Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier
by Brooks, Juanita
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0935704396
- ISBN 13
- 9780935704396
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Salt Lake City, UT: Howe Brothers Publishers, 1984. Second printing. Paperback. 342pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. Very good. There are numerous light stains on the front cover, and fore edge of the text block. The pages are clean. Illustrated. Historian Dale Morgan started urging Brooks to write this work in the mid-forties. Memoir by the renowned and highly respected Western historian. Descended from Southern Utah pioneers who were sent to colonize Utah's Dixie, Juanita Brooks grew up among the red rock country of Southern Utah. Brooks is best known for her groundbreaking histories of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and John D. Lee.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17457
- Title
- Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier
- Author
- Brooks, Juanita
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- ISBN 10
- 0935704396
- ISBN 13
- 9780935704396
- Publisher
- Howe Brothers Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Utah historians; Juanita Brooks; Mina Connell; St. George; Thomas D. Leavitt; Memoir; Southern Utah
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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