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Uintah Springs Press

Fiction and nonfiction from the Intermountain West
Text Box: The Misfits keep Uintah Springs Press alive, but Becky is chief theorist, gofer, and cold caller. A Univ of Utah graduate, she earned 40 graduate hours from UU and NW Nazarene College. From 1974-82 she served as researcher/writer for renowned Western historian Leonard Arrington. Her work for him contributed to a biography of Edwin Woolley and the early chapters of his Knopf biography of Brigham Young. Becky’s own publications include Audacious Women, Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Pioneers, From Chicken Farmer to Historian, Lost Heroines, essays in two women’s history collections, and a number of journal articles. In addition, she has published short stories and poetry and written a prizewinning play. For 20 years Becky taught English to grades seven through college. She is married to John Bartholomew, a Minnesota native, bluegrass musician, and retired computer technician. She is insufferably proud of her sons Joel, a geologist, and Nathan, an Army physician’s assistant, 2 daughters-in-law, and 5 grandchildren. Lost Heroines front cover

Uintah Springs Press is named for a pioneer settlement 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. The town is now known as Fountain Green.

 

From 1991-93, John and Becky Bartholomew lived in Fountain Green, restoring a pioneer cottage reportedly built for a widow on Brigham Young’s orders. We lived in the house two years, then used it as a weekend retreat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

our favorite hangout in Salmon Falls Canyon, ID.

 

In late 1997 John and Becky moved to Castleford, Idaho, four miles from beautiful Salmon Falls Canyon. In 1999 Becky, with Jack Goodman and Bill McClymonds, formed The Misfits, a writers’ group that continues to meet at the Filer City Library the 2nd Thursday of every month.

 

In 2008 the Misfits resurrected Uintah Springs Press to publish a chapbook of poems by Jack Goodman. Jack is a cattleman, and many of the poems in Wind Songs from Turtle’s Back describe experiences on his ranch as well as in the Idaho wilds including the Snake River Canyon.  This year we published Cathy Wilson’s collection of fascinating stories of unexplained events and phenomena encountered during her

 

Uintah Springs Press isn’t finished yet! Still anticipated are a sci fi (furry adult genre) novella by Bill McClymonds, a paper edition of Poems for Kathie, and (one can dream) Glenn Foster’s completed essays on Jesus’s parables.

 

 

 

In 2010, to be closer to grandchildren, John and Becky moved to astonishingly beautiful Onalaska, WA. When we admit the real reason for moving was we’d burned out on irrigating, folks here laugh out loud. ID annual precip = 9-11”, Lewis County WA = 52-60”.
Balanced Rock Park, watercolor by Joyce DeFordWind Songs front cover

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
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Fountain Green UT pioneer adobe cottage

Our adobe cottage in Fountain Green, which had no bathroom when we moved in. Now the root cellar opens to a large basement and sq ft went from 600 to1400. We didn’t get around to adding a porch,

but it probably never had more than

a stoop anyhow.
Libby Lu our llama matriarch

▲ Morty, our blue-eyed llama, in our front yard. Most breeders avoid blue eyes perhaps because that gene tends to pair with deafness. Morty is not deaf, but he is very independent even for a stud, often wandering off to graze and kush (lay about) by himself. If one of our llamas decides to climb through a fence and stroll neighborhood, it will be Morty or Libby Lu.

 

Matriarch Libby Lu. If you want the herd to do something, first talk Libby

into it. She’s bold and adventurous and the others recognize her authority.  ►

 

Returning to our suburban home in Salt Lake City, Becky self-published Lost Heroines under the imprint Uintah Springs Press. Through a Chicago distributor, this book sold modestly to libraries across the US. The few copies left in stock are still sought by occasional students of Marie Dorion and the Apache woman warrior Lozen.