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Quicksand And Cactus
Juanita Brooks became one of the best-known historians of Mormon and Utah history. Her autobiography is a valuable source of information on early southern Utah and Mormon history.
Paperback, 342 pages
Published
December 1st 1992
by Utah State University Press
(first published 1982)
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This is a memoir of Juanita Brooks, Mormon historian. She was born around the turn of the 20th century in Bunkerville, Nevada. This book has the feel of a Mormon "Little House on the Prairie." I used to live near St. George (around the corner from the Juanita Brooks' old house, as a matter of fact), and I read this to get a feel of the local history. Her own life story is fascinating as well. She became a young widowed mother and had to figure out a way to support herself.
I really enjoyed reading the stories of Juanita's life. It gave me a new view of what I should add to my own life story and a desire to write it more interestingly than it is already!
Amazing account of an amazing woman who happens to be the mother of my Dad's best childhood friend.
Great Historical report of life in Nevada on the border of Southern Utah. An enjoyable read.
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