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MARCH 2013
Mormon List Seventy-One
– UTAH –
Like MORMON LISTS 66-70, this catalog is issued as a digital document only, which
allows more illustrations than a printed catalog. Browse like usual, or check below to
find additional subjects. Enjoy! [Note that links are not operative in this Microsoft Word version.]
F R E E S H IP P I N G A ND I N S U R AN C E O N A L L I T E M S
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 I TEMS in this catalog (rather than pages).
Not in Flake, 20, 36, 63, 77, 112, 122
Items over $500, 45, 104, 105, 112, 121, 135,
138, 146, 149
Autograph and Manuscript items, 8, 9, 14,
146, 149
Association copies, 29, 129, 146, 149
Broadside/Broadsheet, 78, 95
Maps, 3, 18, 22, 36, 37, 43, 45, 60, 86, 93,
95, 104, 105, 107, 111, 112, 125, 135
Photographs, (40), 66, 114, 149
Bridger, Fort, 8, 9, 14
California, 4, 13, 20, 30, 49, 50, 53, 70, 73,
98, 101, 102, 111, 147
Salt Lake City (most notable items): 28,
40, 49, 52, 56, 62, 67, 71, 87, 102, 110,
112, 114, 115, 118, 121, 146, 149
Children, 4, 10, 39, 40, 68, 80, 93, 97, 124,
150
Smith, Joseph F., 6, 52, 81, 94, 136
Edmunds, George F., 46, 47, 93
Taylor, John, 56, 68, 101, 127, 134, 149
Fiction, 44, 103, 120
Gold rush of 1849, 4, 53, 111
Women, 44, 49, 57, 66, 67, 71, 97, 98, 101,
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
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
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Snow, Lorenzo, 21, 40, 81, 100, 109
Young, John W., 129
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[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.
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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.
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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 gilt3
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.
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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 warmhearted 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 twelvepound 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 . . ."
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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, 280358. 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)
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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]).
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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
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"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 halfsister 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. . . ."
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[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.)
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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 . . .
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[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 openhanded 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]
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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
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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 dampdiscoloration 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 armchair picture-travel through America is written for young people, but in humorless, didactic text. Fortunately, the illustrations are as wonderful as the dialogue
is dreary. The views of Springville Canyon (Utah), Shoshone Falls (Snake River),
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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:
beards.
The land of Blue-
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
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BROSS, William. "VISITING THE MORMONS. BY LIEUT.-GOV. WILLIAM BROSS,
OF ILL. [To] THEODORE TILTON, ESQ., EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT:" Lengthy frontpage 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).
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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 dinnerparty 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
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. . . the Mormons under their fanatical leader and prophet, are in
open rebellion against the U.S. Government.
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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
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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).
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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 . . .
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[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 appreciated 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.
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[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.
13
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.
14
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]
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. . . 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]
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. . . 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.
condition.
Single sheet folded to form 4 pages.
In nearly fine, clean
$90
15
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 nonMormons, 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).
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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.
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. . . this Church views the shedding of human blood
with the utmost abhorrence. [p. (1)]
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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 antiMormons "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.
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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
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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 front wrapper of the pamphlet above)
John MORGAN. THE PLAN OF SALVATION. 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).
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[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. Illustrated. Orig. illustrated wrappers
printed in brown and green. Medium wear and a stain to back wrapper, but a
tight copy. Flake 1469.
$30
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[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 absurdlyover-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 Institutions. 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
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[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
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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?].
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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 Latterday 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
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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
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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."
T
1897 FACSIMILE OFFERED HERE was
owned or handled by two distinguished explorers. A nicely written inscription (by the recipient) on
the front wrapper reads as follows:
HE RARE
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,
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Judd and Young were friends, and made some important discoveries together.
See: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/rabr/adhi/adhi3a.htm
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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 selfcomplacency 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]
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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)
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. . . 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.
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[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 EyeWitness," 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).
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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.
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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.
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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."
24
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 pleasing picture on page 15 (4½ X 7 inches) of the
"Horse Show Day at Provo."
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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
25
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).
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[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.
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[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.
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– "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
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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
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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
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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).
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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). [Washington, 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
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[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.
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[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
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(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]
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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]
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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
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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 tearingseparation 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
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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
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[EDMUNDS LAW] Three ARTICLES printed near Kirtland, Ohio regarding antipolygamy 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; . . ."
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. . . 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]
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[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 EdmundsTucker 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].
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"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
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[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 "antiMormon." And indeed, anyone should have thought twice before inviting the
Gentile author of this book to attend a polygamous marriage celebration! She
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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]
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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; WAGNERCAMP 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.
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[FILLMORE, UTAH – artifacts] Group of
PEGS. By all appearances, 1800s.
SIX IRON CUT NAILS
and
TWO WOODEN
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.
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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
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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 Publisher, [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) . . .
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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.
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"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
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[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
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The Mormon creed is omnivorous; it assimilates
all of all creeds, present and past. [pp. 34-35]
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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 nonMormons. 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.
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"GOVERNOR CUMMING'S RECEPTION AT SALT LAKE CITY Described by a
Gentile Refugee." ARTICLE in THE WEEKLY MISSOURI DEMOCRAT (news-
paper, 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:
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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.
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[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 Company, 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 pastedown 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
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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]
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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
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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).
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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?
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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
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[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.
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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 Scallawagiana 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
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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]
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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
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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]
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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.'"
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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.
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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.
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JORDAN, De Esta. LETTERS. Compiled by De Esta Jordan. New York, Washington, Atlanta, Hollywood: Vantage Press, [c. 1979 "First Edition"].
20½ cm. [2]ff.; 203 pp. (no preface, introduction or index). Brown cloth; giltlettered 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.
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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]
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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 giltstamped 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 fullpage 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
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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)]
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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).
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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]).
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. . . woman's allotted sphere of labor is not sufficiently extensive and varied . . .
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[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.
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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
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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]
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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.
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The most striking speech was that made by Mr. Cannon. He looked like a wellset-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.
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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
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[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
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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
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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]
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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
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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).
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ARTICLE in THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED (New York) for January
1871 [LII:1; Whole No. 384/ New Series 3:1].
"THE MORMONS:
WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE."
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
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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]
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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.
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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 wonderfullydesigned 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]
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[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
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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]
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[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,
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and other more domestic items fixed for the itemized groups headed by: Sauriett, Va-um-bi, Arrow-peen, Tuk-a-put, Reo-ggin, Ba-tosh, Little Soldier, Tabbyshout, 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]
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[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
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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
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[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
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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].
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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.
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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
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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]).
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[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 basketcovered burial sites under excavation or discovery. Orig. illustrated wrappers
with some soil and medium wear; starting to separate along backfold.
$30
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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.
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[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."]
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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]
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"NAUVOO AND DESERET. REVIEWED ERRORS CORRECTED–ORIGIN OF THE BOOK
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].
OF
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
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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.
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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):
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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."
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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
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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."
–
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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.
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
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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)]
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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).
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[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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Wonders of California," pp. 44-48 with two cuts of giant
trees "Old Dominion" and "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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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.)
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
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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
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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. xvxviii.
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).
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John Taylor rising to glare at mothers of crying babies
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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)]
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. . . 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]
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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 YoSemite 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."
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"Your family? Oh! you didn't marry again did you, John ?"
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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 longlost 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."
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ten engraved illustrations
original folding map in nice condition
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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, LibraireÉditeur, 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:499506; 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
[continues . . . ]
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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
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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).
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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 giltand 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 treatments 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)
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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.
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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 forecorner 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.
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The priest did not have a knife in his hand; that was drawn in by some latterday 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 AdamGod doctrine.
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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.
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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 . . .
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. . . 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. 3334 (emphasis added)]
". . . the rotten and depraved notions
of a corrupt and lustful priesthood . . . {Applause.}" p.17
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[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]
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A leading idea in each Mormon service I have attended is,
"We are greatly persecuted; . . . we must therefore be the Lord's people."
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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.
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1847, Rev. William ROBERTS (born in Burlington, Vermont, 1812) arrived as
the third superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Oregon. It
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."
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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
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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
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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]
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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.
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with contemporary Millroy & Hayes Pioneer Lithograph Map
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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
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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.
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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
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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]
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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).
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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 gilt91
stamped on front board.
presentable.
Modest wear and a few faults, but pleasant and
$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.
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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
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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
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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 section 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
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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
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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]
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"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]
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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.
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[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. Oversewn (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."
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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" (18251902; 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
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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).
F
ORTUNATELY,
these complex compilations are relieved by two entertaining
and 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
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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.
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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
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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."
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"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.
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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
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[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 linedrawing 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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[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.
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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 giltstamped 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.
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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
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[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_Storyc01.htm
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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.
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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 frontispiece portrait of Young with tissue guard (both in
fine condition). Collated 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 decorated 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-brazenserpent 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
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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 Cityresident 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].
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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 Seminary 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]
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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."
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:: 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."
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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"
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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).
[catalog continues . . . ]
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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. Salisbury and J. Isaac. ILLUSTRATION 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)
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10/4/1873
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11/15
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12/6
12/13
12/27
1/3/1874
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#28:
#29:
#30:
#32:
#33:
#37:
#38:
#39:
1/10/1874
1/17
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3/14
3/21
4/4
4/11
5/9
5/16
5/23
#40:
#41:
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#51:
#52:
5/30/1874
6/6
6/13
6/20
7/4
7/11
7/18
8/8
8/15
8/22
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.
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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
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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
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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-flecklike 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. 936, 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.
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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 gilttitled 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.
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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. 8788). 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]
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[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,
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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."
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[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
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[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]).
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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
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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):
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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, 45764, 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.
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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
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!"
BY A FUTURE
shown actual size (if printing this catalog page on standard letter paper)
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 thirtytwo years of age; Whitney was fifty-one.
[description continues . . . ]
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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.
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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]
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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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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.
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crosses several
collecting disciplines (Mormons, railroadiana, 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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HIS SURPRISING PIECE
TOGETHER WITH
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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
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of Saturday, May 28, 1870, the first charter train to cross the
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
N THE EVENING
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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 LatterDay 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
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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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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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