Hatch alden

1954 · 323 — Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company 1954. First Edition. 290pp. Octavo 24 cm Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Map endsheets and pastedowns. Fold-out map present at the rear. Illustrated with photographs and maps. very good/Very good. Minor chipping and nicking to corners of jacket. Reverse of jacket shows gentle discoloring at the spine. Important work on this Mormon community in northern Mexico that became a refuge for polygamists fleeing Federal Marshall's in Utah. <br/><br/>This copy likely belonged to someone who resided in Juarez and was a relative descendent of John MacFarlane there is a MacFarlane bookplate on the front pastedown. There is a manuscript map drawn in blue ink on the verso of the 'Maps and Illustrations' half-title at the rear. The map locates "Tillie's Agnes Eliza Heyborne House" and "Lizzie's Elizabeth Jane Adams House" both were plural wives of John MacFarlane. Above 'The Fields' map at the rear is the notation "Grandpa MacFarlane had a field north and close to town sold it to Jos. Bentley." "Manuscript corrections" and annotations in ink to pages 18-53 John MacFarlane appears on page 29. Deseret Book Company unknown books