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The University of Utah Press SPRING/SUMMER 2020 contents American Indian Studies 6 Anthropology/Archaeology 9-11 Biography 2, 3, 8 Linguistics 12 Middle East Studies 13 Mormon Studies 4, 5 Philosophy 15 Poetry 14 Sociology 7 Utah 1, 7 Western History 2, 3, 8, 9 Featured Backlist 16-20 p. 2 p. 3 p. 9 Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @UOFUPRESS p. 7 ON THE COVER: Night sky at Turret Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, by Neal Herbert/National Park Service. Our Mission The University of Utah Press is an agency of the J. Willard Marriott Library of the University of Utah. In accordance with the mission of the University, the Press publishes and disseminates scholarly books in selected fields and other printed and recorded materials of significance to Utah, the region, the country, and the world. p. 14 p. 13 www.UofUpress.com UTAH HISTORY/WESTERN HISTORY 1 Wonders of Sand and Stone ORDERS: 800-621-2736 A History of Utah's National Parks and Monuments Frederick H. Swanson The most comprehensive history of Utah’s national parks and monuments WWW.UOFUPRESS.COM From Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah’s five national parks and eight national monuments are home to some of America’s most amazing scenic treasures, created over long expanses of geologic time. In Wonders of Sand and Stone, Frederick H. Swanson traces the recent human story behind the creation of these places as part of a protected mini-empire of public lands. Drawing on extensive historical research, Swanson presents little-known accounts of people who saw in these sculptured landscapes something worth protecting. Readers are introduced to the region’s early explorers, scientists, artists, and travelers as well as the local residents and tourism promoters who worked June 2020, 440 pp., 6 x 9 with the National Park Service to build the system of 35 Illustrations, 4 maps parks and monuments we know today, when Utah’s eBook 978-1-60781-767-3 Hardcover 978-1-60781-765-9 $59.95 national parks and monuments face multiple challenges Paper 978-1-60781-766-6 $34.95 from increased human use and from development outside their borders. As scientists continue to uncover the astonishing diversity of life in these desert and mountain landscapes, and archaeologists and Native Americans document their rich cultural resources, the management of these federal lands remains critically important. Swanson provides us with a detailed and timely background to advance and inform discussions about what form that management should take. ALSO OF INTEREST Frederick H. Swanson is author and editor of five books on western U.S. history, including Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons, which received the 2008 Utah Book Award. He is a fellow of the International League of Conservation Writ- ers and recipient of the Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Humanities. “Swanson’s affection for these landscapes, captured in his narrative prose, is contagious. This book will make a splendid traveling companion for any visitor to Utah’s national parks and monuments. It supplies an accessible, well-informed, and lively account of the formation and preservation of these national treasures.” —Brian Q. Cannon, coauthor of The Awkward State of Utah Roads in the Wilderness Conflict in Canyon Country “An engaging and finely written book that weaves together an Jedediah S. Rogers impressive group of individuals and stories.” eBook 978-1-60781-312-5 —Jedediah S. Rogers, coeditor of Utah Historical Quarterly and author of Roads in the Wilderness Paper 978-1-60781-313-2 $24.95 A Zion Canyon Reader Edited by Nathan N. Waite and Reid L. Neilson eBook 978-1-60781-348-4 Paper 978-1-60781-347-7 $14.95 2 WESTERN HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY John Hance The Life, Lies, and Legend of Grand Canyon’s Greatest Storyteller Shane Murphy SPRING/SUMMER 2020 SPRING/SUMMER Explores the life and legacy of John Hance, Grand Canyon’s most famous raconteur A legend in his own lifetime, John Hance (1837–1919) was synonymous with Grand Canyon and the tourist trade he helped establish there. Between the late 1880s and early 1900s, to say “John Hance” was to say “Grand THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS PRESS UNIVERSITY UTAH THE OF Canyon.” Hance was well known to travelers and visiting dignitaries alike, men such as William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Theodore Roosevelt, the president who affectionately referred to him as “the greatest liar on earth.” It was said that Hance tried to jump the canyon on his horse Darby only to turn back when he was halfway over and realized he would never make it across. The truth behind Hance’s life is remarkable even May 2020, 288 pp., 6 x 9 38 Illustrations without embellishment. In this book, Shane Murphy 2019eBook 978-1-60781-754-3 Paper 978-1-60781-753-6 $24.95 chronicles Hance’s childhood in Tennessee and Mis- souri, his service in the Confederacy during the Civil War, his time in Union prisons as a POW, and his later adventures with the Hickok brothers crossing the plains. Settling in Arizona’s fruitful Verde Valley, Hance farmed and filled military contracts before taking up residence as Grand Canyon’s first permanent Euro- American settler, trail builder, guide, and storyteller. Hance left no correspondence, personal memoirs, or other writings. Only informal portraits from magazines ALSO OF INTEREST and newspaper accounts remain. Murphy investigated assessors’ rolls, rare mercantile ledgers, and mining claims to create a full and compelling narrative of a man who was once an icon of the American West and should be remem- bered as the founding father of Grand Canyon tourism. Shane Murphy led Grand Canyon river trips for twenty years, worked on polar expedition ships for a decade, and has been researching, writing about, and presentating on early Grand Canyon tourism since 2012. “A great addition to the Grand Canyon literature. It fills a large void Canyon of Dreams and offers a good view of a whole era that even many Grand Canyon Stories from Grand Canyon History aficionados know little about. The book combines great scholarship Don Lago with an enjoyable personality.” eBook 978-1-60781-315-6 —Don Lago, author of Canyon of Dreams: Stories from Grand Canyon History Paper 978-1-60781-314-9 $19.95 “There is no other biography of John Hance, despite his being a Cass Hite seminal character in the pre–national park days of Grand Canyon. The Life of an Old Prospector This book is a much-needed remedy to that lack of detailed knowledge James Knipmeyer about an important figure and an important period in the development eBook 978-1-60781-472-6 of one of America’s most iconic national parks.” Hardcover 978-1-60781-471-9 $36.95 —Roy Webb, author of Lost Canyons of the Green River: The Story before Flaming Gorge Dam WESTERN HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY 3 The Last Canyon Voyage ORDERS: 800-621-2736 A Filmmaker’s Journey down the Green and Colorado Rivers Charles Eggert Foreword by Roy Webb WWW.UOFUPRESS.COM Recounts the last of the few river trips to follow Powell’s path down the Green and Colorado Rivers before they were dammed In 1955 photographer Charles Eggert and renowned river guide Don Hatch set off down the Green River with six others to duplicate the 1870s journey of John Wesley Powell. With dams soon to be built at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon, they planned to film the voyage and be the last to travel these waters before the landscape changed forever. Eggert’s film A Canyon Voyage debuted successfully after the trip, but his written narrative of the river, its landscape, its people, and the adventures of the crew was never published. June 2020, 424 pp., 6 x 9 This book finally brings Eggert’s writings out of 53 b/w Illustrations, 13 color illustrations, 5 maps eBook 978-1-60781-735-2 the archives and into the public eye. With his keen Paper 978-1-60781-734-5 $34.95 photographer’s vision and colloquial voice, Eggert describes canyons and towns now deep under water as he tells the story of friendships forged upon the rapids and currents of the rivers. Roy Webb’s foreword provides historical context; river historian Alfred E. Holland Jr. introduces Eggert, the man who transformed into an environmentalist after visiting the West; and Sarah Holcombe’s afterword looks at what transpired in the lives of all eight crew members after the journey. ALSO OF INTEREST Color and black-and-white illustrations further enliven the text. An engaging read, this is an important piece of river history that also shines light on Eggert’s tremen- dous influence as a conservation cinematographer. Charles Eggert (1918–2005) was an independent filmmaker and photographer. His films were instrumental in the establishment of Canyonlands National Park and in deterring the building of Echo Park Dam, which would have flooded Dinosaur National Monument. “A significant contribution to the field of river history. Eggert has Alone on the Colorado written an engaging account. He makes the various members of the Harold H. Leich party come alive as characters and he explains well the vicissitudes, eBook 978-1-60781-677-5 problems, and joys of the journey. I found myself wanting to read on.” Paper 978-1-60781-676-8 $19.95 —James Aton, author of The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green and John Wesley Powell: His Life and Legacy Lost Canyons of the Green River The Story before Flaming Gorge Dam “This book is a contribution to the history of exploration on the upper Roy Webb Colorado River, composed as it is of literature, adventure, a bit of eBook 978-1-60781-214-2 sociology, and (harkening to the 1950s) modern history.” Paper 978-1-60781-179-4 $17.95 —Earle Spamer, co-editor of Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and lower Colorado River from 1540 4 MORMON STUDIES Joseph Smith History, Methods, and Memory Ronald O.

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