BOOK NOTICES An Homage to Helen Papanikolas—Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Volume 29: 2 (New York: Pella Publishing Company, Inc., 2003. 138 pp., $12.00.)
This special issue of the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora is a welldeserved tribute to Helen Papanikolas. A Utah State Historical Society Fellow and well-known historian and writer about the immigrant experience in Utah and the West, Helen is recognized nationally and internationally as an authority and articulate spokesperson for the countless and almost forgotten immigrants who left their native lands to establish new homes in Utah and the surrounding states. Sixteen ethnic scholars and writers, including Utah State Historical Society Director Philip F. Notarianni, offer essays about Helen Papanikolas, her generosity, and her writing. Many of the essays discuss her pioneering work “The Greeks of Carbon County,” published in 1954 in the Utah Historical Quarterly, Toil and Rage in a New Land first published as the Spring 1970 issue of the Utah Historical Quarterly, and her masterful work as editor of The Peoples of Utah published by the Utah State Historical Society in 1976. Also included is a dialogue with Helen, an annotated bibliography of nearly forty items that describe her writings from 1947 to 2002, and treasured photographs of Helen and her family.
Arizona Goes to War:The Home Front and the Front Lines During World War II Edited by Brad Melton and Dean Smith (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxi + 233 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $24.95.)
Arizona Goes to War is a collection of essays written by prominent Arizonan historians, journalists, and free-lance writers. The authors include many useful sidebars, profiles, and illustrations that help tell the story of how “modern Arizona was born in war”(x). The authors include chapters on the effects of the buildup of war and Pearl Harbor on Arizonans, and the wartime experience of women, Native Americans, and those on the home front. Other chapters discuss Arizona’s proliferation of military bases, prisoners of war incarcerated in the state, war heroes, and the conclusion of the war.The book, intended for a general audience, concludes with a traveler’s guide to Arizona’s World War II sites.
Kit Carson and His Three Wives:A Family History By Marc Simmons (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. x + 195 pp. $24.95.)
Kit Carson and His Three Wives is an account not only of Carson’s marriages to Arapaho Waa-Nibe, Cheyene Making Out Road, and New Mexico
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