Arts Creative Writing Competition for autobiography in 1969). The Christmas Tree, published by Peregrine Smith Inc., One small edition, 1972 Hardcover, Jaunita and sister, Charity, manage to wrest a Christmas "tree" from the treeless Nevada desert where they live. Notes References Bringhurst, Newell G., Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life, University of Oklahoma, 1999. . Morgan, Dale L., Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism Signature Books Peterson, Levi S. Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian (Utah Centennial Series, Vol 5). University of Utah Press, October 1988. Topping, Gary. Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History. 2003, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. Peterson, Levi S.In Memoriam Juanita Brooks. Sunstone Magazine, Oct. 1989, pp. 6–8, www.sunstonemagazine.com/pdf/073-06-08.pdf. Peterson, Levi S. Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian (Utah Centennial Series, Vol 5). University of Utah Press, October 1988. Bitton, Davis, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. University of Utah Press, 1988. Bush, Laura. Faithful Transgressions In The American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts. Utah State University Press, 2004. Mulder, William. “Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier by Juanita Brooks (review).” Western American Literature, vol. 19, no. 2, 1984, pp. 167-168. External links Photograph (from article linked to below) "Writer blazed trail for massacre research", Salt Lake Tribune, September 9, 2007 The Juanita Brooks Papers, University of Utah Marriott Library Special Collections, library.utah.edu 1898 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American biographers American women biographers 20th-century American historians American Latter Day Saint writers Brigham Young University alumni Leavitt family Columbia University alumni Utah Tech University faculty Historians of the American West Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement Historians of Utah Mountain Meadows Massacre People from Bunkerville, Nevada Writers from Utah Place of death missing People from St. George, Utah American women historians 20th-century American women writers Latter Day Saints from Nevada Latter Day Saints from Utah