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Books about Utah:

• A Basket-Maker Cave in Kane County, Utah (from the Indian Notes and Monographs series; New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922), by Jesse L. Nusbaum, contrib. by Alfred Vincent Kidder and Samuel James Guernsey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Worth Their Salt, Too: More Notable But Often Unnoted Women of Utah (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2000), ed. by Colleen Whitley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Representative Women of Deseret: A Book of Biographical Sketches, To Accompany the Picture Bearing the Same Title (Salt Lake City: Printed by J. C. Graham and Co., 1884), by Augusta Joyce Crocheron (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• One Side by Himself: The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Ronald O. Barney (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Genteel Gentile: Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858, by Elizabeth Cumming, ed. by Ray R. Canning and Beverly Beeton (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• Building the "Goodly Fellowship of Faith": A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867-1996 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), by Frederick Quinn
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Landscape of Desire: Identity and Nature in Utah's Canyon Country (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Greg Gordon (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Highway 12 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Christian Probasco (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, by Richard Francis Burton (page images at MOA)
• Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route Through the Rocky Mountains, by Howard Stansbury (page images in Germany)
• The Husband in Utah: or, Sights and Scenes Among the Mormons, by Austin N. Ward (page images at MOA)
• Twelve Mormon homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona, by Elizabeth Wood Kane, ed. by Everett L. Cooley (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
• Life Among the Mormons, and a March to Their Zion: To Which is Added a Chapter on the Indians of the Plains and Mountains of the West, by William Elkanah Waters (page images at MOA)

• Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1999), ed. by William B. Smart and Donna Toland Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Rain in the Valley: A Novel (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Helen Papanikolas (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Wild Horse Mesa (Roslyn, NY: W. J. Black, ca. 1956), by Zane Grey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wild Horse Mesa (wartime edition; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1928), by Zane Grey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Fate of Madame La Tour: A Tale of the Great Salt Lake (New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1881), by Cornelia Paddock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Robbers' Roost (1930-1932), by Zane Grey (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Girl Rough Riders: A Romantic and Adventurous Trail of Fair Rough Riders Through the Wonderland of Mystery and Silence (Boston: D. Estes and Co., c1903), by Prentiss Ingraham, illust. by L. J. Bridgman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Riders of the Purple Sage (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1912), by Zane Grey, illust. by Douglas Duer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Riders of the Purple Sage (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1921), by Zane Grey, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by David Stanley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Highway 12 (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Christian Probasco (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by William B. Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Brigham's Destroying Angel (based on the 1904 edition, with added introduction by the Tanners from 1964), by William Adams Hickman, ed. by J. H. Beadle, contrib. by Jerald Tanner and Sandra Tanner (HTML with commentary at utlm.org)
• History of Utah, 1540-1886 (San Francisco: History Co., 1899), by Hubert Howe Bancroft
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • illustrated HTML at utlm.org
• Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Information in Reference to the Condition of Affairs in the Territory of Utah, by Millard Fillmore (page images at MOA)
• Brigham's Destroying Angel: Being the Life, Confession, and Startling Disclosures of the Notorious Bill Hickman, the Danite Chief of Utah (Salt Lake City: Shepard Pub. Co., 1904), by William Adams Hickman, ed. by J. H. Beadle (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Reminiscences of Early Utah (c1914), by R. N. Baskin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of the Mormons, From the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901, by William Alexander Linn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at thedigitalvoice.com
• Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire (1913), by Frank J. Cannon and George L. Knapp (HTML at laughtergenealogy.com)
• A Forty-Niner in Utah, With the Stansbury Exploration of Great Salt Lake: Letters and Journal of John Hudson, 1848-50, by John Hudson, ed. by Brigham D. Madsen (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• The Beginnings of Printing in Utah; With a Bibliography of the Issues of the Utah Press, 1849-1860 (Chicago: John Calhoun club, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notes on Early Printing in Utah Outside of Salt Lake City (Los Angeles: Press of the Frank Wiggins Trade School, 1938), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Recent legislative journals and histories, by Utah Legislature (HTML and PDF at state.ut.us)
• Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books in Association with Smith Research Associates, 1990), by John Henry Smith, ed. by Jean Bickmore White (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tennessee Massacre and Its Causes, or, The Utah Conspiracy: A Lecture by John Nicholson, Delivered in the Salt Lake Theatre, on Monday, September 22, 1884 (Salt Lake City: Printed at Juvenile instructor office, 1884), by John Nicholson, ed. by John Irvine
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft (Boston: The C. M. Clark publishing Co., 1911), by Frank J. Cannon and Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft, by Frank J. Cannon and Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (Gutenberg text)
• "Mormon" Women's Protest: An Appeal for Freedom, Justice and Equal Rights; The Ladies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Protest Against the Tyranny and Indecency of Federal Officials in Utah, and Against Their Own Disenfranchisement Without Cause (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Co., ca. 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire (1913), by Frank J. Cannon and George L. Knapp (HTML at laughtergenealogy.com)

• Folklore in Utah: A History and Guide to Resources (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by David Stanley (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Roll Away Saloon: Cowboy Tales of the Arizona Strip (originally published 1979; this edition Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1985), by Rowland W. Rider, contrib. by Deirdre Paulsen (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Bear River: A National Wildlife Refuge (Washington: G. P. O., 1950), by Vanez T. Wilson and Rachel Carson, illust. by Bob Hines (PDF at unl.edu)

• Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California (Salt Lake City: Western Printing Co., 1930), by Charles Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Zion National Park, Rainbow of the Desert: Its Relation to the Grand Canyon; Also the Relation of Both, and of Bryce Canyon, to the Brilliantly Colored Plateau Country of Southern Utah (National Parks Association publication #2; 1919), by Robert Sterling Yard (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Primer: Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities (2006), by Utah Attorney General's Office and Arizona Attorney General's Office (PDF at utah.gov)

• Creatures of Habitat: The Changing Nature of Wildlife and Wild Places in Utah and the Intermountain West (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Mark Gerard Hengesbaugh (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• A Survey of Vegetation in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir Basin (University of Utah Anthropological Papers #45; 1960), by Angus M. Woodbury, Stephen David Durrant, and Seville Flowers (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under narrower terms.

Books by Utah:

• Utah: Constitutions (original and current) (HTML and page images at Utah State Archives)
• Utah: Official Report of the Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled at Salt Lake City on the Fourth Day of March 1895, to Adopt a Constition for the State of Utah
  • HTML at ut.us
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: page images at Google; US access only

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