Peterson, Levi S.

Levi Savage Peterson was born in 1933 in Snowflake, Arizona. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Utah and taught English at Weber State University (Ogden, Utah). Peterson, a noted fiction writer, became interested in the life of Juanita Brooks and wrote Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian, published by Signature Books. The materials in this collection were gathered for this publication.

Juanita Leone Leavitt Pulsipher Brooks was born in 1898 in Bunkervillen, Nevada. She received a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and a master's degree from Columbia University. She was a noted Utah historian whose works include: The Mountain Meadows Massacre; John Doyle Lee: Zealot-Pioneer-Builder-Scapegoat; as well as numerous articles and books. She died in 1989.