Book Notices

"The Place Where Hell Bubbled Up": A History of the First National Park. By DAVID A. CLARY. (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1972. iv + 68 pp. Paper, $1.00.)

A quotation from Jim Bridger is used as the title of this attractive little book written by a Park Service historian to capitalize on the interest generated by last year's Yellowstone centennial observance. It is generously illustrated with the faces of the men behind the concept of the famed preserve, the natural features first photographed by William Henry Jackson and sketched by Thomas Moran during the 1871 Hayden survey, and the early tourists who came by stagecoach, motor bus, or automobile to examine "these wonderful fountains" and "immense cauldrons" of boiling mud and water. The historic pictures, reproduced in duotone, fill more than two-thirds of the attractively designed pages. An engaging narrative tells the story in summary. Offered at a souvenir price, "The Place . . ." will find its way into many a traveler's collection of vacation mementos and will be consulted for an overview of America's first national park.

Mormon Migrations and Related Events, vol. 5 of The Pioneers of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain Regions. By JOSEPH FISH. Edited by SEYMOUR P. FISH. (Provo, Utah: [Privately published, 1973.] xiv + 565 pp. $10.00.)

Joseph Fish, a resident of Parowan before he pioneered in northern Arizona, prepared a seven-volume manuscript history of western exploration and settlement prior to his death in 1926. The family has selected volume five as the first of the set to be published, and, according to the editor, it "may be the last" (p. xi). Fish's descendants felt that his retelling of the Mormon story would have a larger potential audience than the general histories of European explorers, fur traders, or other western settlers, and for that reason have printed this volume. Mormon Migrations, with a pocket map of LDS migrations, 1830-47, emphasizes the church's westward movement, with considerable space given to the Mormon Battalion story. Great Basin settlement efforts, transportation, and biographical notes on pioneers. Publication makes available another of the manuscripts of a voluminious writer whose autobiography, The Life and Times of Joseph Fish, Mormon Pioneer, was edited for publication in 1970 by John H. Krenkel.

Among the Mormons: Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers. Edited by WILLIAM MULDER and A. RUSSELL MORTENSEN. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books, 1973. xiv + 482 + xiv pp. Paper, $2.45.)

When this book was first published by Alfred A. Knopf, John W. Caughey suggested in an October 1958 review in the Quarterly that the job of selecting firsthand accounts had been done so skillfully that Among the Mormons henceforth would likely appear at the top of every reading list on Utah and the Mormons. The validity of his prediction has been proven by the collection's wide acceptance and frequent use as a source book. It will be welcomed now, after fifteen years, in an inexpensive paperback edition which reproduces without alteration the original book of readings.

Al Nestler's Southwest: The Rugged and Beautiful Southwest Interpreted by One of Arizona's Foremost Painters. By [AL NESTLER]. Preface by ROBERT MACLEOD. (Flagstaff, Ariz.: Northland Press,, 1970. xii + 92 pp. $12.50.) Includes a section on Utah: "Rock Sculptures and Wild Rivers."

Behold, the Sun Rises! By EZRA J. POULSEN. (Salt Lake City: Granite Publishing Co., 1972. viii + 258 pp. $4.50.) Novel set in a Mormon community in southern Idaho in the early to mid twentieth century.

The Black Military Experience in the American West. Edited by JOHN M. CARROLL. (New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 1971. 591 pp. $17.50.) Sixty essays and other selections by recent historians and contemporary observers make up this reader.

The Christmas Tree. By JUANITA BROOKS. Illustrated by DAVID CROCK­ ETT. (Santa Barbara and Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Inc., 1972. 36 pp. $4.50.) A story of Bunkerville, Nevada.

Diggings and Doings in Park City. By RAYE CARLESON PRICE. Photographsby HARRY HARPSTER. (2nd ed.; Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, Bonneville Books, 1972. 148 pp. $5.95.)

Dispossessing the American Indian: Indians and Whites on the Colonial Frontier. By WILBUR R. JACOBS. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. xiv 4- 240 pp. Cloth, $7.95. Paper, $3.95.)

The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project, 1935-1943. By JERRE MANGIONE. (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1972. xvi + 416 pp. $12.50.)

Folklore in the Bear Lake Valley. By BONNIE THOMPSON. (Salt Lake City: Granite Publishing Co., 1972. viii 4- 219 pp. $3,500

The Great Landslide Case. By MARK TWAIN. (Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1972. x + 58 pp.) Involves Orson Hyde and Carson Valley Mormons.

The History of the Southern Ute Indian. By CLARA M. MAYFIELD. (New- York: Carlton Press, 1972. $2.50.)

History of Weston, Idaho. By LARS FREDRICKSON. Edited by A. J. SIM- MONDS. Western Text Society No. 5. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1972. vi + 78 pp. $2.00.)

Man on Horseback. By GLENN R. VERN AM (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972. xii + 436 pp. Paper, $2.45.) Reprint of Harper and Row, Publishers, edition of 1964. Tells "the story of the mounted man from the Scythians to the American cowboy;" a world history of horsemanship, illustrated with 170 drawings of saddles, bridles, bits, and other equestrian gear.

The Mexican War: Changing Interpretations. Edited by ODIE B. FAULK. (Chicago: The Swallow Press, Inc., 1972. Paper, $3.95. Cloth, $10.00.) "The Mexican War: A Seminar Approach," April 1972 number of Journal of the West, consisting of thirteen articles, expanded and published as a book of seventeen chapters. New are chapters 1, 7, 10, 12.

The Nevada Desert. By SESSIONS S. WHEELER. (Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1971. 168 pp. $2.95.)

Nevada's Governors: From Territorial Days to the Present, 1861-1971. By MYRTLE TATES MYLES. (Sparks, Nev.: Western Printing and Publishing Co., 1972. xvi + 310 pp. $10.00.)

Pioneering the Snake River Fork Country. By Louis J. CLEMENTS andFIAROLD S. FORBUSH. (Rexburg: Eastern Idaho Publishing Co., 1972. [iv] + xxvi + 312 pp. $7.75.) Settlement of Madison County, Idaho, including history of the fur trade and Indians, Ricks College, and ecclesiastical and civic affairs to the present.

Planning for Successful Teaching and Learning with Utah's Heritage. Part I: A Planning Model for Teachers. Compiled by ALLEN E. BAUER. Part II: Historical Resource Materials for the Teacher. Compiled by S. GEORGE ELLSWORTH. (Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1972. Part I, 114 pp. Part II, 119 pp. $4.00.) Teacher's guide to Ellsworth's textbook, Utah's Heritage.

Red Man's Land—White Man's Law: A Study of the Past and Present Status of the American Indian. By WILCOMB E. WASHBURN. (New- York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1971. viii + 280 pp. $7.95.)

Restless Strangers: Nevada's Immigrants and Their Interpreters. By WILBUR S. SHEPPERSON. The Lancehead Series: Nevada and the West. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1970. xiv 4- 287 pp. $7.00.)

Sagebrush Doctors and Health Conditions of Northeast Nevada from Aboriginal Times to 1972. By EDNA B. PATTERSON. [Lamoille, Nev.: Author], 1972. xvi 4- 196 pp. $10.00.) Limited edition of 500 numbered, autographed copies.

Selections from the Fifth and Sixth National Colloquia on Oral History.

. . . Edited by PETER 1). OLCH andFORREST C. POGUE. (New York: The Oral History Association, Inc., 1972. vi 4- 110 pp.) Selections from the 1970 and 1971 fall meetings reproduced from typescript. Includes papers on the uses of oral history in folklore, biography, ethnic studies, etc.

The Trail of the Ancients. By ALBERT R. LYMAN. (Blanding: Trail of the Ancients Association, 1972. 71 pp. $3.95.)

The Western American Indian: Case Studies in Tribal History. Edited by RICHARD N. ELLIS. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972. 203 pp. $6.95.) Essays examining the effects of policies of enforced acculturation.

The Wilford C. Wood Collection, Volume I: An Annotated Catalog of Documentary-Type Material in the Wilford C. Wood Collection. By LAMAR C. BERRETT. (Bountiful: The Wilford C. Wood Foundation, 1972. x + 236 pp.)