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My Life in Carbon County in the 1950s

By Ronald G. Watt

Provo: Scrivner Books, 2018. xvi + 210 pp. Paper, $13.95

In My Life in Carbon County in the 1950s, the historian Ronald Watt takes readers on a road trip through Carbon County. Watt, who wrote the 1997 centennial history of Carbon County, uses a personal approach in this volume, which he describes as a geographical tour of the county with snippets from his life mixed in. The communities surveyed in My Life include Castle Gate, Spring Canyon, Standardville, Helper, Kenilworth, Spring Glen, Carbonville, Price, Hiawatha, Wellington, Sunnyside, and Dragerton. Several aspects of this volume will be valuable to researchers: contemporary photographs, an extensive appendix of county businesses, and maps of Carbon County, Emery County, Price, and the western, eastern, and southern portions of Carbon County.

Westward with Fremont: The Story of Solomon Carvalho

By Sophie Greenspan

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. 164 pp. Paper, $17.95

Solomon Nunes Carvalho was the Jewish photographer and artist who accompanied John C. Frémont on his fifth expedition through the Rocky Mountains in 1853. This reprint of the late Sophie Greenspan’s biography of Carvalho, originally published in 1969, explains the role that he played in the Frémont expedition and recounts his later publishing of a best-selling book meant to help promote Frémont’s candidacy for the presidency. Carvalho was an important figure in American Jewish history, as well as an interesting focal point for the history of western exploration.