Book Notices

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education

By Barry A.Lanman and Laura M.Wendling.(Oxford:AltaMira Press,2006. 483 pp.Cloth $90.00;paper,$36.95.)

Editors and writers Barry A.Lanman and Laura M.Wendling offer an analysis of and prescription for the continued use of oral history as an educational tool through contributed essays and case studies.Oral history and its applications from the elementary school classroom to the graduate-level lecture hall or seminar discussion are touched upon herein.

This comprehensive,438 page pedagogical tool provides a valuable resource for educators,administrators,and historians alike who seek to strengthen the role of oral or narrative history inside the classroom and out.Many chapters are followed by Thought Questions ; discussion topics intended to further dialogue on the preceding topic.

Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah.

By Del Vance.(Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press,2006.315 pp.Paper,$32.95.)

The author of this study of beer in Utah is the co-founder of the Uinta Brewing Company. His interest in beer and history led him to write this book filled with interesting facts, hilarious witticisms, and historical photographs. His book begins with the origins of beer, which date back to about 4,000 B.C., and then discusses the early processes and modernized brewing techniques. The book then shifts to an extensive history of beer in Utah from the early days of the territory to the present. Vance’s book includes interesting facts such as Salt Lake City’s ZCMI used to sell wine and beer and that Orrin Porter Rockwell owned the Hot Springs Brewery Hotel in Bluffdale.

The book is an interesting and pleasurable read.Perhaps unorthodox,it provides the reader with a part of Utah’s history not widely known.Vance guides the reader from one brewery to the next with well-documented information and old pictures of buildings—many of which are still evident in Utah’s cityscapes. Anyone interested in beer or the influence it had on Utah’s economy will find the book informative and entertaining.

American Fork City: The Growing Years.

By Betty G.Spencer.(Salt Lake City: Book Printers of Utah,2006.xv + 370 pp.Cloth,$39.95.)

Betty G.Spencer is a journalist,editor,author,poet,photographer, and publicist,who spent more than thirty years researching and writing the histor y of her hometown. The richly illustrated volume covers the recent history of American Fork beginning with a chapter entitled,“How American Fork Survived the Great Depression,”and continuing with the World War II years to the present. Specific chapters cover politics,public safety,religion,recreation, culture,communication,transportation,agriculture,business and commerce,and American Fork Canyon.

Legacy of the Tetons: Homesteading in Jackson Hole, Revised Second Edition.

By Candy Vyvey Moulton.(Cheyenne:LaFrontera Publishing,2007. 185 pp.Paper,$18.95.)

First published in 1994,this history of homesteading in Jackson Hole,Wyoming,focuses on what is known as “Mormon Row,”an area east of the Teton Mountains in Jackson Hole settled by a dozen or so Mormon families beg inning in 1896.The stories of life on this western Wyoming frontier before the creation of Grand Teton National Park are illustrated with an interesting collection of historic and contemporary photographs.