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Brooks, Juanita, 1898-1989 (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Brooks, Juanita, 1898-1989
Used for/see from:
  • Leavitt, Juanita Leone, 1898-1989
  • Pulsipher, Juanita Leone Leavitt, 1898-1989

Her The Mountain Meadows Massacre, 1950.

Peterson, L.S. Juanita Brooks, 1988: CIP galley (was born Juanita Leone Leavitt in the tiny Mormon community of Bunkerville, Nevada)

Topping, G. Utah historians and the reconstruction ... 2003: CIP galley vii (Juanita Brooks, 1898-1989)

FamilySearch, March 30, 2016 (Juanita Brooks, born January 15, 1898 in Bunkerville, Nevada; died August 26, 1989 in Saint George, Utah)

Wikipedia, February 7, 2019 (Juanita Brooks; Juanita Pulsipher Brooks (January 15, 1898-August 26, 1989) was an American historian and author, specializing in the American West and Mormon history, including books related to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, to which her grandfather Dudley Leavitt was sometimes linked; born Juanita Leone Leavitt in Bunkerville, Nevada to Henry Leavitt and Mary Hafen; in 1919 she married Ernest Pulsipher, who died of Lymphoma a little more than a year later; she then received her bachelor's degree from BYU and a master's degree from Columbia University; her first published work was a poem titled "Sunrise from the Top of Mount Timp," which appeared in the LDS periodical Improvement Era in 1926; she was an instructor of English and Dean of Women from 1925-1933 at Dixie Junior College; she later married a widower named Will Brook; for many years she served on the Board of the Utah Historical Society where she devoted herself to unearthing diaries and records of early settlers and organizing a Utah library of Mormon history; Brooks died in 1989, after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease)

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