Book Notices

A Guide to Eleven Tours of Utah Historic Sites. Compiled by STEPHANIE D. CHURCHILL. (Salt Lake City: Utah Heritage Foundation, 1972. 43 pp. Paper, $1.00.)

For the traveler in Utah, whether he be resident or tourist, this attractive booklet offers carefully planned minivacations to historic sites in all parts of the state. It is drawn from information on sites submitted for consideration of the Governor's Cultural and Historic Sites Review Committee and thus will take you to many sites privately owned and closed to the public. But much can be learned about the area's architectural heritage by looking from outside the fenceline, with this guide furnishing brief historical sketches of hundreds of homes, churches, and public structures. Twenty-three of the sites are illustrated. The book gives information on mileage and the estimated time required for the circuit, and lists towns with overnight accomodations. It is available in bookstores and from the publisher, a private, nonprofit organization interested in historic preservation, with offices at 603 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102.

William Clayton's Journal: A Daily Record of the Journey of the Original Company of "Mormon" Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Reprint. (New York: Arno Press, 1973. vi + 378 pp. $18.00.)

This account of the first Mormon wagon train of 1846-47 by the company's official historian has long been recognized as a classic account of the trek. Meticulous by nature, William Clayton faithfully recorded miles traveled, described the topography, and observed the flora and fauna of the plains and mountains through which Brigham Young guided the pioneering exiles. Also plainly noted are the stresses and the routines of the trek, experiences which reveal the humanness of these traveling religionists.

In recent years this journal, published by the Clayton Family Association in 1921, has become increasingly less available to interested purchasers. Its republication as part of a fortyseven book series called the Far Western Frontier will be welcomed even though this simple reprinting adds nothing in the way of needed annotation.

Arno Press, a New York Times company (330 Madison Avenue, New York 10017), invited western historian Ray Allen Billington to select the titles for this impressive series (the complete package is available for $890). Of interest to Utahns are Our New West (1869; $24.00), by Samuel Bowles; Incidents of Travel . . . (1857; $18.00), by Fremont's artist Solomon N. Carvalho; Westward by Rail (1871; $19.00), which includes W. F. Rae's account of the Mormons at the completion of the transcontinental railroad; and other titles less directly related to Utah history but which capture nineteenth-century views of fur traders, forty-niners, and frontier settlers who preserved their personal viewpoints of life on the far western frontiers of Texas, Oregon, and California.

The National Register of Historic Places, 1972. By the OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESER­ VATION. (Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1972. xiii + 603 pp. $7.80.)

The nation's most significant historic buildings, sites, and districts were identified under the Historic Sites Act of 1935 for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. Under the Preservation Act of 1966 this register was greatly expanded to include historic properties of state and local significance. State liaison officers, cooperating with the National Park Service which administers the program, have thus far multiplied the National Register to more than thirty-five hundred entries.

This large book (8 1/2 by 11 inches) identifies each of the National Register sites in an alphabetical arrangement by state, county, and city. Brief entries relate the historical property's name, date, architect, and uses. Ownership (private, federal, state, or municipal) and accessibility are noted, along with information on the site's status as a National Historic Landmark, National Park Service site, or subject of study under the Historic American Building Survey (HABS) or Historic American Engineering Record (HAER). Excellent photographs of representative places make this a handsome as well as useful reference work.

Carson Valley: Historical Sketches of Nevada's First Settlement. By GRACE DANGBERG. (Minden, Nev.: Carson Valley Historical Society, 1972. pp $12.50.) Limited edition.

Castle Country: A History of Carbon County. By RICHARD G. ROBINSON. ([Dragerton, Utah: Author, P. O. Box 393, Dragerton 84520], 1973. iv + 140 pp. $3.50.)

Chronological Tables of American Newspapers: 1690-1920. By ED­ WARD CONNERY LATHEM. (Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1972. 131 pp. $32.50.)

Early Mormon History: A Selected Bibliography, 1771-1847. By DAVID J. WHITTAKER. (LOS Angeles, Author [843 No. Heliotrope Dr., Los Angeles 90029], 1973. 51 pp. Spiral, $1.50.)

A mimeographed guide listing articles, appropriate sections of books, theses, and dissertations alphabetically by author under seven major headings (The Writings of Mormon History; Mormon Beginnings; New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Nauvoo Periods; and Sources and Library Collections )and topical subheadings.

From Adze to Vermilion: A Guide to the Hardware of History and the Literature of Historic Sites Archeology. By L. R. BAILEY. (Pasadena, Calif.: Socio-Technical Books, 1971. xviii + 237 pp. $12.00.) Lists alphabetically by author selected articles, reports, and books. Contains a subject index. Published in edition of 500 copies.

The Great Salt Lake. By DALE L. MORGAN. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973. 432 pp. $3.95.) Reprint of 1947 edition published by Bobbs-Merrill Co. as part of the American Lake Series.

Lost America: From the Mississippi to the Pacific. Edited by CONSTANCE M. GREIFF. (Princeton, N. J.: Pyne Press, 1972. 256 pp. $17.95.) Destruction of historic buildings in the West, successor to an earlier volume, . . . From the Atlantic to the Mississippi. An excerpt, featuring a photograph of Saltair resort, appeared in Historic Preservation, 25 (October- December, 1972), 13-19. FRANK MCNITT. (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1972. xiii + 477 pp. $15.00.)

Phil Swing and Boulder Dam. By BEV­ ERLY BOWER MOELLER. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. 199 pp. $8.50.)

Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By JEFFERY O. JOHNSON. Church Archives Register No. 1. (Salt Lake City: Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, 1973. vi + 13 pp. $.50.)

The Saga of Frankie and Johnny. By JOHN HELD, JR. Foreword by CARL J. WEINHARDT. (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. x 4- 50 pp. $4.95. ) Held's woodcuts, prepared about 1915, illustrate a saga known in many versions. The book was printed in a limited edition in 1930.

The Seventh Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Humanities for Fiscal Year 1972. (Washington, D. C: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1973. 132 pp. $1.75.) Available from the Superintendent of Documents at the GPO.

The States and Their Indian Citizens. By THEODORE W. TAYLOR.(Washington, D. C.: Department of the Interor, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1972. xxii + 307 pp. Paper, $2.25.)

Willard: A Plan for Its Historic Preservation. By GERALD BROWN and TEDDY GRIFFITH. (Logan: Institute for the Study of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Utah State University, 1973. x + 80 pp. Spiral, $5.00.)