Item #45673 Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 8: Number 1, January 1940; Numbers 2, 3, 4, April, July, October, 1940 (Journal of Leonard E. Harrington; The State of Deseret). J. Cecil Alter.

Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 8: Number 1, January 1940; Numbers 2, 3, 4, April, July, October, 1940 (Journal of Leonard E. Harrington; The State of Deseret)

Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 251pp. Octavo [23 cm] Burgundy cloth over boards with the title stamped in gilt on the backstrip. Very good, with only a bit of minor warping to the front cover. There is a former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Item #45673

This volume presents the journal of Leonard E. Harrington. Harrington was the mayor of American Fork, Utah for 29 years. The second portion of the volume concerns the State of Deseret, addressing many misconceptions of the origins of government in Utah, and exploring lesser-known sequels to that first government in the forty-five year struggle for statehood.

Price: $25.00

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