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Show Utah Historical 1952 Quarterly Off The Press After many years of publishing book-length monographs, the Utah State Historical Society announces the return to a quarterly publication publica-tion schedule. By returning to this program the. Society feels it can best serve the interests of its mem bers, for it will provide an outlet forThe publication of more varied topics important to the history of the Intermountain West. To this end the Society encourages encour-ages the submission of manuscripts for possible publication in the pages of the Utah Historical Quarterly. Quar-terly. The aim of the Quarterly will be to bring its readers a balance bal-ance between source documents and interpretive articles by present day writers. The four issues will be published January, April, July and October. Volume 20, Number 1, the first issue to appear under this program, pro-gram, was released January first. This issue contains several articles of value to the history of Utah and the Intermountain West, among am-ong which are "Coin and Currency in Early Utah" by Leonard J. Ar-rington, Ar-rington, assistant professor of economics ec-onomics at the USAC and "A Pioneer Pio-neer Paper Mirrors the Breakup of Isolation in the Great Basin", by Dr. A. R. Mortensen, executive secretary sec-retary - editor of the Utah State Historical Society. Of especial interest is the journal jour-nal of Robert Chalmers, edited by Charles Kelly, together with a companion article by Mr. Kelly (which actually serves as an introduction in-troduction to the Chalmers journal), jour-nal), entitled "Gold Seekers on I the Hastings Cutoff." These latter two articles serve to complete the picture . of travel over Hastings Cutoff to the end of 1850 as told in Volume 19, West From Fort Brid ger. Together with these full length len-gth articles, and in keeping with the Society's new policy, appear several book reviews, a list of publications dealing with the history his-tory of the West, and a section devoted to historical notes. |