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The collaborative editorial work of Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and the late S. George Ellsworth, No Place To Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings Of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler Of Outlying Mormon Communities is the seventh volume in the unique "Life Writings of Frontier Women" series published by the Utah State University Press. Enhanced with a profusion of maps and illustrations, this is a chronologically organized collection of a Mormon pioneer woman's memoirs and journal entries that include her marriage to Jonathan Crosby in 1834, to her conversion to the infant Mormon Church, to her move to from Canada to the new church in Kirtland, Ohio, to her coming to Nauvoo in 1842, to her emigration to the Salt Lake valley in 1848 less than two years before Brigham Young sent Caroline and her husband on a church mission to the Society and Austral Islands in the South Pacific. Late in 1852 the Crosbys returned to California where she recorded the post-Gold Rush life of San Francisco, and the new Mormon village of San Bernardino in southern California. Then in 1857, returning to Utah in response to a call from Brigham Young where she resided for the remainder of her life. No Place To Call Home is a superb and very highly recommended contribution to academic library American History original documents collections and supplemental reading lists portraying pioneer life in mid-nineteenth century America in general, and the Mormon experience in particular.

Robert McPherson's The Northern Navajo Frontier 1860-1900: Expansion Through Adversity is an amazing and informative examination of how the Navajos successfully defended and expanded their territory in an era when most Native Americans lost their lands. Focusing on the northern frontier borderlands and the "aggressive defensive" used to hold on to them, largely without making war, The Northern Navajo Frontier 1860-1900 is a revealing look at how it is possible for a people to survive even when they are outnumbered and outgunned. The scholarly, college-level text is meticulously researched and preoccupied with truly understanding what was truly happening on the Northern Navajo Frontier and why during the specified period of 40 years. A most fascinating and thought-provoking study, The Northern Navajo Frontier 1860-1900 is an impressive and welcome addition to Native American history reading lists and reference collections.

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Hosea Stout was, of course, a big VIP in the early days of the LDS Church. His diaries have proven to be of great import to scholars because of his important positions and copious and daily record. Especially noteworthy may be his entries during his time spent in the Utah legislature--for some time as the speaker. But most interestingly to me (being a student of literature more than history), is the pathos he expresses in the moments of tragedy--so common in the terrible years of Mormon persecutions.

I paid $85 dollars for my copy and consider it a fantastic deal. They're worth whatever you may find them for. Consider them recommended.

I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in what the life of a true pioneer was like. It is a great read about a great man.

The southern Utah town of Orderville operated as communal project from 1875 to 1885. Hundreds of "United Orders" were started in Mormon colonies, but Orderville's was among the longest lasting, the least capitalist, and the most famous of these. Leonard Arrington's short history of it is superb. The work is well-researched, very well-written, and efficient. Some of the content of this book reappears in Chapter 11 of Dr. Arrington's Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900, New Edition.

Have you heard that more victims of war died of disease than of battle wounds? Although this is the fact, disease is rarely treated in depth in histories of war. Some scholars go further and suggest that epidemic diseases played an important role not only in wars but in the world history, architecture of cities and castles as well. You can find a good literature review on this subject, especially through the introduction chapter of this book.
Other than Introduction, the book has eight more chapters and two appendices. In second chapter, the Crimean War, the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878, the Ottoman-Greek War of 1897, and the Balkan War are reviewed briefly from the casualties of diseases perspective.
The author, a research professor at the Turkish History Council in Ankara, Turkey, provides an extensive documentation of disease and death across the Ottoman Empire during World War I in the subsequent chapters. The author examines the effects that disease and epidemic had on the outcome of the war, using the hospital records and the information on regional disease prevalence.
Being a scientific study, the volume has numerous tables of statistics, a rich reference list and a bibliography at the end for the following researchers. In conclusion, not only for the researchers, but for the ones who want to know the real enemy of Turkey in World War I, the book has in depth and satisfactory information.

"Many of the war stories are depressingly familiar though most of the people think that ``The deads are killed by clashes'', in reality, it is the epidemics. This is an engrossing, unique and authentic book in its area of history and it reserves attention as the most through exploration to the date of the pandemic's significance in Ottoman History.
Ýf you are interested in war history, you surely know the beginning and the end of the wars, who won and who lost, generally accepted taken lessons, and what should have been done etc., etc. Dr. Hikmet Ozdemir's Book is touching on a different subject at World War I. Up to now I did not notice and was not aware of the numbers killed by disasters, epidemics, typhus, spotted fevers, dysentery, influenza at World War I. While I was reading the book engrossingly, i was really depressed by the numbers of dead, due to the epidemics on the battlefield.
I am caught up in a first-rate medical-drama which leads to one of the most gripping issues and overly persuaded that the war is out of humanity, consequently asked to myself `` Why do the human-beings still choose the war in order to solve the problems although there are thousands of evidences of that war was brutal, sweeping and destructive in the pages of dusty history shelves and can the feelings of horror which is come by wars make today's leaders bring at a table in order to tackle the issues of our technological age before the epidemics of this twenty first century break out ?
Dr Ozdemir makes the point that vastly soldiers died of infectious diseases than of combat wounds. 91% in Crimean War; 73% in Ottoman - Greek War (1897); 75%, namely 240000 of 325000 in The Great War of Ottoman casualties were due to diseases. Those are incredible numbers. In the introduction chapter, the author refers to illustrative figures, statistics, and historical facts in order to prove the weight of diseases in combat losses. In subsequent chapters, he mentions fluctuations in balance of power in battles due to pandemics, types of illnesses that cause the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians, and heroism of medical personnel serving in front lines. Few historians realize that epidemics were so important at wars in the history while assessing a war. It was one of the crucial factors that determine ``who will lose? '', may also be carried allied soldiers in our time. I think this criterion absolutely must not be skipped in the eyes of today's war managers and it should be taken as an eminent factor during planning.
The author deserves plaudits for his eminent and statistical deductions and for a lively style which makes his solid scholarship readable. His combination of medical, political and social history is an effective one and should appeal both to professional historians and to general leaders. This is a fine, galloping account of the typhoid, spotted fever, dysentery pandemic that killed millions of people in 4-year war. In some ways it was a page of the middle ages bound into the twentieth century. No plague ever killed so many people in a short time."

Effie Marquess Carmack (1885-1973) grew up in the tobacco-growing region of southern Kentucky known as the Black Patch. She married at an early age and, because of economic necessity and religious commitments, moved with her husband to Utah, back to Kentucky, then to Arizona, and finally to California. Along the way she became committed to preserving the rural, southern folkways she had experienced as a child. She became a folk poet and self-taught artist. In the 1940s she began writing her autobiography. Effie's story is a charming memoir of her spirited childhood on a poor tobacco farm. She describes a wide variety of folk practices from healing and crafts to children's games. A convert to the Mormon Church, her account of southern Mormon missions contributes to the little-known record of the Mormon church's attempts to establish a presence in the South. Out Of The Black Patch is a fascinating, engaging, candid, informative autobiography.

I enjoy reading diaries of the pioneers and explorers of the American West and this book is one of the best I've read. After each diary entry the editor provides additional information to clarify. I especially enjoyed the appendix which provides a brief biography and a picture of each member of the expedition. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the old west.

The book is filled with fascinating quotes, photographs, and history of the lovely small town of Park City, Utah. Reynolds did a magnificent job of capturing the town in a book.

Highly recommended even for seasoned IP litigators; although this is a casebook, it has very thoughtful notes reminiscent of Hart & Wechsler's Fed. Courts casebook.