Journal of the Southern Indian Mission: Diary of Thomas D. Brown

175pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] White printed wrappers. Very good. Journal from the Southern Utah pioneer and stalwart of his time among the Indians of the Santa Clara and Virgin rivers. 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. 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.