WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
BOOK
"Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier"
by Juanita Brooks
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 |
 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 |