eric olson will tell us more later in the program. be weekend long we will exploring the history and .iterary life of provo, utah coming up today at noon on c-span2's book tv we will be featuring our provo library programming, and decided to work moon will be showing us books from his multimillion dollar collection. >> provo has a difficult story. narrative ofig mormon settlement in the region is about coming to this place and make it work, even though other american and even british and other explorers never chose to settle here. this was seen as a difficult place to live, and not a desirable patch of land. that was part of the reasons that mormons took it. young wanted a place exit the isolated from other american settlers, so they wouldn't run into the same kinds of conflicts they had in the east. that dream was only partially realized. not only did the gold rush bring some 30,000 non-mormons are utah the 20first three years, --native americans here 20,000 native americans here, these stories became as difficult as the ones that mo