Sarah Elizabeth
Carmichael.
Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael: Poetic Genius of Pioneer Utah BY MIRIAM B. MURPHY
A HE POETRY OF PIONEER Utah lies for the most part forgotten in the periodicals of the day and a few slim volumes of verse preserved in local libraries. While a surprising number of early Utahns wrote poetry, only a handful of their poems survive—most notably in hymns such as the Ms. Murphy is assistant editor of Utah Historical Quarterly.