My purpose in making a study of music criticism in Utah is to realize a reliable historical account of criticism as expressed by means of journals and the growth of music within the state. This study, it is granted, is not a complete history of music in Utah. It merely treats one phase of a yet unwritten history.A secondary interest is to defend the assertion that Utah has had music criticism and not to eulogize or deride the music pioneers of the state. It may also impress the need of constructive criticism to insure the stimulus and incentive necessary to the continued growth of any music center or organization.The scope of the study includes Utah's history of music criticism from the first years of settlement until 1933. Any mistakes, ommissions, or ambiguities contained herein are unrealized by the author.

For some time I have been collecting folk material of the pioneers of Sanpete County, Utah, and their subsequent building of the Manti Temple. A few of the county's senior citizens witnessed part of the construction in the late 1870's and 1880's and the dedication in 1888 of the Temple. Many more are descendants of men and women who were directly involved in the building of the Temple and in the early work done there after its construction.The stories that these people tell are significant. A collection of them represents a rich folk history of a religious, pioneering people who, in spite of their lack of material possessions, sacrificed to donate in coin and in kind a million dollars and eleven years of labor to build a House of the Lord. Many of their descendants have continued maintenance and ordinance work with similar zeal. Lives that are influneced by this particular building seem buoyed up and intensified by the tremendous task thereby incurred. This commitment, an eternal commitment for the Mormon people, is exemplified in the oral history and folklore that continues to live.The organization of the collection and its accompanying historical accounts and critical evaluation take the following order: the settlement of the Sanpete Valley as it reflects the character of the builders of the Manti Temple; the folkways and customs of the construction period as revealed in oral tradition and folk history; the folk history of the construction of the Temple and temple guide stories; and finally, the collection in relation to American and Mormon folklore and as a source of material for literature.This collection of folk history and oral traditions is of value because it preserves the pioneer culture for future generations. Also, it serves as a ballast to the ever-moving tradition of American literature, for it recalls a significant saga of vigorous physical, mental, and particularly spiritual accomplishments instrumental in the building of the nation.

Early Utah history involved many adjustments of differences between the pioneers and the Indians. This thesis is a study of the differences and of the policies adopted to alleviate them, particularly in the background, setting, and events of the Walker War.The Mormons came into a territory inhabited by the aggressive Ute Indians. However, the niggardness of nature and the white man's oppression had reduced them to a condition of destitution. They had descended to trading, begging, and stealing. Possibly, with the idea of exploiting the Mormons, the Indians invited them to settle in various sections of the territory. The Mormons accepted this invitation with the idea of saving this benighted people.

Early Utah history was characterized in part by a period of journalistic controversy and abuse that clearly reflected the differences between the Latter-day Saint and Gentile populations of the Territory. This thesis is a study of the differences between the Mormon and Gentile presses concerning the subject of woman suffrage.

The agricultural village was the basis of the original economy of Utah established by the Mormon settlers, but it has since been supplanted in importance by the industrial and commercial activities of the large centers of the Wasatch Front counties of Salt Lake, Weber, and Utah. This study was conducted in an attempt to determine the future of those communities removed from industrialized northern Utah. The village of Meadow, Millard County, was chosen as an example and it was subjected to a detailed geographic analysis. From this analysis conclusions have been drawn regarding its future.

It is hoped that through the inclusion of the history of the drama in Corinne, Utah, some interesting contrasts can be shown. Such contrasts are heightened when it Is realized that geographically the two towns are very close and that unlike Brigham City, and other Utah towns, Corinne was non-Mormon. During its zenith it undoubtedly reflected the typical frontier town characteristics more than did the Mormon town nearby. This fact provides opportunity for comparison of two societies as reflected in their dramatic activities. This comparison should assist in evaluating the history and contributions of Mormon dramatic activity by helping to answer the question of whether or not the Church promoted drama more completely as a community activity than did non-Mormon society.

The purpose of this thesis is to describe the early exploration and settlement of the Tooele area, from the time it was first entered by the adventurous fur trappers through the first years of Mormon colonization.

Old maps are valuable research tools in many fields. Finding and identifying them, however, is often difficult. This annotated cartobibliography attempts to identify all maps of Utah printed before 1900. Entries give the distinguishing features, peculiarities, inaccuracies, and a general description as well as the map's provenance and citations in other lists and bibliographies. The maps are listed chronologically and include all maps located in research collections in Utah, and in the catalogs of the Library of Congress and the Bancroft Library. Although the first entry is dated 1777, the first map of Utah made from actual observation, earlier maps are discussed as they relate to explorers' and cartographers' perceptions of the area. This cartobibliography augments and carries forward the work of Carl I. Wheat.

The writer's purpose in writing this dissertation was to shed some light on a field of Provo and Utah history not generally illuminated. Several works similar to this will be necessary when a definitive history of Provo or the state is written.

This study is based on a similar study made by Claudeous J. D. Brown in 1928, and published in 1929. The species he used have been rechecked, and additional ones have been studied. The species considered in this study represent three of the four subfamilies of North American Asilidae. These three subfamilies are Dasypogoninae, Laphriinae, and Asilinae. This study is limited to those species in the Brigham Young University Collections, and to species recorded in print. No claim is here made that all the forms inhabiting the state have been discovered, in fact the writer is well aware of the pro bability of many undiscovered species.