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University of Utah Press Tanner Trust Fund Salt Lake City
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Volume 5 in the Utah Centennial Series Charles S. Peterson, Series Editor
1988 by the University of Utah Press All rights reserved Paperback edition 1996
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peterson, Levi S., 1933 Juanita Brooks : Mormon woman historian.
(Utah centennial series ; v. 5) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Brooks, Juanita, 1898 2. Historians UtahBiography. 3. MormonsUtahHistoriography. 4. UtahBiography. 5. UtahHistoriography. I. Title. F826.B877P48 1988 979.2'0072024 [B] 88-17421 ISBN 0-87480-512-0 ISSN 0887-3771
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to my father and mother Joseph Peterson and Lydia Jane Savage
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Contents
Foreword by Charles S. Peterson
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Acknowledgments
xiii
Chapter One Hen Leavitt's Boy
1
Chapter Two Wed and Widowed
24
Chapter Three Moving Up
55
Chapter Four An Undefined Ambition
88
Chapter Five An Indispensable Apprenticeship
116
Chapter Six The Story She Was Born to Tell
173
Chapter Seven Giving Voice to John D. Lee
211
Chapter Eight A Life at Its Peak
244
Chapter Nine Refusing to Retire
285
Chapter Ten Old Lovers Gently Rocked
319
Chapter Eleven Perennial Spunk
359
Chapter Twelve In the Perspective of the Centuries
396
Photographs
424
Notes
441
Juanita Brooks: A Bibliography
479
Index
489
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Foreword
Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian is the fourth volume in the University of Utah Press's Centennial Series. The series is aimed at commemorating the centennial of Utah statehood (1996) by looking at Utah history in the broad context of the state's federal experience. Like democracy, equality, and human rights, federalism is one of the foundation stones upon which the American experiment rests. It has been especially important for state history in the West, where the territorial system and the public domain made mutual relationships between states and the federal government crucial. Yet the influences that give form to western federalism reach far beyond mere political institutions. The environment, Native Americans, regional location, the timing of settlement and the pace of urban and technological development, and the interaction of cultural and social influences between states, all feature in the formulation of the federal context of which Utah is part. Other volumes in the series, which have focused on Native Americans, a Jewish back-to-the-land experiment, and the biography of a Greek couple and their immigration to Utah, portray the richness and complexity of the Utah experience as well as its connection with the larger communities of region, nation, and world.
Levi Peterson's Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian pursues this same perspective but more than the earlier volumes examines the influence of an individual upon the inner workings of Utah society and the nature of the Mormon experience. A product of Utah's Dixie, Brooks matured in one of the West's most isolated localities
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during its most insular era. A Mormon subregion extending into neighboring Nevada and Arizona, Dixie was colonized as a corridor to California and a "cotton mission" in the 1850s and 1860s. For a time Dixie enjoyed a local prominence when Brigham Young threw his full energy behind its settlement and as it was penetrated by federal influences related to the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the topographical surveys of John Wesley Powell. By 1880 Young was dead, Powell's attention was turning to other things, and John D. Lee's execution signaled a shift in the Mormon conflict away from southern Utah. Left to its own resources, the Dixie of Juanita Brooks's youth was an enclave of pioneer Mormonism removed for three or four decades from many of the changes that shifted the eyes of other Utahns outward. In it flourished many of the most persistent elements of Mormon fundamentalism including determined pockets of polygamy. Dixie was an outpost of Mormon ethnicity nearly self-sufficient in its economy and with a deep sense of its own identity. As Brooks's writing demonstrates, it also had a capacity to entertain itself and examine its own issues. Ultimately tourism, national parks, southern California, and Depression programs altered the patterns of isolation, and World War II carried the locality into a close dependence on the broader world.
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