A Modest Homestead Alice A. Morentorn First published in English in

First published in English in 1978

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action-packed career

work as peer and intergenerational mentors

put-in/takeout information

A Modest Homestead Alice A. Morentorn First published in English inStories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing on men and women in positions of power and influence, the emphasis here is on the lives of people who built their sturdy, simple homes from mud. A Modest Homestead provides architectural descriptions of ninety four extant adobe houses. They are as basic as the people who built them small tradesmen and farmers,