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Brigham Young, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-Day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Utah State University Press 2007; US$ 7.00On September 11, 1857, a wagon train of emigrants passing through the Utah Territory on their way to California were massacred at Mountain Meadows. Although today’s historians agree that the principal perpetrators were members of the Mormon militia in southern Utah, how much the central Mormon leadership, especially Brigham Young at the top,... more...
Red
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Refuge , Terry Tempest Williams is one of the country?s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Red makes a stirring case for the preservation of America?s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah. As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams writes... more...
In Another Time
Utah State University Press 1998; US$ 22.00An illustrated collection of historical articles originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune from 1993 to 1996, In Another Time provides both an entertaining introduction to Utah and a distinguished and popular historian's summary views of the state's peculiar history. Another Time will entertain and inform newcomers seeking an introductory... more...
Bear River
Utah State University Press 2007; US$ 17.00Craig Denton notes, “Water will be the primary political, social, and economic issue in the Intermountain West in the twenty-first century.” Urban Utah thirsts for the Great Salt Lake principal source, the Bear River. Plans abound to divert it for a rapidly growing Wasatch Front, as the last good option for future water. But is it?... more...
Frommer's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks
Wiley 2012; US$ 12.99Expert authors Don and Barbara Laine share their travel advice garnered from four decades spent living in and researching the American Southwest. Detailed maps of the region, parks, and trails guide you through your trip. Candid reviews point out places to stay, eat, camp, and stock up on supplies. Opinionated reviews. No bland descriptions... more...
Westwater Lost and Found
Utah State University Press 2004; US$ 15.00In this heavily illustrated book, Mike Milligan has captured the still developing story of one of those remote, but no longer secluded, corners of the Colorado Plateau. Upstream from Moab on the Colorado River, near the Colorado state line, there is a relatively short, deep canyon that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations... more...
Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 16.99On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre... more...
Tales of Canyonlands Cowboys
Utah State University Press 2010; US$ 16.00Richard Negri interviews cattlemen and women about ranching in the rugged canyonlands region of southeastern Utah. Personal stories and anecdotes from the colorful characters who ground out a hard living on ranches of the are in the early 20th century. more...
Rainbow Bridge
Utah State University Press 2001; US$ 20.00On the morning of August 14, 1909, a small, diverse group including Professor Byron Cummings of the University of Utah, Government Land Office surveyor William Douglass, pioneer archaeologist and trader John Weatherill, and Paiute guide Nasja Begay gazed at the largest structure of its kind in the world-Rainbow Bridge. Their presence marked... more...
The River Knows Everything
Utah State University Press 2009; US$ 28.00Desolation Canyon is one of the West's wild treasures. Visitors come to study, explore, run the river, and hike a canyon that is deeper at its deepest than the Grand Canyon, better preserved than most of the Colorado River system, and full of eye-catching geology-castellated ridges, dramatic walls, slickrock formations, and lovely beaches. Rafting... more...









