Show 12 11 The Salt Lale Tribune ?SH :: k':-- " Sunday 1969 11 May Author Shows 4 :' ' i Enchanted With Detail A Kinship I ' British Text of US Campaign Fails With Nature 'S t '' ! :4- - 4:1'''''''':311Z?j::::-'?:- ' 4 7- : '''''‘' ttchil n ':5'''4 - ksb— '''' ' '' - - ": 4 1141 Ir W 111f j 71 1''- 444 TaV1-:1- "I''''''''''' - -- '7 I — A - tizit54 ir ailla02:J 1 id t ' T - - " - ' -- - 4- x7- '''' to Lir — - - : - ' : - ii-—- 4! fr c: i '': 74 7 — iirti d! -W4447- - ' i4 tplit 110'Y: vV4 ') tlX1tat v-- Ni "- I- -- 4 r- - va 44itw ilo r -- "West to Promontory" history of building of the Union Pacific Railroad an engineering feat In I J Russell Two of the Better Ones Other "West to Promontory" the photographs of A J &tide 11 with text by Barry B Comb West Publishing American Co 79 pp $1075 "RIO Road to Promontory" by George Kntum Amer lean West Public 1ing Co 316 pp Index photographs - Anticipating the splash of Interest stirred by the Golden Spike centennial the publishing world broke out in a rash of railroading books two of the better ones are "West to and Promontory" "High Road to Promontory" by the publishers of American West Magazine Wet-Plat- Collection e Text Note greatest engineering triumphs of its time "A Note About the Author" Mr the text explains Updike attended Harvard and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts in Oxford was a staff writer of "The New Yorker" and is the author of which is fine five novels But the same information again appears on the rear jacket now with a photograph a of displaying Updike relaxed thoughtful expression with eyeglass stem in mouth — all of which seems a contrived affectation he And when he writes writes of his sensitivities for his being and observations seem of greater value than subject matter As a result the object is greatly out of b clouded by the pronoun "Midpoint" the title poem then is by for and of Mr Updike And if you know him perhaps you'll enjoy it "My Children at the Dump" a short poem in the "Love Poems" category is an example of the ego in print Only Updike Updike describes hi s chil dren (who have no names or physical descriptions) exploring a dump or as he writes wonderland of discard" But the excursion is terribly d and the quotes are attributed to "I" If the children are the center of the as the title would poem suggest the reader looks in vain for the children He finds "a one-side- only Updike While many poets write in the first person singular so as to speak for mankind and his audience Updike is too concerned with self "Midpoint and Other Poems" it should be said is well written but the architecture of subject-ver- b agreements and the fabric of modifiers hardly save it — George d wet-plat- Russell's negatives "rediscovered" and identified in the archives of the American Geological Society in New York are remarkably crisp and clear and — because of their visual impact — overwhelm Combs' quite satisfactory text The difficulties under which Russell functioned cannot be understated and make his all the more achievements spectacular Hauling his huge view camera and stock of "window pane" darkplates in a horse-draw- n room filled with bottles of chemicals this Brady of Plains would mix a batch of emulsion on the scene spread It on a plate and inserting the sanddelicate wich in the camera make one of his b exposures 10x13-inc- light-sensiti- Developed The plate was then immediately developed and carefully packed to prevent breakage Driving his "shop" across Nebraska and Utah territories in those days was much like transporting eggs in a wheelbarrow Perched on the back of a wagon his darkroom black draped in its shroud-likcloth looked particularly funereal among the UP construction equipment The contraption appears in several of Russell's negatives gz i SALT LAKE railroad-buildin- r --- -- :: titk 41::- r--- 7:- '44040g I II 3 2 gi - t'l - 1 :- 1 S 17 A 11 4 141 :: ""7 ::: ::::: Sea Tale Thrilling :::::- :::: :::::: ::: ::: 300-fo- ) e '77!r!::::'::-':::!:- L -- t vtii tr-- 4 t!e If 4' —: 4--" strong indication that a game any number can play is about played out And because the best British Journalists are remarkably competent they have done very well indeed Had a team of American journalists attempted the same thing with a British election disaster probably would have been inevitable Contemporary history isn't really history It is instant history that doesn't relate to what went before and can't anticipate what comes next True history Is a job for professionals whose perspective is improved by their much longer view British NAMMI Mystery Volumes Offer Big Names for ::::: —:: diamonds - I lipcomp ' -- '1 histories g Whispermaft graceful tiara Many photos first-han- ‘i: 01''Ale ' ty li : by A "' : I t PROMONTORY The story of the Union Pociflc magnificently outlined by Barry Combs with photographs by A J Russell History 01 it was mod INTIMATE Bank Cards All Parking A p ‘T 1eil i' ' e: 1 i 't e7 s? 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2 12 ( -- leaves who anyone detail and seemingly compelled to prove they were on the inside don't know where to stop Such however are the disadvantages of team journalism especially when practiced in a new exciting environment So do journalists who were observers rather than participants And while it may be doubted whether in every case the product is worth the effort of writing and reading there is always a slim "Open Horizons" is baslcally an account of one person's preoccupation with the beauty found in new wilde:ness frontiers but it also contains an astute sermon that is being iterated more and more frequently by more and more for the minus and average figure fications for some locomotives of the period) without dis dosed 12 7 For the dedicated railroader Kraus has included choice technical tidbits (the steam pressures and cylinder speci- HIGH ROAD TO PROMONTORY Drama of the struggle to lay rails across the Sierra Nevada wall and the Nevada m4k Wilderness This is an enormous book which would have benefited from judicious compression The authors are enchanted with A Slim Chance pine-cover- Lilyette's new concept - :: itA 34 59 Dedicated Railroader 32-3- ged SeIra 3 d have your own Golden Spike Celebration with two new iA 9 to powder they undertook work it down with iron bars the bars striking the rocks caused an explosion one of the men was blown two or trestle" at Promontory a three hundred feet in the air Mormon family at Echo and breaking every bone in his more body the other three were burnt and wounded "High Road to Promontory" terribly with flying stoies Fan is fun deals with the Central Pacific but standing astraddle of four struggle to breach the aweand or five kegs of powder and some Sierra Nevada working it into the rocks with prove to skeptics that a linkup is a particular a crow-ba- r with the east was possible kind of sport that most men George Kraus devoted 12 wouldn't relish" years to research for this Both of these two volumes work and was able to add a on the transcontinental railaccountr number of first-hanroad are worth the reading to the wealth of material alSchindler is much available pubready lished here for the first time Other negatives (cracks and all) show the famous wedding of the rails previously attributed to C R Savage the "big e y 1 Newspaper Quote "At Carlisle's works a few days ago four men were preparing a blast by filling a large crevice in a ledge with powder After pouring in the Tribune Building now stands north toward Arsenal Hill the subsequent site of the Capitol grounds Cracks And All lmost Olson porter: Packed - Nee 'tort 71ms Service noivsis based on rcports from An In b4 US More than 1211 bookstores communities Last Weeks This Week On List Week FICTION a especially breathtaking scene at Green River in the winter of '68 (from which the book's dust jacket was created) An exciting new view of East Temple (Main StTeet) in Great Salt Lake City shows the blocks from where The Trapped by Nature was "trapped" by the magnificence of nature when he first sensed the beauty of autumn (along the Canadian border) This entrapment grew as he ventured deeper lands into the explored more delply by canoe and as a guide to sportsmen who sought the most remote hunting and fishing scenes Although the writer dwells at length on the beauty of the wilderness he also sounds a stern warning of its disappearance He sees a developing crisis that threatens man's survival with the pollution of streams and air impregnation of soil with harmful chemicals befouling of land with garbage and the building of ugliness and noise by Leuis and Bruce 1968" rushes into print with a supposedly authentic account of what happened deeepening understanding and appreciation of the spiritual value of the wilderness turbing the stream of thought for the general reader Of the dangers faced by the men who wrenched a transcontinental grade from the Kraus terrain unwilling supplies quotes like this from the Salt Lake City Daily Re- His photographic compositions however are uniformly h Raine McInnes 'Mow of Campaign nuances while British campaigns are too short to have more than one climax Presi- The writing of contemporary history has developed into such an industry that it obviously must be quite profitable A- Nostalgic Account This is a nostalgic account by a man now 70 who could not resist the call of the wild from his earliest youth first because of the excitement generated in the discovery of r ew woods and lakes and 1ner due to development of a ":1 Rail Books Timely Authoritative Not only is this collection by 4 Airpert S Siaughterhouae--f Ivo Vonneout GENERAL 1 Jennie Martin Sa listAtrY 2 The 900 Days 2 The Money Garr "Adam Sm th" Ernest HemingwaY Baker IL Miss Creirs Shane-U- p Program for Craig Men end Women (LooVright) pals- 11Z John Updike it is about John Updike which at this point — midpoint — is short of Roth The Godfather Puzo The Salzburg Connection :- 4 -- by John Updike AKnopf 99 pp $450 Portnoyl Complaint - 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