 477pp. Octavo [24 cm] Dark blue cloth with gilt stamped title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine.

Signed by the author on the title page. D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans has elicited critical acclaim as well as controversy. Using as a case study of the extent of early America's acceptance of same-sex intimacy, Quinn examines several examples of long-term relationships among Mormon same-sex couples and the environment in which they flourished before the onset of homophobia in the late 1950s.

"I recognize that some members of the LDS Church wish there was no evidence of any same-sex experiences among early Mormons and prefer to ignore such evidence that does exist. For example, one Mormon historian (who I do not identify here in any way) strenuously recommended against the publication of this study and argued that it 'does not address important historical issues. Certainly it is not surprising to know that homosexual men and women have existed in Mormon society at all periods.' That is the same argument that some have used against the historical study of various minorities, and such an attitude contains a philosophy that I reject: that some humans are irrelevant because they differ from the majority in a fundamental way." - D. Michael Quinn.

$50

7- Sorensen, Virginia. A Little Lower than the Angels. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. 427pp. Octavo [22 cm] Tan cloth with the title on the front board and backstrip. Both book and jacket are better than very good.

Signed by the author on the front free endsheet. This is the author's first published work and one of the definitive novels on Mormondom. Set in Nauvoo, this work tells the story of a single family, a woman and her Mormon husband, loosely based on Sorensen's great-great grandparents, Simon and Johanne Eggertsen's, history. Sorensen did much research for this work and, this novel preceded the first scholarly work ['Nauvoo the Beautiful'] of Nauvoo by three years. A nice bright copy.

$100

8- Stenhouse, Thomas B. H. The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, From the of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First Edition. 761pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth with printed paper label on the backstrip. Better than very good. Internally nice.

Nice copy of this important work on Territorial Utah and the history of the Mormon Church by a former member, who was one of the first missionaries in Switzerland and was the editor of the Salt Lake Telegraph. Stenhouse and his wife, Fanny, were both excommunicated for being members of the . This book contains one of the earlier accounts of Joseph Smith's First Vision, it also offers a critique of the Book of Abraham.

"As the first significant Mormon historical survey, Rocky Mountain Saints left an indelible mark upon subsequent historiography. While Stenhouse's spiritualistic interpretation of Mormon origins was, if understood, unappreciated, his secondary holdings have proven more enduring. By juxtaposing the Mormon theocracy and the national government, sectarianism and pluralism, provincialism and contemporary culture, he helped to create the dominating models of nineteenth century Utah history." - Ronald Walker, 'The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image' (Journal of Mormon History - Vol.1, p.70). Flake/Draper 8404. Scallawagiana 63. Woodward 262. Auerbach 645. Sabin 91222

$175

9- Turley, Richard E. Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. First Edition. 519pp. Octavo [23 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine.

Warmly inscribed to friend and fellow historian, Will Bagley: "To my friend Will, with admiration for your passionate study of Mormon history. Richard E. Turley, Jr." Nice association copy. Important work on the Hofmann forgeries and bombings by the noted historian.

“Three pipe bombs exploded in Salt Lake County in 1985, killing two people. Behind the murders lay a vast forgery scheme aimed at dozens of other victims, most prominently the Church of Christ of Latter- day Saints. Mark Hofmann, a master forger, went to prison for the murders. He had bilked the church, document dealers, and collectors of hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years while attempting to alter Mormon history. Other false documents of Americana still circulate. The crimes garnered intense media interest, spawning books, TV and radio programs, and myriad newspaper and magazine articles. Victims is a thoughtful corrective to the more sensationalized accounts. More important, Richard Turley adds substantively to the record with previously unavailable church documentation and exclusive interviews with church officials, giving the book greater depth and resonance." - from the jacket.

$100

10- Meyer, Joseph and Carl Christian Franz Radefeld. [State of Deseret] Vereinigte Staaten von Nord America und Mexico. [Hildburghausen, GER]: [Bibliographisches Institut], (c.1850). Map [19 cm x 25 cm] on a single sheet [25 cm x 31 cm] Gentle age toning. The borders of the different states and territories are hand colored. In upper left corner: 'Meyer's Zeitung's Atlas'

Rare map, that locates the shortly lived. 'State of Deseret.' which Brigham Young proposed in the spring of 1849. This provisional state was never recognized by the Unites States government, but was still located by a handful of European map makers, who wanted to provide in their mind, the most accurate map and to put it in the hands of the public at large, but specifically those who wanted to take to the Mormon, Oregon & California trails and settle in the then largely uninhabited western U.S. The dream of the State of Deseret ended in the fall of 1850, with the establishment of the Territory of Utah.

This shows the largest Deseret on a map and includes San Diego (Brigham Young wanted a port). This depiction of Deseret covers all of present-day Utah, Nevada, and parts of California, Colorado, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico (with the borders stretching all the way to the Mexican Border).

Salt Lake City is marked at its present location, but instead is named 'Nauvoo' Many of the indigenous tribal homelands in the west are located (Apacheria, Yutaw, Moquis, etc.). This is Plate 102 from Meyer's Grosser Und Vollstaendiger Kriegs.

$1250

11- Utah Parks Company [Union Pacific]. Hi-Way Map to Zion-Bryce Canyon-Grand Canyon National Parks. Chicago: Rand McNally, [1946]. Single sheet [46 cm x 81 cm] that folds up to [23 cm x 10 cm] pamphlet size. Printed in red, blue and black. Very good. Folds as issued. Gentle overall wear.

One side features a nice map [43 cm x 385 cm] that shows the Union Pacific Routes and roads through Utah and Northern Arizona. To the right are descriptions of the lodges and camps run by the Utah Parks Company in Zion, Bryce Canyon, Cedar Breaks and the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. To the left is a description of tours offered by Utah Parks Company and rates for 1946. Reverse prints a variety of color views of the Parks and sites one would see on a guided trip.

"This folder contains a map showing the principal highway approaches to Zion, Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon National Parks, and Cedar Breaks National Monument, and is presented to motorists by the Utah Parks Company to assist those who are driving to these scenic wonderlands."

Produced to promote trips from the Utah Parks Company, which was a subsidiary of U.P., that ran guided loop tours of the parks and monuments of southern Utah and northern Arizona.

$65

12- White, Ruth Taylor. Utah. [Boston]: [Little, Brown & Co.], [1935]. Pictorial map [29.5 cm x 21 cm] printed in vibrant full color. Near fine. From the book 'Our USA-A Gay Geography.'

Charming pictorial map that locates some of the distinctive and scenic places in Utah and the cultures and people who inhabit this excellent place.

"This was the country the Mormons settled, the country which, as Brigham Young with some reason hoped, no one else wanted. Its destiny was plain on its face, its contempt of man and his history and his theological immortality, his Millennium, his Heaven on Earth, was monumentally obvious. Its distances were terrifying, its cloudbursts catastrophic, its beauty flamboyant and bizarre and allied with death." - Wallace Stegner

$100

13- Call, Trent. Pin Up vs. Landscape. Salt Lake City: [2007]. 13 folio sheets [48 cm x 34 cm] comb-bound at the head. Near fine.

Signed by the artist at the foot of the cover, and additionally signed by eight of the models, on their respective months.

The two elements featured in this series of twelve oil paintings, Utah landscapes and 30s & 40s era pin- up girls, become unfamiliar by way of their juxtaposition in each work. With tongue firmly in cheek, Call’s girls make a nod to his background as an urban/graffiti artist as they whitewash, obliterate, and just simply overpower their surroundings. Attack of the fifty-foot women meets the sagebrush rebellion.

Trent Call was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from the University of Utah in 2004 with a BFA. He is actively involved in a diversity of ongoing projects. Call’s work combines formal academic painting, comics, graffiti, and popular culture. He currently works out of CAPTAIN CAPTAIN Studios in beautiful downtown Salt Lake City.

$75

14- Harris, Trent. The Beaver Trilogy: The Summoning of Groovin Gary. Berlin, GER: Traumabarundkino. Pictorial poster [84 cm x 59 cm] 'A' condition. Fine. Signed by Harris at the foot. With a program [19 cm x 29 cm] for the exhibition and a promotional jumbo postcard [21 cm x 15 cm]. Both fine.

Poster for a multimedia screening and art installation for the misunderstood masterpiece, The Beaver Trilogy, at Berlin's Traumabarundkino. Rare

"Traumabarundkino is pleased to inaugurate its program of artist films with Trent Harris’s masterpiece 'The Beaver Trilogy.' This film remains one of the most important and yet underecognized hallmarks of recursive film making. Seen for the first time together simultaneously, the films explore queering through complex echo, a transcendental karaoke that reverberates across each case study. Gary's sacred rite becomes a cinematic energy frequency. Works by artist Constant Dullaart and Jesper Just each reference the reference of the reference, rippling and metabolizing Trent's film into a cultural ritual." - from the promotional postcard.

$350

15- Harris, Trent. Plan 10 From Outer Space. Ogden: The Monarch, [2019]. Pictorial poster [43 cm x 28 cm] 'A' condition. Fine. Signed by Harris at the foot. Artwork by Steve D. Stones.

Poster for the Trent Harris cinematic classic, Plan 10 from Outer Space. The film tells the story of Lucinda [Stefane Russell] who discovers a mysterious plaque on the shores of the Great Salt Lake (that was destroyed a century earlier by 'Talmage.') The discovery of the plaque leads her to discover an insidious alien plot for world domination documented by a disreputable early Mormon prophet.

"Lucinda Hall discovers a century old book penned by a mad Mormon prophet. She deciphers this odd artifact and is sucked into a world where spacemen, polygamists, and angels run amuck. Is she nuts or has she uncovered a diabolical plot to change the world led by Nehor (Karen Black), a peeved alien from the planet Kolob."

$65

16- Harris, Trent. Rubin & Ed. Brooklyn, NY: Spectacle Theater, [2017]. Three-color poster [46 cm x 31 cm] 'A' condition. Fine. Signed by Harris at the foot.

Poster for a run of showings of the cinematic masterpiece, Rubin and Ed, at Brooklyn's Spectacle Theater in January of 2017. Rubin and Ed tells the story of a Mahler loving shut-in, Rubin Farr, who is forced to make a friend, or lose his records, and a multilevel marketing devotee, Ed Tuttle, looking for a mark. They join forces to bury Rubin's dead frozen cat, Simon, in the Utah desert. "My cat can eat a whole watermelon."

$85

17- Harris, Trent. Welcome to the Rubber Room. Salt Lake City: Tower Theatre, 2017. Pictorial poster [43 cm x 28 cm] 'A' condition. Fine. Signed by Harris at the foot.

Poster for the World premiere of the Trent Harris film 'Welcome to the Rubber Room' at Salt Lake's legendary Tower Theatre.

"The Rubber Room is more than a hangout for mal•con•tents. It is a state of mind where one still believes that art is more pow•er•ful than money. This is a dan•ger•ous idea when our society is under attack by filthy rich screw bums who buy up everything and turn it into slop. Someone must stand up to these greedy buggers and Alexis Thrill, the world’s worst writer, steps forward to lead the charge. - Trent Harris

$50

18- Goldberger, Richard and Richard Menzies. Salt Flat News: Wendover's Picture Paper. Wendover, UT: Salt Flats Publishing Corporation, 1970-1975. 19 issues. Newspaper size [42 cm x 29 cm]. All issues better than very good. Lacks two issues (Vol.1 - No. 2 and Vol. 2 - No. 4). Rare.

21 issues of this offbeat, avant-garde publication were produced between 1970 and 1975 on a semi- irregular basis. This eclectic art project was the brainchild of Richard Goldberger and Richard Menzies, that offered news and photographs of the people and happenings of the Bonneville Salt Flats and West Desert. The Salt Flat News could be described as reporting on nothing happening in nowhere. They described themselves as "The only paper in the world that gives a damn about what happens on the Salt Flats.

"Wendover is beyond the horizon; be it east or west as horizons generally move more toward the horizontal rather than the vertical. In the age of Manifest Destiny, not to be construed with the age of Aquarius, persons went west, and north was just another way of going west; only a touch more colder. No more fitting a place to watch television whether it be 'The Secret Storm' or the 'Vietnam War' by Cronkite, Wendover is all but a point on a map inhabited by good people who know the old adage - a hard day's work equals an honest day's pay." - from the first issue.

$500

19- [Honey] [Beekeeping]. Ya Gotta Make Calls, If Ya Wanta Get Results. Salt Lake City: Rocky Mountain Honey Co., (c.1955). Broadside [28 cm x 21 cm] printed in black ink. About very good with minor overall wear and a few folds.

"Dealers in Bees and Beekeepers' Supplies. Producers and Packers of Sweet Clover Brand Honey. Those who use our honey never get stung."

$50

20- [Boy Scouts of America]. George Albert Smith. [Salt Lake City]: 1946. Silver gelatin photograph [25 cm x 20 cm] with strong contrasts and in nice condition.

Photograph of George Albert Smith with the Silver Beaver and Silver Buffalo Boy Scout Awards on March 20, 1946. George Albert Smith (1870-1951) was born in Salt Lake City. His father, John Henry Smith, and grandfather, George A. Smith, had both been counselors to Church Presidents. While employed in the Federal Land Office for Utah, he was called at the age of 33 to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Despite fragile health and impaired eyesight, he had a distinguished career as a Church leader. He became the eighth on May 21, 1945. He organized the Church’s massive welfare assistance to Europe following World War II. He also championed Scouting among Latter-day Saints.

$50