Dale L. Morgan

Richard L. Saunders is a librarian at Southern Utah University. He is the author of Eloquence from a Silent World: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Published Writings of Dale L. Morgan, and editor of Morgan’s writing in Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trails: Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849–1869, and Dale Morgan on the Mormons: Collected Works, 1939–1970.

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Daniel Walker Howe
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: “A Thousand Utterly Trivial Things”
Part I: Mormon, Historian
1. “Under the Shadow of Her Love”: Family and a Salt Lake City Childhood, 1914–1929
2. “A Sense of Being Socially Maimed”: Salt Lake City’s West High School, 1929–1933
3. “The Strange Mixture of Emotion and Intellect”: The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1933–1938
4. Digression: Telling the Past in Latter-day Saint Utah, 1930s Style
5. “One of Those Minds Which Dwell in a Typewriter”: The Historical Records Survey, Ogden, Utah, 1938–1940
6. “This May Not Last, but It’s Fine While It Does”: The Utah Writers’ Project, Salt Lake City, 1940–1942
7. “Not So Dull as It Sounds”: Office of Price Administration, Washington, DC, 1942–1947
8. “It Is Best to Make the Most of My Opportunities”: The Guggenheim Fellowship Travel and Salt Lake City, 1947–1949

Part II: An Uncomfortable Interlude
9. Digression: Books and History in the Postwar Context
10. “I Am in for a Long Pull”: Job Seeker in Washington, DC, and Salt Lake City, 1950–1952
11. “Sundry Kinds of Hackwork”: Writing in Washington, DC, 1950–1952
12. “Half an Easterner and Three-Quarters a Westerner”: Writing Jedediah Smith and Salt Lake City, 1952–1953

Part III: Western American Historian
13. “It Is Something to Be On My Way Again”: Bancroft Library and the Navajo Project, Berkeley, California, 1954–1962
14. “Too Many Things Have Been Going On at the Same Time”: Writing, 1954–1963
15. “Too Many Obligations Out Here”: Turning Points and Departures
16. “Struggling to Get My Disordered Life Back Under Control”: Bancroft Library, Berkeley 1964–1965
17. “I Seem to Work All the Time”: Shifting Priorities, Berkeley, 1966–1968
18. “There Are All Sorts of Problems That Will Have to Be Worked Out”: New Directions, Berkeley, California, 1969–1970
19. “As Liable to Happen to Me as to Anyone Else”: Lafayette, California, and Accokeek, Maryland, 1970–1971
Epilogue. “If History Is Going to Stay Viable”: A Historian’s Life and Contexts

A Dale L. Morgan Bibliography
Works Cited
Index