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Mormon List Seventy-One – UTAH –

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Click on Pictures: Back Row, left to right: Items 37, 25, 24, 79, 22, 117, 119. Middle Row: Items 115, 34, 102, 18 — Front Row: Items 116, 118

Index numbers below refer to ITEMS in this catalog (rather than pages).

Not in Flak e, 20, 36, 63, 77, 112, 122 Association copies, 29, 129, 146, 149

Items over $500, 45, 104, 105, 112, 121, 135, Broadside/Broadsheet , 78, 95 138, 146, 149 Maps, 3, 18, 22, 36, 37, 43, 45, 60, 86, 93, Autograph and Manuscript items, 8, 9, 14, 95, 104, 105, 107, 111, 112, 125, 135 146, 149 Photographs, (40), 66, 114, 149 Bridger, Fort, 8, 9, 14 Salt Lake City (most notable items): 28, California, 4, 13, 20, 30, 49, 50, 53, 70, 73, 40, 49, 52, 56, 62, 67, 71, 87, 102, 110, 98, 101, 102, 111, 147 112, 114, 115, 118, 121, 146, 149 Children, 4, 10, 39, 40, 68, 80, 93, 97, 124, Smith, Joseph F., 6, 52, 81, 94, 136 150 Snow, Lorenzo, 21, 40, 81, 100, 109 Edmunds, George F., 46, 47, 93 Taylor, John, 56, 68, 101, 127, 134, 149 Fiction, 44, 103, 120 Women, 44, 49, 57, 66, 67, 71, 97, 98, 101, Gold rush of 1849, 4, 53, 111 103, 111, 120, 145 Grant, Heber J., 80, 87 Woodruff, Wilford, 28, 40, 62, 73, 149 Idaho, 30, 35, 63, 93, 101, 110, 131, 145 Young, Brigham (most notable items): 11, 40, 56, 66, 114, 129, 149 Kirtland, Ohio, 20, 46 Young, John W., 129 Laramie, Fort, 5, 143

Lee, John D., 74, 83

McKay, David O., 146

Manti, Utah, 116, 117, 139 Mining, 30, 86, 113, 121, 135, 145 Missions, 22, 40, 48, 77, 110, 130, 131

Mormon Battalion, 107

Native Americans, 29, 83, 88, 89, 104, 105 Nauvoo, 58, 86, 90, 91, 112 Nevada, 4, 13, 30, 89, 127, 144 Political, 17, 41, 42, 47, 82, 94, 122, 137 Polygamy (most notable items): 5, 11, 31, 44, 46, 47, 49, 63, 66, 103, 121, 127, 137 Pomeroy, Irene, 49, 50 Pratt, Orson, 40, 79, 99 Prostitution, 121 Provo, Utah, 9, 36, 87, 133, 134 Railroads, 18, 36, 37, 43, 62, 69, 81, 113, 121, 143, 149 Richards, Willard, 41, 68, 129

1 [ANDERSON, Edward Henry] THE LIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG . . . Salt Lake City, Utah: Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Co., Publishers, 1893.

19½ cm. [2 (title, preface)] ff.; [vii]-viii, [9]-173, [3 (ads)] pp. Toned with moderate wear, in the original salmon-colored printed wrappers (but wrappers separated, tattered and lacking most of the backstrip). Final leaves with oxidation around the staples. $20

Flake 94, the first of three editions (the last being in Danish). The real reason federal troops headed to Utah in 1857 (Brigham Young thought) "was the extermination of the Mormons, the spoliation of their homes and possessions, their complete annihilation." (p. 132). By the end of the page, we read of Brigham's declaration of martial law on September 17. There is no mention of the Mountain Meadows massacre that had just occurred.

2 ARRINGTON, Leonard J. FROM QUAKER TO LATTER-DAY SAINT: BISHOP EDWIN D. WOOLLEY. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book Company, 1976.

22½ cm. xiii, [i], 1-592, [1 (note regarding endpapers)] pp. Numerous illustrations in the text. Orig. illustrated cloth; illustrated just jacket. Owner's stamps on blank endpaper verso and on half-title, but both the book and the dust jacket are in very good condition. $25

A number of stories survive to indicate strong friendship between Joseph Smith and Edwin Dilworth WOOLLEY, and it was on Woolley's doorstep that Smith is reputed to have uttered the prophetic phrase as he left Nauvoo to surrender at Carthage, Illinois, in June of 1844, "I go like a lamb to the slaughter. . . . and it shall yet be said of me that I was murdered in cold blood." (p. 124). "E.D.," as his family called him, was an ancestor to Spencer Woolley KIMBALL, J. Reuben CLARK, and countless other Latter-day Saints to the present day. See also item 96 in this catalog.

3 BEADLE, J[ohn]. H[anson]. LIFE IN UTAH; OR, THE MYSTERIES AND CRIMES OF MORMONISM. Being an Exposé of the SECRET RITES AND CEREMONIES of the LATTER-DAY SAINTS, with a Full and Authentic History of Polygamy and the Mormon Sect from its Origin to the Present Time. By J. H. Beadle, Editor of the Salt Lake Reporter, and Utah Correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial. Issued by subscription only, and not for sale in the book stores. . . . Philadelphia, Pa.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincinnati, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo.; Atlanta Ga.: National Publishing Company, [c. 1870].

21½ cm. 540, [4 (ads)] pp. + 2 frontispieces and other plates plus small folding map of Utah; additional illustrations in the text. Original green blind- and gilt-

stamped cloth; yellow endleaves. General wear, spine caps moderately frayed, and plenty of other medium or worse faults throughout: essentially a reading copy, but very solid and holding together strongly (neither the joints nor hinges cracked, but that doesn't make it pretty). Expect some stains, soil, little tears here and there, and exposed corners, etc.. Not horrible, but not a show-piece or collector copy. $45

Flake 344, the FIRST of many editions, versions, and languages in which this most classic and pervasive of all anti-Mormon potboilers of the era appeared.

4 BENNETT, William P. THE FIRST BABY IN CAMP. A Full Account of the Scenes and Adventures During the Pioneer Days of '49. George Francis Train.—Staging in Early Days.—A Mad, Wild Ride.—The Pony Express.—Some of the Old Time Drivers. By WM. P. Bennett, Author of "The Sky-Sifter." The fastest time made in Nevada by Stage, Pony Express or Buckboard, 22 miles in 48 minutes. (Picture 22x28 accompanies this book.) Salt Lake City, Utah: The Rancher Publishing Co., 1893.

17 cm. 68 pp., [1]f. The final leaf is blank on the front, and contains on the back an ad printed in blue advertising "Choice Pictures" for sale by the author as agent, in Salt Lake City. Orig. printed tan wrappers. Very good, but wrappers with light soil and a crease to a large front corner area. $45

Flake 407. California history, but with the lead article (pp. [6]-8) as a warm- hearted account of a Mormon baby boy born on Christmas 1849 at Canyon Creek in Placer County, California. Word got out that Bill Wilson had gotten a twelve- pound nugget. Visitors were escorted in to see this acquisition by small groups, and everyone kept the joke until people traveled for miles to behold the wonder. Followed by a sentimental poem on the subject. "The baby brought luck with it," we read,

for on the day it was born Wilson made a big find in his claim. He struck a crevice that was piled full of coarse gold. He took out $3,000 in one pan. It was all in nuggets, the largest of which was worth over $300. . . . Bill Wilson was a Mormon and went back to Salt Lake so well stocked with gold that he was able to afford the luxury of three wives. [p. 7]

No other Mormon content noticed, but I think most of us have heard of this little pamphlet over the years! As Flake notes, "The folded plate [mentioned on the title page] does not accompany any known copy." Indeed, the book does not claim that the picture was folded, and judging from the back page ad of similar works, it would not have been the sort of thing one would fold up: "These pictures are all works of Fine Art, 22x28 inches, published by the well known firm of Kurz & Allison, and are worthy of a place in the most elegantly furnished parlor . . ."

5 BIRGE, Julius C. THE AWAKENING OF THE DESERT. By Julius C. Birge, With Illustrations. Boston: Richard G. Badger; The Gorham Press, [c. 1912].

19 cm. 429 pp. + the 25 plates as called for. Orig. red cloth, gilt-lettered on the spine and front board. A very good copy. $60

First Edition. Flake 528; Howes B 463. Several chapters on Mormons, including "The Mormon Trail" and "Mormon Homes and Social Life." See pp. 196-210, 280- 358. The photos favor wildlife and scenes obviously taken by good amateurs. Ironically, the only plates showing people are of Mormons, including Strang. Of particular interest to me, however, were historic buildings: "The Old Company Quarters at Fort Laramie" facing p. 184, and "Sutter's Fort Before Restoration, Sacramento . . . ," facing p, 406.

The writer is both discrete and respectful of the Mormons. His description of visits to polygamous homes (pp. 345-46) avoids the sensational, and replaces the usual expected disdain of such narratives with an engaging, detailed narrative style. "Personally I have met none who did not seem to be moral and true to the fundamental principles that underlie Christian character, as they understood them." (p. 347)

6 BLAIR, George E., editor. THE MOUNTAIN EMPIRE UTAH. A Brief and Reasonably Authentic Presentation of the Material conditions of a State that Lies in the Heart of the Mountains of the West . . . Edited and Published by Geo. E. Blair & R. W. Sloan, Salt Lake City, Utah. Copyrighted 1904.

24 cm. 142, [2 (contents, list of illustrations)] pp. Orig. thick brown wrappers decorated in silver with the familiar ox-skull "BULLETIN OF THE PLAINS" image, sego lilies and a beehive. Medium wear and edge discoloration to first leaves, etc. The wrappers themselves have very little wear but a little soil. $30

Flake 551. Promotional booklet with some seventy black and white illustrations. The section on churches (pp. 26-34) begins with the Latter-day Saints and is straightforward without editorializing, and includes a picture of Joseph F. Smith. An artist's rendering of the "First Presbyterian Church - Salt Lake City" (3½ X 5") is architecturally impressive and inviting. At the beginning of the first article, "The Pioneers" appears this note in print: "{By JUDGE C. C. Goodwin, former Editor Salt Lake Tribune}." (p. [3]).

7 BOWLES, Samuel. Description of Utah polygamy in THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS (newspaper, Burlington, Vermont) for Friday morning, August 25, 1865 [XXXIV (New Series XII):8]

Large folio, [4] pages. Very good; moderate edge wear. Disbound from a volume, the two leaves nearly separated from one another. $45 5

"POLYGAMY IN UTAH.—Mr. Samuel Bowles writes to the Springfield, Massachusetts, Republican from Utah . . ." (page 2, columns 3-4; 12 column inches of small type). This is an early report, before the book. Mr. Bowles, Schuyler Colfax (future Vice President under Grant) and others traveled from Atchison, Kansas to San Francisco May 21 - July, 1865. See Flake 767, note on Bowles' Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains . . . (Springfield, Massachusetts and New York, 1865) Also see item 11 in this catalog. Here is a sampling from the lengthy correspondence preserved in this paper:

". . . There are several cases of men marrying both mother (a widow) and her daughter or daughters—taking the 'old woman for the sake of getting the young ones; but having children by all. Please cipher out for yourselves how this mixes things. More disgusting associations are known—even to the marrying of a half- sister by one Mormon. . . . and it is safe to predict that a few generations of such social practices will breed a physical, moral and mental debasement of the people most frightful to contemplate. . . .

". . . The Mormon religion is an excellent institution for maintaining masculine authority in the family; and the greatness of a true Mormon is measured indeed, by the number of wives he can keep in sweet and loving and especially in obedient subjection. Such a man can have as many wives as he wants. But President Young objects to multiplying wives for men who have not this rare domestic gift. So there[,] there is no chance for you and me, my dear Jones, becoming successful Mormons...... ". . . Brigham, Jr., is mainly distinguished for his size and strength—he weighs 200 to 300 pounds, and is muscular in proportion. He has now taken one of his wives and gone to England with her on business for the church. The next son, John, is a poor and puny looking fellow, with several wives and an inordinate love for whiskey. Brigham's dynasty will die with himself. . . ."

8 [BRIDGER, FORT]. CARTER, W[illiam]. A[lexander]. (1818-1881). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to "Genl." J[acob]. M[ontgomery]. THORNBURGH (in Knoxville, Tennessee). Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, May 15, 1881.

10 X 8 inches, 8 pages. Very good. Some ink smudges by the writer himself and a bit of moderate staining and soil to the back page somewhat affecting the signature. $90

Judge Carter was the sutler at Fort Bridger for many years, and a significant economic and social figure from the time of the Utah War until his death which occurred the year of this letter. The recipient was a Representative to Congress from Tennessee, and a Tennessee attorney general (fought in the Civil War, but not a military general.)

This lengthy letter is social, informative and colorful. Carter describes major improvements which he is making to his house, but he is disgusted with indolent, opportunistic workmen. "It is the Holy Sabbath," he quips on page 2, "but still I hear, in the dining room, the faint sound of a hammer, about every 3/4 of an hour, sounding the death knell of my money, and I am scarcely able to keep my temper long enough to write you a decent letter."

General Harney is coming to visit soon, and other dignitaries, hopefully. Carter has been advising one Mr. Baxter in cattle arrangements with "Lieut. Young" and [Bishop] Abram Hatch "of Heber City, Utah, who had 2500 for sale." "I have not been well for some time," concludes Carter, "but think my sickness results mainly from hard labor. As soon as I can get through with my building I am determined to take life easier." That life, however, would end six months later on November 7, 1881, when Carter was sixty-two.

I did not like to have a barrel of whiskey in the house, for it might have given the Bishop or some of the leaders an opportunity to injure the house . . .

9 [BRIDGER, FORT]. SCOTT, L. B. LETTER providing news and a short inventory of merchandise on hand, written to Judge W. A. CARTER (at Fort Bridger, Utah Territory). Heber City, Utah Territory, December 31, 1864.

25 X 20 cm. 3 pages on two conjugate leaves; docketed on back: "L. B. Scotts Statement of Grain &c. on hand ^ Heber City- ^ Jny 1st 1865 Answered 10th Jny 65." In very good condition; folds from mailing; pin holes from securing in a binding or ledger. $135

Fascinating agent's or colleague's letter to the sutler/merchant at Fort Bridger at the end of 1864. While well-written, much of the content remains obscure to me. But regarding Judge CARTER . . .

After the Mormon Wars, Fort Bridger . . . was occupied by Albert Sidney Johns[t]on and the U.S. Army. William A. Carter arrived with Johns[t]on in 1858 as the fort's sutler. Describing Carter and his store in his 1869 book the Great West, James F. Rustling wrote: 'Gradually his sutler-store had grown to be a trade-store with the Indians, and passing emigrants; and in 1866 he reported his sales at $100,000 per year, and increasing. He was a shrewd, intelligent man, with a fine library and the best eastern newspapers, who had seen a vast deal of life in many phases on both sides of the continent, and his hospitality was open- handed and generous even for a Virginian. [Swann Galleries (New York) auction catalog 2043 (May 12, 2005), entry 130, offering Carter's original manuscript ledger at Ft. Bridger, 1859-66, for a pittance]

HEBER CITY was part of the Heber Valley settlement southeast of Salt Lake City, which began following the Utah War. By 1862, there were more than 1,000 settlers in that area. Both Heber and the valley's first settlement, Kimball, were named after Heber C. Kimball, the Mormon apostle who had converted many of the local colonists. Below are samples from the text of the letter now offered here:

Wheat on hand Dec 1st, 64 - 19,700 [lbs.] " Taken in - 23,093 [total:] 42,793 lbs, or 713 Bush[els]: . . . . Potatoes on hand . . . 15,983 lbs . . . as soon as Wilkens Will is ready to grind I will have the wheat ground into Flour...... I loaded 14 wagons for Douglas, but they only put about 1500 on a wagon, and had a terrible time getting oats with that much...... [W?]all is very angry about the horses, threatens to put up an opposition house &c. but of course it is all bosh, for he couldn't buy a wagon load of goods to save his life unless he bought on Cr[edit]: and that he can't do: ...... I sold the Bbl of whiskey! to Kimball for 250 00 it being all that it was worth in my opinion, and I did not like to have a barrel of whiskey in the house, for it might have given the Bishop or some of the leaders an opportunity to injure the house, and I concluded it best to dispose of it. . . . The snow is very deep, about 15 inches, . . . When ever you wish me to come to Bridger let me know, and I will start over...... Enclosed I also send you the receipt I got from the Gov & Q. Mr [i.e., Quartermaster] for the Oats, you will ch[ar]ge the Q Mr at Douglas & Co. the Provo Store, with them

10 BROMFIELD, Edward T., editor. PICTURESQUE JOURNEYS IN AMERICA of the Junior United Tourist Club. Edited by the Rev. Edward T. Bromfield. Profusely Illustrated. New York: R. Worthington, 1883.

24½ cm. vi, 200 pp. + frontispiece. Orig. striking pictorial cloth decorated in green, gold and silver. A very good, attractive copy but for some damp- discoloration to the outside of the lower back board. $75

Flake 876. Nicely-produced "coffee table" book for young people. A different version appeared two years later under the title, Picturesque Tours . . . This arm- chair picture-travel through America is written for young people, but in humor- less, didactic text. Fortunately, the illustrations are as wonderful as the dialogue is dreary. The views of Springville Canyon (Utah), Shoshone Falls (Snake River),

or of the Indian raising a human scalp triumphantly over his head cannot disappoint. There are many striking full-page engravings, and many smaller ones that are just as good.

Two chapters treat Utah and the Mormons, pp. 43-76, including 24 illustrations (8 of them full-page, and all of them good). Brigham Young looks most friendly and benevolent, though the text is hard on the Saints for their polygamy, while praising their physical achievements. I especially liked the full-page engraving of "Mormon Emigrants on their Way to Salt Lake City," posing for a photograph, obviously, lounging in front of, and upon wagons parked with their tent on the prairie (p. 61).

DR. PAULUS: We are now entering, if you please, the confines of Utah territory.

GRACE: The land of Blue- beards.

DR. PAULUS: Most of it, unfortunately, is held by the Mormons; but they will not interfere with us, though we may have a little to say about them by and by. Here is Corinna, not a Mormon town, though in Utah.

KATE: It does not look much of a place.

DR. PAULUS: No, nor very picturesque; but it is a specimen of a frontier city, and has a large trade with the great mining regions of this great Basin. At Ogden City we leave the Union Pacific for the Utah railroad for Salt Lake City. But before going there, I wish you to look at some beautiful views of Utah scenery, after which we shall have something to say about Mormondom. [etc., etc., pp. 45-46; image of Corinne from p. 45].

Future Vice-President Colfax tells Brigham Young to get a revelation

11 BROSS, William. "VISITING THE MORMONS. BY LIEUT.-GOV. WILLIAM BROSS, OF ILL. [To] THEODORE TILTON, ESQ., EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT:" Lengthy front- page article/letter to the editor of this newspaper, THE INDEPENDENT (New York) for Thursday, December 7, 1865 [XVII; Whole No. 888].

Folio (24½ X 17½ inches). 8 pp. Very good; disbound. $125

ORIGINAL, TO THIS NEWSPAPER, filling the equivalent of more than two tall columns at the center of the front page (more than 46 column inches of text).

Bross offers "some facts in relation to the Mormons, observed in my late tour across the continent, with Mr. Speaker Colfax," including a first-hand interview with Brigham Young, whom he describes as . . .

. . . a man of about medium height, with an immense chest, . . . His head is large, forehead high, round, and broad, his hair and whiskers incline to auburn, and, though he is sixty-four years of age, scarcely a gray hair can be seen, and not a wrinkle detected upon his red and expressive face. His nose resembles the hawk's bill, and his lips, firmly closing, with his blue and at times flashing eyes, betoken the great force and indomitable energy which he has always manifested. As some one said of Napoleon, "he is one of the favored few, born to command."

Bross observes earlier that "Brigham Young and other dignitaries, and the merchants of Salt Lake, are earnest, energetic, and apparently sincere men. . . . there was much less fanaticism and bigotry than we had expected to see." –On the other hand, "From all we could observe, however, and from the assurance of our Gentile friends, some of whom have lived in Salt Lake for years, we became satisfied that there is not a cheerful, contented, and real happy Mormon woman in all Utah."

"Perhaps no other visitors at Salt Lake," claimed Bross, ever had such ample opportunities to observe the peculiar workings of Mormonism. The principal men among them took us on a pic-nic to Salt Lake; Brigham Young and his elders called upon us, and talked with us familiarly for two hours; the call was returned, and when all general topics were exhausted, and we were about to leave; Brigham himself introduced the subject of polygamy, and asked Mr. Speaker what the Government was going to do about it. MR. COLFAX REPLIED that he could only speak for himself, and, as he had heard that the Mormons claimed that polygamy was introduced by direct command from Heaven, he ardently hoped that the President would very soon have another revelation, peremptorily forbidding the system. This opened the discussion, and for more than an hour Brigham and his elders plied all the arguments they could command for their favorite dogma, and Mr. Colfax and his friends replied with all the reasons and the wit they could bring to bear against it. The best of feeling was maintained on both sides; and, as usual, probably both were more than ever determined to adhere to their own peculiar views. At another time, a leading Mormon merchant gave a dinner- party to Mr. Colfax and his friends, at which Brigham Young and his elders were invited; and in various ways we mingled familiarly and socially with the people.

Emphasis added. See biographical notice and public-domain portrait ABOVE at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuyler_Colfax See the full text of this article at: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/19CMNI/id/8688/rec/10

. . . the Mormons under their fanatical leader and prophet, are in open rebellion against the U.S. Government.

12 THE BURLINGTON WEEKLY SENTINEL (Burlington, Vermont) for Friday, December 18, 1857 [57:51].

Folio, [4] pp. Bright and very good; disbound. A couple clean short tears (without loss) do not affect the Mormon-related content. $125

RARE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION of bad press for the Mormons. OCLC suggests no more than two possible copies of this issue (even those not absolutely specified), and no copy of any issue housed anywhere west of Vermont. A colorful and dramatic Utah War editorial, ORIGINAL TO THIS PAPER, begins at the top of the front page, and continues down most of column three (16 column inches). The language is unrestrained, and anticipates "a bloody war. . . . Delusion like that of the Mormons, which has waxed fat and grown strong, fortifying itself in all the social and domestic, as well as civil relations of life, cannot be overthrown in a moment." Previous federal restraint was based on a hope that polygamy would die out by itself, but now we have traitorous rebellion in that territory, plus the recent "destruction of the emigrant trains to California, and of the wagon trains belonging to the army . . ." John Bernhisel has served his master and mislead the nation, but true policy becomes apparent at last:

And now that the arch fanatic Young has struck the blow which makes him an outlaw and a traitor, we have no doubt that the same prudence, energy and determination will characterize BUCHANAN's future Mormon policy. Under that policy we confidently expect to see the utter annihilation of that terrible fanaticism which has so long been a curse to our nation.

the beginning of Nevada —to be taken out of Utah

13 California. Legislature. . . . RESOLUTION OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CALIFORNIA in favor of the establishment of a new Territory in Western Utah. February 23, 1860.—Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. [caption title; at head: "36TH CONGRESS, 1st Session. SENATE. Mis. Doc. 17."] [Washington, 1860].

22½ cm. One page on one leaf (verso blank). Disbound, else nearly fine. $25

"With the discovery of the Comstock Lode at Virginia City in 1859," states the Dictionary of American History, "large numbers of Californians settled in Carson County. Not wishing to be under Mormon rule, Congress was petitioned to create Nevada Territory out of western Utah, March 2, 1861. . . . Lincoln . . . proclaimed Nevada a state, Oct. 31, 1864." (2nd ed., 1940, IV:93).

The momentous action in this brief but early Government document offers considerable Western Americana interest. The California Senate resolves here to instruct its senators and representatives in Washington "to use their best exertions to procure the passage of an act creating with convenient boundaries a new Territory in Western Utah." Signed in type by Phil. Moore, Speaker of the Assembly, and others.

I applied . . . for five hundred thousand . . .

14 [CAMP FLOYD, UTAH TERRITORY] Maj. F. E. HUNT. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as paymaster, to William A. CARTER, Esq. (at Fort Bridger, Post Sutler, U.S. Army). Camp Floyd, Utah Territory, February 12, 1860.

25 X 19½ cm. 1¼ pp. on a single leaf, with conjugate blank leaf with filing docket on verso. Very good. $125

At the end of the Utah War, federal troops were garrisoned (Nov. 1858 – summer 1861) forty miles south of Salt Lake City at what became the largest military station in the nation at that time. Camp Floyd covered more than 100 acres and was then Utah's third-largest city; see various articles available online, including a report in the New York Times of January 17, 1860, which lists the writer of the letter offered here, as "Paymaster." The contents of this communication are valuable for specific sums and operational details supplied, reading primarily as follow . . .

. . . I regret exceedingly the rolls have not been forwarded [to me] as it delays all my cash accounts, I am in hopes to receive them on Wednesday evening when we expect our paper mail; promptness in all business matters is my aim . . . although my usual time for forwarding my accounts is usually near the first of the month– I received by the last mail in January a notice of deposit to my credit of one hundred thousand dollars, but it was all drawn out before I received your letter, asking for a check for $2.500= . . . I do not know when I will receive any more– I applied last mail ^when this 100.000 was sent me^ for five hundred thousand & the Paymaster Genl answered after consultation with the Secr of War they had concluded to furnish me one hundred thousand per month as it would be easier upon the Treasury to furnish in that manner, I do not know whether the next 100.000 will be furnished without application, but presume it will be, if so I will probably receive it by next mail– should you still want the 2.500 please let me know . . . Please remember me kindly to the officers & their families at your Post Yours with Respect F. E. Hunt P.M. U.T. [S (?)]

Major Hunt must have done his job well, because he was later named chief paymaster and acting aide-de-camp at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (General 12

Orders 55, October 10, 1864). For a printed goverment document offering background for this letter, see item 143 in this catalog.

15 CANNON, George Q. "Utah and its People." ARTICLE in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. May, 1881. No. 294. [132:5] . . . New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.

9 X 5¾ inches. Paged [403]-512, 6 (ads): single lengthy monthly issue of 116 pp. Orig. pink wrappers quite soiled and worn. Better inside, with a little edge wear here and there. $45

"A scholarly, provincial, dignified, frequently ponderous but highly important literary journal," according to magazine collector/bibliographer, Dr. Steven Lomazow, "conceived and originally edited by William Tudor. It was appreci- ated as the most intellectual magazine in America and was the first to achieve an international reputation." And indeed, Cannon's article appears to be very well written (pp. 451-66). The editor disclaims any responsibility for contributors' opinions, but he obviously grants Mormons respect here to let them defend themselves on the subject of polygamy during this difficult period of American legislation.

16 [CANNON, George Q.] United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections. . . . CANNON Vs. Campbell, Contested-Election Case from the Territory of Utah. February 28, 1882.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. Calkins, from the Committee on Elections, submitted the following REPORT: In the Matter of the Contest of George Q. Cannon Against Allen G. Campbell, Territory of Utah. . . . [caption title; at head: "47TH CONGRESS, 1st Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT NO. 559."] [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882].

23 cm. 66 pp. Very good except disbound and separating, with some wear and old sewing indentations along gutter margin to outer leaves. $30

Flake 9115a, noting: "George Q. Cannon vs. Allen G. Campbell, majority and minority reports. Extensive considerations of Mormons, particularly in light of polygamy." For background explanation, see Allen & Leonard, The Story of the Latter-day Saints, page 397, stating that even the anti-Mormons of Utah viewed Campbell's [birther] claims against Cannon as over the top and indefensible.

These are the Old Year's Legacies to the New—A pretty Lot of Work for '82.

17 [Caricature] PUCK (illustrated newspaper, New York) for December 28, 1881 [X:251].

Quarto (34 X 26 cm.), paged [261]-[276] (sixteen pages). Front & back pages and centerfold printed in color. Some wear, and separating at back fold, paper repair to margin area of front leaf; the Mormon-inclusive centerfold nearly fine. $90

The large color centerfold of this issue (11 X 18½ inches + margins) is an elaborate political cartoon showing the 1882 New Year baby hovering over the earth with assorted scandals and political squabbles in America. Dead center, its body wrapped around the Brooklyn Bridge, various swindlers, and Charles Guiteau's scaffold, is a hissing snake labeled, "MORMONISM." It is drawn by J. Keppler, and is beautifully reproduced in color (much reduced in size) in Gary L. Bunker and Davis Bitton, The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 . . . (Salt Lake City, 1983), page 107.

The remains of Mr. Donner were found, and, with those of his faithful wife, given such burial as the mountains would permit. [p. 19, from Crofutt]

18 . . . THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD: A Trip Across the North American Continent from Ogden to San Francisco. Westward the course of Empire takes its way. BISHOP

BERKELEY. [at head: "Nelsons' Pictorial Guide -Books."] New York: T. Nelson and

Sons, 42 Becker Street , n.d. [but 1871?]

9.7 X 16 cm. (covers, 10.2 X 16.5 cm., = 4 X 6½ inches). 32 pp. printed in blue, plus the 12 fine PLATES PRINTED IN COLORS. "Map of the Union and Central Pacific

Railroad Line and Connections," p. [4]. Orig. green blind -stamped cloth decorated in back with gilt title across front board, "SCENERY OF THE CENTRAL

PACIFIC RAILROAD ." A nice copy with some soil to the boards, yet in tight and attractive condition; internally almost as new. $200

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. Not on OCLC, which shows only a slightly larger version measuring 11 X 17 cm., but of the same presumptive year - which is guessed from a reference on page 27 which states that ". . . the pier . . . was completed last year (1870), . . ." The attractive little engraved plates include a BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO and two from Utah ("View of Salt Lake from an Observation Car" and "Ogden. (from Utah Central Railroad Bridge.)" All are attractive, and the ones of Lake Tahoe and "Cape Horn" are credited to G. M. OTTINGER. There are two pictures of the long snow sheds that protected stretches of track (including one inside view). Perhaps the most beautiful picture is the one of Donner Lake.

The portion on Utah is entitled "II.–The Salt Lake Division. Ogden to Toano." (pp. 9-11). Each stop is described and designated either a "Mormon" town or, in the sole case of Corinne, "the only Gentile city in Mormon territory," p.9. The book is filled with topographic and travel particulars, but there is no further specific Mormon commentary that I notice.

"They are chaste, laborious, and generally cheerful." —BAYARD TAYLOR. [p. 1]

19 . . . CHARACTER OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS. OPINIONS OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE LIVED WITH THEM. [caption title. At head, partially within quotes exactly as follows:] "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. . . . . Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them." (MATT. 7 : 18. 20 ) [end of quoted portion at head of page]. N.p., n.d. (but Liverpool, ca. 1898?)

22.4 X 14.4 cm. Single sheet folded to form 4 pages. In nearly fine, clean condition. $90

Flake 1256f, locating only the copies at the Church in Salt Lake, and BYU. This version has no publisher's imprint or series designation (contrary to OCLC item 16705630, for example). With numerous praises of the Latter-day Saints by non- Mormons, some of them famous like "CAPTAIN BURTON, of the British Army" who concedes that "The Mormons are certainly the least fanatical of our faiths, . . . ," and, "The penalties against chastity, morality and decency are exceptionally severe." –which strikes me as a curious accolade to come from Richard Francis Burton (p. 2).

20 CHIPS & STICKS. With Pictures. Battle Creek, Mich.: The J. E. White Publishing Company, 1886.

28½ cm. 208 pp. Many full-page plates (as part of the pagination); numerous other illustrations within the text. Orig. rust-colored cloth decorated in black and gold. Extremities rubbed & wearing, and a couple of leaves somewhat sprung, but a solid copy overall. $200

NOT IN FLAKE. OCLC locates only eight copies, and none in Utah. "SALT LAKE CITY," pp. [48]-54, is credited in the index to Rev. J[oseph]. H[arvey]. WAGGONER (1820-89). For a later appearance of this article in another Battle Creek publication, see Flake 3357. It includes five illustrations, including a full-page plate of Salt Lake City viewed from the north. The writer treats general Mormon history, practices and achievements, even referring to the Kirtland Temple. The major sights and features of Salt Lake City are described, particularly the Tabernacle and organ in great detail. The Endowment House is mentioned as well . . .

Here is where "spiritual marriages" take place. But the Gentiles say that there is where the "Mystery of Iniquity" works. They who have divulged its secrets give it anything but a good reputation. Aside from this, nothing is known of the doings within, as "the saints" cannot be induced to speak of them; and it is said that all who enter are bound by strong oaths to keep their knowledge secret. [p. 51]

The book is a compilation of travel and general interest, followed by features for young people at the end. Articles of particular interest and illustration include those on California, with scenes of Yosemite, the Redwoods, and Chinese culture, scary Arctic adventure, and the Sandwich Islands - all with striking woodcut illustrations. According to the introduction, about 2/3 of these articles were written specifically for this book, though I imagine that many of the illustrations were borrowed from sources such as Harper's Weekly.

. . . this Church views the shedding of human blood with the utmost abhorrence. [p. (1)]

21 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. OFFICIAL DECLARATION. SALT LAKE CITY, December 12th, 1889 [caption title and imprint].

21½ cm. Single sheet folded to form 3 pages (verso of page 3 is blank). Very good, with no real wear. There are a number of small spots (quite noticeable but not obscuring text). The paper is very strong, and not brittle. $150

Flake 1410. Signed in type by the First Presidency (under Wilford WOODRUFF), the Quorum of the Twelve (under Lorenzo SNOW), and two additional Counselors. Lots of famous Mormon names join here to complain about "the vilest falsehoods," and anti- Mormons "culling isolated passages from old sermons without the explanatory context . . ."

These General Authorities deny that apostates are murdered, or that there is blood atonement or even church meddling in the polls. Their denial of the temple oath of vengeance is, on the other hand, a trifle less direct. They conclude with a heart-felt plea for fair representation of the LDS Church and people. While certainly understandable, this public relations piece may at times varnish things just the teensiest bit . . .

. . . when troops were sent to this Territory . . . excitement prevailed and strong language was used; but no words of disloyalty against the Government or its institutions were uttered; public speakers confined their remarks to denouncing traitorous officials who were prostituting the powers of their positions to accomplish nefarious ends. [p.2]

There is no mention of polygamy, of course. For apologia treating the dynamics of that time, the events leading up to the Manifesto, and inter-related politics of such issues, see Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage (SLC, 1905) and Allen & Leonard, The Story of the Latter-day Saints (SLC, 1976/86), Chapter 13.

22 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bureau of Information. Salt Lake City. UTAH. Its People, Resources, Attractions and Institutions. Compiled from Authentic Information and the Latest Reports. Temple Block, Salt Lake City: Compliments of Bureau of Information, n.d. [but 1905?]

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 17½ cm. 63, [1 (ad)] pp. on coated paper. Illustrated. Original salmon colored illustrated wrappers printed in black

and red with a startling and frankly inescapable (however-inadvertent) phallic design on the front. I'm not the suspicious sort, so I don't recall using that word in a catalog before. OCLC calls it a fleur de lys, but I don't think this was the kind of lily Jesus suggested watching grow in the field. A very good copy, a little soil and with two wrapper corners moderately creased but presentable. the two pamphlets: $250

Flake 1466 (showing two locations; OCLC adds a few more). The final,

unnumbered page is a schematic map of Bell Telephone long -distance service between Washington and Colorado, dated December 1, 1905.

:: WITH ::

(tipped inside the f ront wrapper of the pamphlet above)

John MORGAN. THE PLAN OF SALVATIO N. 1905 [front wrapper title and date; imprint on back wrapper: Chicago: Northern States Mission].

14 cm. 32 pp. Orig. green printed wrappers. Condition as new except for glue where attached along upper backstrip portion within the larger pamphlet. Flake 5504 (not to be confused with Flake 5501a, which is 13 cm. tall).

23 [another edition ] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bureau of Information. Salt Lake City. UTAH. Its People, Resources, Attractions and Institutions. Compiled from Authentic Information and the Latest Reports. Temple Block, Salt Lake City: Compliments of Bureau of Information, n.d. [but 1909?]

17 cm. 94, [2 (ads)] pp. on coated paper. Illustra ted. Orig. illustrated wrappers printed in brown and green. Medium wear and a stain to back wrapper, but a tight copy. Flake 1469. $30

24 [another edition ] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bureau of Information. Salt Lake City. UTAH. Its People, Resources, Attractions and Institutions. Compiled from Authentic Information and the Latest Reports. Temple Block, Salt Lake City: Compliments of The Bureau of Information, n.d. [but 1913?]

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 17 cm. [2]ff.; [5]-96 pp. on coated paper. Illustrated. Orig. illustrated wrappers printed in light orange and dusty blue; front wrapper with gilt border and large title printed in gilt. A little wear, but a tight copy and very attractive. $45

Flake 1473. For sheer merit of modern artistic design of the front cover, I find this version highly appealing. A short slit through the front wrapper and first leaf is positioned in such that it is only slightly noticeable. I like this one. 18

25 [another edition ] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bureau of Information. Salt Lake City. UTAH. Its People, Resources, Attractions and Institutions. Compiled from Authentic Information and the Latest Reports. Temple Block, Salt Lake City: Compliments of The Bureau of Information, n.d. [but 1914?]

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 18¼ cm. [3]ff.; [5]-77, [3] pp. on coated paper. Illustrated. Orig. illustrated wrappers printed in orange, green and black; front wrapper with gilt border and large title printed in gilt. A very good copy and quite attractive, though less artistically subtle than the 1909 version above. $40

Flake 1474. The date appears only on the front cover design. The "Yellowstone Park" section at the end includes a small image from a photograph of "An Eleven-Passenger Concord Coach" drawn by four horses conveying absurdly- over-dressed tourists (by today's standards) posing above a canyon and perhaps Yellowstone Falls.

26 [another edition] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bureau of Information. Salt Lake City. UTAH. Its People, Resources, Attractions and Institu- tions. Compiled from Authentic Information and the Latest Reports. Temple Block, Salt Lake City: Compliments of the Bureau of Information, n.d. [but 1919 or 1921?]

18 cm. 95, [1] pp. on coated paper. Illustrated. Orig. illustrated wrappers printed in colors and gilt-decorated. Very good. Apparently either Flake 1479 or 1481. $30

27 [another edition] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bureau of Information. Salt Lake City. UTAH. Its People, Resources, Attractions and Institutions. Compiled from Authentic Information and the Latest Reports. Temple Block, Salt Lake City: Compliments of the Bureau of Information, n.d. [but 1925?]

18 cm. 99, [1] pp. on coated paper. Illustrated (some pictures printed in colors, but not too successfully). Orig. illustrated wrappers printed in colors with gilt borders and titling. Wrappers rather dull or darkening, and with a little wear; internally very good. Flake 1483. $20

28 THE CITY OF THE SAINTS, Containing Views and Descriptions of Principal Points of Interest in Salt Lake City and Vicinity. Also Brief Sketches of the History and Religion of the Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, Utah: Published by Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons Co., n.d. [but 1892-93?].

13 X 17 cm. 66, [2] pp. + 12 plates. Orig. red cloth with gilt temple and title on front board. Extremities worn or rubbed but a tight copy. Internally fine but for dog-ears to the first three leaves. $60

Compare to Flake 2376, which says [1894?]. The copy at hand is clearly earlier than that. The Salt Lake Temple (facing p. 6) is a drawing, but accurate, and shows the criss-cross tape still on the new windows. Page 9 incorrectly transcribes the text of the dedicatory plaque on the east end of the temple as saying "COMMENCED APRIL, 1853, COMPLETED, APRIL, 1893" (the actual plaque gives the exact date of April 6 for each event). Then, at the bottom of page 9 appears this sentence: "The building when finished will be provided with two elevators." It was at the time of the capstone laying in April 1892 that the push was made conclusively to have the building completed by April 1893. Yet even as late as March 1893, some doubts were entertained whether the structure could be finished and dedicated by April 6 of that year. I therefore infer that this pamphlet was published 1892 - early 1893.

Flake transcribes the title as "The city of the saints. Containing . . . ," yet the words 'Saints' and 'Containing' are here separated with a comma rather than a period. Flake also quotes the title as saying ". . . history and religions [plural] of the Latter- day Saints," which reads in the copy at hand, ". . . History and Religion [singular] . . ." There is considerable history and doctrinal content in this book, and Wilford Woodruff and his counselors are named and shown from photographs.

explorers' copy, signed

29 CLAYTON, William. [early reproduction of:] THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS' EMIGRANTS' GUIDE: Being a TABLE OF DISTANCES, Showing All the Springs, Creeks, Rivers, Hills, Mountains, Camping Places, and All Other Notable Places, FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS, to the VALLEY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE. Also, the Latitudes, Longitudes and Altitudes of the Prominent Points on the Route. Together with Remarks on the Nature of the Land, Timber, Brass, &c. The Whole Route Having Been Carefully Measured by a Roadometer, and the Distance from Point to Point, in English Miles, Accurately Shown. By W. Clayton. St. Louis: Mo. Republican Steam Power Press– Chambers & Knapp, 1848. [note on verso of title, below Clayton's copyright notice: "This little book is an exact reproduction of one of the original Guides. The copy from which it was reproduced belonged to President Brigham Young. Copyright, 1897. BY THE HERALD CO."]

18 cm. 24 pp. Orig. plain wrappers. Nearly fine; uniformly toned but without wear. A very nice copy with choice association interest. $300

Flake 2425, showing only a few copies, and only one in Utah, listing no other early reproductions of this famed, best guide of its time which was favored by 20 early California Forty-Niners (see Flake 2424). The location of the "Herald Co." where this facsimile reprint was done seems not to be established. It reproduces, on the title page, the manuscript note on the original, reading "Gov. B. Young[;] Govs Office."

HE RARE 1897 FACSIMILE OFFERED HERE was Towned or handled by two distinguished explorers. A nicely written inscription (by the recipient) on the front wrapper reads as follows:

Neil M. Judd Salt Lake City, Utah April 1, 1910

Gift of Stuart M. Young

Judd's pleasing old light blue oval stamp with manuscript item number filled in, appears on the front wrapper, the lower title page and three other pages (but looking more historic than obtrusive). Stuart M. YOUNG (a grandson of Brigham Young) presented this copy to Judd during the year before Young had helped discover Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah; Young was the first person to photograph Rainbow Bridge National Monument. A number of his Native and other artifacts are preserved by Northern Arizona University's Cline Library.

Neil Merton JUDD (1887-1976), who took such nice care of this pamphlet "was an American archaeologist, . . . curator of archaeology at the erstwhile United States National Museum, which later became part of the Smithsonian . . . , noted for his discovery and excavation of many ruins left by the . . . Anasazi . . . He headed the first federally backed archaeological mission sent to Chaco Canyon [in northwestern New Mexico], excavating the key ruins of Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo." The image AT LEFT shows Judd with Santiago Nahnjo, the governor of Santa Clara Pueblo, ca. 1909 - thus near the time when he received the Clayton Guide facsimile now at hand. (information from the Internet, with public-domain photograph from Google, accessed January 29, 2013 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Judd ). Indeed, 21

Judd and Young were friends, and made some important discoveries together. See: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/rabr/adhi/adhi3a.htm

30 CODMAN, John. THE ROUND TRIP BY WAY OF PANAMA THROUGH CALIFORNIA, OREGON, NEVADA, UTAH, IDAHO, AND COLORADO, with Notes on Railroads, Commerce, Agriculture, Mining, Scenery, and People. By John Codman. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879.

19 cm. xiii, 331, [4 (ads)] pp. Orig. brown cloth with author's travel route traced in gilt over a map printed in black on the front cover. Gilt-lettered spine. Spine caps fraying and board cloth somewhat cockled; nearly fine and quite clean internally. $65

Flake 2443; first of three editions. The parts and chapters on Utah and the Mormons (pp. 168-253) are colorful and include a personal glimpse and description of Bill Hickman (with appropriate tongue-clicking and condemnation) and an interesting interview with Bishop [David] Evans of Lehi, Utah, pp. 196-97 . . .

Discoursing upon matrimony in general, he observed that he considered all Gentile forms null and void. "But," he added, "I wouldn't take a woman that belonged to a Gentile, because I consider it mean. I don't justify Parley Pratt in having done it—no—I want to avoid even the appearance of evil." The self- complacency of this prelate was something of the sublime, as he continued, "No, I would not take such a woman even if she asked me to, as these others did." [p. 197]

31 CODMAN, John. . . . A SOLUTION OF THE MORMON PROBLEM . . . [at head: "Questions of the Day.—XXI"]. New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1885.

19½ cm. [2]ff.; 25 pp. Orig. gray printed wrappers with some wear and tape repairs to outer back wrapper. Some internal edge wear & light creasing. $20

Flake 2444 (only edition). How to save Utah from Polygamy. "Would you sweep away, were it possible, the original and harmless heresy of Joseph Smith, and thus deprive a whole people of a religion which still in all respects but one may be as acceptable to God as any professed by yourselves . . . ?" (p. 19)

. . . towers . . . are cylindrical, surmounted by octagon turrets and pinnacles . . .

32 THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN (small agricultural newspaper, Albany, New York) for January 4, 1855 [V:1; Whole No. 105].

Quarto (approx. 12½ X 9½ inches). Paged [5]-20 (complete issue in 16 pp.) Occasional woodcut illustrations; simple engraving of George Washington in the masthead. In very good, clean condition; disbound. $45

The great "Mormon Temple at Salt Lake" (p. 20; 3 column inches, taken from the "Courier and Enquirer") "which the Mormons are building at the city of Salt Lake, is described as promising to be a wonderful structure, covering an area of 21,850 square feet. . . . On the western end will be placed in alto relievo the great Dipper or Ursa Major. . . . in the basement a baptismal font 57 feet long by 35 wide . . ." With many other specific details, perhaps not all of them entirely accurate; no social or critical commentary.

33 [COYNER, John McCutchen] HAND-BOOK ON MORMONISM. . . . [cover title]. Salt Lake City: Chicago: Cincinnati: Hand-Book Publishing Company, 1882.

21 cm. 95, [1] pages. Original printed yellow wrappers. Wear to wrappers and backstrip (with loss of blank upper inside corner of front wrapper); pulp paper browned but not brittle. Quite usable with reasonable care. $100

Flake 2567. Twenty-eight anti-Mormon articles, heavy on polygamy but punctuated with BLOOD ATONEMENT, the MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE, and the quite unforgettable Mormon temple endowment exposé by "An Eye- Witness," complete with an intriguing primitive WOODCUT DIAGRAM OF TEMPLE GARMENTS AND THEIR MARKS, THE TEMPLE APRON, AND "DEVIL'S APRON."

The lead article is by the wife of Dr. Horace Eaton of Palmyra, New York. According to her, "Joe Smith could read. He could not write. His two standard volumes were 'The Life of Stephen Burroughs,' the clerical scoundrel, and the autobiography of Capt. Kidd, the pirate." (pp. 1-2).

34 CROCKWELL, James H. PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES. Being a True and Correct Statement of the Birth, Life and Death of President Brigham Young, Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Brief Biographies of his Twenty-Six Wives, and Names and Number of Children Born to Them. Salt Lake City, Utah: James H. Crockwell, Publisher; Press of Geo. Q. Cannon & Sons., Salt Lake City (Copyright Applied for). No date.

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 12 X 17 cm. (wrappers 12.2 X 17.3 cm.) 40, [4 (ads)] pp. + 16 plates. Original reddish colored wrappers tied with light blue ribbon; ornamental title stamped in silver on the front wrapper. Medium wear and dog-earing, etc., but a complete and strong copy. $65

Evidently an early version, perhaps a variant of Flake 2590 (which says 14 X 18 cm., not mentioning the ads, "[1893?]"). OCLC shows a version 14 X 18 cm., 40 pp., actually dated, apparently, 1887 –as well as apparent dated versions in 1893 and 1897. A designated second edition (which is Flake 2591) was copyrighted 1896, and measured 13 X 18 cm. Bearing an unobtrusive old inscription on the blank verso of the title page to someone's "Papa & Mama . . . April 16. .01."

Published with the approval of Brigham Young Jr. and eight of Brigham's former, plural wives, with their facsimile signatures reproduced on page [3]; written "under the supervision of Andrew Jensen . . ." Faith-promoting, of course, but even Ann Eliza, with nice portrait, is treated with equanimity, if a trifle tersely.

35 DAILY INTER-IDAHO (newspaper, Hailey, Alturas County, Idaho) for Monday, May 23, 1887 [6:120]. condition noted: $40

Folio, [4] pp. Toned and wearing, but essentially complete. Folded in fourths.

Papers of this sort are frequently of the greatest rarity, and this may be the only copy known. OCLC finds only one location for some 1886 issues, and nothing more. Hailey is in the middle of the state, on a line directly mid-way between Boise and Idaho Falls. There is no Mormon content, but an ad on the front page (3¾ X 4½ inches) advertises "UTAH HOT SPRINGS, Or the Great IRON Springs" just north of Ogden Utah. Mr. R. H. Slater, the proprietor provides a little table of the mineral content, helping to explain why "These waters have proven a perfect specific for Rheumatism, Cataarh, Syphilis, Leading, Diabetes or any urinary affection, and the treatment of many Female diseases . . ." The Smithsonian has analyzed the water, which flows at 156,000 gallons every twenty-four hours, at a temperature of 131 -144 degrees Fahrenheit. Well worth the 240 mile trip down to Ogden?

The rest of the paper is filled with plenty of interesting articles, more humor than is usually seen in such a production, and an indignant article on the recent public marriage - evidently at a local bordello - of a fallen woman. Two columns on page 3 are devoted to another subject and question: "WAS SHE INSANE? The Jealousy of the Martyred President's Wife," taken from the New York World, discussing "Mrs. Lincoln's Eccentricities."

36 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. THE LANDS OF UTAH[.] Denver and Rio Grande Railroad [cover title]. [Denver: Passenger Department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, (1911?)].

24 X 20 cm. (issued folded in half vertically to 24 X 10 cm. with outer panel titles repeated on each, over one continuous scene printed in blues and greens). 23 pp. (when opened, not counting verso of p. 23 which comprises the two outside panels). Map of Utah, p. [1] titled at top and bottom: "Look to the Fertile Lands of Utah . . . They Afford Wonderful Opportunities for the Homeseeker and Investor." Medium wear. $45

NOT IN FLAKE, yet praising the Mormons in a Foreword by Edward F. Colborn:

The vague accounts that have come down to us from the early explorers are filled with fearsome tales, and so late as the spring of 1847, Jim Bridger declared to Brigham Young that the country was an inhospitable, unfertile waste, and offered a thousand dollars in gold for the first bushel of wheat the Mormon pioneers would raise. But despite the frowning face of nature and the fears of men, there were possibilities in that old Utah that were destined to be awakened by the forces of civilization—forces that in the mutations of time were to cause her grim old face to break into smiles, to be dimpled with oases and to become an empire of wealth, and the home place of a multitude.

That mighty transition began with the settlement of the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, and it has been going on ever since. History contains no record of achievement amid privation and suffering more splendid than that of the men and women who first wrought for civilization in Utah. . . . [p. (2)]

NOT ON OCLC, which locates a "1910" version preserved by Brigham Young University Library (only location). A 1915 version is also listed, located in three copies. The dating of the version offered here is taken from the railroad map

double -page spread at the center of the pamphlet, which is dated in tiny type at bottom right: "10-2-'11." With numerous nice agricultural illustrations taken

from photographs, including a pleas ing picture on page 15 (4½ X 7 inches) of the "Horse Show Day at Provo."

37 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. PANORAMIC VIEWS ALONG THE LINE OF THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE SYSTEM. The Scenic Line of the World. [cover title]. Chicago: Poole Bros., n.d. [but 1904].

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 20½ X 9½ cm. Printed in black and red. Brochure on a single sheet folding out to 14 panels (total of 51 inches) on the verso of which are a series of nine scenes in full color (some composed of two panels, such as the final one showing "Temple Square, Salt Lake City." Very good. Faint contemporary purple oval stamp of a hotel in San Francisco. Quite striking when fully unfolded. $125

SCARCE: NOT ON OCLC (which shows two other 1904 versions - with maps bearing other dates within the same year - in a total of four copies, none located west of Colorado). Encouraging visitors to the St. Louis World's Fair [1904] to continue on the railroad westward "where the wonders of nature are to be seen in all their sublimity . . ." Includes a two-panel map of Colorado, most of Utah and parts of other states served by the railroad (dated 1-4-'04). Three panels are devoted to Utah and Salt Lake City, plus the color picture of Temple Square (no Mormon content noticed).

38 [DESERET ALPHABET] Book of Mormon. English. 1869 (selections). Deseret Alphabet. [THE BOOK OF MORMON: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates taken from the Plates of Nephi. . . .] New York: Published for the Deseret University By Russell Bros., 1869.

22 cm. (binding, 22½ cm = approx. 9 inches tall). [4] ff.; 116 pages, collated complete. Original dark blue roan leather over illustrated light blue paper boards (back board blank). BINDING WORN, SOILED AND UNSIGHTLY. Internally very good (but not fine). An inexpensive reading/study copy. $45

Flake 608. Printed entirely in Deseret Alphabet characters except for the publisher's imprint as noted above. Regarding the alphabet's history, see below.

39 [DESERET ALPHABET] Deseret. University. [THE DESERET FIRST BOOK by the Regents of the Deseret University]. [Salt Lake City: Deseret University], 1868.

18½ cm. 36 pp. + errata leaf (of 2 pp.) tipped in at the end. Boards lightly soiled and JOINTS CRACKING (daylight visible when opened) but still very strong. Internally like new, as usual. $125

Flake 2817. The first reader. Printed entirely in Deseret characters. The ERRATA LEAF at the end is somewhat uncommon. In early 1854, a committee was organized under phonographist George D. Watt to devise a phonetic alphabet for the Mormon settlements. In December, the project's chief proponent, Brigham Young, suggested that the new Deseret Alphabet be taught through the public schools. The following items were published:

– Two children's primers, (The Deseret First Book and The Deseret Second Book, 1868: Flake 2817-18)

– The full Book of Mormon, 1869: Flake 607

– Book of Mormon selections (116 pages), 1869: Flake 608

– "The Deseret Alphabet." A four-page flyer (single sheet folded to form 2 leaves, 20 cm.): Flake 2780c.

– "Deseret Alphabet." Wallet card 7.8 cm., displaying the thirty-eight Deseret characters and their equivalent sounds: old Flake 2817 note. Original shown to me by Chad Flake in 1981.

– (?) "The Deseret Alphabet." Broadside 20 X 14 cm. listing the Deseret characters and English equivalents, described in old Flake Supplement 2780b.

– Deseret News. Approximately 59 issues in 1859-60 contained short selections and/or the pronouncing table printed in Deseret characters.

You believe Adam was made of the dust of this earth. This I do not believe, . . . I have come to understanding, and banished from my mind all the baby stories my mother taught me when I was a child. –Brigham Young, p. 2, col. 3

40 DESERET NEWS (Great Salt Lake City, U[tah]. T[erritory].), for Thursday, August 3, 1854 [4:21].

Folio (22 X 15½ inches). [4] pages (complete issue). Professionally repaired using transparent archival tape at a number of points, particularly to the front leaf, leaving a number of small areas of textual loss. The whole is encapsulated between large folded sheets of archival plastic (as a single, two-page folded sheet as issued) for easy reading.

Very clean (no doubt washed and deacidified) but exhibiting a pleasing light grayish-tan tone of the primitive rag paper in use during that early and difficult period. Quite presentable, despite all faults, and now very strong and stable. $400

There is too much excellent content here to quote adequately, but bear in mind that most of it appears in print here for the very first time (and may now be found all over the Internet using simple phrase searches). The comments on Adam quoted at the head of this entry come from the lengthy "DISCOURSE By President Brigham Young, Tabernacle, Oct. 23, 1853." (page 2, columns 1-5). More current, however, were a series of talks which had just been given in the Tabernacle during the celebrations of July 24, 1854, by Brigham Young, "Col. George A. Smith," and "General D. H. Wells."

Young's talk that day was of particular appeal, addressing practical logistics of meetings, generational differences in regard to the Word of Wisdom, and the thoughtful management of children ("REMARKS And instructions to the Children

27 who formed the Procession, July 24th, 1854, by President Brigham Young, in the Tabernacle," page 2, cols. 5-6 – page 3, col. 1). Reading between Young's rambling remarks, it becomes obvious that the weather was hot and the crowds unruly. Brigham comments that before they have another such celebration - and indeed before another Conference should convene - he wants a large bowery set up north of the (old) Tabernacle sufficient to hold 12,000 people. He takes a vote on the spot, and all hands are raised in agreement. This was a different time, and we see Brigham Young's simmering temper displayed frankly here, in fearsome language: It becomes obvious that before this meeting convened, Brigham himself had personally yelled at the unruly participants . . .

I had to go out to the door, when the people were crowding each other down, and talk as if I would swallow them up. What for, to injure them? No. Did I tell you to rush on and tread down women and children? No. Have I ever told you to take advantage of the weak and defenceless, or in anyway oppress the innocent? No, never; and if you do, I shall handle you; and if you get into my way, you will be no more to me than a child's toy. [p. 3, col. 1]

–This, after having just expressed to the audience that the spectacle that day was "indeed admirable," though he graciously begged the participants not to escort him to his home after the proceedings as planned, or he would never get home to dinner with his friends. In fairness, one may say this is a good talk, and full of good, practical virtue. But how can we pass by the fascinating comments which follow, and are entirely consistent with WORD OF WISDOM background of the nineteenth century? The talk is a bit extended, so these excerpts are pulled from the mix, but in the order in which they appear within each topic, in the columns at hand . . .

I will begin by asking the older portion of the assembly if you do not recollect that when you were two, three, or four years of age, many of your mothers, as soon as you were able to drink out of a glass, and they happened to have a little wine, would compel you to partake of it, contrary to your feeble remonstrances? Do you not recollect when your mother made a little sling to revive her when she was fatigued with labor, or exertion of any kind, saying to you, 'drink my child'? Now, I wish to say to you girls, never be guilty of such practices when you become mothers. Never, when you sit down at the table to drink strong tea, perhaps as a stimulant when you are fatigued, give it to your child. I see this practice almost daily, or occasionally at least, in this as well as other communities. Keep the tea, the coffee, and the spirits from the mouths of your children...... Young men, take this advice from me, and practice it in your future life, and it will be more valuable to you than the riches of this world. 'Why' say you, 'I see the older brethren chew tobacco, why should I not do it likewise'? Thus the boys have taken license from the pernicious habits of others, until they have formed

an appetite, —a false appetite; and they love a little liquor,—and a little tobacco, and many other things that are injurious to their constitutions, and certainly hurtful to their moral character. Take a course that you can know more than your parents. We have had all the traditions of the age in which we were born to contend with; but these young men and women or the greater part of them have been born in the Church, and brought up Latter Day Saints, and have received the teachings that are necessary to advance them in the kingdom of God on earth. . . . [p. 2, cols. 5-6] . . . . . I have actually seen women whip their children to make them drink spirits; such mothers do not know what is actullay [sic] necessary they should know. [p. 3, col. 1]

On a more sober subject, Brigham recalls conditions suffered after the Mormons were expelled from Missouri in 1839 as he was preparing to head out on another mission . . .

My family lived. When I left them they had not provisions to last them ten days, and not one soul of them was able to go to the well for a pail of water. I had lain for weeks myself, in the house, watching from day to day for some person to pass the door, whom I could get to bring us in a pail of water. In this condition I left my family, and went to preach the gospel. [p. 2, col. 6]

A toast "read" that day "at Union," went to: "President Brigham Young—May he live long, and be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well." (p. 3, col. 4). The front page of this issue contains the usual installment from the "HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH" - this one from February 1840, including Smith's castigations of Martin Van Buren (page 1, column 1). The "REGULAR TICKET" for an upcoming Salt Lake County election lists candidates including Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow, Edwin D. Wooley, Hosea Stout, W. W. Phelps and several others who remain only slightly less famous than these, to the present Mormon day (p. 3, column 5). The only illustration in this newspaper is a simple woodcut cannon device, used here to publicize the name of one of Utah's first photographers, Marsena CANNON (page 4, column 6, illustrated ABOVE).

41 Deseret (State). Constitution. . . . DESERET. CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF DESERET, with the Journal of the Convention which formed it, and the proceedings of the Legislature consequent thereon. January 28, 1850. Referred to the Committee on the Territories, and ordered to be printed. [caption title; at head: (31ST CONGRESS, 1st Session; HO[USE]. OF REP[RESENTATIVE]S. MISCELLANEOUS, NO. 18). [Wash- ington, 1850]

22½ cm. 12 pp. Disbound with medium wear. $150

Flake 2784; Fales & Flake 36. The House version of the proposed constitution, printed one month after the Senate document [which is Flake 2789; Fales & Flake 21]. The territorial proceedings and convention described here (and signed in type by Willard Richards) were more a figment of imagination than reality (i.e. a fabrication - see item 42, directly below), so eager were the Saints to get their bid to Congress in time to become the State of Deseret. It did not work, but the contents are fascinating.

lying for the Lord

42 [DESERET (STATE). CONSTITUTION] Peter CRAWLEY. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF DESERET. [Provo, Utah: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, Newsletter Volume 19, 1982].

25 cm. 27 pages. Original printed tan wrappers with fold-over flaps. Fine. $25

Discovering that the Deseret constitutional convention and subsequent July session of the legislature as reported in the first proposed Constitution of the State of Deseret (Kanesville, Iowa, 1849) were fabrications, sent from Salt Lake City to hasten the application for statehood. A keepsake issued by the Friends of the Harold B. Lee Library in commemoration of the library’s two millionth volume.

43 [DONAN, Patrick] UTAH[;] Being a Concise Description of the Vast Resources of a Wonderful Region. Published by the Passenger Department of the DENVER & RIO GRANDE SYSTEM, the Scenic Line of the World. Twelfth Edition, 120,000. [Denver?]: Passenger Department of the Denver & Rio Grande System, 1904.

23½ cm. 80 pp. Numerous illustrations throughout printed in rose or dusty blue; "Map of the Rio Grande System" printed in both colors, p. [36]. Original dark blue-green wrappers with ornamental title stamped in silver on the front. Wrappers worn; old number stamp at bottom of title page; a little soil. $35

Compare to Flake 2976a-b, from which I take the authorship supplied above. Land promotion, urging miners, farmers and others to visit or emigrate. I notice fun Mormon content on pp. 12 and 53, with likely other examples elsewhere 30

(patronizingly complimentary of the Mormons' fecundity as a result of the salubrious climate, no doubt - polygamy is alluded to but not by name). The tacky-tired, zillion-baby "Utah's Best Crop" collage fills page [13], and we are assured that the Mormons not only make babies, but live a long time, believing it their duty to live past seventy (examples of old men illustrated on page look more like 110 by today's standards). The final page contains an interesting interior view of a nicely-appointed dining car of the railroad, with commodious white linen table cloths and a line of white-coated waiters standing ready.

On his route to Liberty Park, President Harrison passed the very house in which Janet Dixon was hidden . . . [p. 54]

44 DUNN, James. JANET DIXON, THE PLURAL WIFE. A True Story of Mormon Polygamy. By James Dunn. [Copyrighted 1896 by James Dunn, Tooele, Utah], 1896.

18½ cm. 61 pages. Original thin white printed wrappers (toned to a beige color). Moderate wear, primarily to upper fore-corner of the first few leaves and front wrapper. The paper is not brittle. $45

Flake 3047. An obscure pro-polygamy novel of hardship during the days of the underground. The heroine hides for four years, during which time the following conversation takes place . . .

"It would be a hard trial for me," said Janet, "to see James take another wife."

"Well," said Mrs. Brown, "What do you think it was to us, when James took you?"

"Well, that's so;" replied Janet, "that brings the matter right home. But you did not seem to care as much about it as I do."

"Oh, just the same, Janet. Women are the same the world over. Of course our religion teaches us the beauties and duties of celestial marriage, and that is good, and certainly helps us to overcome ourselves, but our religion does not grind our bones up, and make us all over again. I know the principle is true, and revealed from God through His Prophet Joseph Smith; but I would just as soon have had James all to myself. But I don't think for one moment, Janet, that he would be such a good man with one wife as he is with three." [p.31]

45 DUTTON, C[larence]. E[dward]. . . . Topographical and Geological ATLAS of the District of the HIGH PLATEAUS OF UTAH To Accompany the Report of Capt. C. E. Dutton, U.S. Ordnance Corps Assistant Geologist. [at head: "Department of the Interior. United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region[,] J. W. Powell in Charge."] New York: Julius Bien, Lith., 1879.

Massive thin ATLAS of loose title page and sheets (as issued), some printed in colors. Original printed wrappers (reading the same as the title page transcribed above). Wrappers measure 83 X 59 cm. (approx. 32½ X 23 inches). Here is enough large paper to do your bathroom walls. The ten plates (three of them printed in colors) are comprised of eight numbered "Atlas Sheets" (two being double-page spreads) plus two plates without captions, These, with the title page, make a total of thirteen leaves as counted by OCLC.

Condition noted carefully below; price postpaid, shipped in a very large flat parcel: $750

Collated COMPLETE. Contents are as follow (the whole contained within the printed wrappers):

– the large title leaf (illustrated ABOVE; note the 12-inch silver RULER AT BOTTOM).

– eight plates, Atlas Sheets 1-8, comprising five numbered maps and three geologic diagrams. The huge "Map of Utah Territory" (plate 8) and the equally large diagram of the "High [Geologic] Plates of Utah" (plate 5) each open to a

whopping 44 X 32 inches. All other plates in this atlas (numbered or not) measure approximately 22 X 32 inches. Plate 2 is printed in colors and plate 3 (relief map of Utah) is printed in brown.

– two unnumbered, uncaptioned maps showing the area between Cedar and Parowan Valleys on the west, to the Kaiparowits Plateau on the east: identical plates, one plain, and the other printed in colors, AT RIGHT:

CONDITION is difficult for an item such as this for two reasons. First, it is very large and softbound as issued, thus liable to poor handling during the past 134 years. Second, 1879 was about as bad as it gets for acidic paper that doesn't last. The few examples of this atlas which I find having sold online are in worse condition than this, with many repairs. This set has not seen any repair, but should be described conservatively as follows:

–A DAMPSTAIN runs through everything, affecting primarily one persistent margin area and not too much printed or map area. AT LEFT: Atlas Sheet 3, the relief map, showing the dampstain in its upper left corner. On the large Map of Utah Territory (Atlas Sheet 8), the dampstain portion which occurs within the printed area is a third of a circle 9 inches tall, but extending into the printed area at its widest point by 2¼ inches only.

–A positive feature is that the two folding plates (Atlas Sheets 5 and 8) have no tearing- separation along their folds whatever. However, the wrappers have separated along their back fold entirely.

–EDGE TEARS OR CHIPPING occur in several areas of some plates and the title leaf, but are not extreme (though quite prominent in the margin of one regular-size uncolored plate). The wrappers have suffered more notable chipping and some blank area loss, and they are more brittle than the plates, which exhibit moderate brittleness at some edges. No tears or chipping extend beyond the wide margins of these leaves into any printed areas that I noticed. Please feel free to call and

discuss condition issues in greater detail, as this is a rare but vulnerable piece which should most ideally be deacidified and encapsulated leaf by leaf, by a professional conservator.

THIS ATLAS was produced to accompany Dutton's Report on the Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah (Washington, 1879-80), 307 pages + plates of its own, some folding (a volume twelve inches tall). This work plus his subsequent classic description of the Grand Canyon comprise his best-known accomplishments, though he was a man of much energy and many achievements which included the mapping of some 12,000 square miles of challenging southern Utah terrain. For an interesting biographical note with portrait, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Dutton

46 [EDMUNDS LAW] Three ARTICLES printed near Kirtland, Ohio regarding anti- polygamy legislation, in TWO ISSUES of the GEAUGA REPUBLICAN (newspaper, Chardon, Ohio) for February 22 and April 5, 1882 [New Series XI:8, 14; Old Series Whole Nos. 1675, 1681].

Folio, each 8 pp. Very good; disbound. the two newspapers: $45

– February 22: "NEWS OF THE WEEK" in the first column of the second page reports the progress of bills from Mr. Edmunds and Mr. Willets. Then in the right hand column is the lengthy text of "The Senate Anti-Polygamy Bill. Washington, February 16. The following is the anti-Polygamy bill passed by the Senate to-day: . . ." (page 2, column 6; 17½ column inches of small type).

– April 5: "The Blow at Polygamy." (page 6, column 1; 13½ column inches, taken from the Philadelphia Bulletin). The writer wonders why such a thing was not done long before, in view of how easy it was to get through. "To the honor of the Republican party every one of its Representatives in the House voted for the Anti-Polygamy bill of Senator Edmunds, while forty-one Democrats and one Texas Greenbacker voted against it. The bill has thus been adopted precisely as it came from the Senate; . . ."

. . . polygamy . . . is the parent of caprice, cruelty and license. It enervates the male and degrades the female. Socially, politically and physically, it is corrupting and deteriorating. Despotic in the family, it is the prototype of despotism in the government. [p. 9]

47 [EDMUNDS LAW] United States. Utah Commission. MINORITY REPORT of the UTAH COMMISSION. Existing Laws Declared Sufficient. NO MORE LEGISLATION NEEDED. Some Facts Ignored by the Signers of the Majority Report. 1887. [cover title; dated at beginning of text on first page, "ST. LOUIS, MO., September 29th, 1887."] N.p., n.d. (but Salt Lake City? 1887?)

21 cm. 18 pp. Orig. printed tan wrappers. Once folded in half vertically; disbound with some soiling and corner wear or blank corner loss. $40

Flake 9236; Fales & Flake 817, summarizing: "With passage of the Edmunds- Tucker Act, no future legislation deemed necessary." The Edmunds Act of 1882 finally put teeth into the enforcement of bigamy laws, and among other things created a commission of five Presidentially-appointed men who, according to LDS historians Allen and Leonard, "attempted to be fair but firm in their execution of the law." (The Story of the Latter-day Saints, 1976/86, p. 394 with photograph of the commissioners). The text of this pamphlet is signed in type on p. 13 by A. B. Carlton and John A. McClernand, addressed to the Secretary of the Interior in Washington. Appendices contain additional comments or documentation by others. The writers condemn polygamy in stringent language, yet object to the majority report's "general animus and tone," as well as to it "introducing a theological discussion into a secular document . . . ," p. [1].

48 "EMIGRATING TO UTAH. Passage Through Chicago of 600 Mormon converts. Character and Appearance of the Newly-Made Latter- Day Saints. England and Scandinavia Brigham's Principal Depots of Supply. Few Catholics Ever Become Followers of Joseph Smith. A Talk with an Ingenuous Mormon 'Missionary.'" FIRST-HAND REPORT WITH TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW in THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE for September 21, 1872 [26:39].

Folio, 6 [of 8?] pages. Some soil and edge tears; large area clipped from front leaf including portion of masthead. The Mormon article is complete. Condition noted; offered at my cost: $25

Lengthy description (page 6, columns 1-2; 31 column inches of small type), original to this paper, of Mormon emigrants and the elders who have squired them from Europe. Unflattering but detailed, with the actual text of questions to, and answers from Elder James A. LISHMAN. For the full article, see: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/19CMNI/id/7375/rec/5

49 [FERRIS, Cornelia (Woodcock). [The Mormons at Home; With Some Incidents of Travel from Missouri to California, 1852-3. In a Series of Letters. By Mrs. B. G. Ferris, (wife of the late U.S. Secretary for Utah).] PRE-BOOK APPEARANCE of letters 8-12 in: PUTNAM'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE of American Literature, Science, and Art. Vol. VI. July to December, 1855. New York: Dix & Edwards; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1855.

24 cm. iv (general title & contents), [1]-668 pp. Orig. blind-decorated green cloth, gilt-decorated spine. Binding dull and wearing at the extremities, but strong and tight. Contents very good; endleaves foxed. $50

Mrs. Ferris' first-hand account was not printed in full until the following year, by the same publishers as the earlier bound magazine volume now offered here. (New York: Dix & Edwards; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856. FLAKE 3330 note, stating:

Letters 8-12, p. 102-205 were originally published in Putnam's Monthly, vol. 6 (August-December): 144-46, 262-66, 376-81, 500-5, 602-7 under title "Life among the Mormons." They arrived in Salt Lake City before October 30, 1852 and left for California via Carson Valley May 5, 1853. Howes F99, Wagner-Camp 274."

The pages of these appearances of the serialized letters under title, "Life Among the Mormons" are actually as follow:

144-48, dated GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 26, 1852; begins: "We have now had a month's experience of Mormon life."

262-66, dated GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Dec., 1852; begins: "Another month has brought us into more intimate acquaintance with Mormon society, which we find has two faces, one for the gentiles and the other for the saints."

376-81, dated GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Jan., 1853; begins: "The plot thickens; we are getting deeper and deeper into the merits of the subject; the Mormon mythology grows interesting."

501-505, dated GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, Feb., 1853; begins: "I have just heard a story of that wonderful saint, Parley Pratt, which, told anywhere else, or of anybody else, I would not credit for a moment."

602-607, dated GREAT SALT LAKE CITY, March 1, 1858; begins: "To-day we have been walking out in the warm sunshine; the air is bland; Mrs. Farnham and Father Lee are gardening, and you are shivering under one of those cold northwestern blasts, the bare remembrance of which is enough to freeze one's blood."

People sometimes discount sources automatically if they are branded as "anti- Mormon." And indeed, anyone should have thought twice before inviting the Gentile author of this book to attend a polygamous marriage celebration! She

would react like Mrs. Trollope at a New England prayer meeting. But now comes a simple mystery which the modern reader may solve easily enough. GUESS WHO THE APPREHENSIVE WOMAN IS, whom Mrs. Ferris describes below - the woman who observes her husband with his brand new, second wife . . .

Feb. 21st. [1853] Yesterday morning we were invited by our acquaintance, Colborn, to attend the wedding of his daughter to a man by the name of Pomeroy, who already has a wife. . . . –it proved to be the wedding feast, the marriage ceremony having been performed in the forenoon. It would be difficult to imagine a scene exhibiting deeper evidence of depravity, folly, and wretchedness...... This was, without exception, the strangest party it was ever my fortune to attend, and the chief point of interest was the real wife of the man who had just been married to another. It is difficult to give you an idea of the emotions of this suffering woman. Her face was as white as chalk—her eyes were as black as jet, and glittered with an unearthly lustre. She tried to exhibit a cheerful expression, and had evidently nerved herself up, like the Indian at the stake, to endure the torture of her situation. The nervous twitching of the muscles of her mouth betrayed a degree of internal agony which it was, to me, painful to contemplate. That face will, I fear, haunt me in my dreams—the intensity of her suffering had made it rigid. The cords of her life must soon snap asunder—the sooner the better. This wedding was evidently the funeral of all her hopes. [p. 504]

50 FERRIS, Cornelia (Woodcock). THE MORMONS AT HOME; With some Incidents of Travel from Missouri to California, 1852-3. In a Series of Letters. By Mrs. B. G. Ferris, (WIFE OF THE LATE U. S. SECRETARY FOR UTAH.) New York: Dix & Edwards; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856.

18½ cm. viii, 299, [4 (ads)] pp. Binding dull and worn at spine caps & corners, but a strong, tight copy and internally very good. $85

Only contemporary edition. FLAKE 3330; HOWES F99; GRAFF 1308; WAGNER-

CAMP 274; COWAN p. 207; BIBLIOTHICA SCALLAWAGIANA 70; Thos. Lindsley BRADFORD (The Bibliographer's Manual of Amer. Hist.), 1652. For commentary, see my entry above. In this text's first book appearance here, the passage describing IRENE POMEROY'S DISTRESS appears on pages 179-81.

51 [FILLMORE, UTAH – artifacts] Group of SIX IRON CUT NAILS and TWO WOODEN PEGS. By all appearances, 1800s.

The six nails measure approximately 6 inches in length. The two pegs are each about 7/8" in diameter, and have lengths of 6¾ and 9 inches. Nails are rusted but strong, and lightly curved. Pegs are strong and stable, and have light tape residue around them at several points, suggesting old labeling or bundling in the twentieth century. $275

:: WITH ::

A yellowed old slip of lightweight cardstock 3" X 5" with one corner torn away, written in clear ball-point pen: "These pegs & iron Nail[s] came from an old church built in a fort at Fillmore Utah. about 1856 – J.L.D." The note appears to be ca. mid-twentieth century.

Obtained 1995 from a reputable dealer friend who, like me, was limited to the scant information on the card. It bears every appearance of an honest note written at a time when the monetary value of these items would have been negligible. I suspect they are what they purport to be, and hopefully someone out there can recognize who "J.L.D." was for further potential verification.

Fillmore, Utah in the 1850s as illustrated in Remy, Voyage au Pays des Mormons (Paris, 1860, available for sale in this catalog, items 104-105)

According to an official historic marker, THE PIONEER FORT AT FILLMORE (capital of Utah Territory 1851-56), stood at the corner of present Center & Main Streets,

. . . built in October and November 1851 as protection from the Indians, by first seventeen families under direction of Anson Call, Jesse W. Fox, surveyor. About two city blocks in size, the front wall 8 to 10 feet high was built of cobblestones, other walls of mud, straw and rocks. The East wall followed the foot hills in circular form. Fort walls were used as back walls of homes. Mail station, Church, School, recreation grounds, gardens, and corral were within and Chalk Creek ran through the Fort.

– http://history.utah.gov/apps/markers/detailed_results.php?markerid=1114

52 FOHLIN, E[rnest]. V[ictor]. SALT LAKE CITY, PAST AND PRESENT. A Narrative of its History and Romance, its People and Cultures, its Industry and Commerce, its Attractions and Grandeurs, its Bright and Promising Future, with Chapters of Utah's General Resources and Progressiveness. ILLUSTRATED. Salt Lake City, Utah: E. V. Fohlin, Author and Pub- lisher, [c. 1908].

23½ cm. 208, [28 (ads, one printed in red and black)], [4 (Gettysburg Address; list of local attractions)] pages. Original printed orange wrappers. A very good copy. $65

Compare to Flake 3384 and 3385. The numerous illustrations from photographs are somewhat unusual and certainly interesting, including common folks with their wagons, or President Joseph F. SMITH posing like Napoleon on page 48, and several good images of the local police, a jail cell, and the Salt Lake Fire Department, including their newest pride and joy which cost $6,000, they say ("Ready for Service on a Second's Notice," page 44) . . .

These ferries are all in the hands of Mormons, and they are as big a set of rascals as ever lived. They cheat us as much as possible.

53 "FROM THE SALT LAKE." REPORT FROM AN EARLY 'FORTY-NINER passing through Great Salt Lake City, as published in the NEW-YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE for Saturday, October 6, 1849 [IX:5; Whole No. 421].

Folio, [8] pp. Unopened (i.e., top fold never slit open for reading, but can be unfolded into a large single sheet), and untrimmed. Small hole in upper margin above printed areas; blank fore-edge of the back half quite rough (out in the untrimmed area beyond printed areas). Edge areas spotted or foxed. $45

At the bottom right of the front page (column 6; 4½ column inches of small type) appears this anonymous travel report from a miner accompanying "Capt. Amkrin" and "Charley Offcus." The letter is dated "MORMON CITY, SALT LAKE, June 22, 1849" (but was obviously continued a few days beyond that, as seen in the text), and is taken here from the Pittsburgh Commercial Journal. The three men have made it as far as Salt Lake, where they must abandon their wagon for $25, and head out on foot with pack mules to make better time, since otherwise they won't have enough provisions to last them to the California gold mines - another 866 miles. Getting even this far has not been easy . . .

One day we would drink salt water, next soda, next sulphur; then water as cold as ice, the next so warm as to be swallowed with difficulty...... I am in an unpleasant situation just now, not having a half dime in the world; what little I brought from the States has been exhausted in buying provisions and paying ferry bills. Every ferry we cross, small or large, charges $3 per wagon, and we swim the mules over. We also pay $2 a mule for getting them shod...... On the 4th of July in the morning at 3 o'clock, when I rose to take breakfast, there was half an inch of ice in the water buckets, and at 8 o'clock I was walking along the road sweltering under a blazing sun with nothing on but a pair of pants and under shirt.

The mail carrier from this place will take to the States 15,000 letters with him.

For the full text of this article, see: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/19CMNI/id/11530/rec/3

54 [GALAPAGOS ISLAND MORMONS] News of surprising and convenient import for the nation, in the BOSTON INVESTIGATOR (freethought newspaper, Boston) for Wednesday, August 17, 1853 [XXIII:16; Whole No. 1160].

Folio, [4] pp. In very good condition; neatly disbound with stab holes along the back fold. Bearing recipient's name at top, of Thomas DYER 3rd (a vice president of the York County, Maine Agricultural Society). $50

"The Mormons" (page 4, column 2; 7 column inches) is taken "From the Ohio Statesman," and informs us that this singular people who believe in Joe Smith and his golden Bible are preparing to relocate once again . . .

the shores of the Salt Lake will be deserted by the elders and their followers as was once the famous city of Nauvoo, and beneath their own flag and sovereignty in the islands of the Pacific, the saints will congregate.

The Mormons have purchased Charles's Island, one of the Gallipagos, with a view of establishing themselves upon it as an independent nation; and certainly they have shown no small sagacity in the selection. The Gallipagos lie directly upon the Equator, 10 degrees due west from the main land of South America, the Republic of Equador. The islands are fertile and healthy, and admirably situated for the purposes of trade and commerce. It is there the Mormons expect to lay the foundation of a great republic.

The only caveat offered by this highly tolerant newspaper is that once the Mormons become strong down there, the adjacent South American republics had better prepare to defend themselves against these people who "have always given the most literal interpretations to those texts which declare that the Lord has given the earth for an inheritance to his saints; and they are uncommonly likely to vindicate the title, by taking possession with force and arms, of whatever portion lies contiguous to that which they may inhabit." For the full text of this article online, see: http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/19CMNI/id/7042/rec/6

The Mormon creed is omnivorous; it assimilates all of all creeds, present and past. [pp. 34-35]

55 GOODRICH, E[arle]. S. . . . MORMONISM UNVEILED. The Other Side. From an American Standpoint. By E. S. Goodrich, Esq. Copied from the Chicago "Times." [at head: "No. 2."]. Dated in type at beginning of text, "Salt Lake City, Jan. 24, 1884." Dated on front wrapper without place or publisher, "1884."

21½ cm. [1 (title)]f.; [33]-42 pp. (complete 12-page pamphlet, as issued). Orig. printed lavender wrappers faded at edges and with some wear and a tape repair to back wrapper; a bit of wear inside with light pencil notes. $45

Flake 3616. One of five pamphlets by various writers 1884-85, totaling 113 pages, paginated continuously. The other four pamphlets were entitled Mormonism Exposed. For an overview listing of that series, see Flake 5549b. The pamphlet offered here worries about Mormon ecclesiastical courts, but also allows credit to Mormons where it is due. A table of arrests for various crimes in the more populated areas of Utah during 1882 is divided between Mormons and non- Mormons. The one area in which Mormons have their stronger showing (though by no means a majority) is drunkenness, though most barkeepers are Gentiles, and the few Mormons who do own bars are "not entitled to participate in the sacraments of the Church by reason of their calling." (p. 42). An excellent paragraph on pp. 34-35 explores harmony (both social and doctrinal) between Mormons and other Christian denominations in Utah. Other than polygamy, any difference in dogma is not that significant, "and such as exists is less a question of difference than degree." Ill feelings arise in Utah, rather, between Mormons and secular Gentiles.

56 "GOVERNOR CUMMING'S RECEPTION AT SALT LAKE CITY Described by a Gentile Refugee." ARTICLE in THE WEEKLY MISSOURI DEMOCRAT (newspaper, St. Louis) for Friday morning, July 9, 1858 [VII:26].

Folio, [4] pp. (complete issue). Very good, once folded in sixteenths (large paper) with some additional creases. $85

Probably very rare; OCLC holdings seem to suggest very few possible copies of this issue in existence today. This unusual Utah report is unsigned, and appeared again one month later in the Sacramento Daily Union (August 10, 1858, p. 3, with different punctuation and trifling differences). Inasmuch as the account treats 1858 Mormon attitudes toward Missourians, the paper here at hand may be a closer-to-original report or printing than most. It appears on page 3, lower portion of column 4 (8½ column inches of small type), reading in part as follows:

Thomas Corndale, a Gentile who passed the winter among the Mormons, and who took advantage of Governor Cumming's protection to escape from Salt Lake City, thus describes his [Cumming's] reception by Brigham Young, the Twelve Apostles, and the Saints of Utah :

Brigham passed out into a little ante-room, and returned with two gentlemen, whom he introduced to the audience as Governor Cumming and Colonel Kane. Kane never said a word.

Governor Cumming said to the people he had come there as Governor of Utah, to do them good-not harm...... Voices—"don't believe it"—"it is a lie." ...... It was then added, "We won't believe you are our friend until you send these soldiers back." It was a perfect Bedlam, the people hallooed out any and everything, and gross personal remarks were made. The audience became so violent that Brigham frequently had to interfere to quiet them.

One man said, "You are nothing but an office-seeker." The Governor replied that he obtained his appointment honorably, and had not solicited it. The people then cried out, "We will not have a Missourian to rule over us." The Governor replied that he was not a Missourian, that he was a Georgian.

John Taylor got up and apologized, saying Gov. Cumming must excuse them— they had thought he was a Missourian; then he went on to recount what they had suffered from the hands of the Missourians, when Brigham stopped him by saying that there was no necessity of narrating that. The hallooing, talking and screaming lasted over two hours...... Brigham Young then got up and said: "If there is any man or woman here who really wants to go away, and feel that they have been deprived of their rights, I want them to hold up their right hands." I looked around to see if any hands were held up, expecting a good many would be, but there was not one. I then raised my hand, and the people cried: "Here is a hand." Right after, other hands were held up.

Brigham Young then asked me if I had been treated right while in the Territory. I said, as regards that, some two or three of the Bishops have treated me very kindly; but I must say, there are a great many people in here who are not as honest as they should be.

Brigham said: " That is so." The people applauded that. Brigham said: "Let every man and woman who wants to go away, give his name to Governor Cumming, and they can go in welcome."

Additional comments by John Taylor are also included in the full text.

57 [GREEN, Nelson Winch] FIFTEEN YEARS' RESIDENCE WITH THE MORMONS. With Startling Disclosures of the MYSTERIES OF POLYGAMY. By a Sister of One of the HIGH PRIESTS. Chicago: Phoenix Publishing Com- pany, 1876.

18½ cm. [1 (title)]f.; [v]-xvi, [17]-472 pp. + frontispiece and three plates, including the wonderfully histrionic depiction of Ettie in the Temple (facing p. 343; AT RIGHT). Orig. rust-colored cloth; gilt-lettered spine. Very good; a little fraying to spine caps and corners, but a tight copy and quite clean inside except for a bookplate on the front paste- down which has darkened a portion of the front free endpaper and facing flyleaf. $85

Flake 3707, a resurrection (with additions?) of the 1858-60 and other editions of Green's Fifteen Years Among the Mormons: Being the Narrative of Mrs. Marry Ettie V. Smith, Late of Great Salt Lake City . . . The story is colorful enough, and it is a lively read. In the requisite temple ceremony exposé (pp. 41-53, included in some form as part of any good anti-Mormon production), the writer announces that she will "hand down to infamy the names of the women I have seen . . . represent 'Eve' in the 'Garden of Eden,'" particularly since those women seemed to enact the part "with 'pleasure.'" They include Eliza R. SNOW ("at fifty years of age, she is even yet very beautiful"), Mrs. Buel, and Mrs. Knowlton, mother of Ettie's sister-in-law (p. 45). The writer goes on:

"Satan" is generally represented by Judge [W. W.] Phelps, for whom I have no words sufficiently hateful. Levi Hancock also often performed the same. And "Adam" by Orson Hyde and Parley P. Pratt. I have no doubt but these characters have been represented by others, but these are the persons who generally do it. . . .

The character of the "Lord" was always represented by "Brother Brigham," if he could possibly be there . . ." [p. 46 ends]

I think I need not inform my readers how heartily the women mentioned as "Eves" at these infernal rites were in secret despised and hated by the great mass of the Mormon women: especially Eliza Snow. Though forced to treat them well in society there, I take pleasure in letting them know the opinion that obtained among their own sex, and which would have found an expression of universal

disgust from those of their associates, if it were not crushed into silence by the overshadowing power of the Prophet.

We were now undressed again, and each put on the "garment," . . . [pp. 46-47]

58 GUNNISON, J[ohn]. W[illiams]. THE MORMONS, or, LATTER-DAY SAINTS, in the Valley of THE GREAT SALT LAKE: A History of Their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition, and Prospects, Derived from PERSONAL OBSERVATION, During a Residence Among Them. By Lieut. J. W. Gunnison, of the Topographical Engineers. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

18½ cm. ix, [13]-168 pp. + frontispiece engraving of Nauvoo. Collated COMPLETE (conforming to collation in Wagner-Camp and Graff; verso of p. ix blank). FOXED quite heavily, especially at the outer leaves, front and back. The text itself is scarcely worn except for a number of turned-down corners. STIFFLY REBOUND in brown buckram cloth with modern block lettering on spine, and bright white endpapers (two original flyleaves also present at the front, and another at the back). Original lettered portion of the old spine tucked inside. Old penciled inscription on front old flyleaf: "E Beadle Dec 26, 1852." $150

FIRST EDITION. Flake 3746; Wagner-Camp 213:1; Howes G 463 (aa rarity); Graff 1694; Woodward, Bibliothica Scallawagiana 85 (brought fifty cents in 1880). "John Gunnison," explains bookseller Ken Sanders,

was assigned as second-in-command of the Stansbury Expedition. The winter of 1849 was particularly harsh and the expedition was put on hold until the spring. Gunnison made use of the time to befriend and study the culture of the Mormon inhabitants of the Salt Lake Valley. A remarkably fair and unbiased account (for the time). Gunnison's account of life in early Salt Lake Valley, along with Stansbury and Fremont, form a trilogy of early and seminal accounts of what life was like in Utah, prior to the coming of the Mormons (Fremont) and early firsthand accounts of life in the valley during the first few years of Mormon inhabitation (Stansbury & Gunnison). Gunnison was later killed on the 26th of October 1853, near Delta, Utah, purportedly by Indians in what is known as the Gunnison Massacre. [ http://www.abaa.org/books/128666880.html ]

John Williams GUNNISON (1812-53; West Point, 1837) fought in two campaigns against the Seminoles and helped relocate the Cherokees to the Indian Territory. From 1840 until his death, he was a government surveyor (as lieutenant & captain of topographical engineers), including service with Howard Stansbury, resulting in Gunnison's book now offered above (numerous editions, 1852-90). A subsequent expedition to southern Utah in 1853 ended his life:

On the morning of [October] the 23rd, while at breakfast in their camp [near Sevier Lake, southwest of Great Salt Lake], his party of ten was attacked by a

band of Pahvant Indians. Gunnison and six others were killed and their bodies horribly mutilated.

. . . He was highly regarded both for his character and his professional attainments, and the news of his death and the desecration of his body was received with sorrow and indignation throughout the land. Charges were made that a party of Mormons had aided in the crime . . . These charges were, however, discredited by further investigation, and it is generally conceded that the act was committed solely by the Indians in revenge for certain aggressions by parties of emigrants. [Dictionary of American Biography]

For a biography of Gunnison which may cast an unexpected, more recent light on possible Mormon involvement, see Robert Kent Fielding, Unsolicited Chronicler (Brookline, Massachusetts: Paradigm Publications, 1994).

59 HICKMAN, William A. BRIGHAM'S DESTROYING ANGEL: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah. Written by Himself, with Explanatory Notes by J. H. Beadle, Esq., of Salt Lake City. Illustrated. Salt Lake City, Utah: Shepard Publishing Company, Publishers, 1904.

17 cm. [2]ff.; [v]-221, [2 (ads)] pages. Numerous illustrations. In the original bright red and yellow wrappers illustrated with a portrait of Hickman. A near fine, bright copy almost like new; light crease across upper fore-corner of the front wrapper. Ideal for display. $85

Flake 3991. Originally published 1872. The entire back wrapper is filled with a tantalizing advertisement for the Shepard Book Company:

We carry a long list of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, also many Presentation Autograph Copies of Books. . . . In short, we carry the largest stock of Rare Books west of the Mississippi river, and our "Booke Shoppe" is the World's Emporium for works on Mormonism, Anti-Mormonism, and the West. Write us your wants and we will supply them, and when in Salt Lake call on us. Catalogues on request.

The Shepard Book Company was located at 272 State St. in Salt Lake City. Does anyone have a time machine?

60 HOLLISTER, O[vando]. J[ames]. THE RESOURCES AND ATTRACTIONS OF UTAH. By O. J. Hollister. Published by A. Zeehandelaar, Secretary and Special Agent for Utah at Denver Exposition. Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1882.

23 cm. 93, [3] pp. Folding map. Orig. printed cream wrappers. Tear to front wrapper repaired; unsightly dark paper backstrip side-stapled over original backstrip area. Clean separation along some of the map folds. Flake 4067. $30

61 [HOOPER, WILLIAM HENRY] "WILLIAM H. HOOPER, the Utah Delegate and Female Suffrage Advocate." Illustrated article in THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED (New York) for November 1870 [LI:5; Whole NO. 382; New Series (as titled on front wrapper, Phrenological Journal and Packard's Monthly), 2:5].

24½ cm. Paged [297]-368 + leaves of ads before & after (complete 72-page issue). Orig. blue illustrated wrappers. Wraps soiled and worn, some internal wear (scarcely affecting the Mormon article). $65

Pages 328-333 praise this second Mormon delegate to Congress, marveling at the enigma of Mormonism promoting both polygamy and woman's suffrage at the same time. The phrenological journal was a friend to the Mormons, however, so this is a glowing report. Hooper's portrait appears on page 329, nicely engraved (woodcut), and the final portion of the article describes "The Man" himself. We are used to Mormonism's own praises of its people in works like Jenson's LDS Encyclopedia (see vol. 1:724-26 with similar portrait of Hooper from a photograph), but the folks who used to read character from bumps on the head took a somewhat different tack to laud people they esteemed . . .

He is about five feet eleven, not largely built, but built of iron. There is a wonderful density in his constitution and physique, almost as much as there is in Grant . . . His head is small, but one pound of his dense brain will do as much work as a pound and a half of some men's spongy brains. There is a tight nipping about the lips which are like the man, altogether expressive of nervous energy . . . He has the organs of Benevolence and Veneration well pronounced, while the intellectual faculties are prominently developed and sharpened by a good degree of Combativeness and Destructiveness. His chief and characteristic quality of mind is sagacity. . . ." (p. 333)

There is an article on Spiritualism by Harriet Beecher Stowe on pages 351-57.

62 HUMASON, W[illiam]. L[awrence]. FROM THE ATLANTIC SURF TO THE GOLDEN GATE. First Trip on the Great Pacific Rail Road.—Two Days and Nights Among the Mormons, with Scenes and Incidents, By W. L. Humason. Hartford: Press of Wm. C. Hutchings, 1869.

24 cm. 56 pp. Nicely printed, with each page enclosed within a simple line border. Original glossy printed wrappers. Some wear to wrapper edges and corners, a little staining to edges of the back page, but a decent copy for such an item, and generally very good and clean inside. $200

Flake 4132 (only edition); Howes H 785; Graff 2008; Cowan, pp. 295-96; Woodward, Bibliothica Scallawag- iana 100 (sold for ten cents in 1880). A rich and colorful personal travel account which might be worth reprinting. The author and his traveling companions left "New England" on May 6, 1869, four days before the Golden Spike was driven at Promontory Point in Utah. He describes an uneasy night holed up in a sleeping car with hundreds of drunken miners or workmen carousing just outside. To cross an unstable bridge over the Wasatch River, the men had to half-carry the ladies on foot, escorting them from tie to tie, to the other side. The unmanned locomotive was pushed across carefully using empty cars from behind in case it should tumble into the river. Days later, at the point of the freshly-joined railroads, there was a long and uncomfortable transfer to another train.

The writer was in Salt Lake City at the time of the ceremony further northwest, but he offers colorful descriptions of the city, and many other points along the way. UTAH AND MORMONS, pp. 18-42 (Salt Lake City, pp. 25-36) . . .

I can never forget that bright Sabbath morning, when I awoke and looked out upon the beautiful Great Salt Lake basin, . . . We admired the broad, clean streets, . . . the little, neat houses embosomed in trees and shrubs, and the gardens of fruits and flowers. . . . How we enjoyed our morning walk and our morning meal!

It was an interesting sight to see the children of the Sabbath Schools, from the different wards of the city, all moving on, in procession, towards the Tabernacle,—all dressed in their Sunday best, many of the girls adorned with dresses of bright red and blue.

We proceeded to the Tabernacle, . . . It was divided by a canvas partition, into two parts, but [i.e., only] half of the whole building being needed. It is very difficult for a speaker to be heard in many parts of the building. Many of the Mormon dignitaries occupied seats upon the platform; among the number was

Elder Kimball, Joseph Young, Mr. Cummings, W. W. Phelps, and Mr. Woodruff, once of Connecticut, now "one of the Twelve." . . .

The services were somewhat lengthy, and the audience was large. Several women partook of the bread and water while their babes were nursing at the breast. The number of the children is perfectly astonishing. [pp. 26-29]

Other content is not so flattering, and much of it struck me as fresh and different from what I have read in other accounts.

. . . the organization known as the Mormon Church . . . teaches, practices and commands of its devotees, disobedience and defiance of the laws . . . ; . . . branches of this organization, through the machinery of its stringent secret workings, signs, grips and passwords, evade and live in utter disregard alike of the laws of the United States and of moral and public decency. [p. 69]

63 Idaho (Territory). Laws, statutes, etc. GENERAL LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF IDAHO, Passed at the Fifteenth Session of the TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE, Convened on the Tenth Day of December, A. D. 1888, and Adjourned on the Seventh Day of February, A.D. 1889. At Boise City. Published by Authority. [Boise, Idaho Territory]: James A. Pinney, Territorial Printer, 1889.

23 cm. [2]ff.; [1]-87 pp. Orig. light green printed wrapper. Wrappers soiled and worn (though with all printing intact including backstrip); internally very good. Signed at top of front wrapper (years after publication) by Dwight E. Hodge, a young lawyer who moved to Lewiston, Idaho around 1904 and served as Nez Perce County attorney for two terms. $150

NOT IN FLAKE. On pages 68-70 appears a remarkable "MEMORIAL—MORMON CHURCH. COUNCIL JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 4. To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives, Washington, D. C." The tone is overtly anti-Mormon, and it specifies a lengthy LOYALTY OATH which Congress should "require from all persons settling upon or seeking to obtain homes upon the public domain of the United States in any Territory . . . ," p. 69. Carefully avoiding the word "church," Idaho's legislators here recommend that no member of the Mormon Church (whether personally practicing polygamy or merely believing in Mormonism privately) should be allowed to settle in Idaho –or for that matter, in Utah or any other territory. My 1960s Boise high school history teacher, a non-Mormon, was shocked by this old state stipulation, and did not hesitate to point to it as an example of laws gone bad . . .

"I [name in full] do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, or the head of a family; that I am not a member of any order, organization or association which teaches, advises, counsels or encourages

its members, devotees, or any other person or persons, to commit the crime of bigamy or polygamy, or any other crime defined by law, as a duty arising or resulting from membership in such order, organization or association, which practices bigamy or polygamy, or plural marriages in any form, as a doctrinal rite of such organization, or at all; that I do not, nor will I ever, publicly or privately, or in any manner, teach, advise, counsel, encourage, aid, support or assist in supporting any person to commit the crime of bigamy or polygamy, or any other crime defined by law, either as a religious duty or otherwise; that I do regard the Constitution of the United States and the laws thereof, and the laws of the States and Territories of the Union, as interpreted by the courts, as the supreme law of the land, the teachings of any order, organization or association to the contrary notwithstanding, so help me God." [p. 69]

64 THE ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN (New York, Chicago) For the Week ending January 24, 1891 [V:49].

13 X 9½ inches, paged 385-448 (single issue of 32 pp.). Orig. green illustrated wrappers (at head: "Indian Agents Must Go 25 Cents"). Illustrated throughout. Edge wear and some soil, etc. $40

Mormon content, pp. 399-402, including wonderfully indignant letters to the editor about whether or not polygamy is a success. "Mormonism In A Fury," screams an article on the latter two pages above: "Excitement in the 'Church of Latter-Day Saints' over the Revelations Made by this Paper. Scurrilous Reply of its Organ. Extraordinary Visit of Delegate Caine and Banker Grant to the Office of 'The Illustrated American.'"

65 JARMAN, W[illiam]. U.S.A. UNCLE SAM'S ABSCESS, OR, HELL UPON EARTH FOR U.S. UNCLE SAM. By W. Jarman, Esq., K.G.L., T.C.K., Knight of the Grand Legion of North America, Who Suffered Twelve Years in THE MORMON HELL ON EARTH, As One of the "Virgins Without Guile," and A Priest After the Order of Melchizedek: Where POLYGAMY, INCEST, AND MURDER are Taught and Practised as Religion Under the "ALL SEEING EYE," and the Sign, "HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD." Copyright secured in both Hemispheres. Exeter: England, Printed at H. Leduc's Steam Printing Works, 1884. $60

18 cm. [1]f.; [5]-194 pp. Original paper wrappers illustrated inside and out. Wrappers soiled and wearing; glue residue along backstrip. Internally very good.

Flake 4364. The back wrapper shows the hypocephalus plate from the Book of Abraham. A deliciously infamous, extreme anti-Mormon potboiler. Not a thrilling copy but very fair at this price, and hard to get in nice condition. 51

66 JOHNSON, C. E. (firm, Salt Lake City). "BRIGHAM YOUNG AND HIS WIVES. Copyright 1898 by the Johnson Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. Infringements will be rigidly prosecuted." [title in the image].

Cabinet PHOTOGRAPH on printed mount. 14.1 X 9.8 cm. (albumen print); 16.5 X 10.8 cm. (printed card mount, therefore 6½ X 4¼ inches in all). Composite image of Brigham surrounded by twenty-one women. In very nice condition, technically "nearly fine." Perhaps not perfect, but close enough. $160

A familiar image, but presumably an early generation of it, in great shape. In old fountain pen, someone has identified the portraits of "Ann Eliza" and "Amelia" below those images in small, unobtrusive writing. The mount is printed in dark brown as follows:

[Front:] The Johnson Co., Manufacturers of Utah Views and Lantern Slides, Stereo. Views, etc. Dealers in Utah Curios, Mormon Books, Indian Portraits, etc. Salt Lake City, Utah. You see JOHNSON all over The World.

[Back:] The Johnson Co. Salt Lake City, Utah. C. E. Johnson, Supt. (You see JOHNSON all over the World.) Manufacturers of Utah Views, Lantern Slides, Stereoscopic Views, etc. [pointing hand device] A Utah View—It's not THE BEST, if its not from JOHNSON.

67 JORDAN, De Esta. LETTERS. Compiled by De Esta Jordan. New York, Washing- ton, Atlanta, Hollywood: Vantage Press, [c. 1979 "First Edition"].

20½ cm. [2]ff.; 203 pp. (no preface, introduction or index). Brown cloth; gilt- lettered spine. About fine, in very good dust jacket. $30

Probably printed in a fairly small run by the largest of all vanity presses. OCLC locates fourteen copies, eight of them in Utah institutions. I find no copies for sale online. From the dust jacket: ". . . a virtual time machine: a collection of 147 letters written during the period 1897-1910; the correspondence of one family writing about their lives and loves in frontier Utah." The content is often mundane but sprightly, and sometimes better. Here's a paragraph from "Alf," writing from Salt Lake City in 1898 . . .

Then, having secured physical and moral beauty, the next is intelligence. Not booky, by any means, but walking with your head up and eyes wide open, with tongue under lock and key, but never lose the key nor let the tongue rust.

Treasure up much good common sense and never think "scrub." Fill yourself full of the Universe; think not merely of "Cousin Jim" and "Uncle Joe," but expand from the East to the West till there comes the exclamation: "Well done!" [p. 63]

68 THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR, An Illustrated Paper, Published every alternate Saturday. Designed Expressly for the Education and Elevation of the Youth. HOLINESS TO THE LORD. But with all thy getting get understanding.—Solomon. There is no excellence without labor. ELDER GEORGE Q. CANNON, EDITOR. VOLUME FIVE---FOR THE YEAR 1870. Salt Lake City, Utah Territory: Published by George Q. Cannon.

29 cm. [2 (general title; contents)]ff.; [208] pp. (final leaves mis-numbered, but complete in all 26 eight-page issues) + four double-page spread plates (three of interesting animals, one of the world's various races). January 8 - December 24, 1870 [5:1-26]. Collated COMPLETE. Original dark blind-decorated cloth with gilt title with beehive & oval wreath device gilt- stamped on front board. Some moderate faults, but generally a lovely, clean copy inside: Extremity wear to the shaken binding, and a little wear to the contents leaf. Most pages are fresh and nearly new in appearance, and the double-page plates are all in fine condition. A few leaves are starting to spring. A few outer margins carry a stain of varying darkness from pp. 149-62. $175

A pleasure to read and regard. The articles are clearly prepared for fairly young LDS children, but the language and content are more advanced than one might expect. The illustrations (woodcut engravings of various sizes, with many full- page plates) are wonderful. I don't know that we would offer the following details of Carthage Jail (with woodcut illustration, serialized article) to Latter-day Saint children today . . .

"A poor wayfaring man of grief, &c." This hymn pleased so much that Joseph requested him to sing it again, which he did. After which Hyrum read some extracts from Josephus. At four o'clock in the afternoon the guard was again changed. There were only eight men stationed at the jail, the main body of the Carthage Greys was in camp upon the public square about a quarter of a mile distant. A short time afterwards the guard sent in word that they wanted some wine. Joseph gave Doctor Richards two dollars to give to them; they said one was enough, and would take no more. With this he sent for a bottle of wine, some pipes, and a little tobacco. One of the guard brought them into the jail, and Doctor Richards uncorked the bottle, and Joseph, Bro. Taylor and himself tasted some which was poured out. As the guard turned to go out somebody called

him two or three times, and he went down. Immediately there was a little rustling at the outer door of the jail, and a cry of "surrender," and instantly the discharge of four or five fire-arms followed. . . . [page 98, issue for Saturday, June 25, 1870 (5:13)]

69 THE KANSAS MAGAZINE [Topeka, July-October 1873; IV:1-4].

23 cm. Paged [4]-388, probably lacking a general title page. "Contents" have been cut neatly from printed tan pages or wrappers and pasted up neatly on a leaf preceding the text. Old black three-quarter morocco leather over marbled boards. Extremities rubbed; front joint cracking at top yet still strong. Internally very good. $75

This is the final, aborted volume of a thick monthly periodical which ran from January 1872 through October 1873, according to OCLC. It is filled with quality articles. "UTAH AND THE MORMONS" by Tom MONAGHAN, pp. 276-81, is adulatory of the Saints throughout, only skirting the topic of polygamy with the most deferential glance. Regarding the railroad from Ogden to Salt Lake City, he wrote:

Farmers with their teams came from all parts of the Territory; mechanics and laborers freely offered their services; the wealthy bought the material, and in a very short time the centre of Mormonism was in direct communication with the rest of the world. It is to-day a fitting memento of the pluck and public spirit of Utah's people; a road built with Mormon capital by Mormon hands. [p. 278]

Monaghan's article on Wyoming (pp. 137-41, August 1873 issue) mentions that, "Owing to the scarcity of marriageable females, the majority of ranchmen, or stock-raisers, form an attachment for a longer or shorter period with squaws. . . . Some men buy three or four, and whenever you find one of the latter class, he is sure to be death on the 'bloody Mormons.'" (p. 139).

70 KELLY, Charles. SALT DESERT TRAILS. A History of THE HASTINGS CUTOFF and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter road to California. Salt Lake City: Published by Western Epics, 1969.

23 cm. [x], 182 pp. + 11 pp. of illustrations (one near the front, the others between pp. 90-91, with several photographs of wagon pieces abandoned by emigrants). Simple typescript format; map endpapers. A fine, clean copy in very good dust jacket. $35

Engaging, revised edition of the classic first printed privately in 1930, with an 1968 preface by the author. "The tracing of this old trail was the greatest and most valuable experience of my life and I am fortunate in having done this research before anything had been disturbed." (p. [vii]).

. . . woman's allotted sphere of labor is not sufficiently extensive and varied . . .

71 [KIMBALL, Sarah Melissa Granger] Printed LETTER and correspondence REPORT in the AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED (New York) for February 1869 [49:2; Whole No. 362].

30 X 24 cm. (11¾ X 9½ inches). Paged [53]-92 (complete 40-page issue). Original cream illustrated wrappers. Moderate wear and soil, internally very good but for a crease across lower fore-corner area. $125

"Women's Sphere in Utah," pp. 82-83, fills more than a column of small type (10 inches) lauding the energetic efforts and progressive sentiments of the "Female Relief Society" of the Mormons. "Mrs. S. M. K." is described as "A valued lady correspondent of Salt Lake City" who writes to this paper from Salt Lake City under date of November 13, 1868. She reports the laying of the corner-stone of a "female enterprise," a "temple of Commerce" of the Fifteenth Ward Relief Society (of which Sarah Kimball was president), together with the text of her speech given on that occasion which was followed by "an extempore speech by E. R. Snow" (Snow speech text not given here.) This periodical praises the Mormon women in prefatory and concluding remarks, and looks forward to woman suffrage, for which "these Mormon wives and mothers will be in the majority, and when they vote it will fix things just as they please. We are in favor of the movement."

Regarding this remarkable and very early-Mormon woman, see Jenson's LDS Biographical Encyclopedia 2:374-76 with portrait, 4:190; and Tullidge's Women of Mormondom, pp. 491-92.

72 KINNEY, John F[itch]. SPEECH OF HON. JOHN F. KINNEY, OF UTAH, UPON THE TERRITORIES AND THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH. Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 17, 1864. Washington: H. Polkinhorn, Printer, 375 and 377 D Street, Near Seventh, 1865.

23 cm. 16 pp. Disbound and with a couple of spots, but otherwise fresh and very good with virtually no wear. $40

Flake 4642; Fales & Flake 272. Kinney was a Federal appointee whom the Mormons generally considered a friend; Lincoln removed him in an effort to placate non-Mormons and Saints alike. This speech presents the bill of an

enabling act to authorize the people of Utah Territory to form a state government. With considerable historical commentary.

Col. Kane, as does Capt. Stansbury, indorses the loyalty of the people and their devotion to our constitutional Government. This, sir, is proven by their desire and efforts to be admitted as a State. Never were they more anxious than now, in the present unfortunate condition of the country. They want to constitute one link in the chain, stretching from the Atlantic west to the Pacific, binding together in one glorious sisterhood a cordon of States across the American continent. [p. 15]

73 KNOWLES, J. Harris. A FLIGHT IN SPRING in the Car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and Back During April and May, 1898, as Told by the Rev. J. Harris Knowles. New York: [Privately Printed for Frederick Humphreys, M.D., Press of J. J. Little & Co., N.Y.]. 1898.

19 cm. x, 204 pages + frontispiece portrait of the sponsor, "Our Host, Frederick Humphreys, M.D." Collated COMPLETE. Original yellow cloth decorated in green; spine and front board lettered in gold, top edge gilt. Spine faded; medium foxing. $125

Flake 4668b. Copy no. 421 of 750 printed - of which OCLC now locates only sixteen copies (two in Utah). The only other copy I have had of this book was copy 446 (my Mormon List 37, item 41, June 1991). THIS PARTICULAR COPY is distinguished by contemporary identification of all fourteen participants, written by hand aside their prosaic designations on page [iii], such as "'The Gypsy Queen' - Ethel Harding," "'The Apostle and the Angel' - Dr & Mrs Morgan," or "'The Pope' - Canon Knowles." Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Paulina S. Pope, 1898 - given to Pauline Pope Miller, August 1930."

The author and presumably most of the thirteen other travelers were given a free train tour of some 8,000 miles through the United States, probably by Dr. Humphreys, who then commissioned this lengthy and well-written reminiscence, well-printed on fine paper.

Utah and Mormons, pages 136-148, including some standard observations punctuated by uncommon specific notices. The commentary is rather sophisticated, and mentions favorable words on Mormon Church organization by a Utah Catholic priest. Knowles contrasts the "utter, naked simplicity" of ordinary Mormon worship with "the extreme of ritual observances which have place in the secrecy of the Temple." p. 142. He describes the Mormons in the tabernacle, most of them plainly clothed, and "Elder Woodruff, venerable, simple, and wise in appearance." p.140.

The most striking speech was that made by Mr. Cannon. He looked like a well- set-up New York business man, faultlessly dressed in an Albert frock coat, with rubicund countenance and flowing mutton-chop whiskers. It was absolutely refreshing to hear him, in his clear-cut sentences, declare that he was then and there speaking under the direct inspiration of the Holy Ghost. The President, Elder Woodruff, at the conclusion of the meeting, gave his sanction to all that was said, thus sealing it as inspired, by his declaration.

A superb anthem by Gounod then floated out over the vast audience, as all remained seated, taking in the power of the music at their ease. At its close Elder Woodruff rose, and all rose with him. With a trembling voice he blessed all in the triune name of God, and the whole assembly scattered in a few moments through the surrounding doors of the Tabernacle. [pp. 140-41]

Wilford Woodruff would die a few months later. Besides its obvious value as a source relating to Mormonism, this book contains eight chapters on California and two on Texas.

74 LEE, John D. MORMONISM UNVEILED; Including the Remarkable LIFE AND CONFESSIONS of the Late Mormon Bishop, JOHN D. LEE; (Written by Himself.) And Complete Life of BRIGHAM YOUNG, Embracing a History of Mormonism from its Inception Down to the Present Time, with an Exposition of the Secret History, Signs, Symbols, and Crimes of the Mormon Church. Also the True History of the Horrible Butcher Known as THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE. Illustrated with Wood Engravings and Colored Plates. St. Louis, Mo.: M. E. Mason, Publisher, 1891.

22 cm. xiii, [14]-413 pp. (counting the frontispiece) + all plates as called for. The condition of this volume is somewhat of a paradox, in that the contents are virtually as new, but the binding is poor. The text and plates are without wear, so far as I notice, and the color plates are so fresh and vibrant as to look like they were printed yesterday. They are primitive in design, almost crudely drawn in many cases, but interesting. The binding is original three-quarter red roan over cloth, (sheep pretending to be goat, or finer morocco leather, which it is not); marbled edges. The front board is nearly detached, and the spine is powdering and chipped away at head and foot –yet the text block is perfectly tight and secure. $65

Flake 4862; Howes L 209 note. This is approximately the fifteenth edition (first published 1877) of this version of Lee's confessions. See this edition on Google Books at:

http://books.google.com/books?id=3V4sAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions: Ri8RVLASMngC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IEQEUefYPMiMiALV8YCYBQ&ved=0CFcQuwUwB g#v=onepage&q&f=false

75 [LEHI, UTAH] Hamilton GARDNER. HISTORY OF LEHI, Including a Biographical Section . . . Published by the Lehi Pioneer Committee, Written by Hamilton Gardner. Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1913.

19 cm. xvi, 463 pp. + colored plate of "The Old Fort Wall" facing p. [1]. "Index to Biographical Section," pp. xv-xvi. Numerous illustrations throughout. Orig. blind-decorated cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Front lower corner bumped, upper spine cap separating and some lesser wear, but still fairly presentable; internally almost fine, printed on sized (shiny coated) paper. $125

Flake 3507. Nicely signed with a full-page inscription on the front free endpaper by Andrew FJELD, bishop of the Lehi First Ward (and a subject of one of the biographical notices, pp. 377-379, former president of the Australian Mission) to Mr. A. E. Worsfold, "as a remembrance of your first visit 'out-West.'," dated Lehi, Utah, September 7, 1917.

I have seen Mormonism in its best garments only. Its dignitaries have made me welcome. –p. 154

76 MCCLURE, A[lexander]. K[elley]. THREE THOUSAND MILES THROUGH THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. By A. K. McClure. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1869.

19 cm. 456 pp. + the three plates. Orig. dark brown cloth; gilt-lettered spine. Dark brown clay-based endpapers in nice shape. Modest wear starting at spine caps; some dampstaining to boards (only), but still presentable. A decent copy of a very good book at an eminently reasonable price: $150

ONLY EDITION, Flake 5122 ("Includes a trip through Utah with copious observations on Mormonism and the church system, pp. 149-74, 184-88."); Howes M 49; Graff 2576; Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 1892; Sabin 43059 ("A clever book, including details of Indian warfare . . .").

The engraved plate of "Main Street, Salt Lake City" is finely-detailed and very attractive, facing page 154. The following taste of this lively book comes from page 186 . . .

As an industrial system the Mormon Church is a positive success, and challenges the admiration of the most embittered foes of this peculiar religious faith. I did not see a single home of a Mormon where there were signs of dilapidation or decay. It is forbidden by their faith, and the bishops see that no sluggards bring reproach upon their religion. For nearly one hundred miles north of Salt Lake City there are numerous Mormon settlements nestling between the Great Lake and the Wasatch range, and they dot the earth with

fruitfulness and beauty. The wild flowers are thick on every side, and climb over every home, however humble. . . . Ogden contains a population of over two thousand, and has excellent buildings, stores, and gardens. Two of Bishop West's eight wives (the second and eighth) keep the hotel in the city in a most creditable manner. His other six live on his farms, at his mills, etc., while he rotates around generally among them. He supplies the faithful with bitters by

the small [i.e. , liquor by the drink] at his bar, manufactures their grain into flour and whisky, preaches on Sunday, and sees that every tenth egg the Ogden

chickens lay is properly returned to his tithing -house. [p. 186]

77 MORGAN, John . THE PLAN OF SALVATION. 1908 [front wrapper title and date; imprint on inside back wrapper: New York: Eastern States Mission].

14 cm. 32 pp. Orig. green printed wrappers. Moderate wear and light soil or

wrapper foxing; staples oxidizing. NOT IN FLAKE; compare to Flake 5500 -5505a and others. $45

one of two copies known? – pro- Mormon

78 MORMONISM EXPOSED. PLEASE READ, then hand to your Neighbour, or mail to a Friend. [caption title]. N.p., n.d. (but Salt Lake City, 1890?)

BROADSHEET (printed front & back). 22 X 14 cm. [2] pages on one leaf. Text printed across the pages in a single column. In fine, clean condition. $175

Flake 5551c. Only one copy is recorded, preserved at Brigham Young University Library. NOT ON OCLC. Praise of the Mormon people by legislators and other dignitaries, including Bishop TUTTLE (for whom, see item 131 in this catalog).

79 "THE MORMONS: WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE." ARTICLE in THE PHRE - NOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED (New York) for January 1871 [LII:1; Whole No. 384/ New Series 3:1].

24½ cm. Single, complete issue in its original blue illustrated wrappers with soil and wear (back wrapper present but cleanly separated). $100

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. In the "Department of Ethnology" section, the Mormon-related article appears on pp. 38-45. The unnamed writers (including Mormon-sympathetic editor Samuel R. Wells?) attempt to analyze "the Mormon question as sociologists, . . . from a scientific point of view, and are not affected by the prejudice of others against them, nor by their own faith in their particular institutions and mission." (p. 38). Various types of Mormons and their developing stages are treated under the following headings: "The 59

American, Early Social Stages, The Englishman, Phases of Mormonism, The Scotchman, The Welsh, The Scandinavians, Sociologically and Ethnologically, Polygamy, The Mormon Faith, Phrenological and Physiological Considerations, The Classifications," and "The Elders." Under the phrenological & physiological category, the following paragraph appears. I find it priceless –or at least worth the price of this unusual magazine for itself alone:

We have said that the American Elders (and all the Americans are Elders) will divide into two types of men—the apostolic and the enterprising. The Apostles and Bishops are nearly all large men; their phrenological developments are rather powerful, but more fitted for social than intellectual manifestations, and they somewhat lack high culture, as we understand it in "Gentile" society. There are a few, however, who have given to their minds much self-education, for instance, Orson Pratt. They have more of the practical and social brain than the philosophical or idealistic, though they are largely developed in the religious and moral regions. As they grow old, most of the Mormon Apostles and Bishops become very corpulent. They are not like the "lean and hungry Cassius." They can "sleep o' night," and are such men as Cæsar loved—upholders, and not conspirators like Cassius against his authority. Perhaps that is the reason why the Mormon Cæsar has chosen them. [p. 44]

80 MORTON, William A[lbert]., and A. Leon. TAYLOR. A CHILD'S LIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. By William A. Morton and A. Leon. Taylor. THE PRIMARY HELPER SERIES. No. 5. Issued Quarterly, Eighty Cents per year. Entered at Salt Lake City Post-Office as second-class matter. (COPYRIGHT BY WM. A. MORTON.). Salt Lake City, Utah: Wm. A. Morton, Publisher, n.d. (but ca. 1910?).

16½ cm. [4 (ad, frontis., title, Introduction)]ff.; [7]-112, [2 (ads)] pp. Orig. printed tan wrappers with ads everywhere except outer front. Numerous illustrations as part of the regular pagination. Front of first leaf is an ad for Salt Lake City dentist Louis E. Arnold who gives his "REFERENCES: ZION'S YOUNG PEOPLE." Wrappers with medium soil; separating and wearing along top area of backstrip. Final leaf of ads separated but present. It advertises Daynes Music Company and the HOME FIRE of UTAH insurance company, "Heber J. Grant & Co., General Agents." $45

Date above taken from Flake 5599 which shows four locations; OCLC adds two more for a total of only six. Another edition listed as Flake 5599a dated "[1900?]" seems confusing, since it has more pages (but same height) and was published by George Q. Cannon & Sons, yet the version offered here by the author himself, supposedly ten years later, claims copyright and depends heavily on advertisers.

81 MORTON, William A[lbert]. . . . UTAH AND HER PEOPLE. Illustrated. Containing a Sketch of Utah and Mormonism, the Articles of Faith of the Mormon Church, The Resources and Attractions of the State, Etc., Etc. Compiled and Published by Wm. A. Morton. [at head: "SECOND ENGLISH EDITION."]. Salt Lake City, Utah: Press of "The Deseret Evening News," 1901.

16 X 26½ cm. [48] unnumbered pages + color plate + one leaf of ads at both front and back (for a total of 17 leaves in all). Orig. gray printed wrappers, titled on the front, "In and About Salt Lake City." A very good copy of a pleasing, oblong booklet. $125

Flake 5634 (second of two editions in English, first published 1899; there were also versions in Danish and Swedish). Flake and OCLC combined locate only five copies (and only two in Utah). A lengthy "Sketch of Utah and Mormonism" is by Orson F. Whitney, followed by "O My Father," titled here as "A Typical Mormon Hymn. By Eliza R. Snow." Contains excellent and interesting illustrations including slightly atypical portraits of Lorenzo Snow and Joseph F. Smith, Temple Square in color, mines, schools and churches of various denominations, and the University of Utah Library building. I also liked the railroad scenes, girls playing tennis in Bloomer-like pants at the Rowland Hall Episcopal School for Girls, and the outrageously expensive but wonderfully- designed grave of Frederick H. Auerbach. The ads are fun as well, including respectable institutions such as Zion's Savings Bank and Trust Co., the University of Utah (Lorenzo Snow, Pres.), and various railroads.

They are an ulcer upon the body politic. An ulcer which it needs more than cautery to cure. It must have excision, complete and thorough extirpation, before we can ever hope for safety or tranquility. [p. 17]

82 [MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE] CARLETON, James Henry. . . . MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 10, 1902. Resolved, That there be printed as a House document 5,000 copies of the Special Report of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, as compiled by J. H. Carleton, brevet major, United States Army, captain, First Dragoons. Attest: A. MCDOWELL, Clerk. SPECIAL REPORT OF THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE, BY J. H. CARLETON, BREVET MAJOR, UNITED STATES ARMY, CAPTAIN, FIRST DRAGOONS. CAMP AT MOUNTAIN MEADOWS, Utah Territory, May 26, 1859. [caption title; at head: "57TH CONGRESS, 1st Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Document No. 605."] [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902].

23 cm. 17 cm. Worn and separating but complete, and full of blood & guts - obviously printed so late as this for political purposes. The day after the

resolution was passed to issue this reprint (see Flake 1189-90b for much earlier editions), Reed Smoot announced in Provo, Utah, that he would run for the U.S. Senate. Immediately, the fireworks began. $40

Flake 1188; Fales & Flake 1281 (in which Susan quotes this stunning excerpt about a wife of Jacob Hamblin) . . .

Mrs. Hamblin is a simple-minded person of about 45, and evidently looks with the eyes of her husband at everything. She may really have been taught by the Mormons to believe it is no great sin to kill Gentiles and enjoy their property. Of the shooting of the emigrants, which she had herself heard, and knew at the time what was going on, she seemed to speak without a shudder, or any very great feeling; but when she told of the 17 orphan children who were brought by such a crowd to her house of one small room there in the darkness of night, two of the children cruelly mangled and the most of them with their parents' blood still wet upon their clothes, and all of them shrieking with terror and grief and anguish, her own mother heart was touched. She at least deserves kind consideration for her care and nourishment of the three sisters, and for all she did for the little girl "about 1 year old who had been shot through one of her arms, below [p. 5 ends] the elbow, by a large ball, breaking both bones and cutting the arm half off." [pp. 5-6]

83 [MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE] . . INDIAN DEPARTMENT PROPERTY IN UTAH TERRITORY. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, In Answer to Resolution of the House of 24th March, furnishing the evidence called for in relation to Indian department property in Utah Territory. April 4, 1862.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. . . . [caption title; at head: "37TH CONGRESS, 2nd Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ex. Doc. No. 97."] [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862] (imprint from Fales & Flake).

22½ cm. 31 pp. Disbound and slight wear but very good; light toning; quires a bit misaligned. $70

Fales & Flake 226 (no Mormon content, but lots of famous Mormons' signatures in type, attesting to disbursements and work done for Native Americans). Chock full of endless inventories, from rifle repair for itemized Native bands, down to the last pin and paperweight in the Indian affairs offices, all attested by either Brigham Young or Jacob Forney. Numerous juxtapositions appear in grouped signers of documents, in type, such as Brigham YOUNG with D. B. HUNTINGTON, or Young with John D. LEE, and other leading figures.

Of particular fascination to me is the three-page list of BLACKSMITH SERVICES FOR NATIVE AMERICANS, RENDERED BY B. F. PENDLETON DURING THE PERIOD SURROUNDING THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE (June 30 - December 31, 1857; pp. 10-12). Rifles are repaired or re-stocked, gun barrels cut, arrow heads made, 62

and other more domestic items fixed for the itemized groups headed by: Sauri- ett, Va-um-bi, Arrow-peen, Tuk-a-put, Reo-ggin, Ba-tosh, Little Soldier, Tabby- shout, Nor-a Coat, Sa-ra-coat, Aw-au-up, Ko-ro-ko-ke, Ren-toot-se, Pah-bush, Ka-ta-to, and Go-shute, totaling in all, $1,160.85 for those interesting six months. Later, on June 25, 1858, we see D. B. Huntington paid $250 for "Services as interpreter," p. 15.

On page 22, Voucher No. 12, we see $150 was paid "For services rendered as farmer to the Piede Indians in Iron and Washington counties, from March 31, 1858, to date," acknowledged in type from a receipt originally signed in triplicate on June 30, 1858 by "JOHN D. LEE." Immediately below appears the certification that "the above account is correct and just, and that I have actually, this thirtieth day of June, A. D. 1858, paid the amount thereof. BRIGHAM YOUNG, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, U.T." Of course there was more here than meets the eye. For chilling discussion of this report and sometimes contrived data, see Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2002), pp. 253ff.

The outer world knows nothing of the murderous infamy of Mormonism. The trials soon to be had will bring forth deeds of savage barbarity which will disgust the nation. [Utah Governor Woods, p. 2]

84 [MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE] United States. War Department. . . . LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, Transmitting A communication from the Governor of Utah in relation to the establishment of a military post in the southern part of that Territory, and recommending an appropriation for that purpose. January 2, 1872.—Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. [caption title; at head: "42D Congress, 2d Session. SENATE. Ex. Doc. No. 12."]

23 cm. 3 pp. Disbound. Several clean but obtrusive tears into blank margin areas without actual loss of paper. $65

Flake 9248a. Much more colorful than most government documents. Utah Governor George L. WOODS writes urgently to President Ulysses S. Grant on October 2, 1871, asking for reinforcements to help arrest the perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre . . .

The Mormons are all powerful in that portion of the Territory, there being but few "Gentile" miners down there, and the whole power of the church is used to secrete persons charged with crime. Kauab [sic], a remote settlement in the extreme south, exclusively Mormon, is a place of refuge; they are prepared for resistance there, and declare that no arrests shall be made. In that valley the most of the murderers of Mountain Meadows will take refuge, and it will be useless for the marshal, unattended with an efficient military force, to attempt to take any of them into custody. . . . There are not troops sufficient in Camp 63

Douglas to send . . . without . . . weakening the post here . . . I think that a three or four company post somewhere south of this, at Beaver or St. George, is absolutely necessary . . . The work of purification has been begun at the right place . . . The present condition of affairs will not admit of delay. [p. 2]

Brigham Young has just been arrested for "lewd and lascivious cohabitation with sixteen different women," and as soon as certain protected witnesses can be brought to bear, he will also be arrested "for murder in the first degree," along with "several of the prophets, bishops, and elders . . . The investigations which have been made have disclosed deeds of horror which are unsurpassed in the history of crime." (p. 2)

General Sheridan responds (p. 3) that it might be best to wait until spring when they will have enough men to send. General Sherman then advises the Secretary of War in one sentence: "A new post will involve expense, and a specific sum ought to be appropriated before any action is taken."

Witnesses to the Mountain Meadows Massacre fearing for their lives

85 [MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE] United States. War Department. . . . MILITARY POST, BEAVER CITY, UTAH. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, Relative to An appropriation for a military post near the town of Beaver City, Utah. May 7, 1872.–Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed. [caption title; at head: "42D CONGRESS, 2d Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. EX. DOC NO. 285."] [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872].

23 cm. 3 pp. Very good; disbound and the two leaves separating neatly from one another. $45

Flake 9254a; Fales & Flake 378. The governor agrees with Utah Territorial Second District Judge C. M. HAWLEY, who puts things pretty plainly . . .

. . . I beg leave to say that my dis-[p. 1 ends]trict embraces the extreme southern part of the Territory, in which was committed what is known as the Mountain Meadow massacre, in which over one hundred and twenty innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered in the most barbarous manner. This district is settled almost entirely by Mormons, there being only about two hundred Gentiles in the district. From the time of said massacre there has been a rising feeling in the minds of the Gentiles and a few loyal Mormons against the principal leaders and perpetrators of that deed. At every session of the court this question has been brought up by the grand jury, or rather by individual members thereof, and yet the United States attorney and the jury have not dared to introduce the subject to be investigated, because, they say, witnesses who were present at, and were forced into, the bloody work feel that their lives would

be rendered insecure should they testify to the facts; but they say, whenever the Government of the United States will guarantee their protection, they will freely testify to all the facts. [pp. 1-2].

86 MURPHY, John R. THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, with Mining Statistics and Maps. By John R. Murphy. London: Trübner & Co.; San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co.; Salt Lake City: James Dwyer, 1872.

22½ cm. [2]ff.; iv, 104, [9 (ads)] pp. + all 10 folding tables and maps as called for, but LACKING THE FRONTISPIECE. Original flexible cloth, gilt-lettered title on front cover. Inner hinges broken but holding; occasional dog-ears and moderate dampstains. Edges fraying, shaken, etc. $60

Flake 5675 (only edition); not in Howes, not in Graff. Evidently scarce; I find no copies for sale online. Text is complete, and the information is extensive. I like the name of the Green Eyed Monster mine (near the Yellow Jacket and Mary Ann, in the Lucin District map facing p. 42). The Mormon history section at the end is more than thorough, but devotes a surprising amount of space to the Nauvoo period, which would seem somewhat ancillary to "Extracts of the Early History of the Settlement of Utah" (pp. 74-104). The content is excellent, however, and contrary to what I would expect in a mining publication from this period in Utah. Highly pro-Mormon in tone. Includes a striking, descriptive account of people suffering in the Nauvoo area after the main body of the Saints had left.

87 MUSIC. BUSINESS HOUSES OF SALT LAKE CITY, OGDEN, LOGAN, PROVO, BRIGHAM CITY, EVANSTON, PARK CITY AND COALVILLE. (Copyrighted.) L. STENHOUSE, Publisher. (cover title). [Salt Lake City? late 1880s?].

31¼ X 24 cm. (approx. 12¼ X 9½ inches). [40] pp. (unnumbered, printed in black or blue). Original printed light green wrappers. Dampstained and moderate wear. $300

NOT ON OCLC, and not liable for inclusion in Flake. This unexpected large piece of ephemera was presumably issued by Lorenzo STENHOUSE (son of T.B.H. and Fanny) around the time he published the Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo and Logan Cities, for 1888. And a Complete Business Directory of the 65

Territory. (Salt Lake City: Lorenzo Stenhouse, publishers, [1888]; Flake 9280a). There is no text whatever, and the title (given above) appears only on the front and back wrappers, surrounded by commercial ads. Jam-packed with interesting ads, and just a few full pages of music (non-Mormon) to assure this piece will remain in ready view on the piano or side-table.

At the top of the first page is a half-page ad for the Consolidated Implement Company, Moses THATCHER, President [and an LDS apostle]. The inside front wrapper has a splendid illustrated ad for "Joseph E. Taylor, The Pioneer Undertaker of Utah, . . . Embalming a Specialty." Wagons and carriages, hardware, fancy dresses, "Ladies' Princess Bathing Suits. Latest Design! The Rage!!," electrical supplies, linoleum, restaurants and hotels, photographers and florists - these barely begin to convey the wide and interesting variety of real Utah life to be found here. Three very sweet cows in J. E. Batcheler's Ogden ad for "Fresh and Salted Meats" pose so demurely as to make one think twice. John Deere farm equipment is sold by the COOPERATIVE WAGON & MACHINERY CO., Ogden City, Utah, "HEBER J. GRANT, President." (bottom half of page [22]).

88 [NATIVE AMERICANS] PEPPER, George H. . . . THE ANCIENT BASKET MAKERS OF SOUTHEASTERN UTAH. By George H. Pepper, Assistant, Department of Anthropology. [cover title; at head: "American Museum of Natural History."] [New York], Supplement to American Museum Journal, Vo. II, No. 4 (Guide Leaflet No. 6), April, 1902.

25 cm. 26 pp. on coated paper. Numerous illustrations including in situ basket- covered burial sites under excavation or discovery. Orig. illustrated wrappers with some soil and medium wear; starting to separate along backfold. $30 66

OCLC locates many examples, but shows only one copy in Utah (BYU Library). A stereotype reprint of this pamphlet was done in 1909.

offenses against travelers, settlers, and especially the mail parties, will be punished even to the extermination of their tribes.

89 [NATIVE AMERICANS – Paiute War] . . . "IV. AFFAIRS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF UTAH." (caption title). Lengthy extract, paged 69-106 (along with reports from other regions, the whole extracted portion paged 13-144), EVIDENTLY REMOVED FROM:

Report of the Secretary of War. War Department, December 3, 1860. (36th Congress, 2d Session, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1). Washington: George W. Bowman, printer, 1860. See OCLC Accession No. 15601063, saying: "Contents: Report of the Secretary: pp. 3-12; Affairs in the military Departments: pp. 13-146; Annual Reports: pp. 147-994."

22½ cm. Pages 13-144 only, with very old plain hand-made wrappers (worn) with faint inked title on front: "Indian Hostilities, 1860." The complete Utah Territory portion in very good condition, with occasional light foxing. $45

Hands-on details of the PAIUTE WAR (Pyramid Lake War, Washoe Indian War;

see an overview article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paiute_War ) in what is now northwestern Nevada. Lots of reports from Camp Floyd and from the scene of the battles, far to the west. Detailed table (7 c.—Itinerary of route from Camp Floyd to Carson City, Utah Territory), p. 96, showing the "Distances from station to station," with information on grass, water and fuel. Government documents look uniform, tedious and boring, until you look a little closer. Consider the these passages selected somewhat at random:

Confer with them, if possible. Insist upon emigrants not being molested; and impress upon them that offenses against travelers, settlers, and especially the mail parties, will be punished even to the extermination of their tribes. [p. 78. "By order of Brevet Colonel C. F. Smith . . ." The natives, meanwhile, were starving as a result of white depredations upon their meager natural resources.]

On my arrival at Deep creek I found awaiting me an emigrant party, Mormon apostates, so called, of 186 men, women, and children. By means of Mormon threats, both before and after leaving Salt Lake valley, they had been reduced to a state of abject fear. These, with about fifty other persons en route to California, have accompanied me thus far, and are now waiting to accompany me to Carson valley. [p. 88 (emphasis added). "D. D. PERKINS, First Lieut. Com'g. Lieut. Col. B Fourth Art'y. [to] Lieut. L. A. WILLIAMS, A. D. C., A. A. G., Department of Utah." Dated "CAMP IN RUBY VALLEY, June 13, 1860."]

90 "NAUVOO AND DESERET. Imposture and History of the Mormons." ARTICLE in THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE of Literature, Art, and Science (New York) for December 1, 1851 [4:5].

26 cm. Complete issue, paged: [577]-712, viii (general title and contents for Volume IV. August to December, 1851. intended to be used at the beginning of a bound volume; [12 (illustrated ads printed in red and blue] pages. Original illustrated wrappers. Wrappers worn and detaching; internally very good, never trimmed. $45

The lead article, on the Mormons, appears on pages [577]-585, with six nice small engravings, including the Nauvoo Temple, pioneers crossing the plains, and a fanciful rendering of "Great Salt Lake City or New Jerusalem" facing an idyllic view of Windsor Castle illustrating the following article on the subject. This looks to me like the earliest appearance of an article which appeared a few more times in later periodicals or publications. TEXT BEGINS: "Among the many extraordinary chapters in the history of the Nineteenth Century none will seem in the next age more incredible and curious than that in which is related the Rise and Progress of Mormonism." See the full article by searching this on Google Books; it also appears on other Internet sites.

On pages 602-604 appears a book review of Herman Melville's "new nautical story" which is based on a monster mentioned some years ago "by Mr. J. N. Reynolds . . . in a paper for the Knickerbocker, entitled Mocha Dick." Will people like this recent work? The commentary here sounds a bit critical.

. . . I . . . knew Joe Smith and many of the leading Mormons personally; have been conversant with some of the leading men of the sect who had left them, and who were fully convinced of their iniquity before they left Missouri . . . [p. 343]

91 "NAUVOO AND DESERET. REVIEWED ERRORS CORRECTED–ORIGIN OF THE BOOK OF MORMON–OTHER STANDARDS–ENORMITIES–EXPULSION FROM NAUVOO–DEATH OF JOE SMITH." At head: "{For the National Magazine.}"]. ARTICLE in THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE, Devoted to Literature, Art, Religion. Abel Stevens, Editor. (New York and Cincinnati) for October, 1854 [5:4].

26 cm. Complete issue, paged: [289]-384, [iv (ads)] pp. Original illustrated wrappers. A very good copy, never trimmed. $65

The Mormon article appears on pp. 343-49 in angry reaction to the "Nauvoo and Deseret" article which appeared, reprinted in the International Magazine (item 90 in this catalog, just above) - after it had appeared in the June 1854 issue of the National Magazine. Rev. Chauncey HOBART, the author of this rebuttal, states that his father from Vermont was the first settler in Schuyler County, Illinois, two 68

years before the first log cabin was built in neighboring Hancock County. The writer himself was a Methodist Episcopal preacher and rode circuit in Hancock and adjacent counties in the late 1830s, was stationed in Quincy, Illinois, 1840-41, and claims to have known Joseph Smith and other leading Mormons and leading dissenters. He denigrates the literary quality of the Book of Mormon, as beneath the abilities of Solomon Spaulding. He also excoriates the writer of the previous article as entirely too judgmental against the old Illinois settlers. "Please permit me to ask," he protests,

What is to be done when the bands of civil society are all broken?—when the terms law and order are made the mere catch-words to authorize violence, outrage and murder?—when frequent appeals to the civil authorities have only resulted in the defeat of justice and increased outrage? Is there [p. 345 ends] nothing in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, worth contending for? Are we not to be allowed to appear and remove those who will not allow us to possess those blessings quietly?

The bare supposition that any portion of the American people would "set on foot a vast scheme of robbery" [as claimed by the previous writer] to drive off a flourishing city of fifteen or twenty thousand peaceable and orderly inhabitants is absurd. Permit me to state what can be proved by a thousand unimpeached and unimpeachable witnesses now living. [pp. 345-46]

For Hobart's later Recollections of My Life . . . (Red Wing, Minnesota, 1885; 409 pages), see Flake 4054.

92 NEW-YORK DAILY TIMES. THREE ISSUES with substantial ORIGINAL EDITORIALS on the early Utah Mormons: for Monday, January 8; Friday, February 2; and Saturday, May 26, 1855 [Vol. IV; Whole Nos. 1032, 1054 and 1151].

Folio, 8 pages each (complete issues). Very good condition; neatly disbound, moderate foxing. the three newspapers: $160

Each with lengthy original commentary on the Mormons, written by this newspaper's own editors (not copied from other sources):

– January 8: "Brigham Young Averred to be Both Loyal and Honest." (p. 4, columns 4-5; 16 column inches). Quoting and reacting to John M. BERNHISEL at length, finishing at the end: "Was not Brigham's pugnacious announcement a feeler—an experiment to see if the President could be frightened? Perhaps politics are no purer there than elsewhere."

– February 2: "The Mormons in Utah." (p. 4, columns 2-3; 25 column inches). Warning about the artifices of Mormons in luring converts from Europe, referring to "the recent book of Mr. FERRIS" (which is available for purchase from this catalog). Clever letters are sent from Salt Lake to New York City and European cities, portraying the joys of emigration to the Mormon colonies. "When the American papers become the victims of 69

such knavery, we can hardly wonder that European journals fall so ready a prey to these letter-writing impostors. The Mormon Elders can afford to pay highly for this work; and unfortunately, where there is good pay and demand, there will always be supply, be the work ever so filthy."

– May 26: "Mormon Emigrants." (p. 4, columns 1-2; 12 column inches). Mormonism - with its polygamy - is more than a mere philosophical question, but a practical one for the United States. The recent arrival of 600 emigrants from Liverpool shows that the British, particularly, are naive enough to believe in such gross impostures (moreso than wiser Americans). "There is no idea so monstrous or absurd that, if determinately persevered in, will not find abundant followers among the ignorant and the restless." But Mormons had better understand from the outset (say the editors) that Utah will never be admitted to statehood until they give up polygamy.

93 New West Education Commission. Annual Report. FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT of the NEW WEST EDUCATION COMMISSION. Chicago, Illinois, October, 1884. Chicago: Clark & Longley Printers, 1884. $125

22½ cm. 56 pp. Map and full-page engravings as part of the pagination. Original printed wrappers with wear and medium soil; internally very good.

Flake 5792. With EXTENSIVE UTAH CONTENT in several sections. The tables name the many free schools which are operated in Utah (more than anywhere else in the United States), and the first engraving shows their imposing "Hammond Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah." It faces a map of the Commission's ". . . Present Field and Schools." It includes all of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, plus the southeastern corner of Idaho. The Commission's academies and "Places Occupied" are all marked there, plus the numerous "Mormon Settlements," the "Mormon Temples, Mexican Hamlets, Indian Reservations," and "Indian Pueblos." It becomes obvious throughout this report that Mormonism is the Commission's main target, and they gladly reprint a warning from the Deseret News to Latter-day Saints that . . .

. . . these teachers, who are establishing schools among you apart from our district schools, have for their primal object something in advance of the effects of the Edmunds law. . . The final object is the destruction of the liberties of the 'Mormon' people not fully accomplished by the Edmunds law, and the entire overthrow of 'Mormonism.' Now, if you want to aid in this work of the New West Education Commission, send your children to be taught in their schools, and put your boys and girls under their lying influence." (p. 55)

"In repeated instances, last winter," boast these wicked folk (in the section titled "WHAT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ARE DOING IN UTAH"),

Mormon teachers had the mortification of seeing their pupils leave them for the New West schools, and their own schools were closed for lack of pupils. One Mormon teacher declared that, as his patrons, all Mormons, chose to allow 70

the brightest pupils to go to the Gentile school, leaving only the dull-heads to him, he would leave; and he actually resigned, with a temper somewhat ruffled. The difficulty was not with the parents, but with the children, who saw the difference between a poor teacher and a good one, and chose the latter. The planting of a Christian school in different Mormon towns has marked an epoch in the lives of many children. They have for the first time come in contact with an active, disciplined and earnest mind, and their own minds have been made alert and eager. [p. 25 (emphasis added)]

94 NUGGETS OF TRUTH AND GEMS FROM THE SPEECHES AND LETTERS OF THE LEADING MINDS OF UTAH (Past and Present) . . . [cover title]. [Salt Lake City? 1895?] (imprint from Flake)

18 cm. 12 pp. Illustrations of the first four Presidents of the Mormon Church, plus wood engraving on back page of Frank J. Cannon. A fine copy, except that the top margin was not trimmed quite level with the bottom. $125

Flake 5878 (only edition). Political pamphlet for George Q. Cannon's son Frank. Promotes local self-reliance and home industry. Page 10 shows a somewhat youthful but full-bearded Joseph F. Smith . . .

The entire contents of this pamphlet consist of direct quotes from Mormon General Authorities, beginning on the front page with a statement by Joseph Smith that his arm would fall from his shoulder and his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth before he would vote for a Democrat ("the Democratic power" - Millennial Star 21:827).

95 [OGDEN, UTAH - broadside street map] T. A. PERKINS. . . . OGDEN CITY[,] UTAH [caption title; at head: "Drawn and For Sale by T. A. Perkins, Surveyor and Draughtsman, P.O. Box 316, Ogden, Utah."]. No date (but 1880s?).

BROADSIDE (verso blank). 27.7 X 21.2 cm. Printed on lightly-coated paper. Light wear with some thin paper tape repairs on verso (not discolored). $65

OCLC locates only one copy, preserved at the Denver Public Library which dates this item to 1885 (OCLC Accession No. 26385230). This is a street diagram/map with each block numbered, the whole divided into Plats A, B and C. The area covered ranges from Bluff Street southward to Tenth Street, and from the Union Pacific Rails on the west to Sixth East Street. Ogden River and Mill Creek appear at the top, along with a "Canal." The whole is enclosed by a finely-detailed typographic ornamental border. Simple but nicely printed. The following printed text appears at the bottom:

Presented by W. S. Harris, Solicitor. D. Farr, Manager. Junction City Real Estate Co., Corner Fourth and Main Streets, - - Ogden, Utah. Loans Negotiated. Houses Rented. City Lots, Houses and Lots, Farms and Business Property For Sale. Free Carriage! No Trouble to Show Property.

96 PARKINSON, Preston Woolley. THE UTAH WOOLLEY FAMILY. Descendants of Thomas Woolley and Sarah Coppock of Pennsylvania, with brief notices of other families of the name. Compiled by Preston Woolley Parkinson (A third great-grandson). Published at Salt Lake City, Utah [copyright 1967 by Preston W. Parkinson].

23 cm. xxxii, 1114 pp. + colored plate of Woolley coat of arms between pp. iv-v. Orig. textured maroon buckram cloth, gilt-stamped with title on spine and front board. Binding dull, but with essentially no wear. A very good, tight copy. The (blank) front free endpaper is gone. No dust jacket. $125

Plenty of Mormons and Mormon content, including Spencer Woolley KIMBALL, J. Reuben CLARK, and of course Edwin D. WOOLLEY –with all their kin. Nicely written in the grand old labor-of-love style of family genealogies, with endless pictures throughout. Well printed on coated paper. This can be a difficult title. It took me a long time to find this one, when I needed it for a particular research project some years ago. As soon as you buy it, I'll probably need it again. See also item 2 in this catalog.

97 PHILLIPS, George Whitfield. THE MORMON MENACE. A Discourse Before the New West Education Commission, On its Fifth Anniversary at Chicago[,] November 15[,] 1885. By George Whitfield Phillips, Pastor of Plymouth Church. Worcester, Massachusetts, 1885.

23 cm. 16 pp. Orig. gray front (only) printed wrapper present but separated and ragged; side-staple holes from later "repair." Text with medium wear. Not a good copy, but complete except for back wrapper, and not brittle. $20

Flake 6369 (only edition). Christian schools will reverse the tendency of Utah to corrupt America's morality. "Who shall bemoan the decay of Christian heroism when for Christ's sake educated young women, the flower of our colleges and homes, are ready to go into the exile of frontier settlements, braving the foul environment which polygamy creates, and conquering suspicion, intrigue and bravado by the irresistible appeal of an unselfish life, the very copy of the Master?" (p. 4)

98 THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED (New York). SIX SELECTED ISSUES with Mormon-related articles between December 1870 and November 1874, as itemized below. the six issues: $150

Approx. 24 cm. each. Individual complete issues in original wrappers. Wrappers generally soiled and worn; generally very good internally.

– December 1870 [LI:6; Whole No. 383/ New Series 2:6]. "Our Visit to Salt Lake City. Introduction." Pp. 413-16. Highly descriptive. "In a year or two more[,] the world will look on and wonder. Utah is a great country, and Brigham Young was her prophet." p. 416.

– May 1871 [LII:5; Whole No. 382/ NS 3:5]. "The Utah Gentiles—Who and What They Are." Irenic as usual, the writer speaks somewhat pointedly but tries not to take sides. Discusses the following: "Governor J. Wilson Shaffer, General P. Edward Connor; Major C. H. Hempstead; Chief Justice McKean; M. P. Patrick; Judge C. M. Hawley; George R. Maxwell; Dr. Tagget; Marshall and Carter; Warren Hussey; Anthony Godbe; Nat Stein; Bishop Tuttle, Rev. G. M. Pierce," and "Colonel Kahn." From page 339 . . .

Notwithstanding the cordial enmity between the Mormon priesthood and General Connor, the Gentile commander was for potency of character worthy to be matched against Brigham.

He has quite the Wellingtonian face and head, and had he gone to the great battle-field in the South, and survived, he not unlikely would have risen among our foremost generals of the time.

– July 1871 [LIII:1; Whole No. 390/ NS 4:1]. Wrappers poor and taped. "Leaders in the Mormon Reform Movement—With Portraits." Pp. 30-40. Includes ten sections, with individual articles and small woodcut portraits of Amasa LYMAN, William S. GODBE (at RIGHT, from page 32), Elias L. T. HARRISON ("The Mormon Luther"), Eli B. KELSEY, Henry W. LAWRENCE, William H. SHEARMAN, Fred T. PERRIS, Edward W. TULLIDGE, Joseph SALISBURY and John TULLIDGE. "The Won- ders of California," pp. 44-48 with two cuts of giant trees "Old Dominion" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

– December 1871 [LIII:6; Whole No. 395/ NS 4:6] . "The Mormon Question," pp. 394-95. Delightful but short, tolerant article urging old Mormons to keep and protect their polygamous families, but advising the younger generation to legislate a cut-off date and start being monogamist Americans. Those who really, really want to keep the old ways will need to move outside the United States: "May they not find some uninhabited island in the seas where they may live and love to their hearts' content? If not, we can see no other way than for them to make a virtue of necessity, and submit to the powers that be . . . ," p. 394.

– March 1874 [LVIII:3; Whole No. 423 (front wrapper lacking)]. "Woman at the South and at the West," pp. 174-176, written by an unnamed woman who accompanied the editors on their tour of the States. The final five column inches are devoted to the poor deluded polygamous women who are stretched slowly into utter, hopeless submission. Christianity will soon radiate through Utah, however, and save them. Also, articles on mound builders, Shakers and "The Siamese Twins, Illustrated."

– November 1874 [LIX:5; Whole No. 431/ NS 10:5]. "The Mormon Tabernacle," p. 325, with small woodcut illustration. We read that the building "is staunchly put together, there being no fears entertained of a Syracusan calamity when occupied by one of the vast assemblages which a religious festival or important state event calls together." (A church building here in Syracuse had killed many of its inhabitants when the main floor fell into the basement where an event was taking place.)

99 PRATT, Orson. THE BIBLE AND POLYGAMY. Does the Bible Sanction Polygamy? A Discussion Between Prof. Orson Pratt, an Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman, Chaplain of the United States Senate, in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 12, 13 and 14, 1870. To Which are Added Three Sermons on the Same Subject, By President George A. Smith 74

and Elders Orson Pratt and George Q. Cannon. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News Publishing Company, 1892.

17 cm. 183 pp. Orig. gray printed wrappers. Wraps fairly worn with loss to backstrip, internally very good. Flake 6492, the fourth and final edition listed (first published 1874). $40

100 PRENTISS, A. THE HISTORY OF THE UTAH VOLUNTEERS IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR and in the Philippine Islands, A Complete History of all the Military Organizations in which Utah Men Served. Life and Service from the Time of the Muster In to the Day of the Muster Out. In Two Parts. Incidents of Camp and Field Life. Biographical Sketches of Officers and Men Engaged in the Service. Rosters. Official Reports. Special Articles by Eminent Writers. Copiously Illustrated. [Salt Lake City:] W. F. Ford, Publisher, [Tribune and Job Printing Co., 1900].

21½ cm. xviii, [ii], [1]-430 pp. + frontispiece and numerous plates. Orig. black cloth with medium wear; inner hinges strengthened front and back with modern white library tape. Better than other copies I see offered for sale online. $65

Flake 6721 (only edition). Vainglorious panegyric, with lots of lists and pictures of Utah "boys" gone off to a desperately glorious war (or as another bookseller quips online of this book, "Nice photos of imperialist stooges").

The startling general and specifically ANTI-HISPANIC RACISM of the opening chapter has to be read to be believed. Numerous "Patrons" of this volume (subscribers?) are listed by town, including Col. J[ohn]. Q. CANNON [later a minor General Authority excommunicated for adultery - with full-page proud picture in uniform facing 56 with biography], Hon. B. H. ROBERTS, Lorenzo SNOW, C[harles]. W. PENROSE, Moses THATCHER, Reed SMOOT ("President Provo Woolen Mills") and many others, filling double columns of small type, pp. xv- xviii.

This is an overlooked sociological treasure with lots of heroic anecdotes and troubling attitudes. Lieut. George F. GIBBS does look dashing in his uniform and his "Teddy Roosevelt" hat, facing p. 393, but the stark photo of dead Filipinos lying beneath scrubby little palm trees in a walled Manila courtyard "Where One of Utah's Shells Struck" seems a little too joyful for my taste (facing p. 409).

John Taylor rising to glare at mothers of crying babies

101 R[AND]., O[live]. A VACATION EXCURSION. From Massachusetts Bay to Puget Sound. By O. R. . . . Manchester, N.H.: Press of John B. Clarke, 1884.

18 cm. [3]ff.; [7]-203 pages counting frontispiece. Original tan cloth decorated in black and gold; decorated endpapers, all edges gilt. Wear to extremities, including both spine caps; internally very good. $125

Flake 6814a. Only edition, and not too common (fewer than a dozen copies located, between Flake and OCLC; OCLC lists the author under married name, Olive Rand Clarke). The last copy I had was more than twenty years ago, before this title was listed in Flake (my Mormon List 35 in May 1990; it was in very good

condition, @ $175 ).

Utah and Mormons, pp. 184-97. A typically obscure private travel account, originally sent home in installments by letter for inclusion in the local newspaper, the Manchester Mirror, and here presented in book form. The account describes life and scenes in Colorado, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Vancouver, Idaho, Montana and Utah.

The writer was present in the Tabernacle at the funeral of "George O. Caulder" [i.e. David O. Calder] in early July, 1884, and she reported that George Q. Cannon spoke easily and had a fair delivery (p. 190). That afternoon, she attended regular Sunday services in the same building:

It was interesting to look at a Mormon audience. Nearly all foreigners, one may here see representatives of almost every race except the Irish. . . . Few had faces indicative of much intelligence, but the mass were undoubtedly a credulous, sincere, honest class, believing all that was taught them without questioning, and having no thought but of implicit obedience to the decrees of the church rulers. One woman in front of me, with a good, motherly face, watched every word that fell from the speaker as if it were the voice of inspiration; sometimes anticipating his word,--his utterance was slow,--her lips formed it before the preacher pronounced it.

Perhaps the most striking thing about a Mormon audience is the number of children, of all ages, including infants at the breast (literally). Occasionally these infants would make an outcry, after the infant fashion, and at such times it was amusing to see the tall form of President Taylor--his not uncomely face framed in a setting of snow-white hair and beard--rise from behind his desk on the platform one step higher than that of the preacher, where with threatening attitude and sharp glance directed to [p. 191 ends] the point where the noise proceeded he would stand till the mother succeeded in hushing the child or escaped with it through one of the thirty doors that open outwards from this Tabernacle. [pp.191-92 (emphasis added)]

. . . The new generation, with better education and more intelligence than their parents, are only nominally Mormons in most cases, but to apostatize would bring upon them financial ruin. [p. 194]

102 RAYMOND, W., and I. A. WHITCOMB. GRAND EXCURSION TO COLORADO AND CALIFORNIA. A Forty-Four Days' Trip (From April 25 to June 7, 1881), for Only Four Hundred Dollars, Travelling and Hotel Expenses Included. The

Entire Journey in Palace Cars, Every Arrangement First -Class. Excursions to the Mines and Natural Wonders of Colorado; Visits to all the Chief Points of Interest on the Pacific Coast; Extended Carriage-Drives in Chicago, Manitou (Colorado), Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Monterey. The Party Limited in Numbers. Incidental Trips to the Yo- Semite Valley, the Big Tree Groves, Etc. Boston: James S. Adams, Printer, n.d. [but 1881].

Cover title: Raymond's Vacation Excursions, All Travelling Expenses Included. A Trip to Colorado and California, Second Division. April, May and June, 1883. W. Raymond, I. A. Whitcomb, 240 Washington Street, Boston.

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 11½ X 14 cm. 64 pp. Original illustrated wrappers printed in pink and black on light blue coated stock. Light soil, a chip torn from blank area of the lower back wrapper without loss of text or image. Internally nearly fine. $85

NOT ON OCLC, which locates about eight copies of what appear to be the earlier tour which started April 18, but not the present version. So many people signed up for the grand tour which will leave one week earlier, that this second division is now scheduled, and it will include all the rich amenities of the first.

The text is extensive and interesting. An entire train of palace cars, dining car, commodious sleeping berths and the like is reserved. It will arrive in Salt Lake City at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, May 6, and travelers will be met by an omnibus to take them to the Walker House and the Continental Hotel. They will tour the city by arranged carriages on Saturday, and will leave Salt Lake on Sunday evening to return to Ogden. (p. 42). Pages 22-23 contain the description of "Salt Lake City." Mormons are not mentioned by denomination, but obliquely in context of the buildings to be seen on Temple Square, including the unfinished Temple which will one day tower to 200 feet, the Museum, and the Tabernacle with its "great organ, constructed entirely in Utah and principally of Utah woods and metals. The Endowment House, of which so much has been written, is in the same enclosure." Also Brigham Young's former residences, Ft. Douglas, the warm springs, ZCMI, and "all the points of interest in the city . . . will be visited."

"Your family? Oh! you didn't marry again did you, John ?"

103 REEVE, James Knapp. "'AMONG THE SAINTS'--SALT LAKE, A. D. 188–." Fictional SHORT STORY in THE NEW YORK LEDGER. A Journal of Choice Literature, Romance, and Useful Information (New York: Robert Bonner's Sons) for Saturday, June 7, 1890 [46:21]

Folio (16¼ X 11¼ inches). 14 [of 16?] pp. Medium wear and toning, light stains, etc. Evidently lacking a final leaf (not affecting the Mormon story). $65

The heartbreak death of a faithful aged wife from New Hampshire whose long- lost husband has become - unbeknownst to her - a polygamist (pp. 7-8, filling three full tall columns, approx. 43 column inches of text). Martha travels West naively to see her dying husband after many years of separation . . .

"You are John Redmond's wives, are you?" she asked.

The women tittered and drew away a little, but one of them answered, brazenly:

"Yes'm; at least, we went through the Endowment Home with him."

Martha took a step forward and looked vacantly around. The man who had come with her spoke courteously:

"Do you wish to go anywhere, ma'am?"

"Yes; I am going home. 'In my Father's house are many mansions.' I am going thither to dwell among the saints." With that she took another step forward and fell to the ground; but even as she fell, the tired spirit went home "to the house of many mansions," there, let us hope, to dwell, indeed, "among the saints."

ten engraved illustrations original folding map in nice condition

104 REMY, Jules. VOYAGE AU PAYS DES MORMONS. Relation—Géographie, Histoire Naturelle—Histoire—Théologie, Mœurs et Coutumes, par Jules Remy . . . Ouvrage orné de 10 gravures sur acier et d'une Carte. Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire- Éditeur, 1860.

TWO VOLUMES. Medium octavo, 24 cm. LXXVIII, 432 pp. + the five plates and folding map (6¾/4 X 17½ inches + engraved caption and generous margins, in excellent condition with no tears); VI, [I], 544 pp. + the five plates. Bibliography of Mormon publications, II:499- 506; Index, II:507-544. Collated COMPLETE.

Original half black morocco leather over black morocco-grained glossy paper-covered boards. Spines blind-stamped into compartments and gilt-lettered. Binding tight and strong. In excellent condition throughout. Minor foxing in areas and a couple clean margin tears without loss, but a lovely, highly presentable set indeed, at an attractive price: $950

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FIRST EDITION. Flake 6866; Howes R210; Sabin 69595; Graff 3461 (English edition); Wheat IV:192-3 (discussing the folding map); Wagner-Camp 364:1, noting (in entry 364:2 for the 1861 English edition):

Remy and his companion Julius Lucius Brenchley traveled from San Francisco to Salt Lake City in the summer of 1855. After a month's stay they left for Los Angeles, which they reached on November 29, and then returned to San Francisco.

Julius Brenchley's journey across the plains to Oregon is described in "Voyage de m. Brenchley à travers l'Amérique du Nord," in Volume Two, pages 421-33. The Frenchmen were fascinated by the Mormons, and much of this book is devoted to the new American religion.

This is a famous and highly-important travel account through Utah, translated the following year as A Journey to Great Salt Lake City (London, 1861). Certainly

80 the most prominent Continental work of this genre, and well-deserving of its high reputation. It was co-authored by Julius Brenchley, whose own copy of the first edition (with his manuscript notes and additions) appeared in my Catalogue Two (1981). Remy's own apparent copy of the original version of the French Book of Mormon appeared in my Mormon List 65 more than a dozen years ago.

Although critical of the Mormons, this two-volume, leather-bound set is a highly analytical, detailed work which preserves a rich array of first-hand observations which are not duplicated anywhere else. Besides the expected history and review of Mormonism, its doctrines, scripture and sociology, we also get fun detail like an example found in the second volume, pages 399-400 (my translation) . . .

Putting some of the papers in our portfolio in order, our eyes fell upon a letter of introduction which we had completely forgotten. It was addressed by a Mormon to a relative of the late prophet, who resided at Los Angeles for her health. "Here is a letter of worth," we thought. But our hope disappeared in a flash. The wording of this letter was so bizarre, so droll, that we were not sure whether we should present it or retain it in our archives as a curiosity. We concluded upon the latter choice, which was probably the best, as it now allows us to offer this singular document to the reader.

"Great Salt Lake City, 26 October 1855.

"Dear sister Agnes Smith,

"As there are two travelers whom I met in the Sandwich Islands, I seize this occasion to send you word informing you of all of our good health. Jerusha has had a child. That's about all the news at the moment. Except that I have taken a second wife. Her name is Betsy Noon, a daughter of one of Brother H. C. Kimball's wives. Perhaps you know her.

"These gentlemen may pay you a visit. They are rich, and I don't think you have anything to lose by them.

"Upon which, I remain your respectful

"JAMES."

On a more substantial note, this work discusses everything from Native Americans, their music and their writings, to the Deseret Alphabet (with illustrations of both), the Anthon Transcript (with fine illustration) - even daily temperature statistics which they kept in Utah for a month, plus comparative temperatures of Las Vegas! The set is worth much for the plates alone. The beautifully-engraved double portrait of Joseph and Hyrum Smith, set in an oval ("From the original painting located in Brigham Young's mansion") is particularly striking (illustrated at the beginning of this entry).

105 REMY, Jules. A JOURNEY TO GREAT-SALT-LAKE CITY, By Jules Remy, and Julius Brenchley, M.A.; With a Sketch of the History, Religion, and Customs of the Mormons, and an Introduction on The Religious Movement in the United States. By Jules Remy. In Two Volumes. . . . With Ten Steel Engravings and a Map. London: W. Jeffs, 1861.

TWO VOLUMES. 25½ cm. cxxxi, 508; vii, 605, [1] pp. + all ten plates as called for, plus the folding map (in excellent condition) at the end of the first volume. Original violet gilt- and blind-decorated cloth. Inner hinges cracking but holding together; medium general faults and some moderate foxing. Spines fading somewhat, but spine caps very good, and fairly presentable overall, and better than many sets offered online at higher prices. $650

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH (first published in French the previous year, offered for sale in this catalog, above). Flake 6867; Howes R 210 (aa rarity); Wagner-Camp 364, Graff 3461. One of the great early European treat- ments of the Mormons. The plates include the Anthon transcript, a facsimile from the Book of Abraham and the Deseret Alphabet, but also a sensitive engraved portrait of a Native American, a hauntingly stark view of Fillmore, Utah (for which, see item 51 in this catalog), and striking frontispieces of Joseph & Hyrum Smith in profile, and Brigham Young. The Salt Lake Temple (one of the engraved plates, also stamped in gold on the front of each volume) is of course speculative, and shows flying horizontal angels atop both the east and west center spires.

"As with the Book of Mormon, so with the Book of Abraham, we feel fully assured, that every day as it passes, every new discovery that has a bearing on its statements, will increasingly vindicate its truthfulness, and bear united testimony that Joseph Smith was indeed and of a truth a Prophet, Seer and Revelator, inspired by the Spirit of Jehovah, the mighty God of Jacob." (p.49)

106 REYNOLDS, George. THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM. Its Authenticity Established as a Divine and Ancient Record. With Copious References to Ancient and Modern Authorities. By Elder George Reynolds. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment, 1879. 82

23 cm. v, 49 pages. Original light green printed wrappers. Light soil and some wear to wrappers with front wrapper lifting along backstrip line; lower fore- corner of title with some wear. $75

Flake 7095 (only contemporary edition). Because of the republication of the Pearl of Great Price the previous year, Reynolds took this opportunity to present evidences for the Book of Abraham. He felt that ". . . there is not a book in existence whose genuineness can be more easily proven . . ." Reynolds saw Joseph Smith as "an unlearned man" who could not have produced the Book of Abraham without "a greater than human power," even "had he been a scientist of the highest order." (p. 4).

While I admire George Reynolds for his impressive concordance to the Book of Mormon, the pamphlet considered here is staggeringly naïve. At best, it is more a credit to the author's dated scholarship than to his objective reasoning or historical background. Reynolds uses commonly available sources of Joseph Smith's day (particularly Josephus) to "prove" the authenticity of the Book of Abraham. When Reynolds identifies evidences from the science of astronomy, he fails to realize that the concepts he isolates were quite handy in the 1830s and earlier, even in children's textbooks. Old-time readers of my catalogues or Mormon Parallels will blush to find the following example taken from Reynolds' pamphlet, p. 30:

When Joseph Smith enunciated the sublime truths above noticed no such thoughts were prevalent amongst the students of astronomy. The Herschels had some inkling of the facts, but their ideas were crude and undeveloped. It was not until the Book of Abraham had been published in America, and if we mistake not in England also, that Sir Wm. G. Hamilton, of the Dublin University, advanced the idea that our solar system had a centre around which the sun and all its attendant planets moved. To-day the scholars in the most radical school of astronomy will only admit that our system has a centre, and that the probabilities are that that centre has a centre also round which it and all its satellites move.

Other problems arise from Reynolds not having the advantage of the 1967 discovery of original Joseph Smith papyri:

The Prophet Joseph Smith states that Plate I represents an idolatrous priest attempting to offer up Abraham as a sacrifice to his gods. M. [Theodule] D[everia]. affirms that it represents the resurrection of Osiris. We ask, if it is a representation of a resurrection, what is the priest doing with a knife in his hand? Osiris was not resurrected with a knife, but Abraham would have been slain with one if God had not delivered him. [p.45]

The embarrassing fact, of course, turns out to be that in the Book of Abraham Facsimile I, the portion of the illustration which shows the knife had been torn away from the original papyrus long before it was acquired by Joseph Smith.

The priest did not have a knife in his hand; that was drawn in by some latter- day owner. What the priest probably had in his hand might not be appropriate to discuss in this catalog; see illustrations 15 and 23 in Edward H. Ashment, "The Book of Abraham Facsimiles: A Reappraisal," Sunstone 4 (December 1979), as well as the illustration in my Mormon List 36, item 149. Similar errors arise when Reynolds tries to deal with Deveria's objections to the "angel of the Lord" designation of the bird (also altered on the "Joseph Smith" papyrus in the nineteenth century) in the same facsimile, p. 45. Reynolds only gets himself into deeper error as he descends to a highly patronizing anecdote about a boy who could not draw well. "So M. Deveria wants to put a head or a tail on some of these characters and then call them Osiris, Anubis, or some other God! Anything to beat revelation." p. 46 (emphasis added here). It is interesting, in addition, to notice that on page 17 of this pamphlet, Reynolds quotes an ancient Egyptian text which he obviously saw as a faith-promoting parallel to the Adam- God doctrine.

107 ROBERTS, B[righam]. H[enry]. THE MORMON BATTALION; Its History and Achievements. By B. H. Roberts. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret news, 1919.

19 cm. v, 96 pp. + folding map. Orig. printed yellow wrappers. Internally fine, the map without any wear or tears. The wrappers are a trifle soiled but with little wear, but there is a square area of tape residue at the left lower blank area of the front wrapper measuring 1 X 1½ inches. $85

Flake 7337 (only contemporary edition). Roberts, a member of the First Council of the Seventy since 1888, is remembered as one of the more colorful yet disciplined, scholarly General Authorities of his era, admired by both faithful and dissenting Mormons to this day.

108 ROBERTS, B[righam]. H[enry]. RECENT DISCUSSION OF MORMON AFFAIRS. Answer to the Ministerial Association's Review of "An Address to the World" by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. By Elder B. H. Roberts, 1907 [cover title; caption title on first page: "Answer to Ministerial Association Review. By B. H. Roberts." N.p., n.d. (but Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1907?)

23 cm. 56 pp. Orig. printed tan wrappers. Wrappers with medium soil and wear; a few dog-ears to corners of text. $65

Old Flake 7366 (compare to latter portions of new Flake entries 1311 and 6830b which describe other, expanded compilations). Regarding post-Manifesto maintenance of plural families, Roberts offers surprising frank comments . . .

. . . I stand exactly where I did seven years ago, namely, that though the Church proclaimed against the continuance of that relationship, though the state by statute proclaimed against it, neither Church nor state can dissolve the moral obligations I feel I am under to discharge what I regard as a moral duty. I ask you, gentlemen, to consider this proposition. What prompts this adherence to these relationships by myself and other men in our Church? You must concede that the most of those involved in these relations have passed middle life. They have entered upon the period of the "sere and yellow leaf." You cannot say their conduct is prompted by passion or lust; "for the heyday in the blood is cooled and waits upon the judgment." What is it then that prompts so many men and women in the "Mormon" Church to remain true to those relations entered upon in plural marriage? They look into each other's faces—the bloom of youth has passed, [p. 33 ends] the brightness of the eye is somewhat dimmed, the suppleness of the form has passed away. But these men and women have lived their lives under circumstances that tend to endear men and women to each other. The trials of life, even under ordinary circumstances, result in that; but when what they regard as oppression and danger surround them, it is calculated all the more to draw them more closely to each other in their affections. [pp. 33- 34 (emphasis added)]

". . . the rotten and depraved notions of a corrupt and lustful priesthood . . . {Applause.}" p.17

109 [ROBERTS, Brigham Henry] LANDIS, Charles B. THE ROBERTS CASE. Speech of Hon. Charles B. Landis, of Indiana, in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, January 24, 1900. Washington, 1900.

24 cm. 18 pp. Title page darkened unevenly; disbound. Handwritten date at top of title page in ink: "10-31-1900." $20

Flake 4736; Fales & Flake 1257. Landis argues against admitting Roberts, and appeals to the women of Utah to oppose continued cohabitation. This tidbit in passing:

. . . Lorenzo Snow, now president, prophet, seer, and revelator . . . is also trampling under foot the solemn compact made with the Government. It will be remembered that President Snow was one of those who under oath interpreted the manifesto and declared that the manifesto of 1890 prohibited unlawful cohabitation with polygamous wives as well as the ceremony of taking additional wives. Snow had participated in nine matrimonial ventures. He was first married over forty years ago, in Nauvoo, Ill., to two women, Adaline and Carlotta. He took these two wives by one and the same ceremony—in a block of two, as it were. {Laughter.} The elder of the two women has since died, and he has since married, in order named, Sarah, Harriet, Elinor, Mary, Phœbe, Minnie, and Caroline. {Laughter.} Would you not like to sit down to breakfast in that family? {Laughter.} [p.8] 85

A leading idea in each Mormon service I have attended is, "We are greatly persecuted; . . . we must therefore be the Lord's people."

110 ROBERTS, Rev. William M. (1812-88, pioneer Methodist missionary of Oregon, Idaho and California; associate of Marcus Whitman). LENGTHY ARTICLE FROM SALT LAKE CITY, October 17, 1866, prepared for and published on the front pages of two issues of THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE (Methodist newspaper, New York) for January 10 and 17, 1867 [XLII:2-3; Whole Nos. 3006-7].

Folio, paged [9]-16; [17]-24 (two complete eight-page issues). Disbound with some roughness along gutter margins, otherwise very good. Old typographic name stamps in upper right margins of each first page, of "Ja[me]s Chubbuck," possibly James Chubbuck, b. 1801, an original 1838 organizer/trustee of the Orwell, Pennsylvania Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. the two issues: $225

Original to this newspaper, prepared by a leading light of Methodism in the American Northwest, entitled: "{For the Christian Advocate.} Utah. BY REV. WILLIAM ROBERTS." January 10, page 1, columns 3-6; January 17, page 1, columns 3-5: a single lengthy communication occupying more than ninety column inches in all.

Evidently very rare: I cannot find a single example on OCLC of actual hard-copy originals of these issues in institutions, though the French and German institutions' holdings of this title are not itemized.

N 1847, Rev. William ROBERTS (born in Burlington, Vermont, 1812) arrived as the third superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Oregon. It I was he who helped Marcus and Narcissa Whitman set up housekeeping there - and it was he who had to report in his letter East of December 18, 1847 "the melancholy fact that Dr. Whitman and wife and nine other persons have been cruelly murdered at Waiilatpu."

Roberts remained for many years, first organizing the Oregon and California Mission Conference which then included most of the American West. Pioneers would sometimes drive their wagons fifty miles to huge camp meetings to hear Rev. Roberts' magnificent sermons - just to get a taste of the old days before they had emigrated to this broad and often isolated expanse of new country. When gold was discovered in Idaho, life in the mining camps of Idaho City (where I used to go swimming as a boy) could be rough indeed. There, a little Methodist class of five faithful miners began to meet regularly, and in 1865, Rev. Roberts (then Presiding Elder of the Willamette District) was appointed superintendent of Methodist missionary work in Idaho. It is here that the article now at hand begins. "Our last year of labor has been in Idaho;" he writes from Salt Lake, "and

86 in the absence of any other minister of our Church it seemed necessary for us to visit this place, now fast rising into importance, and carefully examine Mormonism in its chosen home."

Roberts attended the Mormon General Conference on Monday, October 8, and gives his reactions here. Unlike many visitors to Utah, his arrival was from Boise City (three days by stagecoach), and he describes the appearance of the Lake as approached from the north. Considering the writer's background, we will not be surprised at the negative tone of his social and religious views of the Saints. He is full of horror stories and sad anecdotes, some of which have probably come from Mrs. Waite's new book which he recommends (San Francisco, 1866; Flake 9505 and another edition offered for sale in this catalog as item 145). Whatever Roberts' prejudices, however, he was no Eastern tourist out for cheap thrills, but a tested, pre-railroad man of the cloth who had endured decades of Western hardship for his religion. I don't find this text anywhere else, including the Internet. It is too lengthy to summarize fairly in a catalog description, but here are a few snippets which particularly caught my eye . . .

Their credulity is amazing: they evince the most sincere and trusting belief that it is their duty to "Gather unto Zion;" that the "kingdom" is just now to be restored; that wonderful revelations await the saints, and that miracles of healing are actually performed. [Jan. 10, col. 3]

It is the boast of Mormons that drunkenness and prostitution are unknown among them. Their prophet said some time since [i.e., ago], "He that thinks to sell rum and not go to hell fools himself." Whenever a saloon or place of amusement is started the police interfere, and a general smash up is the result.

The mode of doing this is to go disguised, and effect the destruction violently, as a mob, rather than as officers of the peace. Several cases have occurred since I have been here. Do we therefore infer that rum drinking and whoredom are unknown in the place? The truth is, the Church sells the rum, and sanctifies and practices the licentiousness. [col. 5]

There is published in this place a most excellent paper, The Union Vedette, fearless and outspoken, devoted to law and order. It was established by General Conner, and is one of the many useful things done by that excellent officer. A few days ago, as the editor, (Mr. Weston,) with two of his hands, was going to the office, near eleven o'clock at night, he was beset by a party of disguised ruffians, one of whom he recognized as a policeman. They gagged him, beat him over the head with revolvers, dragged him off to a by-place in the city, tore open his bosom [i.e., his shirt & undershirt], leveled their guns, and made him promise to take Captain Brown and Dr. Williamson with him, and leave the place in so many hours. [Jan. 17, columns 3-4]

As to collision and bloodshed, there is no good reason to fear it at all. The Mormon leader is essentially a coward. The Mormon masses are the ignorant 87

peasantry of Europe, unskilled in the use of firearms, and no training they have ever had here would make them anything more than an element of military weakness instead of strength. A little increase of the force at Camp Douglass, the guns of which command this place, would insure safety. [col. 5]

A leading idea in each Mormon service I have attended is, "We are greatly persecuted; everybody outside of our own fold hates us; we must therefore be the Lord's people."

The same logic would make saints of most penitentiary convicts, and all candidates for the gallows in the world. [col. 5]

111 ROYCE, (Mrs.) Sarah Eleanor Bayliss. A FRONTIER LADY. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE GOLD RUSH AND EARLY CALIFORNIA. By Sarah Royce, with a Foreword by Katharine Royce. Edited by Ralph Henry Gabriel, Professor of History in Yale University. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932.

20½ cm. xiv pp.; [1 (contents)] f.; 144 pp. + simple map plate facing p. 3. Original gray cloth. Very good; no dust jacket. $20

Graff 3598 (calling for a frontispiece which was never in this copy, and which is not mentioned by any entries in OCLC). Overland account by the mother of Josiah Royce (author of Flake item 7437). Brief Mormon content, pp. 10, 12, 33, 34, 40. The British-born New England forty-niners were treated kindly by Mormons, and given a handwritten guide of two pages written out by Ira J. Willes, Salt Lake City. They were among the last to leave the city for California, in a lone wagon as Mormons shook their heads regretfully, as it was already the end of August, 1849. From her manuscript written in 1888 using her original overland diary as an aid.

with contemporary Millroy & Hayes Pioneer Lithograph Map

112 SALT LAKE CITY[.] Map and Route of the Mormon Pioneers, their Names, Story of the Trip and the Dates[.] Mormon Church History and Organization[.] THE WILSON HOTEL[,] SALT LAKE CITY[.] A. Fred Wey. The Home of the Tourist[.] 300 Rooms, 75c to $1.50 Per Day. 150 Rooms with Bath, $1.50 to $2.00 Per Day. The Leading and Most Popular Priced Restaurant in the City, Seating 400 People. [cover title, front and back]. No date, but ca. 1900?

17.5 X 10.5 cm. Opens to turn sideways forming four panels on each side of a single long sheet, printed in black and red with illustrations. Each panel measures approx. 21 X 17½ cm. However, the verso of the sheet comprises a single lithograph in colors of the famous "ROUTE OF THE MORMON PIONEERS FROM NAUVOO TO GREAT SALT LAKE. July, 1847. Feb'y, 1846. Denver Lith. Co., Denver, Colo[.] Copyright 1899 by Millroy & Hayes." At top of this panorama: "ISSUED BY THE WILSON EUROPEAN HOTEL, SALT LAKE CITY."

A lovely, fresh copy in fine condition without foxing. A small corner fold hole is scarcely noticeable. $750

More than two feet long, the colored birds-eye map itself measures 18 X 64.9 cm. (or 7 1/8 X 25 1/2 inches), and the full sheet, 21.2 X 69.3 cm. (or 8 5/16 X 27 5/16 inches).

RARE, with OCLC locating only the copy at Yale's Beineke Library. NOT IN FLAKE, which adds a different version to the online bibliography as entry 0579c.5, entitled "The New Wilson European Hotel . . ." That one, like the few examples I have found on the Internet (offered at substantial prices, and sometimes in less desirable condition than this one) seems to be slightly later than the version now

offered here, which never refers to the Wilson Hotel as "new." Utah miner Frank M. WILSON came to Salt Lake City in 1899. By 1903 he had remodeled the structure, and began over-printing his older brochures with the "New Wilson" stamp, then issuing later publications with the new designation.

Extensive Mormon historical text includes a list of the original 1847 pioneers, description of the city and its history. All versions of this pamphlet strike me as quite scarce, and I have never seen one before. The original Millroy & Hayes map (Graff 3585, also c. 1899) is larger in format, and sells for thousands of dollars.

113 THE SANTA FE TRAIL (railroad advertising newspaper). Topeka, Kansas: [published monthly . . . by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad], April 1883 [II:14].

Folio, [4] pp. Medium wear with slight separation at a horizontal fold without actual loss. The paper is not brittle. $100

Neither this paper nor the Denver Republican (from which most of the Utah article is taken) is common. Somewhat vague holdings on OCLC suggest that no more than two or three copies of each title exist at institutions today –with none shown in Utah.

"The Resources of Utah," pp. [3-4] is a lengthy promotional description intended to encourage travel and settlement in that Territory. This is an extensive treatment filling some 3½ columns of small type (44 column inches of text). Topics are organized by "Climate, Agricultural, Fruit, Pasturage-Stock Raising, Mining, Park City, Frisco District, Lead, Coal and Iron, Other Minerals, Building Stone, Utah's Bullion, Comparative Bullion Statement [with table], The Physical Features," and "Business Outlook." A short introductory portion by this paper explains that with the recent completion of the "Gunnison and Utah extension of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway" (to which the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad connects), trains now run directly from Pueblo to Salt Lake City, shortening the trip from Kansas City by a hundred miles or two, reviving interest in Utah. The article is then taken from the Denver Republican of April 5.

MORMONISM is treated in two short passages. The first gives a cursory history of the settlement of Utah Territory and frustrated aspirations to statehood (1½ inches, p. 3, col. 3). Then a more interesting sociological comment bridges the bottom of page 3 to the top of page four (2 inches) . . .

Mining in Utah is in its infancy. Its possibilities are great. The same amount of enterprise, capital and advertising that has placed Colorado in the front rank of bullion producers, had it been turned to Utah, would have placed her side by side with the Centennial State in commercial importance and wealth. Of course a 90

large percentage (probably four-fifths) of the wealth of Utah is represented by that peculiar sect known as Mormons, and it has been the policy of the leaders and thinkers of this class to foster and encourage only those enterprises and industries that they considered strictly legitimate and sure in their results, and mining, with its chances of large gains and equal chances of great losses, is not considered as belonging to that class. Perhaps it is as well for Utah in the long run that it is so, but it has retarded the development of her mines in the past. [emphasis added]

114 SAVAGE, C[harles]. R[oscoe]., Pioneer Art Gallery (firm , Salt Lake City). Two

STEREOGRAPHS (double -image stereoscopic view cards), showing the Salt Lake

"Theatre, South End. " and "Residence of President B. Young." [C. R. Savage, Pioneer Art Gallery, East Temple St. Salt Lake City, Utah. Ca. 1870-75.]

TWO STEREO CARDS. Yellow card mounts each measure 8.7 X 17.6 cm., each with two albumen photographs with rounded corners and arched tops as issued. Each printed "UTAH." at each end, and with the individual captions in small type below the right image. Each with Savage "Pioneer Art Gallery" advertising text on verso, beginning: "Photographic Scenes in Utah, Arizona, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming Territories . . ." Each in very good condition, with medium soil (primarily to mounts, scarcely affecting images) and very little wear. the two stereoviews: $385

The residence was photographed during Brigham Young's lifetime, showing the Beehive and Lion Houses from just inside a gate on the opposite (south) side of South Temple Street. Foreground DETAIL reveals an interesting minor feature up close: an apparent cowbell attached to a gate chain to announce comings and goings, and perhaps also to weight the gate shut again (note shadow of the device on the ground).

115 SAVAGE, C[harles]. R[oscoe]. VIEWS OF UTAH AND TOURISTS' GUIDE, Containing a Description of the Views and General Information for the Traveler, Resident and the Public Generally, from Authentic sources. By C. R. Savage, Art Bazar, Salt Lake City. The Deseret News Co., Printers. N.d. (but ca. 1887).

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 10½ X 15 cm. 16 accordion plates and 21 pp. of text. The fourth picture is a composite image of the SALT LAKE and St. George Temples. Orig. deeply embossed blue cloth with ornamental title gilt- 91

stamped on front board. Modest wear and a few faults, but pleasant and presentable. $65

Flake 7543. The latest date mentioned is the winter of 1886-87, and the Salt Lake Temple is still under construction (illustrated with a prospective horizontal

flying -angel-with-trumpet weathervane, very tiny but unmistakable in the image). Pictures are copyrighted 1887.

116 SAVAGE [another example]. As above, also blue in color, but LACKING THE TEXT. Back board somewhat soiled, but still quite attractive, and the pictures in nice condition (copyright 1887; the fourth picture is a composite image of the MANTI and St. George temples). SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. $40

117 SAVAGE [another example]. As above, but maroon in color, also LACKING THE TEXT. Quite attractive, and the cover and pictures in slightly better condition than the blue copy above; the pictures are also printed with better contrast and clarity. The fourth picture is a composite image of the MANTI and St. George temples. SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. $50

118 SAVAGE [another version]. [THE REFLEX OF SALT LAKE CITY AND VICINITY, Including letter-press description and illustrations of Public Edifices, Hotels, Business Blocks, Churches, Indians, Bathing Resorts, etc., and a variety of information, valuable for the Tourist or the Resident, from reliable sources. Salt Lake City: Published at the Art Bazar (sic), 12 and 14 Main Street, by C. R. Savage, n.d. (but 1892?)].

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 16 X 12 cm. 13 accordion plates (the first, a "Bird's Eye View of Salt Lake City from the S[outh]. E[ast]." comprising

three pages of the folding gravure). Text sect ion measures 14½ X 11 cm., 35 pp.

Orig. olive brown morocco -grained blind -stamped cloth decorated in black and ornamental gilt title on front board. The covers and plates are in very good condition (but for a short separation starting at the top of one of the folds, which could be repaired quite effectively). However, the text is quite toned, with a stain to its first page, and the text block has separated from the final leaves which are affixed to the inside back board as issued. Flake 7537. $50

119 SAVAGE [another example]. [THE REFLEX OF SALT LAKE CITY . . . Salt Lake City: Published at the Art Bazar [sic] by C. R. Savage, n.d. (but 1892? 1893?)].

SEE ILLUSTRATION on page 1 of this catalog. 16 X 12 cm. 13 accordion plates (the first, a "Bird's Eye View of Salt Lake City from the S[outh]. E[ast]." comprising

three pages of the folding gravure). TEXT LACKING. Original attractive red morocco-grained blind-stamped cloth decorated in black and ornamental gilt title on front board. In near-fine, attractive condition, but without the printed explanatory portion. Flake 7537 or '38. $45

Years came, years passed—dark, sad, cruel years— [p. 683]

120 "SAVED FROM THE MORMONS." Classic anonymous ARTICLE serialized in the November and December issues of The Galaxy. A Magazine of Entertaining Reading. (New York: Sheldon & Company, 1872; XIV:5-6). $40

24 cm. The two articles only, extracted from their respective issues long ago: disbound and secured with small modern side-staples. Paged [677]-685; [822]- 37. Some wear and light soil; old item number "9" written in blue colored pencil.

See Flake 7548 for an undated reprint "with new title page and cover." Wonderfully histrionic fiction. From section III of the first installment . . .

The next day I was ordered by Brigham Young to become a member of the choir, which was largely composed of his own children, whose acquaintance I had no desire to make. I refused to go. Then I received a note signed by Fate himself, ordering me to be present at the next meeting of the choir. Resolved not to sing in that temple of Dagon, I braved my fate and stayed away.

The following Wednesday, as I was sewing in my own room, my father opened the door and stood upon the threshold looking at me. There was that in his face which told me that a crisis in my life had arrived...... it came at last, his eyes not daring to meet mine; and shorn of the verbiage with which he strove to hide its loathsome features, it amounted to this: That I should at once become the eighth wife of Elder Platt.

I heard the bitter, shameful words. My breast heaved with my quick spasmodic breathing. Stung beyond endurance, I started up at last, and raising my hand as if I were registering an oath on high, I said, "Never, father, never, while God gives me life!" [p. 684]

What connection did you suppose these things had with the keeping of a house of ill-fame?

I considered it necessary to have a respectable bedroom and have it furnished.

121 [SEX IN UTAH (and other stuff)] Utah Territorial Supreme Court [and] Third District Court of Utah Territory [and] United States Supreme Court. FOUR BOUND VOLUMES of miscellaneous printed court case briefs, abstracts, official assignments, appeals, testimony transcripts and similar official documents. 1873-1886, but primarily late 1870s.

FOUR COMPILED VOLUMES (numbered 2, 3, 4 and 7) of separate, unrelated pamphlets or booklets in a variety of typographic styles and formats, a very few with original wrappers. Because of the nature of these in-house or legal reference items, few of them contain any publication information, but all are contemporary to the dates stated in their text. $600

Approx. 20½ cm. Twentieth-century plain black library buckram cloth. Over- sewn (backstrips probably sliced and glued) and a bit tight. Trimmed, leaving plenty of margin space but still cropping some nineteenth-century handwritten marginal notes. Numerous other early manuscript notes appear in many blank areas or are written laterally along margins and are thus intact.

Roughly 3,300 pages in all. Pagination of individual items varies greatly, from a few pages to a hundred or more. Two of these four volumes have been broken inside (most portions still attached to front or back boards) and plundered to some degree (obviously to extract individual titles), but the vast majority of contents remain, as detailed numerically below: Early handwritten continuous pagination throughout the full volumes shows as follows:

Vol. 2: 860 pages total.

Vol. 3: 963 pages total.

Vol. 4: 1137 pages originally, but now lacking pp. 485-86, 489-522, and 769-830.

Vol. 7: [575] pages originally, but now lacking pp. 110-247. NOTE that these gaps do not usually represent missing portions of existing pamphlets here, but entire, separate pamphlets extracted at some point from these made-up volumes. A penciled note dated August 8, 1985 on the inside front board of Vol. 7 states: "That is all there was . . ."

These volumes were once part of the LIBRARY OF THE SUPREME COURT of the United States, and bear its bookplates, marked as having been received by that institution in February 1953 (evidently from George Sutherland Elmore). They then became the property of the Library of Congress, from which they were eventually withdrawn and stamped "SURPLUS - 3, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DUPLICATE."

ORIGINALLY THE PROPERTY OF JUDGE JABEZ GRIDLEY SUTHERLAND of Salt Lake City, "the Nestor of the Utah Bar for nearly a quarter of a century" (1825- 1902; see lengthy, laudatory biographical notice in Orson Whitney's History of Utah 4:529-32, with portrait AT RIGHT in vol. 3, facing p. 76). Numerous manuscript designations show these publications directed to Sutherland as an attorney in the cases therein described, a few with judgment findings written by someone in manuscript. The vast majority of these pamphlets name Sutherland and his legal partners in the printed text. These volumes (perhaps once in earlier bindings) were thus obviously part of this distinguished Utah attorney's private legal library.

Judge SUTHERLAND was born about twenty-five miles from my home here in Central New York when it was a fairly primitive place. Orson F. Whitney wrote that "few men saw less of the interior of the school house, . . . while of colleges and college professors he knew nothing. His learning was the fruit of application and research, outlined and directed by himself, and systematized in his own brain." (Hist. of Utah 4:532). I can believe it. Sutherland or some close assistant must have spent countless hours methodically numbering these thousands of pages with a fountain pen. My descriptions below will be amateur, because I am no lawyer - nor do I ever want to be one after browsing slowly, during hours of my own, through so much technicality and "legalese." Yet if you know how to look, you will find substantial information here, and good history, and sometimes even better sociology.

The cases include endless large mining claims and land disputes (between major firms or even individual women), mortgage and debt lawsuits, The London Bank of Utah vs. Wells Fargo & Company (1879), matters of timber (vs. Daniel H. Wells, defended by Sutherland), railroads (including a locomotive setting fire by sparks, destroying a farm), irrigation (which flooded a cellar filled with valuable tobacco), and a suit by a defrauded sewing machine company. There is even an eighteen-page pamphlet without title page beginning with the simple caption title, "To his Excellency ELI H. MURRAY, Governor of the Territory of Utah," signed in type at the end, "GEORGE Q. CANNON. WASHINGTON, D. C., December 30, 1880," defending his election as Territorial delegate to Congress over objections made 95

by his opponent on birther and polygamy issues (Vol. 4, ms. pp. 197-214; not found as such on OCLC, but I don't know what this may be, bibliographically).

ORTUNATELY, these complex compilations are relieved by two entertaining Fand highly detailed cases of a more colorful nature: particulars of COHABITATION (testimony by the second of three plural Mrs. Townsends of the Townsend House hotel), and PROSTITUTION (testimony and itemized inventory of furnishings destroyed by the Salt Lake City authorities at the house conducted by Cora Conway). These two cases are handled with all the careful detail of the mining claims or irrigation losses, but through these flow some rather more easily-understood details not to be heard in Sunday School. The following selections are chosen more by instinct here, than by any full understanding of what may have been going on . . .

— IN THE DISTRICT COURT for the Third Judicial District of the Territory of Utah. ELIZABETH M. TOWNSEND, Plaintiff, vs. WILLIAM H. HOOPER, WILLIAM JENNINGS, BOLIVAR ROBERTS and JAMES TOWNSEND, Defendants. [caption title], dated in the text, 1880. No imprint. 246 pp. (index, pp. 243-46) [Vol. 4, ms. pp. 523-768, separated from the volume with some damage to final pages, without textual loss.] Not found on OCLC as such.

Plural wife Elizabeth became disenchanted with polygamy, and she separated from James Townsend, of the Townsend House hotel. However, he needed her to run the establishment. So, while they sat on the porch one night, he gave her a verbal promise of half-interest in the hotel –which he does not deny here. Subsequent to their separation, they sometimes shared the same bed. He incurred debts and sold the hotel, all without Elizabeth knowing. She now sues for her property. The case hinges upon the type of relationship she and James contracted. The following is from testimony taken on October 13, 1879 . . .

Q[uestion]. You say after your return in 1866 you and the plaintiff went and occupied it also? A[nswer]. Yes, sir. Q. Did you afterwards take another plural wife? A. Yes, sir. Q. In what year? A. I took my last wife in 1867—the 14th of September, 1867. Q. Was that with the consent of the plaintiff? A. No, sir. Q. When did she hear of your intention to take another wife or of the fact of your taking one? Objected to by Judge Rosborough as irrelevant. By the Court [Judge John A. Hunter]: I don't think it is proper. By Judge Sutherland [attorney for Elizabeth]: It lies at the very root of the

contract that was made between them. By the Court: I don't know what a second or third plural wife has to do with it. By Judge Sutherland: Your Honor will see when I state its connection. He is commencing to state that he was about to take another plural wife, and on the plaintiff ascertaining it she declined to submit to it. She was on the point of leaving him and leaving the property, and thereupon the contract and agreement that is set up in the complaint was made. That was the immediate inducement to the contract. [p. 33]

Under cross-examination, details become a teensy bit more detailed . . .

Q. Have you not from 1858 up to the time you ceased to keep the Townsend House been in the habit of introducing the plaintiff as your wife? A. Yes, sir. Q. To strangers coming there? A. Yes, sir; because we have never had any divorce; we have always remained just as we were; we have had no divorce, and I have introduced her as my wife on those grounds. Q. You have testified that you had a third wife. A. Yes, sir. [p. 43 ends] Q. Have you been cohabiting with her since 1867? A. With my third wife? Oh! yes. If you would see my children you would think so. Q. You have not been impotent since 1867? A. Oh! no. I have got six children and another one almost here. The oldest is about eleven years old, I think. Q. Where has the plaintiff slept since 1867 in the Townsend House? A. She has slept in a good many different rooms in the house. Q. Have you ever slept in the same room with her since that time? A. Yes, sir. Q. In the same bed? A. In the same bed with her. [pp. 43-44, with much more testimony before and after]

Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend (plaintiff and second wife of three, testifies on her own behalf, questioned by James' attorney Judge Rosborough) . . .

Q. Wait a moment. Mr. Townsend, you said, had married you as a plural wife? A. Yes, sir. Q. Had he a first wife then living? A. Yes, sir...... She lived in the Townsend House. Q. At the time you heard he was about taking another—a third wife? A. Yes, sir. Q. Go on. You say you went to President Young for a divorce. 97

A. Yes, sir. [p. 86 ends] Q. Why did you go to President Young? A. Objected to as irrelevant. Q. Go on. You went to Brigham Young you say about that divorce? A. Yes, sir; I went determined that I would leave him if he took another wife. When I returned I told Mr. Townsend that I had been to President Young's. He says, now Elizabeth I can't bear to part with you. If you will only stay with me and help me to build up a first class hotel, I will give you d [sic] half of the property that is here, now, and I will make you a partner with me in all that we shall make. He says, it will be a divide between us; you will be a co-partner with me if you will only stay with me. Q. When was that? A. That was just before he took his wife. He married this woman. Q. Did you consent that he should take that wife? A. I considered over it, knowing that every dollar that Mr. Townsend got I helped him to earn with my own hands. These gentlemen know it, Mr. Hooper and Mr. Jennings, and they know well that I made the business at the Salt Lake House; that I worked from morning to night to make the hotel all that it was— the highest ambition of my life. [pp. 86-87, with much more]

— JUDGMENT ROLL. CORA CONWAY, Plaintiff, vs. JETER CLINTON, JOHN T. D. MCALLISTER, ANDREW BURT, CHARLES CROW, WILLIAM HYDE, ------DOBBINS, GEORGE SMITH, Defendants. In the Third Judicial District Court, within and for Utah Territory, County of Salt Lake. check OCLC [caption title; no imprint, dated in the text, January 1875]. 113 pp. FOLLOWED BY two short related documents in different typefaces, of 3 and [2] pp., respectively, captioned at head, "In the Supreme Court . . ." (brief for plaintiff and brief for defendants).

Miss Conway, recently from Wyoming, has furnished a residence on Commercial Street, Salt Lake City, where a certain occupation is practiced by several single (so far as she knows) women living in her various eight bedrooms. (The site is now Regent Street, where Salt Lake City's daily newspapers are printed.) Cora has been arrested a few times already, and on this most recent occasion, she returned home after an hour in court to find the police methodically smashing, ripping and shredding the entire contents of her house. She offered them $500 to stop, but it was too late by this time, plus the officer said he was bound by law to finish the work. He suggested that Cora retrieve her personal things, which advice, at such a late stage of operation, Cora characterized as rather "thin." A diamond earring was badly damaged, she said, and precious stones lost, along with a fifty dollar bill.

J. G. SUTHERLAND, THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS PRINTED RECORD NOW AT HAND, was attorney for the officers and deputies whom Cora sued, but I think Sutherland must have gotten a chuckle out of the proceedings anyway. "In

98 private life," said Orson F. Whitney, "the Judge was one of the most genial and sociable of men, an excellent conversationalist, a good story teller, possessing a rich vein of humor. A keen wit, he was quick and apt at repartee, and his wide information and extensive knowledge of affairs made him most companionable." (Hist. of Utah 4:531). I'm not sure what Judge Sutherland thought of THIS affair, and I'm sorry to say he hasn't written comments these particular pages, but at least he preserved them –for which I feel grateful, because a cataloger's life is generally more boring than this.

To begin things, Cora submits what has to be the single best thing in this whole collection: her four-page inventory (illustrated AT RIGHT) of the extensive contents of her bawdy house located two blocks south of Temple Square, for which she sues for reimbursement in the amount of $6,351.00. Articles range from her diamond earring ($300) to things so minor as bed sheets (worth only $5.00 apiece but with interesting histories, surely) and a dozen spittoons (@$3.00 apiece, and which I hope were not used by the ladies themselves). This list is a treasure for local historians, if you think about it! Cora itemizes virtually the entire contents of a Salt Lake City house of ill repute, sorted room by room: mattresses, pillows, blankets, wardrobes, lamps, carpets, toilet sets, wash bowls (sorely missed, no doubt), curtains, pictures on the walls, and so much else (pp. 3-6). I can't analyze this case scientifically, so here are snippets of the proceedings instead. CORA testifies:

"You say you arrived while it was going on?"' "Yes, sir" "Who was employed in the destruction of the property? Did you know any persons?" "I knew all of the police, and I would know the other parties if I saw them." "State the names of the policemen you knew." "Bill Hyde was the overseer, one of the Smith brothers was in my house, and, I know their names, but I can't think of them—Charley Crow." "Tell what Mr. Hyde was doing." "He was bossing it, and telling what to do, and when they would not break it fine enough he told them to finish it." "What were they doing?" "They were smashing up furniture, bedsteads, washstands, and everything in the furniture line."

"What did Hyde say?" "He didn't say much of anything . . ." [p. 32]

Rosa Wakely wasn't feeling so hot when the cops arrived sometime around noon, and she testifies that . . .

"I was in bed, and Mr. Phillips came up and said–'Rosa, get up;' he told me to get up, that they were going to break up everything in the house. I got up and put my dress on, and threw my clothes, what belonged to me, and these men came in and broke up everything. They used axes and long knives. They used knives to cut the pillows, and used them maliciously. I was afraid of them, I was afraid they would cut us up like they did the carpets. They cut the carpets and everything. They did not leave an article that was not demolished. They broke up everything, and destroyed all the furniture. I don't think there was a yard of carpet that was not cut up. I didn't have any conversation with the men. We were ordered to get up and get out. I saw every room in the house; they were all in the same condition. They beat down first one room and then went to another." [p. 41 ends] "When they got through, where were you and the other inmates of the house?" "We were sitting around on the floor of the house; they didn't leave us a chair to sit on." [pp. 41-42]

Officer Hyde testifies . . .

"You say you broke up some bureaus, &c." "Yes, sir." "State how you did it?" "The men did it generally with hatchets." "Did you destroy any carpets?" "Yes, sir." [p. 70 ends] "How were they destroyed?" "They were cut open and ripped up with knives, and anything they had in their hands." "What connection did you suppose these things had with the keeping of a house of ill-fame?" "I considered it necessary to have a respectable bedroom and have it furnished." "That is necessary for any body? "Yes, sir" "Is it not necessary to have a house also?" "Yes, sir." "Is not the house more necessary than these other things? "Yes." "Why is it that you did not abate the house instead of the furniture?" "The house did not belong to the parties; furthermore I was not commanded to abate the house, if I had, I would have done it." [pp. 70-71]

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The judge (whose name I don't discover in this highly extended record) complains of "the peculiarity of this case . . . I have barely had time to glance over, much less to study, these voluminous papers here. You don't have all the disagreeable work to do gentlemen. I get, in all of these cases, my full share of it. . . ." (p. 81). His charge to the jury goes on and on, including these resentful comments bringing in POLYGAMY as a sort of devil's advocate consideration . . .

"Now then, polygamy is unlawful, and polygamous intercourse is adulterous intercourse in the law, all over the civilized world, and still is the statue law of all this country.

"Now, gentlemen of the jury, I will call your attention to the extent of power this would give Justices of the Peace.

"If Jeter Clinton can order No. 41 Commercial street demolished, suppose, while justice of the peace, some one was to make an affidavit and change the names and number, and charge John Doe, who we will assume is known to be living in polygamy. He goes before Jeter Clinton and makes an affidavit charging this man John Doe with keeping these women, and practising illicit sexual intercourse with them. Take him before Jeter Clinton, and he is to is-[p. 87 ends]sue a warrant and demolish his house and everything in it. If Jeter Clinton can do it in one case why not in the other? The one house is occupied by the women, and is kept for the purpose of illicit intercourse; the other is kept by the man for the same purpose. Don't let any man say I am defending either, I condemn both, but both can be, when the laws can be enforced, and will be, suppressed; but who is to do it? Justices of the Peace? [pp. 87-88]

The examination and selection of these jurors takes up many pages at the beginning of this case, and the process might be historically informative (one proposed juror being a saloon keeper, for example). Spoiler: The jury found in favor of Cora, but the state supreme court overturned the verdict on several grounds. I hope this description has been a blessing to your soul . . . or at least to Cora's.

122 SHERMAN, John. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY—ITS HISTORY AND POLICY. A Speech by Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio, Delivered at the Cooper Institute, in the City of New York, April 13, 1860 [caption title; no imprint]. New York? 1860?

22½ cm. 16 pp. Disbound; once folded in thirds horizontally. Cellophane tape repairs to areas of backstrip (not yet discolored). $45

NOT IN FLAKE. OCLC says 1860, and seems to show both this version and another of only eight pages (but no copy of either version in Utah). The party must not resist slavery for the time being. If a Republican President is elected,

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"We will settle with the Mormons in accordance with the Philadelphia platform. (Applause.)" (p. 10). And near the end of the speech, this reiteration . . .

In the north opinion is free, and wherever opinion is free the right is more than a match for the wrong. Here any one may extol the beauties of slavery, polygamy, Mahometanism—of anything and everything. He may write about it, talk about it, preach about it. Here we are not afraid of a tract, a book, or a speech. Freedom of discussion always begets difference of opinion. [p. 15]

James E. Talmage's copy

123 [SJODAHL, Janne Mattson] TEMPLES ANCIENT AND MODERN. Including an Account of the Laying of the Capstone on the Salt Lake Temple. [Salt Lake City]: Printed and for Sale by the Deseret News Co., n.d. [cover title and imprint; caption title on first page reads: "TEMPLES. Descriptive and Historical Sketches of ANCIENT AND MODERN SACRED EDIFICES. By J. M. Sjodahl."]. N.d. [1892?].

24 cm. 28 pp. Original salmon-colored printed wrappers. Modest wear, PLUS UPPER GUTTER OR TOP MARGIN AREAS TORN AWAY FROM FIRST TWO LEAVES, with only slight effect to printed text. $125

Flake 7745. Bearing the light stamp of "J. E. Talmage, Salt Lake City" in purple ink on both the front wrapper and first page. A nice association of this uncommon pamphlet illustrated with printed line- drawing illustrations of previous temples and the festivities (including close-ups of the rigging to lay the capstone, before and after). The newly-erected statue of Moroni, we read, "is gilded with pure gold leaf, and surmounting its crown is an incandescent lamp of one hundred candle-power. It was placed in position and was unveiled at ten minutes past three o-clock [April 6, 1892]. Its effect is beautiful." (p. 28)

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124 [SPRINGVILLE, UTAH – art] Grace Wickham CURRAN, "The Magic of Art in Utah." ARTICLE in THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF ART (New York, Washington, Lincoln, Nebraska) for April 1925 [16:4]. $30

10 X 7 inches. Single issue in orig. printed wrappers. Printed on fine coated paper with numerous black and white illustrations including works of Maynard Dixon. Very good; overlap wrapper edges bumped and with a little wear; internally fine. The two-page article by Curran (not illustrated) begins with John Hafen, but features art competition and enthusiasm among the children of Springville, Utah, who benefit thereby and go on to do well in higher education. Decently written.

125 STANSBURY, Howard. [Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah (or alternate title, Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Philadelphia or Washington, 1852]. SEPARATE MAP VOLUME (only) OF TWO HUGE MAPS to accompany the above.

23½ cm. (when folded into:) Orig. blind-stamped dark brown cloth boards gilt- stamped on front: "MAPS – Stansbury's Report." Covers wearing at extremities but strong. The maps require a banquet table or freshly-vacuumed expanse of floor to open and examine. They are browning somewhat around the individual folded square areas. There is some separation along short fold areas of the larger map, plus a little loss at two central fold corners. General edge wear and delicate areas. Not thrilling copies, but could be much worse. condition noted: $250

Flake 8358 or following entries. INSCRIBED in light pencil (in one or two hands) on the back of the first map: H. Z. Culver Jany 1854

B Perkins MC [i.e., Member of Congress]

Bishop PERKINS (1787-1866) was a Representative from New York, serving in Congress 1853-55. H. Z. CULVER was a successful Chicago publisher who began by purchasing a small bookbindery in 1854, the year in which he apparently obtained this volume. Copies of Stansbury (the book, not included here) are common enough and can be had most anytime, but not with this much more scarce pair of separately-bound maps. Their individual titles read as follow:

– MAP of the GREAT SALT LAKE and Adjacent Country in the TERRITORY OF UTAH. Surveyed in 1849 and 1850, under the orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau, by Capt. Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, aided by Lieut. J. W. Gunnison[,] Corps of Topographical Engineers and Albert Carrington. Drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss. Ackerman Lith. 379 Broadway N.Y. (Approx. 31 X 42 inches)

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– MAP of a Reconnoissance between FORT LEAVENWORTH on the Missouri River, and the GREAT SALT LAKE in the TERRITORY OF UTAH, made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J. J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau, by Capt. Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, aided by Lieut. J. W. Gunnison[,] Corps Topographical Engineers, and Albert Carrington. The adjacent country laid down from the latest and most authentic data. Drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss. Ackerman Lith. 379 Broadway N.Y. (Approx. 30 X 63 inches)

Albert CARRINGTON, named in the titles above, was an editor of the Deseret News, and went on to become an LDS apostle. Noted explorer J. W. GUNNISON went on to be massacred by Utah Indians.

126 TALMAGE, James E[dward]. THE GREAT SALT LAKE, Present and Past. By James E. Talmage, Ph.D., F. R. S. E., F. G. S., Professor of Geology, University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Deseret News, 1900.

18½ cm. [1 (half-title)]f., [8 (plates)]ff., [2 (title, preface/contents)]ff.; [21]-116 pp. as issued. Orig. lavender wrappers with decorative title printed in gold on front wrapper. A bit faded and with some light wear, but generally very good. $45

Flake 8633a (only edition) noting, "Primarily on the lake, with a few references to the Mormons." Judiciously written, soberly documented, and necessary to complete your Talmage collection. "The prevailing pursuit of the people is agriculture, and water is needed for every farm. Yet there is enough and to spare, and additions to the farming population are regarded as desirable." (p. 49)

John Taylor floating in the air

127 [TAYLOR, John] "Keys of the Kingdom" — Where? AN EVENT OF THE UNDERGROUND DAYS. [caption title]. [Salt Lake City, Utah: Francis M. Darter, March, 1945].

21 cm. 8 pp. Very good. $50

OCLC locates four copies (Huntington, UC-Santa Barbara, Yale, Utah State) plus a variant printing at BYU. Francis Michael DARTER was an interesting fundamentalist Mormon of his day. He operated independently, and was excommunicated in 1917 and again in 1937. He pursued a naive course of "who, ME?" innocence through a long career of doctrinal weirdness that included

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Adam-God, race segregation, return to the old-fashioned long temple garments, and the Indian Messiah nonsense "wherein it is alleged that Christ spent several days with faithful Indian followers in 1890 at Walker Lake, Nevada . . ." He used the pyramids to calculate the Second Coming. He died in 1968 at age 86, having produced (and generally financed the printing of) more than thirty books and pamphlets. See Flake 2666-71 for Flake-period Darter items.

The curious pamphlet offered here contains the September 22, 1929 statement of Lorin C. WOOLLEY which contains an eerie scene that is, no doubt, convincing to the convinced . . .

At this, I returned to my post and continued to hear the voices in the room. They were so audible that although I did not see the parties, I could place their position in the room from the sound of the voices. The three voices continued until about midnight, when one left and the other two continued. One of them I recognized as President John Taylor's voice. I called Charles Birrell and we both sat up until eight o'clock the next morning.

When President Taylor came out of his room about eight o'clock on the morning of September 27, 1886, we could scarcely look at him on account of the brightness of his personage.

He stated: "Brethren, I have had a very pleasant conversation all night with Brother Joseph." (Joseph Smith.) I said, "Boss, who is the man that was there until midnight?" He asked, "What do you know about it, Lorin?" I told him all about my experience. He said, "brother Lorin, that was your Lord."

They skipped breakfast and got right down to business, joined by George Q. Cannon, L. John Nuttall, John W. Woolley and others . . .

President Taylor called the meeting to order. He had the manifesto that had been prepared under the direction of George Q. Cannon, read over again. Then he put each person under covenant that he or she would defend the principle of Celestial or Plural marriage, and that they would consecrate their lives, liberty and property to this end, and that they personally would sustain and uphold that principle.

By that time we were all filled with the Holy Ghost. President Taylor and those present occupied three hours up to this time. After placing us under the covenant, he placed his finger on the document, his person rising off the floor about a foot or eighteen inches, and with a countenance animated by the Spirit of the Lord, and raising his right arm to the square, he said, "Sign that document, Never. I would suffer my right hand to be severed from my body first. Sanction it, never. I would suffer my tongue to be torn from its roots in my mouth before I would sanction it." [p. 3 (emphasis in the original)]

For analysis of this foundational claim to authority in various presentations, see: http://www.shields-research.org/Books/Polygamy_Story/LDS-Funde_Polygamy_Story- c01.htm

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128 THOMAS, R[obert]. M[oseley]. Bryce. MY REASONS .....for..... Joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. R. M. Bryce Thomas, London, England [cover title; ornamental periods as transcribed above, in the original]. [Independence, Jackson County, Mo.: Press of Zion's Printing and Publishing Company], n.d. (but 1902?).

17.6 cm. 31, [1] pp. A fine, clean copy. $25

Flake 8926, showing only the copies at Princeton and BYU. However, this is about the sixteenth of some twenty-seven editions in Flake, beginning in 1897; date for this version taken from Flake. Theological and historical arguments for the truth of Mormonism, preceded by slightly tempered praise for the people and culture of Utah, pp. 3-5.

129 TULLIDGE, Edward W[illiam]. LIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG; Or, Utah and Her Founders. By Edward W. Tullidge. New York, 1876.

22 cm. [2]ff.; iv, 458, 81 pp. + engraved frontis - piece portrait of Young with tissue guard (both in

fine condition). Colla ted COMPLETE. Printed

cancel note on blue -gray paper regarding delayed biographical sketches of Willard Richards, Joseph A. Young and others, affixed to gutter margin of page 81 of the second portion, as noted in Flake.

Original black roan leather decora ted in gilt and blind; all edges gilt. Black clay-based endpapers. Not quite fine, but certainly a very good, pleasing copy, clean and nice throughout. The spine (and thus the boards) are a bit skewed, and there is a little loss of gilt to the spine, but the spine caps remain strong and without tears. I have refreshed the color using archivally-safe dye, though rubbing along the joints remains evident. $400

The spine decoration includes a gilt cross-with-brazen- serpent device. For discussion of the use of the cross in Mormon culture until well into the twentieth century, see the fascinating new illustrated book by Michael G. Reed, BANISHING THE CROSS: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo (Independence, Missouri: John Whitmer Books, 2012).

FIRST EDITION, Flake 9041; Howes T 410. Not common, and not easily available in this condition. Evidently presented 106 to the former Civil War commander of the 29th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops (from Connecticut), Col. William B. WOOSTER, by the interesting New York City- resident entrepreneurial son of Brigham Young, with the following notes inscribed neatly on the first flyleaf in what look like three different hands and as many inks . . .

Wm B. Wooster Complimentary from John W. Young

The John W. YOUNG name is NOT Young's actual autograph. I have not found a signature of Wooster for comparison, but it could logically be his. My guess is that the "Complimentary" word was written by the publishers first, with the rest of the writing added later.

The following unsettling paragraph appears in Chapter XVII which treats "The Utah Expedition. Mad Policy of Buchanan in Sending an Army Before a Commission of Investigation . . . ," in the Utah War of 1857-58:

In this war of extermination upon the Mormons, the Indians recognized a distinct premonition of their own doom, and hence their vengeful desire for an alliance with Brigham Young and his people. But at this juncture Brigham Young desired above most things that the Indians should keep the peace, and quietly await the development of results. These, therefore, were not the instruments he required at that critical moment. He could control his own people in their supremest wrath, and under a madness of wrongs such as probably no other people in the world could have borne with control (the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith proves this); but had those Indian tribes been once set on their work of slaughter and desolation, nothing could have stayed their hands; they, or their enemies must have perish utterly. That was the only view which they were sensible of or capable of taking. It is singular that these significant facts should have received so little attention in connection with the investigation of the Mountain Meadow massacre. Is it because those who did so much to create and inspire that condition of things, appreciate that in coming to the just view, they take upon their own shoulders the responsibility of that awful deed"? [p. 257]

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130 TULLIDGE, Edward W[illiam]. "THE MORMON COMMONWEALTH. By a Mormon Elder." ARTICLE in THE GALAXY. An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading. Published Fortnightly. . . . New-York: W. C. & F. P. Church, Proprietors, Oct. 15, 1866 [front wrapper title & imprint].

24 cm. Complete issue, paged [293]-388, [2 (ads)] + frontispiece. Original chocolate-colored wrappers printed in gold, front and back. Wrappers are striking in appearance, though fading a bit, and wearing at some of their untrimmed edges, etc. Internally very good; never trimmed. $150

The Mormon article appears on pp. [351]-64, and is miles above most commentary of this period in its crisply informed sociological insights into Utah and Mormonism. TULLIDGE writes about Church management, missions and practical destiny. "The church has not grown out of polygamy," he observes on page 356, "but polygamy out of the church, and it is just as consistent that we may outgrow that peculiar institution." Text begins: "The Mormon religion is a nationality, and their church a part of the Republic of America. Whether in Utah or scattered among the nations of Europe, they are virtually part and parcel of a large social body and territory on this continent. . . ." (see on Google Books). A full page editorial on the Mormons follows in the "NEBULÆ," section, page [381].

131 TUTTLE, Daniel Sylvester. REMINISCENCES OF A MISSIONARY BISHOP. By the Right Rev. D. S. Tuttle, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of Missouri. Third Impression. New York: Thomas Whitaker, [c. 1906].

20½ cm. vii, 498 pp. + frontispiece port. with tissue guard, and portrait of Tuttle at age thirty-three, facing p. 238, as called for. Orig. maroon gilt-decorated cloth, top edge gilt. Very good; spine a trifle dull else a clean copy. $45

Flake 9061; Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 2253, saying "Scarce" and noting that this book "Has much on Virginia City, the vigilantes' dealings with Henry Plummer, George Ives, and the others." Valuable not only for its Mormon and Utah content (pp. 101-17), but Montana and broader Western perspective as well. Daniel Sylvester TUTTLE (1837-1923; Columbia, 1857, General Theological Semi- nary 1862, Columbia, 1866) was consecrated as the Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Montana, Idaho and Utah in 1867. He entered Salt Lake

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City July 2, 1867, moving his family there in November 1869. He left Salt Lake City September 1, 1886, and became the third bishop of Missouri. In his high position, Tuttle became involved in Mormon issues; see his works listed in Flake 9060-61a, including the work offered here. For a discussion of Tuttle procuring and publishing the original manuscript records of Joseph Smith's 1826 court hearing for glass looking, see Vogel, Early Mormon Documents 4:239-40.

We were seated upon the stand . . . The governor rose . . . and a profound silence ensued, as is always the case . . . he exclaimed, in a loud and exulting tone, "But Zachary Taylor is dead, and in hell, and I am glad of it." [p. 10]

132 United States. President, 1850-1853 (Fillmore). . . . UTAH. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Transmitting Information in reference to the condition of affairs in the Territory of Utah. January 9, 1852. Referred to the Committee on Territories, and ordered to be printed. [caption title: at head: at head: "32d CONGRESS, 1st Session. H[OUSE]. OF REP[RESENTATIVE]S. EX. DOC. NO. 25."] [Washington, 1852].

22 cm. 33 pp. Disbound, else in very good condition. the two documents: $65

Flake 9214; Fales & Flake 52, summarizing thus:

The bulk of this document is the "Report of Messrs. Brandebury, Brocchus, and Harris, to the President of the United States", pp. 8-22.

The theocratic nature of government in Utah is soundly criticized and specifically Brigham Young's role. Numerous quotes from various Church leaders are included to buttress their arguments.

"The runaway justices," explains Susan Fales in her entry 9213, "brought debates in the spring of 1852 on a bill to pay the officials for services. These were the first significant rehearsals of the peculiarities of the Mormons in the halls of Congress." (comments in Fales & Flake entry 51). Daniel WEBSTER here lays before the President (for transmission to Congress) communications to the President from John M. BERNHISEL, Brigham YOUNG, and the complaining judges themselves, who found it hard to live on their wages at Utah's California prices. The upshot of all this was extremely bad press for the Mormons, and the story went out the following Tuesday in the National Intelligencer (Washington, January 13, 1852) considering, from the words of this document, considering "whether there has been any misapplication to the public funds there; and whether the personal rights of our citizens have been interfered with in any manner." 109

:: TOGETHER WITH ::

House Ex. Doc. 33 (Message of the President on January 20, "TRANSMITTING A copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Territory of Utah.") 1½ pp. on a single leaf matching the longer document above, adding stringent denials by B. D. Harris, "Secretary Utah Territory," that he ever said to Brigham Young that Harris "had private instructions designed for no eye but his own, to watch every movement, and not pay out any funds unless the same should be strictly legal, according to his own judgment." Harris reports quite a different scenario of what took place in their conversation, and adds that "There are other misstatements in the letters of Governor Young and Mr. Bernhisel, equally gross and untrue . . ." (p. 2). At bottom of this leaf's first page: "Hamilton, print."

133 United States. President, 1857-1861 (Buchanan). . . . UTAH TERRITORY. MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Communicating In compliance with a resolution of the House, copies of correspondence relative to the condition of affairs in the Territory of Utah. May 2, 1860.—Laid upon the table and ordered to be printed. [caption title; at head: "36th Congress, 1st Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. EX. DOC. No. 78."] [Washington: Thomas H. Ford, Printer, 1860] (imprint from Flake).

22½ cm. 51 pp. Disbound. Very good; occasional light foxing. $85

Flake 9222; Fales & Flake 196; Howes M 867 (note only, mentioning the different Senate document, and listing these under "Mountain Meadows"). Displays a wide extent of Territorial dysfunction in thirty-eight separate documents printed here, many written to Lewis Cass, Secretary of State but also terse communications within the Territory. Albert Sidney Johnston informs Gov. Cumming that he doesn't have to obey his requests except when a posse is needed; Cumming speaks glowingly of conditions in the territory, Judge Cradlebaugh's investigations are encouraged and thwarted, and everyone sounds generally cantankerous and tired . . .

Among the prisoners was the mayor of Provo. His arrest and confinement in a guard-tent created a feeling of indignation among the inhabitants of Provo. He was released the next morning for want of evidence against him.

His arrest was probably the reason why Wall (the Mormon sheriff) said, he "did not like to see the mayor treated like a dog," and that "it would be necessary to increase the police force to keep the boys in order." Not the slightest disturbance occurred, however. [p. 22. A. Cumming to Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C.; Great Salt Lake City, March 25, 1859]

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Judge Eckels describes Mormon attitudes, comparing certain actions within Utah to the summary dispatch of prisoners to hell during the War with Mexico, without due process . . .

Just so[,] these saints send away their rebels. They are sent to that country from which few have ever returned. So have hundreds been sent away in Utah, and hundreds more will journey along the same highway unless the American people lay the axe to the root of the tree.

These pernicious doctrines are taught publicly in the tabernacle, and printed and sent out everywhere to the faithful. See the "Deseret News" for 1857. They are no mere abstract theories, but they are strong, living, active, controlling principles that permeate the whole body, and are obeyed from the heart. [p. 37. D. R. Eckels to Lewis Cass, Camp Floyd, "W.T.," September 27, 1859]

"punctual, pretty and praiseworthy"

134 THE UTAH INDUSTRIALIST, A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Home, Industrial and Productive Interests, Physical, Mental and Artistic Culture, and to Develop the Latent Resources of the Territory. Provo City, Utah: Published by the Utah Industrialist Co. SIX MISCELLANEOUS ISSUES from the first volume: August, September, December 1887; January, February, April 1888 [I:4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12].

Approx. 23 X 15 cm. (sizes vary slightly). Six issues, each 24 pp. (various consecutive paginations) + separate advertisement pages printed on light yellow, blue or tan paper at front or back. Occasional small illustrations in the text. Original illustrated wrappers, two including the Statue of Liberty on the lower left front corner. Medium wear, but very good overall. the six issues: $250

Various delivery designations in pencil or light old purple ink atop front wrappers are: "Museum," "W E Davis (Elias Morris)," "John Scofield," and "John

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Schofield Museum." A choice little slip (approx. 5 X 7 cm., verso blank, in fine condition) with pointing-finger device offers . . .

An Apology. A combination of circumstances in connection with the breaking down of our press has caused us to be put behind nearly a month in the issuing of our journal. We hope, however, to catch up and regain our lost time soon, and shall make every effort possible to be punctual, pretty and praiseworthy.

Typography and layout of this slip match the style of the periodical which began, according to OCLC, in May, 1887. The slip is lying loosely inside the December issue, but I can't say if it was always in that particular one.

Not in Alter, Early Utah Journalism. OCLC shows four locations only. The local Provo ads are both appealing (in their relatively primitive format here), and culturally instructive. The editor was William M. Egan, who I presume wrote most of the articles, including "OUR LOVED DEAD. PRESIDENT TAYLOR is dead. . . . ," August issue, pp. 90-91; and in the next issue, a lengthy description of Provo, "The Garden City," pp. 108-10 ("The herring is very near as plentiful as the trout, and almost as fine a fish. Suckers and mullets are so abundant that one can spear three or four at a time with a pitchfork. We had quite a fine time, while bathing [in Utah Lake] this summer, catching them by hand." pp. 198-109).

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135 UTAH MINING GAZETTE. An Illustrated Journal Devoted to the Mining, Commercial and other Material Interests of Utah. Vol. I. Salt Lake City, 1873-74.

Folio, 42½ X 31 cm., 8 pages each. 30 individual issues (out of 52 printed; discontinued after one volume; see inventory at the end of this description). Woodcut illustrations, diagrams and maps. In the masthead, the words "Mining Gazette" are superimposed over the word "UTAH." Disbound; condition varies from medium soil and edge wear in some issues, to other examples which are bright white and nearly new in appearance. Many bear the quaintly pleasing contemporary blue stamp of "L. P. Fisher's Advertising Agency, 21 Merchants' Exchange, California Street, San Francisco." the thirty issues: $2,400

VERY RARE. OCLC (accession number 16699612) locates only two examples of the volume: BYU Library (vault), and the Huntington Library (lacking issue 52, which is present in the group offered here). The Degolyer Library at Southern Methodist University owns five individual issues (four of which are also present in the group offered here). All other university holdings reported on OCLC are microfilm.

NOT to be confused with the Salt Lake Daily Tribune And Mining Gazette, this obscure title seems to be ignored by J. Cecil Alter (Early Utah Journalism) and O. N. Malmquist (The First 100 Years; A History of the Salt Lake Tribune). Its articles, however, have been used by historians from Bancroft to modern times, with many early contemporary citations.

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Extrapolating from sketchy details gleaned during a few hours of research, I speculate that this newspaper was an attempt to offer a professional non-sectarian mining journal apart from the Salt Lake Tribune which, that very summer of 1874, had been purchased by three men from Kansas (termed by some, "the border ruffians") who infused a distinctly anti-Mormon tone into the Tribune. Indeed, the first editor listed in the Gazette's inside masthead was F[red]. T. Perris, who had previously edited The Weekly Salt Lake Tribune (1872-73). His co-editors were J. Salis- bury and J. Isaac. ILLUSTRA- TION AT RIGHT from the front page of issue 16 (December 13, 1873).

The writing is excellent, and the contents, useful, treating a wide variety of mining, business, economic and practical matters. Reports on local agricultural and trade shows, for example, paint an interesting and detailed picture of Utah life at this time. These are augmented by good articles taken from neighboring regions' mining and other journals. I notice a first-hand description of Camp Douglas and vicinity, and a review of Edward Tullidge's play, "Oliver Cromwell." There is clearly great material here which would be available nowhere else.

Advertising is restricted to the final leaf (thus 25% of each issue, with interesting local ads). There is a small woodcut illustration on the front of each issue, and sometimes another one inside, ranging from technical renderings of mining equipment, to maps of Utah mines, to views of an "elephant's" tooth unearthed in Montana. This was probably too ambitious a project to survive, and it offered no attacks on pro- or anti- Mormons to fire up subscriptions beyond its more sober readership. This paper began on August 30, 1873, and ended with issue 52 on August 22, 1874. The editor's eloquent valedictory appears on its fourth page. He thanks all who have supported this endeavor, but the financial panic of the

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times brings this work to a close. The following issues are present and offered here as a single lot:

INVENTORY (month/day/year)

#6: 10/4/1873 #20: 1/10/1874 #40: 5/30/1874 #7: 10/11 #21: 1/17 #41: 6/6 #9: 10/25 #28: 3/7 #42: 6/13 #10: 11/1 #29: 3/14 #43: 6/20 #12: 11/15 #30: 3/21 #45: 7/4 #14: 11/29 #32: 4/4 #46: 7/11 #15: 12/6 #33: 4/11 #47: 7/18 #16: 12/13 #37: 5/9 #50: 8/8 #18: 12/27 #38: 5/16 #51: 8/15 #19: 1/3/1874 #39: 5/23 #52: 8/22

136 Utah (Territory) Constitutional Convention. CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF UTAH. Adopted by the Convention, April 27, 1882. Ratified by the People, May 22, 1882. Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret News Company, Printers, 1882 [cover title and imprint].

22 cm. 42 pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Wrappers separating and worn; text toned. $60

Compare to Flake 9338-39 (in 1887). Signed in type by Joseph F. Smith as president of the (unsuccessful) constitutional convention; Utah would not gain statehood until 1896. The articles provide for woman suffrage (by not excluding women in the language). Delegates are listed by county, including Emmeline B. Wells and two other women from Salt Lake County, Hosea Stout, Charles W. Penrose, Daniel H. Wells and plenty of other familiar names.

137 Utah (Territory) Governor, 1889-1893 (Thomas). REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR OF UTAH TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 1890. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890.

23 cm. 35 pp. Orig. light green printed wrappers. Medium wear. $30

Flake 9376. A section on "The Mormon People," pp. 28-31, is followed by similar material and an appendix on polygamy, with subtle, sophisticated commentary. Even if the Church does not officially sanction polygamy now, and even if it does not officially influence politics, ". . . there are many ways in which the political action of a people may be influenced."

The old state capitol building at Fillmore (whose site was selected by Orson Pratt and others) is falling apart and being used as a school building. People are 115

building on the grounds, and land ownership needs to be defined (pp. 10-11). Utah has "her share of Indians," and doesn't think it fair for Colorado to remove their Ute population thence, p. 13. Ogden has passed from Mormon control politically for the first time, p. 26.

the first laws of Utah, variant pagination with earlier-printed portions bound in

138 Utah (Territory). Laws, statutes, etc. ACTS, RESOLUTIONS, AND MEMORIALS, Passed by the First Annual, and Special Sessions, of the Legislative Assembly, of the Territory of Utah, Begun and Held at Great Salt Lake City, on the 22nd Day of September, A.D., 1851. Also the Constitution of the United States, and the Act Organizing the Territory of Utah. Published by Authority of the Legislative Assembly. G. S. L. City, U. T.: Brigham H. Young, Printer, 1852.

19½ cm. 8, 48, 37-258 pages, as issued. Collated COMPLETE. In very good condition; primitive ornamental ink flecking across top edge of text block when closed (does not show on page surfaces, except for curious scattered ink-fleck- like spotting to many of the final fifty pages). There is no foxing, and with the exception just noticed, the title and pages are stunningly clean, white and bright. In all, a very nice, presentable copy. $1,250

sewn, trimmed, and backstrip glued - waiting for its binding for 160 years –note the primitive ornamental ink speckling across the top (at left)

This copy was NEVER BOUND, but sewn with endsheets ready for binding (two blank flyleaves front & back plus one heavier outermost leaf front & back). There is medium soiling to the outer sides of these intended paste-downs (which would be hidden in the binding process, of course, pasted against the boards).

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Crawley 714; Flake 9384c (describing the more common pagination of a straightforward 258 pages), noting that, "With Brigham Young as governor and the Legislative Assembly totally Mormon, the laws passed were in accordance to church values. Probate courts were very important." McMurtrie (Utah imprints bibliography), 15, 12.

THE FIRST PRINTING OF THE LAWS OF THE UTAH TERRITORY. 2,000 copies were ordered to be printed. This is the less-common format, with a separate 48-page pamphlet (which was printed earlier that year) bound in with its own title page, containing THE FIRST UTAH PRINTING OF THE US CONSTITUTION plus the act establishing the territorial government. Peter Crawley explains:

A number of copies exist with pp. 9-36 replaced by the 48-page pamphlet Constitution of the United States of America . . . Also, "An Act to Establish a Territorial Government for Utah" ([Crawley] item 659), which includes the same material; invariably these are sewn but unbound or in a modern binding. One might guess that Brigham H. Young struck off fewer of the signatures making up pp. 9- 36, knowing that he could use the pamphlet to assemble copies that were textually complete.

This explains the unusual page arrangement of the never-bound copy offered here. Indeed, McMurtrie (p. 43) speculated that this procedure conserved paper. In summary, this copy is likely from an intended final distribution of some of the original 2,000 copies, but not a later printing. And, it contains the earlier, first Utah printing of the U.S. Constitution and Utah Territorial act. In view of the nice condition, I presume that these latter copies were prepared for the binder, but never ordered by customers, and therefore (to save money in the early 1850s) never bound.

139 Utah (Territory). Laws, statutes, etc. ACTS, RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS Passed and Adopted by the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY of the Territory of Utah. Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Annual Sessions, 1867-1870. Salt Lake City, Utah Territory: Joseph Bull, Public Printer.

24 cm. [1 (general title)] f.; xiv (general index) pp.; [1 (title, 1867, Geo. Q. Cannon, Public Printer] f.; 40, 8 pp.; [1 (title, 1868, Geo. Q. Cannon, Public Printer] f. 36 pp.; [1 (title, 1869, Geo. Q. Cannon, Public Printer] f.; 24 pp.; [1 (title, 1870, Joseph Bull, Public Printer] f.; 148 pp. Orig. sheep; red leather gilt- titled label on spine. Unsightly modern purple cloth tape over most of spine; modern white library tape repairs to inner hinges. The internal condition of the individual publications is generally fine and bright, in contrast to the unfortunate binding.

the four individual publications bound together: $175

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Church Historian Andrew JENSON's copy, with a nice signature on the front free endpaper, dated Sept. 1, 1891; with his oval purple stamp on the first page of the index, "Andrew Jenson's Private Library." The acts contain everything from the incorporation of the Manti City Library Association to detailed regulations on trials, the formation and sequestering of juries, and lengthy itemization of the many interesting articles which are exempt from seizure in judgments from lawsuits.

140 Utah (Territory). Laws, statutes, etc. LAWS OF THE TERRITORY OF UTAH, Passed at the Twenty-Eighth Session of the Legislative Assembly, Held at the City of Salt Lake, the Capital of said Territory, Commencing January 9 A.D. 1888, and Ending March 8, A.D. 1888. Published by Authority. Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co.., 1888.

22½ cm. viii, 244 pp. Side-tied as issued and never bound. Complete (per collation called for by OCLC which locates three copies, separately cataloged) and mostly very good, but the outer leaves, front and back, are badly soiled, worn, and unsightly. $45

Speeding is a misdemeanor –permitting one's horses or mules which are pulling conveyances to run dangerously fast, or "to run with intent to pass another conveyance, or to prevent such other conveyance from passing his own" (pp. 87- 88). And in Chapter XLV, something completely different . . .

SEC. 2. Marriage is probibited [sic] and declared void: 1. With an idiot or lunatic. 2. When there is a husband or wife living from whom the person marrying has not been divorced. 3. When not solemnized by an authorized person, except as provided in section 7 of this act. 4. When at the time of marriage the male is under fourteen, or the female is under twelve years of age. 5. Between a negro and a white person. 6. Between a mongolian and a white person. [p. 88]

141 [UTAH WAR] U.S. President, 1857-1861 (Buchanan). . . . CESSATION OF DIFFICULTIES IN UTAH. Message From the President of the United States Relative to The probable termination of Mormon troubles in Utah Territory. June 10, 1858.— Ordered to be printed. [caption title; at head: "35TH CONGRESS, 1st Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. EX. DOC. NO. 138."]

23 cm. 7 pp. Disbound; medium soil and wear. $40

Flake 9215; Fales & Flake 141, saying "Washington: James B. Steedman, 1858." Only the front page is by the President, signed in type, "James Buchanan, 118

Washington City, June 10, 1858." The remainder of the text is material sent by Utah Gov. Alfred Cumming. Page six relays "a secret" which Brigham Young is reported to have said at the Tabernacle on "Sunday last," during the move south, that "They say there is a fine country down south there, Sonora is it? Is that your name for it? Do not speak of this out of doors, if you please." They're not sure where they're going yet, says Cumming, but they are doing it cheerfully, their wagons loaded with furniture and the women and children, "often without shoes or hats, driving their flocks they know not where."

142 [UTAH WAR] United States. War Department. . . . CONTRACTS—UTAH EXPEDITION. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, in Answer to A resolution of the House calling for a statement of all contracts made in connexion with the Utah expedition. April 7, 1858 —Ordered to be printed. . . . [caption title; at head: "35TH CONGRESS, 1st Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Ex. Doc. No. 99."] [Washington: James B. Steedman, 1858]. (imprint from Flake)

23 cm. 5 pp. Disbound; glue residue along inner margin of first leaf. $20

Flake 9244; Fales & Flake 144, noting: "Reiterates the contracts made with the Army during the Utah Expedition by various contractors for supplies such as bacon, cider vinegar, salt, etc., Also includes schedule of prices per hundred pounds, per hundred miles to be paid to Russell, Majors, and Waddell." The Quartermaster General states that only one printed ad was sent out for bids to transport goods to the theater of the Utah War (to six newspapers in Missouri including the Liberty Tribune in Liberty; and to one paper in Kansas). However, the ad elicited twenty-seven written bids from people wishing "to sell horses and mules for the public service . . . ," p. 2.

1,500 horses for Utah War troops @ $159 each

143 [UTAH WAR] United States. War Department. . . . REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, in Answer to A resolution of the Senate calling for a copy of the contract made with Russell, Majors & Waddell for beef cattle; and also a statement of contracts made by the department or under its authority, during the present session of Congress, in connexion with the Utah expedition, without public notice. April 19, 1858.—Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. [caption title; at head: "35TH CONGRESS, 1st Session. SENATE. Ex. Doc. No. 46."] [Washington: William A. Harris, printer, 1858] (imprint from Flake).

22½ cm. 9 pp. Disbound, else fine and clean, the paper quite white. $60

Flake 9254d. Full of supply costs for federal troops during the Utah War, signed in type on the first page by Secretary of War John B. Floyd, after whom Camp

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Floyd was named. For a manuscript nicely related to this government document, see item 14 in this catalog. The firm named in the title engages to supply 3,500 - 10,000 head of beef to the Army in Utah, in lots of no fewer than 250 at a time. They will be paid 7½ cents per pound, "vet weight." The cattle should be fat steers of four to seven years of age, and weigh 550 pounds on average. Prices are also stipulated for suppliers of foodstuffs, candles and soap; 34,000 gallons of clarified cider vinegar @ 4¾ cents/gallon, p. 5.

Other beef suppliers are named, and also railroad charges to transport troops, officers, and "authorized laundress[es]." (p. 2; Women who followed the troops for purposes other than washing clothes must not have been transported at government expense.) If the contractors driving cattle West require a military escort along the way, they may request such in writing,

. . . at Forts Leavenworth, Kearny, or Laramie . . . In the event of loss, by attack from hostile Indians or Mormon parties, caused by no fault of the contractors, (which must be established by the affidavits of two or more reliable witnesses,) the United States agree to pay the contractors for such loss at the price where it occurred, said rate of indemnity being the price at the post last passed, with the addition of a pro rata for the distance travelled since leaving that post. . . . [p. 7]

144 VASEY, George, et al. REPORT OF AN INVESTIGATION OF THE GRASSES OF THE ARID DISTRICTS of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, in 1887. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888. $50

22 cm. 60, [1] pp. + the 30 plates. Bound with several shorter government publications on similar topics. Old three-quarter maroon leather over marbled boards. Extremities worn with clean loss of upper spine cap; title page toned.

Clearly a lot of work. Mr. G. C. Nealley of Houston handled the Texas part, and Prof. S. M. Tracy of Columbia, Missouri took care of the other states. His "investigations were very thorough, considering the time occupied, but were necessarily mainly restricted to the vicinity of the railroad stations. . . . Of the 200 species collected in this region we may be assured that there are many which would prove useful for cultivation . . ." (p. [3]).

145 WAITE, Catherine (Van Valkenburg). THE MORMON PROPHET AND HIS HAREM; Or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children. By Mrs. C. V. Waite. . . . Cambridge [MA]: Printed at the Riverside Press . . . , 1866.

18½ cm. x, 280, [3 (ads)] pp. + frontispiece of Young and three other very nice small portrait plates including Gen. Connor and Joseph Smith III; two other

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plates show a view of "The Prophet's Block" and the floor plan of the Lion House. Ads include offers of mining stock and an Emigrant's Guide to the Gold and Silver Mines of Idaho by C. B. Waite of Idaho City, Idaho. Original brown cloth; gilt-lettered spine. Lower back board and a few lower final leaves dampstained; medium soil. Spine caps fraying; corner of pp. 15-16 creased with some soil. $45

Flake 9505. FIRST of six or seven editions. The "Plans of the Lion House," facing p. 180, identify each wife's bedroom. Eliza was apparently in No. 35, top floor, east side, fourth window from the back northeast corner, in case you want to go to South Temple Street and gawk.

young David O. McKay's own set

146 WHITNEY, Orson F[erguson]. HISTORY OF UTAH. . . . In Four Volumes. By Orson F. Whitney. Illustrated. . . . Salt Lake City, Utah: George Q. Cannon & Sons Co., Publishers, March, 1892 [vols. 2-4: April, 1893; January, 1898; October, 1904].

Flake 9769 (only contemporary edition). FOUR VOLUMES, thick and substantial; laboriously collated COMPLETE, with all 369 fine engraved and photogravure plates as called for. Original matching full leather gilt, all edges gilt, ornamental endpapers. A VERY NICE SET. postpaid: $3,000

Incredibly, of the more than 3,000 pages (each individually examined for this entry), and the numerous plates (each examined and checked off the list), not one is missing. There is no writing anywhere except for David O. McKay's large signature, and some curious pencil markings in one margin of Volume 2 (described below) which could easily be erased. There are no tears anywhere but for one original marginal flaw by the binder (also described below) at the end of the final volume. So far as I can see, these volumes have never had repair. (I re-inserted a few leaves during collation which had just come loose from Volume 3 without damage, using archival paste. I also refreshed the leather using archivally approved oil and dye). Detailed COLLATION and CONDITION NOTES follow below (the product of several hours' work): 121

Vol. 1: 736 pp. (Index, pp. 729-36). Complete, with all 68 plates as called for (including frontispiece of Brigham Young), plus another not listed, "Mountain Torrent, Cottonwood Canyon" from a photograph by C. R. Savage, facing p. 612. The portrait of Charles C. Rich has a light vertical smudge affecting a somewhat empty portion of the face and area above the head. All tissue guards present in excellent condition facing the engraved portraits. The volume has some light dampstaining along outer areas of some first and final leaves including the frontispiece (but not touching Brigham's person, or many printed areas. It is quite visible but not terribly obtrusive, and can be tolerated in view of the general nice condition of the set. Front joint cracking at some points, but very strong and the board by no means shaken or separating at all. Other faults are too minor to mention, with most pages and plates essentially like new. I didn't realize that Horace S. Eldredge was such a fine looking gentleman, or that John M. Bernhisel, being bald, wore the hair circling the sides of his head long and ratted, somewhat like Bozo the Clown, which no doubt helped him stand out in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Vol. 2: 860 pp. (Index, pp. 851-860). Complete, with all 41 plates as called for. I found the portrait of Lorenzo Snow particularly interesting. All tissue guards present in excellent condition facing the engraved portraits. This copy was bound with four extra, identical repeated leaves, but with no corresponding loss of any pages. The affected portion collates thus: . . . 459-60, 457- 64, 461-(end). Light dampstaining can be seen in small upper margin areas of pages 229-430 in varying degrees, rarely obtrusive, but more visible in the upper, non-printed areas of 17 of the plates (never affecting the images themselves). The leaf containing pp. 105-106 has a long narrow crease which obviously occurred at the time of publishing, before binding, but is entirely readable. The side margin of p. 646 has some pencil marks either in code or juvenile scrawl which could easily be erased.

Vol. 3: [1 (title)]f.; [v]-xvi, [17]-755 pp. as issued. (Index. pp. 751-55). Complete, with all 130 plates as called for. All were issued without tissue guards, resulting in light (and inoffensive) offsetting from several onto facing pages of text. George Q. Cannon, Emmeline B. Wells, and Dr. Ellen B. Ferguson were among some of the more interesting to me. Two portraits (John Ford and T. B. Cardon) had smudges in areas not affecting their faces or persons. The front of the case is somewhat shaken and starting to loosen, but still holding well enough for general use, and there is no hint of cracking along the joint. 122

Vol. 4: [7]ff.; [11]-707 pp.; [2 (Addenda)]ff., as issued without index. Complete, with all 130 plates as called for. All were issued without tissue guards. I particularly enjoyed the quaint but youthful engraved portrait of James E. Talmage, and the artistically posed sitting of pioneer poetess Hanna Cornaby. The text of this rarest of the four volumes is so fresh that while counting them, I could hear some of the leaves separating along their gilt edges, perhaps for the first time since 1904. There was one original publication tear, to the lower margin of pp. 669-70 (not affecting any printing) without loss and before the book was bound, leaving a temoin (protruding fragment when unfolded, showing the original dimension of the paper before trimming). Lower fore-corner of the final 8 leaves creased (affecting no plates or ornamental endpapers.

This is a difficult title, generally found in worn condition or without the fourth volume. The set will be packed carefully in one large and heavy box, and sent by U.S. mail, fully insured at no additional charge, as part of the price above.

OWNED BY A FUTURE CHURCH PRESIDENT WHILE HE WAS A FELLOW-APOSTLE AND DEAR FRIEND OF THE AUTHOR: The second flyleaf of the first volume bears the LARGE SIGNATURE, "David Mc Kay" (five inches in length). Accompanying this set is a printed e-mail to me from a highly recognized Mormon autograph specialist collector and dealer stating in 2003 that this "does look very much like David O. McKay's early signature and unlike his father's, which I have seen several times. I think it is a very early signature of David O! Congratulations!"

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DAVID O. MCKAY (1873-1970, ninth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) was only eighteen and a half years old when Volume 1 was published, but he may have obtained this set later. A year and a half after Volume 4 finally appeared, McKay and author Orson F. Whitney were both ordained apostles by Joseph F. Smith on April 9, 1906. McKay was then thirty- two years of age; Whitney was fifty-one.

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McKay and Whitney became such close friends that McKay's biographer/son later referred to the author as David's "beloved 'Jonathan,' Orson F. Whitney" (David Lawrence McKay, My Father, David O. McKay, ed. Lavina Fielding Anderson [SLC: Deseret Book, 1989], 172). Ironically in 1893, apostles Joseph F. Smith and George Q. Cannon had come to heated words over the cost of this lavish production, shortly after the second volume appeared. But because the Church had called Whitney to write the history, the Church ended up advancing nearly three thousand dollars to cover volume three. As with most notable achievements, we tend sometimes to forget afterward what agonies were involved in the making.

147 WILLIAMS, H[enry]. L[lewellyn]. THE PICTURESQUE WEST. Our Western Empire Beyond the Mississippi. Containing the Most Complete Description, from Official and Other Authentic Sources, of the Geography, Geology, and Natural History, the Climate, Soil, Agriculture, and the Mineral Products, the Crops, and Herds and Flocks, the Social Condition, and Future Prospects of the Whole Region Lying Between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean. By H. L. Williams. With Numerous illustrations by the Most Distinguished Artists. New York: Hurst & Company, [Copyright 1892, By Hurst & Company].

25 cm. [1]f.; [9]-525 pp. collated COMPLETE with all fifteen simple woodcut plates (counting frontispiece) as called for by OCLC. Original tan cloth illustrated in dark brown with gilt on front board. Very good; moderate soil and wear to the binding with extremities rubbed; internally clean with slight marginal tears without loss of text. $125

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Flake 9875 (only edition). OCLC locates thirty copies in libraries worldwide, but ONLY TWO IN UTAH. Chapter XIX, "Utah Territory," pp. 445-466. Except for the final page of the chapter, the content is topographical and meteorological (with tables), plus comment on the mines, economy, and general information. Mormons and Mountain Meadows Massacre are mentioned briefly on page 466. "Utah is probably the richest Territory in 'Our Western Empire' in its deposits of gold and silver, . . ." (p. 449); "In wild, grand, and terrible displays of the power of the forces of nature, Utah is perhaps unsurpassed by no State or Territory . . ." (p. 463); "In 1857 a most atrocious massacre of a large party of emigrants was perpetrated under Mormon direction at Mountain Meadow, in the southern part of the Territory. Some of the actors in that massacre were hung for it in 1877." (p. 466). Includes sections on the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone (each with an illustration), California, Alaska and other states and territories.

. . . every consideration points to admission, as an act of wisdom as well as justice. [p. 32]

148 WILSON, Jeremiah M[orrow]. THE ADMISSION OF UTAH. Argument of Hon. Jeremiah M. Wilson, Made Before the House Committee on Territories, January 19-22, 1889. Undisputed facts—Decadence of Polygamy—No union of Church and State— Power of Congress to make and enforce compacts. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.

22½ cm. 34 pp. Side-stapled as issued. In nearly fine, clean condition. $20

Flake 9920: "Gives statistics, opinions of observers, etc., to show good character of Mormons and to prove that polygamy is not an obstruction to statehood." WILSON (1828-1901) was an Indiana judge who had served in Congress in the 1870s. He argues that except for polygamy, the Mormons are "in general harmony with the orthodox churches and strive for the same end . . ." He then reads the Articles of Faith, commenting on them as he goes, though admitting after Article 2 (regarding man not being punished for Adam's transgression): "There they are a little at variance with some of the orthodox churches." (p. 21)

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149 YOUNG, Brigham. CARTE-DE-VISITE PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED in pencil for journalist/publisher Curtis GUILD aboard America's first transcontinental excursion train while it was stationed for twenty-four hours in Salt Lake City, transporting the Boston Board of Trade coast-to-coast. Signed at Salt Lake City on Sunday, May 29, 1870.

THE "UNIQUE" AND MYSTERIOUS HOLZAPFEL & SHUPE IMAGE 59: A Brigham Young portrait known previously only from a later copy print used by Preston Nibley in his biography of Brigham Young in 1936. ". . . [W]e cannot determine where Nibley obtained this unique print of Brigham," wrote Richard Holzapfel in 2000, "and have been unable to locate the original, which may have given us important data regarding the identity of the photographer and the date of the image." –Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and R. Q. Shupe, Brigham Young: Images of a Mormon Prophet (Salt Lake City and Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 2000), p. 201, with reproduction of Nibley's unidentified modern copy on p. 200, Plate 59. $4,500

8.8 X 5.5 cm. (photograph) on mount measuring 10.2 X 6.1 cm (4 X 2 3/8 inches). Front of mount printed in gold, "SAVAGE & OTTINGER," with gilt single-line border; verso of mount printed and illustrated in lavender for the "SAVAGE & OTTINGER Fine Art Gallery GREAT SALT LAKE CITY UTAH." Minor flaws do not affect the image itself, or the signature.

HIS SURPRISING PIECE crosses several T collecting disciplines (Mormons, rail- roadiana, photographica, autographs and general Americana), and adds a previously unidentified image to the corpus of known Brigham Young portraits. It is SIGNED carefully by Brigham Young in pencil, the slant quite vertical to make room for the signature. The writing crosses from the lower albumen print margin onto the card mount, as if to add further authentication that this is no reproduction. A short vertical line on the verso looks like it could have come from the same pencil, and may have been a test stroke. The HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE ABOVE can be viewed much larger.

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Curtis GUILD, Sr. (1827-1911; author and newspaperman, founder of The Commercial Bulletin; Boston civic figure, antiquarian, and book & autograph collector; father of Curtis Guild Jr. who was a three-term governor of Massachusetts). AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED in reference to the signed photograph offered here.

7 X 4½ inches. One page on crème letter paper with simple owl device at head; verso and conjugate leaf blank. Very good. No date or place, but written in a fine hand as follows:

The enclosed portrait of Brigham Young the Mormon prophet & leader he gave to me himself upon the rail-road train, just previous to my leaving Salt Lake City in 1870 – The pencilled signature is by his own hand. Curtis Guild

N THE EVENING of Saturday, May 28, 1870, the first charter train to cross the O United States stopped in Salt Lake City. It was assembled to carry members of the Boston Board of Trade and their families from Boston to San Francisco and back (May 23 - July 1) in luxurious Pullman Palace cars. The Pullman brothers themselves came along for the historic ride (George M. as far as Chicago, and

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Mr. A. B. Pullman for the entire trip). The Trans-Continental (a remarkable twelve-issue newspaper printed aboard the train) described the Mormon Tabernacle in the most glowing terms:

. . . we yesterday afternoon heard a powerful organ peal forth, to an audience of thousands, the notes of the glorious hymn, sung by a large choir, "On the mountain top appearing, lo, the sacred herald stands." After this hymn we heard President Brigham Young deliver a remarkable address. The place, the newness and completeness of the edifice; of the city in which it stands; and more than all, the peculiar influences that have brought them to their existing condition; rendered the scene one of the marvels of our times. [Trans-Continental for Monday, May 30, 1870 (1:5), p. (3)]

Brigham Young was no less impressed. Looking down from the podium of the Tabernacle that day, he gazed upon more than a hundred distinguished visitors from Boston, and adapted the occasion to his discourse . . .

I ask the whole world, is there any harm in having faith in God? Have you faith? Ask Mr. Pullman if he had faith that he could build a car more convenient than any the traveling community enjoyed before, and he will say that he had faith that he could build cars in which ladies and gentlemen might travel through the country with all the ease and comfort they could desire; and he showed his faith by his works, as we read of the ancient worthies doing. You know James says, “Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” Mr. Pullman and others can show their faith by their works. We show our faith by our works. Is there any harm in this? I ask the whole Christian world, is there any harm in believing in God, in a supreme power and influence?

["Discourse by President Brigham Young, delivered in the New Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, May 29, 1870. Reported by David W. Evans." JD 13:170-178, quote from p. 173]

"Myself and several other brethren dined with them on Sunday afternoon," reported Brigham,

on board their commodious "city on wheels." This is the first train that has travelled the entire distance from the Atlantic to the Pacific without changing, as the same cars in which the party left Boston carry them to San Francisco. The train consists of eight luxurious cars, equipped with everything necessary to promote the comfort and pleasure of the passengers, including two well stocked libraries, two organs, and a printing office. From the latter is published, as they journey, a lively, well printed little sheet styled the Trans-continental . . . At night the train is ingeniously lighted with gas. It is indeed astonishing to reflect how fast events crowd along in this age. A few years ago we should have scarcely dreamed of these magnificent palace cars resting in our city for a few short hours, and then again whirling away westward to the Pacific; or even thought of cars being fitted up with organs, libraries, and above all a printing press. But the

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Trans-continental, published at the rate of forty miles an hour, is now one of the facts of the age, a sign of the times.

[Brigham Young to Albert Carrington, Salt Lake City, June 1, 1870 in The Latter- Day Saints' Millennial Star for June 28, 1870 [32:26], p. 410]

And from the mobile newspaper itself comes this report, published the day after the event:

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS ______

Yesterday, by invitation of Mr. A. G. Pullman the following gentlemen dined on board our train. President Brigham Young, Daniel H. Wells and George A. Smith; also Apostles John Taylor, Orson Pratt, Sen., Wilfred [sic] Woodruff, George Q. Cannon and Brigham Young, Jr.; also Bishop J. C. Little. It gave our party great pleasure to meet them and be presented, and they appeared to enjoy their visit. ______

–Brigham Young informed our party that he had now 16 wives and 49 living children only, and that he was sixty-nine years old, and had only attended school eleven days when a boy. [Trans-Continental issue 5, cited above, p. 3]

IT WAS SURELY AT THE TIME OF THIS DINNER that Curtis Guild, an autograph collector, managed to grab Brigham for a quick signature. Or perhaps they talked at greater length? "Guild was well known in Boston as an antiquarian . . . ," according to the Dictionary of American Biography. "Familiar with local history, he had a store of quaint anecdotes and entertaining reminiscences and was a felicitous raconteur. . . . He collected books, especially first editions . . . He was a courtly gentleman, tactful, dignified, and witty, with a pride in his native city and a keen sense of public duty."

PROVENANCE: With an index card bearing acquisition codes from forty-two years ago, translated with an attest written below them by the buyer's son on November 30, 2012: "Purchased from Edward Morrill & Son, Boston Booksellers in 1971, for $85, less 10% . . ."

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150 YOUNG, Levi Edgar. CHIEF EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF UTAH. By Levi Edgar Young. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1912.

18½ cm. 51 pp. Numerous small illustrations in the text show interesting historical sites, plus a picture of "Chief Tabby–Oldest Chief in United States. Been Chief for 73 Years–Age 105 Years." Original printed brown wrappers with a little wear. $20

Flake 10,097 (only edition). Written for "children of the schools and to my own little girls who have sat and wondered at the trials and sorrows of their grandfathers and grandmothers." (Preface, p. [5]). The style and language are more sophisticated than what is generally written for children today.

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