Show calia ORN I 1 IN PRA PRAISES THE BOOK mrs cassle riding librarian of the delta public library handed me a copy of the pony express courier published at placerville erville california in which appeared a write up of the book miles goodyear by charles kelly helly and maurice howe As I 1 was i out in the company of mr air and mrs kelly helly only a week ago and gave the nates of the trip in the chronicle I 1 will copy the write up which follo follow a s MILES GOODYEAR by charles kelly elly and maurice L howe western printing co salt lake city 3 00 in a limited edition of copies charles kelly relly and maurice howe have told here the significant story of miles goodyear the boy who came west with the witman party in 1836 to seek his for tortures tures in the rocky mountains goodyear 1 I dudle would have even remained a 0 or gotten figure of tl e greit west had not two such indefatigable and lever research artists as kelly and howe honne determined to piece together his amazing pioneer story and re cord it U one sees the months of pa tient dent effort that must have gone into the compilation of this book as one turns the swift reading pages of 0 its readable narrative sparkling with the zest of the old da das s which are not really so long ago and finding n each paragraph some compelling essence of a boy and then a man on the march of empire good year was by way of being the first of utah trapper trader call tornia fornia pioneer and state builder even it if his tame fame is shadowed to those who live on the site he select ed as his home ogden utah it has always been my contention that charles charms kelly Is one of the most po bently sincere and gi gifted eted research workers in the west in this book you will find that with mr howe s able help he has written another forgotten chapter into a known chapter with very few historical holes in the life of goodyear the book Is an extremely fine job of book making also and I 1 anticipate that the publishers will find their small edition entirely exhausted in a few weeks all pony express courier readers interested in excel dional historical documents should write tor for this book immediately 10 10 lo which I 1 can add that I 1 have read the book and recommend it to the delta public hibray or the high school library F D |