The First 100 Years: A History of The Salt Lake Tribune 1871-1971 by O.N. Malmquist

Preface THIS ACCOUNT OF The Salt Lake Tribune's first century is unapologetically pro-Tribune, but not uncritically so.

For those readers who desire to know the sources and motivations for what they are reading, these explanatory notes are offered to supplement the specific source citations.

The writer has been associated with The Tribune for forty years. It has been a pleasant, satisfying and rewarding association. He can therefore be fairly regarded as a "Tribune man." But a cardinal requirement of reporters for the newspaper during, and some years prior to, this association has been objectivity. In this assignment the writer has conscientiously sought to comply with that requirement.

One primary source of information for the newspaper's early history is Edward W. Tullidge, one of The Tribune's founders and author of one of the most reliable histories of Salt Lake City up to 1885. Other histories have been examined and used extensively as sources of facts, opinions and interpretations of events. The writer has generally accepted Tullidge's version of events during the early years of the many-faceted and bitter conflict between the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and The Tribune, as spokesman for the nonMormons (gentiles), for these reasons: As one of the founders of The Tribune, Tullidge was in a position to know the facts and the motives related to the birth of the newspaper.