Not by Bread Alone: The Journal of Martha Spence Heywood

Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1978. First Edition. 141pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light brown boards with the title backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by the editor on the front free endsheet. Nice journal documenting the overland trail with great descriptions of a fledgling Salt Lake City. Juanita Brooks (1898-1989) is one of the major historians of Utah history and particularly of the history of southern Utah. She was born and raised in the southern Nevada outpost of Bunkerville. After high school she focused on her education first at Dixie College, and then Brigham Young University. After obtaining a master's degree from Columbia University, she returned to St. George, where she was appointed dean of women for Dixie College. She then embarked on a career of research and. In 1934, Brooks' "A Close-Up of Polygamy" was published in Harper's Monthly Magazine, the first of over forty articles and fifteen books published during her career. (Inventory #: 10218)