The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-23
LITERATURE.

THL HISTORY OF SALT LAKE 0rIr AND lrs
FoUsDKRs. By Edward W Tultdge- BY
Auth oriry of the City Council and under
the Supervision of It's COMMITTEES on ke
vision salt Lake City: Edward W. Tul-
ndge, publisher and printer
We believe The HERALD was the first
to urge upon the City Council the pro-
priety of authorizing by direct instruc-
ton and encouraging by suitable appro-
priation the writing and publishing of
history of this city. while there lived the
men and women who knew that history
so well from having assisted in its max
ing: and when Mr.. Edward w. Tullidge
proposed to undertake the work, The
HERALD was eager and earnest that his
services be accepted. The work, begun
three years ago. has now been completed
and accepted by the municipal authori-
ties, and will be ready for the public in
the course of few days. The history
proper fills 900 pages, and after its care
full perusal, The HERALD not only
heartily endorses it as correct, but
compliments the talented author upon
the excellence of his work, and the
municipality and citizens upon having
secured an account or story OF the city
that will be lasting and daily become
more valuable, and with which Is neces-
sarily given more or less OF the history
of the Territory. The true historian
Is manifest throughout the work. the
author showing the relation TO each
other of the various incidents recorded.
indicating the motives leading 10
actions, and joining the story in one
connected account OF what has been
done, why il was done. and the results
from its doing. he begins with a re-
view OF the people who founded the
city, who were essentially colonizers; ;
tells of them IN Illinois, of their exodus
from that State, and their weary jour
new half across the continent, and of
their final settlement on the site of this
beautiful inland city. Then comes the
story of the colony. of its growth. its toll
and sufferings, of the hardships endured.
and upe triumphs achieved; necessarily
the history of the Mormon church Is
closely interviewer with that of the city,
and not as incidental but as part of the
history, IS the story of the conflicts that
have been waged between factions, and
Tic VI cOCAdlt anu lckdl
aggression and repression, the conflicts
of authority and the assertion and
denial of rights and powers. The his
tory is brought down to the close OF last
year. Mr.. Tullidge has not restricted
himself TO generaliues, but has gone
into detail and thus has made his
volume not only a history. but a work
OF reference and minute record. The
official records have been inserted
whenever thought necessary. and au
thority for statements given in cases
where doubt might arise. The authors
own well known care and caution will
be sufficient guarantee as TO the cor
rectness of the history. but there is
added the endorsement of the revising
committee appointed by the City Coun-
cil-Messrs. John r. Winder, r. T.
Burton. George A. Meears, S. J. Jonas
son and George Reynolds.
Mr.. Tullidge having completed the
history proper. is now engaged on an
appendix of 500 or 400 pages TO be bound
with the volume. This Will be made
up OF biographical sketches of such
leading citizens whose lives have been
so closely connected with the city s
history. Many of these are already in
| type and the others viii be out of the
hands of the printer at an early day,
when the volume will be ready for the
public. The biographical sketches will
be accompanied BY steel plate portraits
of the subjects, this single feature alone
costing several thous aud dollars. The
book has been an expensive one 10
issue, aside from the three years of
literary labor given up to 1t. 1t is to be
hoped, and il is confidently believed
that the public will appreciate as they
deserve. the toll and devotion of Mr..
Tullidge. The volume should have an
can afford TO be without.