Book Notices

Caroline Keturah Parry Woolley,“I Would to God”: A Personal History of Isaac C. Haight.

Edited by Blanche Cox Clegg and Janet Burton Seegmiller.(Cedar City: Southern Utah University Press, 2009. vii + 219 pp. Paper, $25.00.)

Having heard the story of her grandfather, Isaac C. Haight’s participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre at a very young age and knowing of her father’s collection of information that he had collected concerning her grandfather’s involvement in the massacre, Caroline Keturah Parry Woolley (1885-1967) was motivated to conduct further research and to write a history of her grandfather.

Unable to complete the history of Haight before her death, Caroline Woolley donated to Southern Utah University her manuscript collection, which included drafts of the personal history of her grandfather with the provision that her manuscript be published. The volume covers the entire life of Isaac C. Haight, focusing primarily on religious details of his life.

The two editors took on the task of preparing the two part thirty-one chapter book for publication. “I Would to God” is the second in a series of monographs on Mountain Meadows published by Southern Utah University Press.

Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier.

Edited by Paul Andrew Huttonand Durwood Ball. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xii + 404 pp. Cloth$34.95.)

First published in 1987, the editors of this edition have replaced the “Introduction” by Robert M. Utley, “William Clark” by Jerome O. Steffen, “James H. Carleton” by Arrell M. Gibson, “William B. Hazen” by Marvin E. Kroeker, and “Frank D. Baldwin” by Robert C. Carriker with an “Introduction” by Durwood Ball who has also provided a biographical sketch of “Stephen W. Kearny.” Other new biographical sketches include “Philip St. George Cook” by Jeffrey V. Pearson, “John M. Chivington” by William J. Convey, “Oliver O. Howard” by Scott L. Stabler, and the replacement biographical sketch by the same title of “James H. Carleton” by Arrell M. Gibson.

Particular interest to Utah readers are the sketches of James Carleton, Philip St. George Cook, William S. Harney, and Stephen W. Kearny. Other biographical sketches include Stephen H. Long, Philip H. Sheridan, George A. Custer, George Crook, John G. Bourke, Benjamin H. Grierson, Ranald S. Mackenzie, Nelson A. Miles, and Charles King.