BOOK AWARDS
CONGRATULATIONS TO THIS YEAR'S AWARD WINNERS!
FINALIST FOR THE BEST BOOK IN UTAH HISTORY
The Finalist for the Best Book in Utah History goes to Stephen C. Taysom for Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith, published by the University of Utah Press. In this book, Taysom provides a needed academic biography of an important figure in Latter-day Saint and Utah history. Joseph F. Smith witnessed, and played part in, many of the most important facets of Utah history in the second half of the nineteenth century, including colonizing the territory, antipolygamy legislation of the 1880s, the Hawaiian settlement of Iosepa, and statehood. Like a Fiery Meteor provides a balanced, scholarly approach to a complicated figure.
JUANITA BROOKS BEST BOOK IN UTAH HISTORY AWARD
Awarded to Richard E. Turley, Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown for “Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath,” published by the Oxford University Press. In this book, Turley and Brown provide an unprecedented look at the consequences of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the related legal proceedings in the ensuing decades. They use previously unavailable sources to shed light on the atrocities, which have haunted the victims' families, Paiutes, and Latter-day Saints for more than a century and a half. Vengeance Is Mine is a sequel to the groundbreaking 2008 book Massacre at Mountain Meadows.