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Show UINTAH COUNTY LIBRARY NEWS-By NEWS-By Evan L. Baker, Director vEV REGIONAL ROOM BOOKS: This weeks Library Corner is devoted to the Regional Room located in the library. As books become available or we become aware of books pertinent per-tinent to Vernal, the local region or of historical significance, we try to purchase pur-chase them for the library. Below are listed the latest purchases and additions ad-ditions to our Regional Collection. SDIAN-WHITE RELATIONS: A PERSISTENT PARADOX by Jane Smith and Robert M. Kvasmcka-this collection of edited papers and commentaries presented spans a period of a century and a half and covers a wide range of research topics presenting many diverse points of view. RECOLLECTIONS OF A HANDCART PIONEER OF 1860: A WOMAN'S LIFE ON THE MORMON FRONTIER by Mary Ann Hafen-in the summer sum-mer of 1860 the author of these recollections, then six years old, walked beside her parents' handcart from Florence, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland, to make the long journey to the Mormon Zion. Nearly eighty years later Mary Ann Hafen published this account of her life, giving us an unparalleled candid, inside view of the Mormon Mor-mon woman's world. THIS RECKLESS BREED OF MEN: THE TRAPPERS AND FUR TRADERS OF THE SOUTHWEST by Robert Glass Cleland-here is the story of the mountain men, trappers, and fur traders of the Great Southwest-the vast area that stretches south from the lower Columbia River to the Gulf of California, and west from Sante Fe and Taos to the California missions and pueblos. During the brief period between 1820 and the end of the beaver trade in the 1940's the trappers and mountain men explored this wilderness, establishing routes of travel that became the avenues for later settlement and commerce. CANYON COUNTRY PREHISTORIC ROCK ART by F.A. Barnes-illustrated Barnes-illustrated guide to viewing, understanding and appreciating the rock art of the prehistoric Indian cultures of Utah, the Great Basin and the general Four Corners region. CANYON COUNTRY PREHISTORIC INDIANS: THEIR CULTURES, RUINS, ARTIFACTS AND ROCK ART by Barnes and Pendleton-an illustrated guide to understanding the prehistoric Indian cultures of the general Four Corners region, with sections listing sites where the remnants rem-nants of these cultures can be viewed. THE FIST IN THE WILDERNESS by David Lavender-historians and armchair arm-chair explorers will relive the adventure and drama of frontier life in this history of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company from its founding foun-ding in 1808 to its sale in 1833. Astor set up the company as a "fist in the wilderness" to oppose British control of the fur trade in the Nor- , thwest Territory. SARAH WINNEMUCCA OF THE NORTHERN PAIUTES by Gae Whitney Canfield-of the many Native American women who were torn between two cultures on the American frontier, three have captured the popular imagination: Pocahontas, Sacajawea, and Sarah Winnemucca. This is the first full-scale biography of Sarah, the daughter of a Northern Paiute Chief in Western Nevada. TO THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW by Clyde M. Kluckhorn-a tale of twenty-five hundred miles of wandering on horseback through the southwest enchanted land. BACK TRAIL OF AN OLD COWBOY by Paul E. Young-Paul Young's back trail heads from Heber, Utah where he was born in 18&2, through the mining towns of Western Slope of Colorado to the ranching country of eastern Montana, where the Powder River is a mile wide and an inch deep and runs uphill. Leaving home at sixteen, he made his way however hecould-loading ore in a copper mine, tending bar for his brother Jim-but Jim-but mostly he has lived his life with horses. LETTERS OF A WOMAN HOMESTEADER by Elinore Pruitt Stewart-here Stewart-here are presented the charming, true-to-life letters of a woman who took up homesteading in Burnt Fork, Wyoming, in 1909 to prove that a woman could ranch. |