Utah’s Heritage Research Papers, (1960-1994)
MSS COLL 228d
Collection Processed by: Brittany Porter & Erin Pratt, March 2003
Ellsworth Collections
Biography:
Samuel George Ellsworth was born on June 19, 1916 in Safford, Arizona. He got a Bachelor of Science degree in history at Utah State Agricultural College and joined the army. After he was in the army he went back to school and received his Doctorate degree in History. He eventually became the head of the department of history at USAC. In 1972, Utah’s Heritage was published by Peregrine Smith Press, Salt Lake City, Utah. It was a textbook for Utah’s seventh grade students about the social and geographical history of Utah. The second edition was published in 1985. Of his many awards, one of them was from the Mormon History Association Book of the Year for Utah’s Heritage. One article said of the book and author “Few authors of similar works have dealt with the Twentieth Century in Utah as well as Ellsworth.” Also it states “George Ellsworth...clearly shows the meticulous efforts of an author who loved his labors.” Samuel George Ellsworth died in his home in Logan, Utah on December 22, 1997.
Provenance:
The Utah’s Heritage papers were donated to USU Special Collections by George and Maria Ellsworth and their son, Mark. The Ellsworth papers were transferred to Special Collections in several installments between January of 1996 and November of 2000.
Scope and Content:
This collection contains all the research for George Ellsworth’s book called Utah’s Heritage. It also contains notes on the revisions of the text and also the publication information.
Box Listing
Box 1-11 Source Materials, and notes
Box 12 Intro, Unit 1-5
Box 13 Unit 6-8 and various drafts
Box 14 Outlines, Chapter lists, Chapter 1-3
Box 15 Chapters 4-6
Box 16 Chapters 7-9
Box 17 Chapter 10-12
Box 18 Chapter 13-15
Box 19 Chapter 15-17
Box 20 Chapter 18-19
Box 21 Chapter 20
Box 22 Chapter 21
Box 23 Chapter 22-23
Box 24 Chapter 24-26, and Index A-S
Box 25 Index T-Z, Forms, Notes, and Planning
Box 26 Teachers’ Input
Box 27 Teachers manual and bibliography
Box 28 Children’s activities and stories
Box 29 UCHE, Utah Heritage Foundation
Box 30 Bibliography, Readings, and Misc. Notes
Box 31-34 Revisions
Inventory:
Box 1. Source Material
Fd 1 Notes on Deseret Alphabet
Fd 2 Notes on Education in Utah
Fd 3 Notes on exploration of emigration to Utah
Fd 4 Notes on famous figures in Utah and it’s cultural history since 1945
Fd 5 Notes on forts in Utah
Fd 6 Notes on government exploration and explorers
Fd 7 History of the extension division of the Utah State Agricultural College
Fd 8 Historical societies and preservation
Fd 9 Local Histories
Fd 10 “The marriage of John Mills Whitaker”
Fd 11 Notes on Native Americans
Fd 12 Native Americans and Ethnic Groups
Fd 13 The railroad in Utah
Fd 14 Songs about Utah
Fd 15 Notes from speeches and presentations at various meetings and conferences
Fd 16 Notes on transportation
Box 2. Source Material
Fd 1 Broad inventory of Historic, archeological and architecture sites in Utah by county and town
Fd 2 Primary source material-biographical information
Fd 3 “Report on Agricultural Production for Utah for 1948"
Fd 4 “Robert J. Bybee’s Account of Indian Depredations in Limhi County.”
Fd 5 Letters to Thomas L. Kane from various government officials (photocopies)
Fd 6 “For Land’s Sake!” (2 copies)
Fd 7 Autobiography of James Henry Martineau
Fd 8 Biographies of the McGregor Family supplied by Arba Maye Smart
Fd 9 Poems and Songs
Fd 10 Documents concerning polygamy cases in Utah (URCO project, George Ellsworth, supervisor.)
Fd 11 1890 objection to the right to vote (photocopy)
Fd 12 “Historical Report of the Utah District” of the RLDS Church 1917
Fd 13 Letter from Joseph F. Smith to Jesse N. Smith, 14 Sept. 1891 [5 typescripts]
Fd 14 Excerpts from John N. Fell Squires autobiography on the Utah War
Fd 15 Eldon M. Stock, Sidney Richard Stock
Fd 16 Newspaper clippings relating to Utah
Fd 17 Newspaper clippings relating to Utah
Fd 18 Newspaper clippings relating to Utah
Fd 19 Newspaper clippings relating to the Untied States
Fd 20 Newspaper clippings relating to the world
Fd 21 Newspaper clippings
Box 3. Source Material
Fd 1 Marlowe C. Adkins, Jr., “Brigham Young, Governor Utah Territory.” 1850-1857
Fd 2 Thomas G. Alexander, “Utah’s rise to the precipice”: The economy 1910-1920
Fd 3 Leonard J. Arrington, “The Commercialization of Utah’s Economy: Trends and Developments form Statehood to 1910.”
Fd 4 Leonard J. Arrington, The Changing Economic Structure of the Mountain West, 1850-1950
Fd 5 Joyce Bennion, “The History of Big Cottonwood Canyon.”
Fd 6 Lowell L. Bennion and Chauncy Riddle, “The Liberal and Conservative View in Mormonism
Fd 7 Davis Bitton, “The Polygamy Controversy: A Study of 19th Century Polemic.”
Fd 8 Dale A. Boilingbroke, “A History of the Utah Legislature, 1849-1853
Fd 9 Dale A. Boilingbroke, “The Military and Political Career of John Wilson Shaffer, Territorial Governor of Utah, 1870"
Fd 10 Vernal Brown thesis on U.S. Marshals in Utah
Fd 11 George D. Clyde “Early Engineering in Utah.”
Fd 12 Carl Condit “The Mormon Tabernacle.”
Fd 13 Franklin D. Dains, “Separatism in Utah, 1847-1870.”
Fd 14 Willis A. Dial, “Chronological Survey of Activities Within Cache Valley to 1884.”
Fd 15 Albert G. Ellis, “Life and Services of J. D. Doty.”
Fd 16 S. George Ellsworth, “A List of References to Mormonism, the Mormons, and Utah, in Joseph Sabin, “A dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time.”
Fd 17 Michael Frank, “Events in the Life of Charles Durkee.”
Fd 18 Arnie Garr, “Brigham Young College.”
Fd 19 William A. King, “Statehood, and how it was achieved” and photocopy
Fd 20 Richard D. Poll, “Twin Relic: A study of Mormon polygamy and the campaign by the government of the United States for its abolition-polygamy.”
Fd 21 Revo M. Young, “Archibald M. Young family: Scotch immigrants to Richfield, Utah.”
Fd 22 James E. Brown, “Henry W. Lawrence: Pioneer Merchant, Apostate, Politician”
Box 4. Notes on Utah
Fd 1 Agriculture and the cattle industry
Fd 2 Conservation and water reclamation
Fd 3 Defense Industry
Fd 4 Economics
Fd 5 Governors
Fd 6 Land Use
Fd 7 Manufacturing
Fd 8 Mormonism
Fd 9 National Forests
Fd 10 Natural Resources and mining
Fd 11 Politics-territorial
Fd 12 Politics-Utah
Fd 13 Religion
Fd 14 Since 1945
Fd 15 Social and cultural history
Fd 16 Water projects
Fd 17 WWII
Box 5. Source Material
Fd 1 Developments and responses
Fd 2 Materials mailing list
Fd 3 Allen Bauer’s Guide
Fd 4 Acknowledgments
Fd 5 Plans and estimates, length and cost
Fd 6 Maps
Box 6. Source Material
Fd 1 Lysle English, “Man in Logan Canyon: grazing”
Fd 2 Max Evans, public libraries in Salt Lake City “The Utah Territorial Library 1850-1890.”
Fd 3 Max J. Evans “The Carnegie Library movement and its impact on Utah’s libraries”
Fd 4 Kris Harris, “Reed Smoot and the Utah Senatorial Election of 1914”
Fd 5 Martin Hickman, “Utah Constitutional Law”
Fd 6 Chapters from Lee Hofeling’s thesis on the Woman’s Exponent
Fd 7 Gail Geo. Holmes, “Reflections on Winter Quarters”
Fd 8 Vern Hugie and Paul Christensen “Tentative land judging in Utah”
Fd 9 S.S. Ivins “The Moses Thatcher case”
Fd 10 Warren A. Jennings, “The First Mormon Mission to the Indians”
Fd 11 Excerpts from Andrew Jenson, The Historical Record
Fd 12 Dan Jensen, “The Progressive Party in Utah”
Fd 13 D.W. Meining, “The Mormon Culture Region: Strategies and patterns in the geography of the American West, 1847-1964"
Fd 14 Beth Neilson “History of Matthew Galland Casto and Elizabeth Daniels Casto.”
Fd 15 V. Kay Pierce, “The use of Convict Labor in Road Construction in Utah, 1911-1930"
Fd 16 Karen Preece, “Progress of woman’s rights in the territory of Utah”
Fd 17 Waldemer P. Read, “What freedom is found in the local culture?”
Fd 18 Jewel J. Rasmussen, “Is Utah bankruptcy bound.”
Fd 19 The California Textbook Fight
Fd 20 Stephen W. Stathis, “The Desert Land Act in Utah, 1877-1900.”
Fd 21 Omer C. Stewart “The Pueblos: peaceful, agricultural, conservative.”
Fd 22 Sydney Storm “America’s most beautiful valley.” reprint
Fd 23 Samuel W. Taylor, “A little-known feud: John Taylor and Brigham Young.”
Fd 24 Ray Welling, “Development of Thiokol and it’s affect on the Utah Economy.”
Fd 25 Jean Bickmore White, “The making of the convention president: the political education of John Henry Smith.”
Fd 26 Ernest L. Wilkinson, “Notes on the history of BYU.”
Fd 27 R. Scott Wrenn “Idaho reaction to the I.W.W.: the criminal syndicalism act of 1917.”
Box 7. Maps
Fd 1 Original Maps
Fd 2 Original Maps
Fd 3 Photocopies of Original Maps
Fd 4 Maps
Fd 5 Utah Maps
Fd 6 Lists of Utah’s Maps
Fd 7 Information on Maps
Box 8. Dixon Paper Company series drawings of Utah
Fd 1 Before the wagons came
Fd 2 Building an empire
Fd 3 Early Twenties
Fd 4 Era of Achievement
Fd 5 Great Depression
Fd 6 Guns that tames the West
Fd 7 Industrial Utah Forty years ago
Fd 8 Onward to Statehood
Fd 9 Pony Express
Fd 10 Railroad state
Fd 11 Stagecoach in Utah history
Fd 12 Turn of the Century
Fd 13 WWII
Fd 14 Printed photos used in the book
Fd 15 Copies of photo’s used in new book
Fd 16 Notes on Photographs to be used
Fd 17 Notes on Hiller’s photographs of the Paiute and Ute Indians taken on Powell Expedition.”
Box 9. Source Material
Fd 1 Drawings for Utah’s Heritage
Fd 2 Suggestions (examples) for maps and illustrations
Fd 3 Order Photographs
Fd 4 Pictures, Notes
Fd 5 Correspondence-lists re photographs Utah history
Fd 6 City plots
Fd 7 Historical places/reference to sources
Box 10. Source Material
Fd 1 Ward Roylance, “A study of the need for and desirable characteristics of a textbook on Utah.”
Fd 2 List of other state history textbooks
Fd 3 Early outline and guides
Fd 4 Early textbook plans
Fd 5 Early textbooks plans
Fd 6 Outline- 15 January 1960
Fd 7 Illustration credits, map and picture captions-manuscript used by the publisher
Fd 8 Preface, intro, and acknowledgments- manuscript used by publisher
Fd 9 Documents relating to the beginning of the project.
Fd 10 Utah department of public instructions social studies curriculum-publications and notes.
Fd 11 List of prospective publishers
Fd 12 Notes on the book’s production
Fd 13 Notes on the valley’s of Utah
Fd 14 Life in Utah Territory-notes
Box 11. Source Material (Primary)
Fd 1 Salt Lake Tribune clippings
Fd 2 Salt Lake Tribune clippings
Fd 3 Misc. Photocopies
Fd 4 Population statistics for Utah and Arizona compiled by Dan Ringle
Fd 5 Population statistics
Fd 6 “Industrial structure of the mountain west, 1850 and other statistics.”
Fd 7 Population and census county division
Fd 8 Utah Bibliography
Fd 9 Utah Heritage Outline - draft
Box 12. Intro, Unit 1-5
Fd 1 Introduction (This is our Utah) Early Drafts
Fd 2 Introduction (This is our Utah) Notes and Drafts
Fd 3 Unit 1 Draft (Early)
Fd 4 Unit 1 Draft
Fd 5 Unit 2 Draft
Fd 6 Unit 3 Early Draft
Fd 7 Unit 4 Early Draft
Fd 8 Unit 5 Early Draft
Box 13. Unit 6-8 and Various Drafts
Fd 1 Unit 6 Draft
Fd 2 Unit 7 Draft
Fd 3 Unit 8 Draft
Fd 4 Notes, outlines, and bibliography
Fd 5 Notes, outlines, and bibliography
Fd 6 “Mormon settlement of the mountain west.” Early Draft
Fd 7 “Life and Labor in the Early settlements.” Early Draft
Fd 8 “The territory of Utah, 1850-1861" Early Draft
Fd 9 “The Old Way of life: Social history of the 1860's, 1870's, and 1880's” Notes
Fd 10 “Utah adjusts to it’s position in the nation.” Notes
Fd 11 “The new way of life.” Draft
Fd 12 “The Indians of Utah”- Early Draft
Fd 13 “The Spanish Penetration” and “The Era of Mountain Man.”- Early Draft
Fd 14 “The Mormons came to Utah.” Early Draft
Box 14. Outlines, Chapter lists, Chapter 1-3
Fd 1 Utah’s Heritage outline
Fd 2 Outline: Chapter 1-13 (broken down, section by section)
Fd 3 Units-broken down into chapters
Fd 4 Chapter synopsis- Chapter titles along with headings of main ideas Chapters 1-24
Fd 5 Paragraph stating copies sold, and money made, layout of units and chapters
Fd 6 Unit summaries, Unit 1, 3-6 missing
Fd 7 Formation of the Land, Early Draft, (Chapter 3)
Fd 8 Formation of the Land, Draft (Chapter 1)
Fd 9 Formation of the Land, working copy (Chapter 1)
Fd 10 Formation of the Land, printer’s copy (Chapter 1)
Fd 11 Chapter 1 Formation of the Land Notes and suggestions
Fd 12 Chapter 1 Readers comments
Fd 13 The face of the land, early draft (Chapter 4)
Fd 14 The Face of the Land, Draft (Chapter 2)
Fd 15 The Face of the Land, (Chapter 2) Working copy
Fd 16 Chapter 2 Printer’s copy
Fd 17 Chapter 2 Readers comments
Fd 18 The Historical Geology of Utah - Early Draft (Chapters 1,2)
Fd 19 Chapter 3 Early Draft
Fd 20 Chapter 3 (The land and man) manuscripts
Fd 21 Chapter 3 Working copy
Fd 22 Chapter 3 Manuscript used by publisher
Fd 23 Chapter 3 comments of readers
Fd 24 Chapter 3 The land and Man Notes and suggestions
Box 15. Chapters 4-6
Fd 1 Chapter 4 Early Man in the American West-Draft
Fd 2 Chapter 4 Early Man in the American West-Manuscripts
Fd 3 Chapter 4 Manuscripts used by Publisher
Fd 4 Chapter 4 Comments of readers
Fd 5 Chapter 4 How Early man lived in the American West; Notes and suggestions
Fd 6 Chapter 5 The Geography of Utah Rough Draft
Fd 7 Chapter 5 The Geography of Utah Draft
Fd 8 Chapter 5 (Utah’s Indian Tribes)-Draft
Fd 9 Chapter 5 (Utah’s Indian Tribes-manuscripts)
Fd 10 Chapter 5 Manuscripts used by publisher
Fd 11 Chapter 5 Working copy
Fd 12 Chapter 5 comments of readers
Fd 13 Chapters 2-5 Duplicate copies
Fd 14 Chapter 5 Utah historic Indian tribes lived; Notes and suggestions
Fd 15 Chapter 6 Draft and Notes
Fd 16 Chapter 6 The Spanish penetration into Utah-Draft
Fd 17 Chapter 6 The Spanish penetration into Utah-Draft
Fd 18 Chapter 6 The Spanish penetration-manuscript
Fd 19 Chapter 6 Working Copy
Fd 20 Spanish penetration 1540's-1800's; Notes and suggestions
Box 16. Chapters 7-9
Fd 1 Chapter 7 Notes and Drafts
Fd 2 Chapter 7 The Mountain Men-working Draft
Fd 3 Chapter 7 (The Mountain Men) Draft