The Great Salt Lake (The American Lakes Series)
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 432pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. The extremities are lightly bumped and rubbed. There is a short gift inscription below the author's signature. Very good. Item #60934
Signed by the author on the publisher's tipped in decorative front flyleaf. One of a handful of book length works to be penned by the great western historian, Dale Morgan. According to Saunders "Great Salt Lake dealt more with the historical context of the lake than the body of water itself, describing the epocal [sic] history of the lake itself, early exploration and mapping, the settlement of Salt Lake City, tourism and recreation, and the advent of railroads beside and across the lake. Besides his incomplete history of the Mormons, this work contains the only published example of Morgan's historical treatment of his religious culture." Saunders 19.
Price: $100.00