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"Juanita Brooks Remembers", 1973
File — Box: 1, Volume: 1
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Typed transcript of a taped interview with Juanita Brooks conducted by R. T. Reilly and E. R. Reilly. In the interview, Brooks recalls her early life as she grew up in Bunkerville, Nevada.
Dates:
1973
Letter, 1941 December 29
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 1
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Morgan warns Brooks to be sure of the accuracy of the sources she quotes in her work. He suggests that she check other sources to reinforce the materials from the Ginn manuscript and suggests several sources that might be useful. Brooks had asked Morgan about Bleak's Annals of the Southern Utah Mission. He tells her again to be careful to verify facts from it. Morgan has read Brooks' chapters on Jacob Hamblin and tells her that she must write, "not for Mormons," but to interest others in the...
Dates:
1941 December 29
Letter, 1942 April 12
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 2
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Morgan speaks of Brooks' visit to Salt Lake City and of showing her where to find materials for her writing. He comments on her belief that he is unselfish by saying that he gets as much from other people as he gives to them. Morgan tells of some of the people he has learned from: a folklorist in Los Angeles, a Nevada highway employee, Wallace Stegner, and Bernard DeVoto. Morgan states that he likes Brooks' interest in southwestern Utah because he himself knows little about it. He is gathering...
Dates:
1942 April 12
Letter, 1942 September 7
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 3
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Morgan has sent off his Humboldt River manuscript and is ready to leave Salt Lake City and go east to live. He has returned Brooks' Mountain Meadows massacre piece and outlines eight points he feels she should establish as she develops it. Morgan states that he will send notes or excerpts if he finds any material on the Mountain Meadows massacre while he is researching in the Library of Congress.
Dates:
1942 September 7
Letter, 1942 December 5
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 4
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Morgan reports having checked several California newspapers at the Library of Congress for information on the Mountain Meadows massacre.
Dates:
1942 December 5
Letter, 1943 November 26
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 5
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Morgan has been to New York City to use the public library files there. He lists a number of books he has used, and asks Brooks to find out what has happened to the original trial records of the second John D. Lee trial. He sends Brooks The Crimes of the Latter-day Saints published in 1884, and tells her of other materials that may be of interest to her.
Dates:
1943 November 26
Letter, 1944 April 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 1
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Morgan has just come from the Library of Congress. He tells Brooks to try to contact Layman R. Martineau of Los Angeles for his journal. Morgan reports having trouble getting materials at the Library of Congress, since much of it was in storage for the duration of the war.
Dates:
1944 April 27
Letter, 1944 May 5
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 2
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Morgan reports that there is no Hamblin material in the Library of Congress. He has checked on Judge John Cradlebaugh's speech of 1963 on the Mountain Meadows massacre and sends a copy of a note in the Wagner-Camp bibliography, The Plains and the Rockies.
Dates:
1944 May 5
Letter, 1944 October 5
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 3
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Morgan writes that he has received a letter from Dutton Publishers about Brooks' Mountain Meadows massacre book, but that Farrar and Rinehart are to have first chance at it. Morgan has been in contact with four publishers interested in books by western authors with western themes.
Dates:
1944 October 5
Letter, 1945 April 23
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 4
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Morgan suggests that Brooks talk to David O. McKay and tell him that it will be better to have a friendly book by a church member than an adverse one. He states that Charles Kelly claims to have access to material on the Mountain Meadows massacre that no one else has or ever will have.
Dates:
1945 April 23