Uncle Will Tells His Story — Juanita Brooks — Hardbound with Very Good Dust Jacket!

Very good condition hardcover with very good dust jacket. (Almost like new).

Taggart & Company: Salt Lake City, Utah, 1970. 249 pages + Index.

First place winner of the Utah State Institute of fine Arts Creative Writing Competition Autobiography 1969.

Limited Edition: 2500 Copies.

Cover Price (in 1970): $12.50

This book came right out of the new box, but may have a slight bit of wear from the box.

There was nothing glossy or overdone about beloved “Uncle Will” Brooks. In his time he was many things, from farmer and schoolteacher to postmaster and sheriff, each with the sensitivity of one who loved his fellow man.

There is nothing pretentious about the manner in which he recalls many of the adventuresome tales of his life in the exciting frontier towns of Southern Utah. He relates them simply as he had so many times before in the unconfined presence of those he loved.

He tells not only the mischievous tales of every boyhood, but those peculiar to an early Mormon settlement. One is of federal agents looking for polygamists who had already been warned by coded telegram and were in hiding.

He vividly relives many colorful memories of his later life. His first clash as a teacher with the class tough. Watching a Navajo Indian, bewildered and unbelieving, in the man’s first experience with Alexander Graham Bell’s mysterious talking machine. His encounters as sheriff with notorious gunmen and Prohibition bootleggers.

“Uncle Will” Brooks was life itself to those who knew him. He told his story in the months before his death, calling it “a great adventure.” In March 1970 he left this world as he had wanted: “. . . without ill will toward any man.”

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