About Us

About Us

When we moved into the cottage, it lacked bathroom and hot water but fortunately had

electricity for powering tools and a computer. While John supervised restoration work, Becky revised Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies (Charles Redd Center for Western History, reprinted 1993) and wrote Audacious Women (Signature Books, 1996). We lived in the house two years, then used it as a weekend retreat.

Our widow’s cottage before and after.

The root cellar now opens onto a

large basement. Square footage

went from 600 to 1400. We

didn’t get around to adding

a porch, but it probably

never had one.

Uintah Springs Press

Fiction and nonfiction from the Intermountain West

Text Box: Rebecca Bartholomew has a BA and 40 graduate hours from the University of Utah. From 1974-82 she served as a researcher/writer for renowned Western historian Leonard Arrington. In addition to writing history, fiction, and a prizewinning play, she has taught English and communications to grades seven through college. She has 2 sons, 2 daughters-in-law, and 5 grandchildren.

Uintah Springs was a pioneer settlement now called Fountain Green in central Utah’s Sanpete Valley. A spring flows out of the granite mountains west of town, forming a pond ringed with watercress and willows and supplying the best drinking and bathing water in the West.

From 1991-93 John and Becky Bartholomew restored a Fountain Green cottage reportedly built for a widow on orders from Brigham Young. The walls of the cottage are one-foot-thick adobe brick molded from local clay. Pioneer builders knew to site the house so its attic windows capture the breezes moving up and down the pass, making air conditioning unnecessary.

Phone: (360) 985-7180

e-mail: uintahsp@tds.net

Right: Artist Joyce DeFord’s depiction of Balanced Rock Park,

our favorite hangout in Salmon Falls Canyon.

Libby Lu and Yana, two of our seven llamas, in their new pasture. That’s Muqiyta peeking from behind a tree.

In 1997 Becky self-published Lost Heroines under the imprint Uintah Springs Press. It sold modestly through a Chicago distributor to libraries across the US. Later that year we relocated to Castleford, Idaho, four miles from beautiful Salmon Falls Canyon. In 1999 Becky, Jack Goodman, and Bill McClymonds formed The Misfits, a writers’ support group that continues to meet at the Filer City Library the 2nd Thursday of every month.

In 2008 Uintah Springs Press published Wind Songs from Turtle’s Back, a chapbook of poems by Idaho cattleman Jack Goodman. Anticipated titles include a sci fi (furry adult genre) novella by Bill McClymonds and stories of the unexplained collected and edited by Cathy Wilson.

In 2010, to be closer to grandchildren, USP moved to astonishingly beautiful Onalaska, WA. When we admit our real reason for moving was we’d burned out on irrigating, people around here laugh at us. (ID annual precip = 9”, Lewis County WA = 60+”.)

John in the vegetable garden.

Hard to tell if he’s bragging or

belittling that poor carrot.

For Nate & Joel’s eyes only

View of back of house from pumphouse

Front of house from mailbox

Looking into pasture from Inevitable Angle. Llama carport at rear

Our Inevitable Angle (acknowledgements to I.M. Pei)

Mailbox

Saw doe + faun here

Uintah Springs Press, Wind Songs from Turtle’s Back, Beginner’s Guide to Llamas, Fountain Green UT, Rebecca Bartholomew, Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies, Audacious Women, Lost Heroines, Castleford ID, Salmon Falls Canyon, Jack Goodman, Bill McClymonds, Cathy Wilson, Onalaska WA, llamas