[Utah Brand Book];

$1,200 · Offered by William Reese Company

BOOK OF RECORDED MARKS AND BRANDS EMBRACING ALL THE MARKS AND BRANDS RECORDED FROM DECEMBER 31 1884 TO DECEMBER 31, 1888. An early Utah territorial brand book, illustrating the brands of cattle growers in the Utah Territory recorded between December 31, 1884, and December 31, 1888, this copy having been repurposed at a slightly later date as a scrapbook and containing numerous recipe clippings and clippings of lace-making patterns and designs adhered to roughly one-quarter of the pages. The text of the brand book itself consists primarily of a list, organized alphabetically by brand, giving an illustration of the brand, its location on the animal's body, the date the brand was recorded, the cattle owner's name, and their place of residence. The present brand book, however, has been adapted for use as a domestic scrapbook. Generally, cattle ranching was the domain of men in this period, but hardly an exclusive province. Women's names regularly appear among those listed as cattle owners in such brand books as this one, and many more worked alongside men on both ranch and range, but, as historian Glenda Riley has pointed out, by far the bulk of most ranch women's time and energy was given over to their domestic duties. The clippings here include many lace patterns and designs as well as various recipes for cakes, pies, ice creams, cookies, soups, and advice for canning and pickling. Many appear to have been taken from various issues of Comfort, a mail order magazine published be

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