Tales From Utah Valley Volumes 2 Carter Provo Daily Herald LDS Mormon History

Description: Tales From Utah Valley Volumes 2 Carter Provo Daily Herald LDS Mormon History___________________________________ Tales From Utah Valley Volume 2by D. Robert CarterPublished by Daily Herald (2007) This is Volume 2 (only) of an awesome set of two! Anyone who loves the history of Provo, Orem and surrounding areas will have to have this books in their library! I purchased both in the (even more) limited edition hardcovers when they came out! If I didn't have these, I would be holding one to this one. I hope the person who gets them will appreciate them as much as I do. Condition:Excellent Softcover 1st Edition Book! Limited to 1000 copies! The binding is tight and all pages within both books are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds with the exception of a lengthy gift inscription on the inside front cover (shown). The covers look perfect as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this book! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book(s) from The Daily Herald:"Tales from Utah Valley" by D. Robert Carter offers unique glimpses and insights into events that shaped who we are. No history to date has the scope of this collection -- or the variety of pictures.History is a fragile thing. It is often lost forever as people of earlier generations die and take their memories with them. The Daily Herald is determined to preserve as much local historical knowledge as possible. There are few things more natural for a newspaper. In many ways, a newspaper is the keeper of a community's history. Its daily columns represent an ongoing journal of community life. We introduced the History Page in the summer of 2003. Articles were initially drawn from such sources as the Utah Historical Quarterly, old magazines, personal journals and the like. We were fortunate to connect with Carter, a historian from Springville who had written about the early settlement of Provo. His books, "Founding Fort Utah" and "Utah Lake Legacy," uncovered a wealth of information heretofore unknown about those early days. Fortunately for the people of Utah Valley and their descendants, Carter was more interested in immortality than wealth, and he agreed to write weekly articles for the History Page. His original research and vivid storytelling revive people and events in Utah Valley history that were about to fade away, to be lost to future generations. Carter's stories are gems that will outlast anyone reading this page. "Tales from Utah Valley" makes no pretense of being an encyclopedic history. Few would want to read it if it were. It is instead a delightful collection of short stories and photographs that support the book's subtitle, "Spellbinding and Sometimes Strange Selections from the Daily Herald's History Page." We hope you will enjoy reading these unique collections of local history. Article about author, Robert Carter by Cody Clark:Carter, who lives in Springville, is a noted local historian and former Daily Herald history columnist. His previous writings include two volumes in a series titled "Tales from Utah Valley" (printed by the Daily Herald), as well as "Utah Lake: Legacy." His books about the early history of Provo are published by Provo City Corporation as part of an ongoing relationship that began while city officials were preparing to celebrate, in 1999, the sesquicentennial anniversary of the founding of Provo. Provo city community relations officer Helen Anderson said via e-mail that Mayor Lewis K. Billings, then serving his first term in office, wanted to determine the location of the first permanent settlement in Provo, which was not definitively known at the time. Carter, Anderson said, "ended up being the hero of the process by finding a notation in a diary that provided a conclusive answer to the question." (An archeological excavation later verified the information in the diary, Anderson said, confirming that the first permanent settlement was located where Interstate 15 crosses the Provo River today.) The city's desire to preserve the new information about its past dovetailed nicely with Carter's longstanding interest in local history, and the book project subsequently took shape. Author Robert Carter is one of Provo's own...Born the youngest of four children in Nephi, Carter moved with his parents and three sisters to Provo when he was 3 years old. His interest in history, he said, came from being surrounded by it growing up. The family lived in a two-story pioneer home originally built in 1880, and Carter enjoyed hearing the stories of a man who lived nearby, one A. Will Jones, known around the neighborhood as the "unofficial Provo historian." Carter said that Jones's father had been a Latter-day Saint polygamist: "All of his father's wives had lived on the same block. They had pretty much controlled the block." By the time that he attended Dixon Junior High School and Provo High School (after getting his earliest schooling at Franklin Elementary School), Carter said, "I could relate to my English and history teachers much better than I could relate to my math and science teachers." After attending Brigham Young University, where he majored in history, minored in English and eventually obtained a secondary teaching certificate -- followed by a master's degree in Western American history -- Carter promptly began a career in teaching that included Lincoln Junior High School, Orem Junior High School and Canyon View Junior High School. "I started when I was still wet behind the ears," he said, "so I could retire after 30 years without being too much of an old prune." There was another key advantage of early retirement. As a result of polishing off three decades of teaching while still in his 50s, Carter said, he had the energy and resources to pursue a "second career" as a historian. More specifically, beginning in the early 1990s, Carter was able to devote himself to a problem that had bothered him since reading histories of Provo and Utah Valley while a teenager. "All of the histories were general," he said. "They adequately covered the length of Provo's history, but there wasn't much chance for the authors to elaborate on any particular area." Carter spent the next eight or nine years visiting archives, libraries, museums and universities to find and document firsthand accounts of life in 19th-century Provo. The depth of that research, said archivist Alan Barnett of the Utah State Archives, is what sets "Founding Fort Utah" and "From Fort to Village" apart from other community history volumes. "I'm not really sure what to compare them with," said Barnett. "It's not very often that a community history gets the kind of scholarship that Robert Carter's been doing on Provo." Carter said that his method when doing research is to read through whatever documents he finds -- including diaries, letters, public records, newspapers -- and make transcriptions of new or interesting information as he goes. "I've got probably hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands of pages of transcriptions," he said. You can't just expect to find all of the information that you're looking for in one place, either. Carter said that he's visited the libraries and archives of every major institution in Utah, including Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, Utah State University and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And those are just the most obvious places to look. His many transcriptions are stored on his computer and arranged chronologically, and also by topic. When it came time to begin writing, he said, "I spent about a year just trying to arrange things and review some of the materials that I'd picked up." The result of all the research is a story of early Provo that presents a vivid picture of the people who settled here. Carter's wife, Lyndia Carter, 59, said that she's been especially moved by the stories of early Provo women. "Some of the things that the women went through and endured have really impressed me," she said. One woman who stood out, she said, was Lucinda Haws Holdaway. Despite having many children of her own, Lucinda generously accepted the polygamous marriage, to her husband, of her own sister. The Holdaways rescued the sister from an earlier marriage to an abusive husband and, after the sister died, Lucinda raised her own children and her sister's children together. Barnett said that Carter's histories are also a source of important perspective. "I've been struck by how the natural setting of Provo was changed from the very beginning," said Barnett, who, like Carter, grew up in Provo. In particular, he said, some of the decisions made about how to use Provo River and Utah Lake are still having problematic effects more than 150 years later. Some of those effects are well known. For example, overfishing by settlers, as well as the construction of dams and canals to facilitate crop irrigation, dramatically impacted the survival of Utah Lake's native fish species, many of which are now extinct.

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