WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
JUANITA BROOKS
(historican, author)
BIOGRAPHY
Juanita Brooks was born (1898) and raised in Bunkerville. Her father was Henry Leavitt and her mother was Mary Hafen.She married Ernest Pulsipher (1919) just over a year before he died of cancer. They had a son together.
Juanita got a bachelor's degree from BYU.
She settled in St. George and became an instructor of English and dean of women at Dixie College, a position she held until 1933. She became the stake Relief Society president.
While at Dixie, she was able to take a sabbatical to earn a master's degree from Columbia University. She wouldn't normally have had enough senority to get the sabbatical, but it didn't pay much and noone else could afford to take the sabbatical.
Juanita married widower Will Brooks in 1933. He brought four sons to the family and together they added a daughter and three more sons.
She took up historical research and writing. She served on the board of the Utah Historical Society.
PHOTOS
SUU-0018 Juanita Brooks signing a book in 1967
Other photos on the web:
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PUBLICATIONS
Juanita Brooks"The Mountain Meadows Massacre"
1950
Juanita Brooks
"John Doyle Lee: Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat"
1961
Juanita Brooks
"Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier"
1982
REFERENCES
Biography of Juanita BrooksLevi S. Peterson
"Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian"
1988
William A. Wilson, " Juanita Brooks and Family Narratives"
9th Juanita Brooks Lecture (1991)
Juanita Brooks Lecture Series