J. Cecil Alter, Founding Editor of Utah Historical Quarterly BY MIRIAM B. M U R P H Y
Above: /. Cecil Alter from Utah, the Storied Domain.
January 1928, the first number of Utah Historical Quarterly was issued. In retrospect, the new periodical's chances of survival were slim indeed. Its publisher, the Utah State Historical Society, suffered a chronic lack of funds, a situation that would worsen during the depression years ahead. And the editor and his associates had full-time occupations outside the Society. Against the odds, editor J. Cecil Alter . T I F T Y YEARS AGO, IN
Ms. Murphy is associate editor of Utah Historical
Quarterly.
