Juanita Brooks

WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY     (Washington County, Utah)

BOOK

"Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier"

by Juanita Brooks

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.

First edition
Paperback, ??? Pages, ?" x ?" x ?"
Published by Howe Brothers, Salt Lake City, 1982
ISBN: ???-?-????-????-?

Second edition
Paperback, 342 Pages, ?" x ?" x ?"
Published by the Utah State University Press, Logan UT, 1992.
ISBN: 9780874211634


AVAILABILITY

This book is out of print, but is available from a number of online booksellers.

Copies are in the Special Collections section of the Santa Clara, St. George, and Washington branches
of the Washington County Library, Call Number SP M270.07 Brooks.

A number of copies are available for checkout from the Washington County Library,
Call Number 979.203092 Brooks.


COVER

Front cover of the book
Front Cover
      Back cover of the book
      Back Cover


TABLE OF CONTENTS

     Introduction    xix
 
             PART ONE: WIDE, WONDERFUL WORLD 
 
  1.    Wide, Wonderful World        5
  2.    A One-Room Adobe House      11
  3.    Missionary's Wife      15
  4.    The Fruit Basket Tipped Over      27
  5.    The Returned Missionary      37
  6.    Pa Goes Freighting      51
  7.    The Mail Contract      58
  8.    The Cistern      64
  9.    Across the Mesa      67
10.    The Outside Comes In      76
11.    Simon and the Magic Sack      84
12.    Flax      90
13.    The Christmas Tree      99
14.    Over the Shovel Handles    107
15.    Old Tubucks    117
16.    Fifth Grade or Sixth Grade    127
17.    Bishop's Court    134
18.    All on a Summer's Day    142
19.    The Lord's Vineyard    151
20.    The Outsider    161
21.    Selah    170
 
             PART TWO: THAT UNTRAVELL'D WORLD 
 
  1.    Bunderville High    181
  2.    Pine Valley Summer    189
  3.    Miss Mina Connell    194
  4.    The Little Schoolteacher    209
  5.    Winter of Courtship    221
  6.    The Cabin Spring    231
  7.    Birth and Death    238
  8.    The Twenty-fourth    249
  9.    Dixie College    256
10.    In the Virgin Valley    263
11.    At the BYU    272
12.    The Red Maxwell Racer    281
13.    Home for Christmas    289
14.    To Columbia    300
15.    Dean of Women    310
16.    Just a-Visiting    319
 
     Epilogue: "Heaven Is ...    330
 
     Appendix A: Dale Morgan to Juanita Brooks, 12 May 1944    339
 
     Appendix B: Dale Morgan to Bernard DeVoto, 4 August 1944    341
 
             ILLUSTRATIONS   (following page 156) 
 
  1.    Littlefield, Arizona, ca. 1900
  2.    Bunkerville, Nevada, ca. 1900
  3.    Henry and Mary Hafen Leavitt
  4.    Mary Ann Stucki Hafen home, Bunkerville
  5.    Pioche, Nevada, ca. 1900
  6.    Dudley Leavitt and wives Mary and Mariah
  7.    Arrowhead Trail car, 1918
  8.    St. George, Utah, looking southeast, 1900s
  9.    Author's first school at Bunkerville
10.    Thomas D. Leavitt home, Bunkerville, 1918
11.    St. George, looking northeast, early 1900s
12.    School house at Mesquite, Nevada, ca. 1920
13.    Sunday School at Mesquite, ca. 1920
14.    Author, ca. 1920
15.    Fourth of July at Enterprise, Utah, ca. 1915
16.    Dixie Academy building, St. George, ca. 1925
17.    Daisy, Juanita, and Eva, ca. 1925
18.    Tabernacle and Main, St. George, ca. 1930
19.    Picking strawberries, 1927
20.    In Yellowstone Park, 1927
21.    Juanita and Ernie, ca. 1928
22.    Main Street, St. George, ca. 1930
23.    Dedication of Mountain Meadows Massacre monument, 1932
24.    Wedding dinner at the Brooks home, 1933
25.    The family of Henry Leavitt, mid-1940s


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