Historical Notes

S. George Ellsworth, professor of history at Utah State University, was given the title of Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society at Annual Meeting award ceremonies September 8. Dr. Ellsworth joins a distinguished group of thirteen Fellows who have received the award for outstanding historical research and writing. The Logan professor is editor of The Western Historical Quarterly and the author of a number of articles, book reviews, and Utah's Heritage, a textbook published in 1972.

Other members of the historical community who were honored by the Society include: Jack Goodman who was named an Honorary Life Member; Hermoine Jex, J. Grant Iverson Service Award; Lora Crouch, Service Award; LaMar Taft Merrill, Jr., Teacher Award; Glen M. Leonard, Dale L. Morgan Award; William A. Wilson, Morris S. Rosenblatt Award; and Ronald Walker, Golden Spike Award.

The Utah State Historical Society has announced a second year of competition for the Golden Spike Award (railroading in Utah in the nineteenth century) and the J. F. Winchester Award (the role of automotive transport, i.e., trucking, in Utah from statehood to the present). Each award carries a monetary prize of $300. Manuscripts should be unpublished, typewritten on 8 1 / 2 -by-11 -inch plain white paper and double spaced. Footnotes should be in a separate section at the end. Railroading manuscripts should be five to seven thousand words in length, trucking manuscripts seven to ten thousand words. Deadline for submission is July 1, 1974. Winners will be announced at the Society's 1974 Annual Meeting. Send entries to Utah State Historical Society Awards, 603 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84102.

Two rare books were recently acquired by the library of the Utah State Historical Society: Laws of Corinne City, Utah, and Wolfe's Mercantile Guide, Gazeteer, and Business Directory. The 32-page Laws of Corinne, published in 1883, contains the city charter and amendments as well as a chronological listing of the city governments from 1870 to 1883. The revised and consolidated ordinances of the well known railroad town comprise 19 pages of the volume. Wolfe's 1878-79 directory served as a guide to businesses located in towns along the line of railroads in Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, and Dakota. In addition, Wolfe compiled general descriptions of towns, mining interests, agriculture, schools and churches, governments, and societies. Of the 362 pages, 88 are concerned with Utah.

Records of the Manti-LaSal and Uinta national forests are now available for use on microfilm at the Society library. Included in the records are photographs of conservation, road building, and other activities in the national forest. About a hundred photographs from Uinta were selected by the library for duplication and have been placed in the photo archives. Dixie National Forest records—one document case to date—have been xeroxed by the library and are ready for use. Important records of the Strawberry Water Users have also been microfilmed. The Strawberry Valley Project was Utah's first federal reclamation project. The collection includes about a hundred large photographs. The Willard City Council Minutebook has been microfilmed, and the later Willard City records—from 1920 to the present—have been xeroxed.

Two major collections of papers have been deposited with the Special Collections Department of the Merrill Library, Utah State University. The library has received the papers of Edgar B. Brossard, member of the United States Tariff Commission from 1925 to 1959. The collection contains approximately one hundred document boxes of manuscript material, several hundred photographs, and various papers and memorabilia from Dr. Brossard's civic, educational, and ecclesiastical careers.

From the family of the late Governor George D. Clyde, the library has received the original manuscripts of the governor's speeches and addresses from 1956 to 1964. The collection of holographs and annotated typescripts comprises some thirty-six looseleaf binders.

A variety of family papers, journals, correspondence, and published materials have been acquired by Western Americana, Marriott Library, University of Utah. The papers of George Zoumadakis and Henry Y. Kasai were added to the ethnic archives as were the ledgers of B'Nai Israel Temple (1859-89) and the business records of John Skerl of the Mutual Mercantile Company, Helper (1924-45). Other acquisitions include the missionary diary of John Hardie, 1867-68; "The History of Joseph C. Kingsbury Written by His Own Hand;" correspondence between historian Dale L. Morgan and his cousin T. Gerald Bleak; diaries, correspondence, and miscellaneous items of the Stevenson, Richards, Wilcox, and Noall families; correspondence, clippings, and other material of the Charles C. Rich and Edward Hunter families; an 1852 map of California and Oregon and Utah territories; Laws of Corinne City, Utah, 1870 to 1883; Ordinances of Ogden City, Utah, 1869-1881; letterpress book of Heyward and Flint, Ogden lawyers, 1897-1912; and minutes and other historical materials of the Women's State Legislature Council of Utah, 1926-65.

Four new collections are among the recent additions to holdings of the Church Archives, Historical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The collection of Andrew Kimball, son of Heber C. Kimball and father of Spencer W. Kimball, includes thirty-three volumes of journals, 1884-1923, of the Arizona church and civic leader. St. George settler Charles L. Walker's collection consists of twelve journal volumes, 1854-99, which tells of the building of the St. George and Manti temples, the Utah War, Indian problems, and associations with church leaders. The Walker papers also include a copy of Vepricula, vol. 1, no. 1 to vol. 2, no. 5 (May 1864-July 1865), a southern Utah manuscript newspaper of which he was co-editor. The David D. Rust collection consists primarily of correspondence with such notable visitors to Utah as Theodore Roosevelt, Zane Grey, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, Otis R. (Dock) Marston, and scientists from Harvard's Peabody Museum. Rust was mayor of Kanab and also a guide to the area's rivers and canyons. The papers of Helaman Pratt and his son Rey L. Pratt include diaries, journals, notebooks, and correspondence. Both Pratts served in various church capacities in Mexico.

The American Association of State and Local History has announced a major publishing venture in connection with the 1976 national bicentennial. The project will consist of fifty-one books—a volume for each state and the District of Columbia—offering insight into the local application of democratic principles. Each book will discuss such topics as how a state's addition to the Union aggravated or resolved national conflicts, how each state has stood on national issues, what each state has contributed to the understanding of democracy, and similar ideas. The series is tentatively entitled A Nation of Experiments: Bicentennial Histories of the States. Individual state volumes will be entitled America in Alabama, America in Alaska, etc. The books are not intended as chronologies of internal state history, according to the announcement. The aim is to analyze what it has meant, for relations with the rest of the nation, to be a Georgian or Rhode Islander or Utahn. The working premise of the series is that the states, far from being mere political subdivisions, were dynamic extensions of the xAmerican Revolution whose bicentennial observance belongs in that sense to all of them. The project is initially funded by a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.