George Brooks: Artist in Stone

[St. George, UT], 1965. First Edition. 146pp. Octavo [26 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Near fine. Gentle rubbing to jacket's front panel. Signed and dated by the author on the front free endsheet. Biography of the Welsh convert and stonemason who worked on both the St. George Temple and the St. George Tabernacle. 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 #: 10216)