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Jul 24, 2022 175 Years Ago Today — Journey of the Utah Pioneers

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"Streets and sidewalks were moving masses of humanity — wide awake to the significance of pioneer week...

Nov 15, 2021 Book of the Week — A Few Words in the Utah and Sho-sho-ne Dialects…

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- Where are you going? Huck-a-bah pi-e qua? - I am going away off. Man-e-to meah-bike-quay. - Is there water there? Pah mah-bah kar-ra ah? - There is water there. Pah kar-ra. A Few words in the Utah and Sho-sho-ne dialects : alphabetically arranged D.B. Huntington (1808-1879) G.S.L. City, UT :...

Aug 23, 2021 Rare Books Welcomes U Back to School!

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The Rare Books Department welcomes U back to school! Do you have your textbooks ready? How about your reading primers? Primers were a type of textbook that taught students how to read. Initially, they contained "primary" or fundamental religious materials. Reference to primers appears in English...

image of mountains in Great Salt Lake from Frederick Piercy, Route from Liverpool...,1855

Jul 24, 2019 An Excerpt from A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United States

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"Wheat, oats, and barley, yield abundantly in the great valley. Melons and all the vines grow in perfection, as also do vegetables; while hopeful efforts are making to raise the olive, orange, lemon, pineapple, tea, coffee, &c." A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United...

Oct 09, 2017 On Jon’s Desk: Pictures of an Inland Sea – Every Book a Treasure

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“Across the distance there comes a change. The horizon is melted away; the mountains are all blurred. Distant chains appear to part and to become peaked islands. The sky seems water; the water, sky. Soon substance and shadow are indistinguishable. In plainer words, it is...

Jan 05, 2017 We recommend — Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail

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“For aren’t we all on a journey that tries our faith, tests our courage, makes us vulnerable, and at times defeats us and blisters our soul?” — Laura Allred Hurtado Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes along the Mormon Trail Laura Allred Hurtado and Byron C. Andreasen Salt Lake City,...

Jul 26, 2016 On Jon’s Desk: A gift from Ed Firmage raises questions

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A gift from Ed Firmage (University of Utah Professor Emeritus) to the Rare Books Department raises intriguing questions. In the front of this well preserved copy of the Life of Brigham Young; or, Utah and Her Founders, published in 1876, is a calligraphic inscription wherein...

Apr 11, 2016 Books of the week — T. B. H. and Fanny Stenhouse

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“There is a power in combined enlightened sentiment and sympathy before which every form of injustice and cruelty must finally go down.” – Harriett Beecher Stowe, 1874 LES MORMONS (SAINTS DES DERNIERS-JOURS) ET LEUR… Thomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse (1825-1882) Lausanne: Imprimerie Larpin et Coendoz, 1854 First edition BX8635 S74 1854 T....

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Jul 24, 2022 175 Years Ago Today — Journey of the Utah Pioneers

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