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Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier
by Brooks, Juanita
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1982. First Edition. 342pp. Octavo [24 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very/good/Near fine. Faint rubbing to extremities to the jacket. "Quicksand and Cactus, an autobiography by Juanita Brooks, could hardly be more appropriately named. Her life began in the 'Mormon Country' of southern Nevada and Utah's Dixie, and after ripe, full years continues there at her home in St. George, Utah. Born in 1898 of pioneering Mormon stock in Bunkerville, Nevada, she has become one of the distinguished historians of the American West, perhaps the most notable person to emerge from the settlements of southwestern Utah and southern Nevada." - Charles S. Peterson.
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- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4182
- Title
- Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier
- Author
- Brooks, Juanita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Howe Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Utah Mormon LDS St. George
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About the Seller
Tschanz Rare Books
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Tschanz Rare Books
We actively buy and sell books, photographs, ephemera, maps, and objects in our specialties: Utah and the Mormons, Interior West, Western National Parks, Western Indians, Railroads and Western Americana generally.
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