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Mormon History Article Notices
by James E. Crooks
October 2003
Alexander, Thomas G., “Red Rock and Gray Stone: Senator Reed Smoot, the Establishment of Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, and the Rebuilding of Downtown Washington, D.C.,” Pacific Historical Review 72, no. 1 (February 2003): 1-38.

Allen, Kenneth R., “Daniel Allen: Pioneer Tanner (9 Dec. 1804-15 Jan. 1892),” Genealogical Journal 31, no. 1 (2003): 1-39.

Anderson, Lavina Fielding, “‘Immediately Irresistible Ideas’: Sunstone and Peggy Fletcher, 1980-86,” Sunstone #125 (December 2002): 24-35.

Anderson, Devery S., “A History of Dialogue, Part Three: ‘Coming of Age’ in Utah, 1982-1987,” Dialogue 35, no. 2 (summer 2002): 1-71.

Arrington, Leonard J. and Edward Leo Lyman, “When the Mormon Church Invested in Southern Nevada Gold Mines,” Dialogue 35, no. 2 (summer 2002): 73-87.

Ash, Michael R., “The Mormon Myth of Evil Evolution,” Dialogue 35, no. 4 (winter 2002): 19-38.

Bagley, Will, “Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?: Brigham Young Did It,” True West 50, no. 3 (April 2003): 32,34.

Bashore, Melvin L., “Behind Adobe Walls and Iron Bars: The Utah Territorial Penitentiary Library,” Libraries & Culture 38, no. 3 (summer 2003): 236-49.

Baugh, Alexander L., “‘Blessed Is the First Man Baptised in This Font’: Reuben McBride, First Proxy to Be Baptized for the Dead in the Nauvoo Temple,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 253-61.

Bergera, Gary James, “Buckeye’s Laments: Two Early Insider Exposés of Mormon Polygamy and Their Authorship,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 96, no. 4 (winter 2003): 350-90.

Bergera, Gary James, “The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead,” Dialogue 35, no. 3 (fall 2002): 41-66.

Bergera, Gary James, “‘Only Our Hearts Know’— Part I: Sunstone during the Daniel Rector, Elbert Peck and Linda Jean Stephenson Years, 1986-92,” Sunstone #126 (March 2003): 42-53.

Bergera, Gary James, “‘Only Our Hearts Know’— Part 2: Sunstone during the Elbert Peck Years, 1993-2001,” Sunstone #128 (July 2003): 24-39.

Bitton, Davis, “George Q. Cannon and the Faithful Narrative of Mormon History,” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1-2 (2002): 275-93.

Black, Susan Easton, “‘A Voice of Gladness for the Living and the Dead’ (D&C 128:19),” Religious Educator 3, no. 2 (2002): 137-49.

Brackenridge, R. Douglas, “Presbyterians and Latter-day Saints in Utah: A Century of Conflict and Compromise, 1830-1930,” Journal of Presbyterian History 80, no. 4 (winter 2002): 205-24.

Bringhurst, Newell G., “An Unintended and Difficult Odyssey,” Sunstone #126 (March 2003): 23-27.

Bringhurst, Newell G., “My ‘Affair’ with Fawn McKay Brodie: Motives, Pain, and Pleasure,” Dialogue 35, no. 3 (fall 2002): 200-211.

Brown, Lisle G., “‘A Perfect Estopel’: Selling the Nauvoo Temple,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 61-85.

Brown, Lisle G., “Nauvoo’s Temple Square,” BYU Studies 41, no. 4 (2002): 4-45.

Carter, D. Robert, “The Old Sow and Her Pigs: Utah’s Infant Artillery,” Beehive History 28 (2002): 5-9.

Carter, Lyndia, “Story of Heartbreak and Separation Moving West with the Mormons,” Crossroads 12, no. 4 (December 2001): 5-8.

Clarke, Maribeth C., “Early Utah’s Economic Impact on a Family’s Livelihood: A Case Study of a Pioneer Furniture Maker: Hans Olsen Magleby,” Genealogical Journal 30, no. 4 (2002): 147-62.

Compton, Todd, “John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church,” Dialogue 35, no. 4 (winter 2002): 111-34.

Cooper, Glen M., “Historical Paradigms in Conflict: The Nauvoo Period Revisited,” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1-2 (2002): 295-313.

Dennis, Ronald D., “Llyfr Mormon: The Translation of the Book of Mormon into Welsh,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 (2002): 45-49.

Dittberner, Jörg, “One Hundred Eighteen Years of Attitude: The History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Free and Hanseatic City of Bremen,” Dialogue 36, no. 1 (spring 2003): 51-69.

Duffy, John-Charles and Hugo Olaiz, “Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal,” Dialogue 35, no. 2 (summer 2002): 89-113.

Firmage, Edwin B., “MX: A Personal Essay,” Beehive History 28 (2002): 25-31.

Francaviglia, Richard, “‘Rather a Curious One’: Remembering Utah’s Sanpete Valley Railway,” Utah Historical Quarterly 71, no. 1 (winter 2003): 52-68.

Hafen, Bruce C., “The Story of A Disciple’s Life: Preparing the Biography of Elder Neal A. Maxwell,” BYU Studies 42, no. 1 (2003): 4-18.

Harper, Howard K., Steven C. Harper, and David P. Harper, “Van Wagoner’s Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Biographical Excess,” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1-2 (2002): 261-74.

Harper, Steven C., “‘Nothing Less Than Miraculous’: The First Decade of Mormonism in Mongolia,” BYU Studies 42, no. 1 (2003): 19-49.

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and James S. Lambert, “Photographs of the First Mexico and Central America Area Conference, 1972,” BYU Studies 41, no. 4 (2002): 65-73.

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel and Robert F. Schwartz, “A Mysterious Image: Brigham Young with an Unknown Wife,” BYU Studies 41, no. 3 (2002): 48-58.

Homer, Michael W., “Il Libro di Mormon: Anticipating Growth beyond Italy’s Waldensian Valleys,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 (2002): 40-44.

Huff, Roy B., “Orson Hyde: A Life of Lessons Learned,” Religious Educator 3, no. 2 (2002): 166-83.

Huggins, Ronald V., “‘Without a Cause’ and ‘Ships of Tarshish’: A Possible Contemporary Source for Two Unexplained Readings from Joseph Smith,” Dialogue 36, no. 1 (spring 2003): 157-79.

Hunter, J. Michael, “Theatre in Pioneer Utah,” Pioneer (winter 2003): 2-13.

Illades, Carlos, “Socialismo y ritos disidentes en el siglo XIX,” Historia y grafia 14 (2000): 35-51. [Plotino Constantino Rhodakanaty]

Israelsen, L. Dwight and Ryan D. Israelsen, “Did Immigration of Non-English Speaking People Increase Relative Income and Wealth Inequality in 19th-Century Utah?” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 77 (2000): 96-109.

Jackson, Roger P., “Designing and Constructing the ‘New’ Nauvoo Temple: A Personal Reflection,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 204-28.

Larsen, Janna M., “The Roadshow: A Mormon Theatrical Phenomenon,” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 77 (2000): 1-9.

Linford, Marilynne Todd, “Emma Lucy Gates Bowen: On Stage and at Home,” Pioneer (winter 2003): 24-29.

Livingston, Craig, “Lions, Brothers, and the Idea of an Indian Nation: The Mexican Revolution in the Minds of Anthony W. Ivins and Rey L. Pratt, 1910-1917,” Dialogue 35, no. 2 (summer 2002): 115-38.

McClellan, Richard D., “Traduit de L’Anglais: The First French Book of Mormon,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 (2002): 29-34.

Mackay, Lachlan, “A Brief History of the Smith Family Nauvoo Cemetery,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 240-52.

MacKinnon, William P., “‘Like Splitting a Man Up His Backbone’: The Territorial Dismemberment of Utah, 1850-1896,” Utah Historical Quarterly 71, no. 2 (spring 2003): 100-124.

Marquardt, H. Michael, “Martin Harris: The Kirtland Years, 1831-1870,” Dialogue 35, no. 3 (fall 2002): 1-40.

Mauss, Armand L., “Reflections on a Lifetime with the Race Issue,” Sunstone #126 (March 2003): 28-30.

Mills, Marilyn, “True Community: Latter-day Saints in San Bernardino, 1851-1857,” Ensign 33, no. 2 (February 2003): 36-45.

Morris, Larry E., “‘The Private Character of the Man Who Bore That Testimony’: Oliver Cowdery and His Critics,” FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 311-51.

Morton, Sunny McClellan, “The Forgotten Daughter: Julia Murdock Smith,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 35-60.

Novak, Shannon A. and Derinna Kopp, “To Feed a Tree in Zion: Osteological Analysis of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre,” Historical Archaeology 37, no. 2 (2003): 85-108.

Parson, Robert, “Utah’s Statehood and Higher Education: The Consolidation Controversy of 1894,” Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 77 (2000): 235-41.

Partridge, Scott H., “Edward Partridge in Painesville, Ohio,” BYU Studies 42, no. 1 (2003): 50-73.

Petersen, Boyd, “Truth Is Stranger Than Folklore: Hugh Nibley — The Man and the Legend,” Sunstone #125 (December 2002): 18-23.

Rees, Robert A., “Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance,” Dialogue 35, no. 3 (fall 2002): 83-112.

Rogers, Jedediah Smart, “‘When the People Speak’: Mormons and the 1954 Redistricting Campaign in Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly 71, no. 3 (summer 2003): 233-49.

Rogers, Kristen Smart, “Community and Memory in Grouse Creek,” Utah Historical Quarterly 71, no. 2 (spring 2003): 143-64.

Scharffs, Gilbert W., “Das Buch Mormon: The German Translation of the Book of Mormon,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 11 (2002): 35-39.

Scott, Patricia Lyn, “Jennie Anderson Froiseth and the Blue Tea,” Utah Historical Quarterly. 71, no. 1 (winter 2003): 20-35.

Skidmore, Velma Williams, “Found at Last: The Final Resting Place of Frederick Granger Williams,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 229-39.

Smith Darron, “The Persistence of Racialized Discourse in Mormonism,” Sunstone #126 (March 2003): 31:33.

Sokoliwsky, Brian William, “Photographs of Joseph F. Smith and the Laie Plantation, Hawaii, 1899,” BYU Studies 41, no. 4 (2002): 46-63.

Staker, Mark L., “’Thou Art the Man’: Newel K. Whitney in Ohio,” BYU Studies 42, no. 1 (2003): 74-138.

Taysom, Stephen C., “A Uniform and Common Recollection: Joseph Smith’s Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory, 1852-2002,” Dialogue 35, no. 3 (fall 2002): 113-44.

Thomas, Mark D., “Form Criticism of Joseph Smith’s 1823 Vision of the Angel Moroni,” Dialogue 35, no. 3 (fall 2002): 145-60.

Thursby, Jacquiline S., “Mormon Temple Reproductions on Cemetery Markers,” Markers [Journal of the Association for Gravestones Studies] 20 (2003): 312-32.

Topping, Gary, “Robert J. Dwyer and the Writing of Utah History,” Utah Historical Quarterly 71, no. 1 (winter 2003): 4-19.

Van Dyke, Blair G., “Conquest of the Heart: Implementing the Law of Consecration in Missouri and Ohio,” Religious Educator 3, no. 2 (2002): 44-65.

Walker, Kyle R., “Katharine Smith Salisbury: Sister to the Prophet,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 5-34.

Walker, Kyle R., “Katharine Smith Salisbury’s Recollections of Joseph’s Meetings with Moroni,” BYU Studies 41, no. 3 (2002): 4-17.

Walker, Ron, “Did Brigham Order a Massacre?: No He Didn’t,” True West 50, no. 3 (April 2003): 33-34.

Walker, Ronald W., “‘Save the Emigrants’: Joseph Clewes on the Mountain Meadows Massacre,” BYU Studies 42, no. 1 (2003): 139-52.

Ward, Maurine Carr, “‘This Institution Is a Good One’: The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 17 March 1842 to 16 March 1844,” Mormon Historical Studies 3, no. 2 (fall 2002): 86-203.

Watson, Marianne T., “Short Creek: ‘A Refuge for the Saints’,” Dialogue 36, no. 1 (spring 2003): 71-87.

Welch, John W., “How Much Was Known about Chiasmus in 1829 When the Book of Mormon Was Translated?” FARMS Review 15, no. 1 (2003): 47-80.

Woodger, Mary Jane, “Revelation Attitudes: The Coming Forth of Official Declaration 2,” Religious Educator 3, no. 2 (2002): 185-200.

Woods, Fred E. and Nicholas J. Evans, “Latter-day Saint Scandinavian Migration through Hull, England, 1852-1894,” BYU Studies 41, no. 4 (2002): 75-102.

Yorgason, Ethan, “No Grounds for Conversation: The Regional Construction of Fundamental Difference between Mormonism and Socialism,” Antipode 34, no. 4 (2002): 707-29.

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April 2003
Alexander, Thomas G. “Irrigating the Mormon Heartland: The Operation of the Irrigation Companies in Wasatch Oasis Communities, 1847-1880,” Agricultural History 76, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 172-187.

Donovan, Gill. “Mormons Renew Pledge to End Proxy Baptism of Jews,” National Catholic Reporter 39 (December 27, 2002): 5.

Estin, Ann Laquer. “Marriage and Belonging,” Michigan Law Review 100, no. 6 (May 2002): 1690-1707

Garrard, Richard A. “Divine Discrimination: Mormons and Women’s Rights at the UN - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in seeking to influence United Nations policies on the status and treatment of women, is operating in opposition to much of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” Humanist 63, no 1 (January-February 2003): 20-23.

Hampl, Jeffrey S., Carol S. Johnston, and Robert A. Mills. “Scourge of Blackleg (scurvy) on the Mormon Trail [Winter Quarters],” Nutrition 17, no. 5 (May 2001): 416-418.

Harris, Mark A. “Religiosity and Perceived Future Ascetic Deviance and Delinquency among Mormon Adolescents: Testing the “This-Worldly” Supernatural Sanctions Thesis,” Sociological Inquiry 73, no. 1 (February 2003): 28-51.

Hill, Reinhold R. “God’s Chosen People: Mormon Representations of Judaism and the Jewish Other in Holocaust Literature,” Clio 31, no. 2, (Winter 2002): 151-165

Kennedy, John W. “Temple Square Face-off: Baptist Evangelist Irks LDS, but Court is on His Side,” Christianity Today 47 (January 2003): 21.

Mayes, Clifford, and Pamela Blackwell Mayes. “Spiritual Reflectivity among Mormon Teachers and Administrators in Public Schools,” International Journal of Leadership in Education 5, no. 2 (April 2002): 129-148.

Mereska, Nancy. “The Convert’s Tale,” MacLean’s 115, no. 28 (July 15, 2002): 40.

Merrill, Ray M., Joseph L. Lyon, William J. Jensen. “Lack of a Secularizing Influence of Education on Religious Activity and Parity Among Mormons,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42, no. 1 (March 2003): 113-124.

Merrill, Ray M., and Richard Salazar. “Relationship between Church Attendance and Mental Health among Mormons and non-Mormons in Utah,” Mental Health, Religion & Culture 5, no. 1 (2002): 17-33.

Mitchell, Hildi. “‘Being There’: British Mormons and the History Trail,” Anthropology Today 17, no. 2 (February 2001): 9-14.

Scott, David W. “Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Find Me a Mate: A Cultural Examination of a Virtual Community of Single Mormons,” Journal of Media and Religion 1, no. 4 (2002): 201-216.

Smallwood, Scott. “Mormon Scholar [Thomas W. Murphy], Facing Excommunication for Research, Gets a Reprieve,” Chronicle of Higher Education 49 (January 3, 2003): A10.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. “A Pail of Cream,” Journal of America History 89, no. 1 (2002): 43-47.

Warnock, Emery C. “Mormon Martial and Brass Band of the Utah Territory,” Journal of Band Research 39, no. 1 (Fall 2002): 71-91.

Whitt, Jan. “‘The Sorcery of Literature’: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Stories of the West,” Journal of the West 41, no. 1 (January 2002): 83-89.

Wulfhorst, J. D. and Evan Glenn. “Irrigation, Community, and Historical Development Along the Upper Snake River,” Agricultural History 76, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 434-447.

Yorgason, Ethan. “No Grounds for Conversation: The Regional Construction of Fundamental Difference Between Mormonism and Socialism,” Antipode [Great Britain] 34, no. 4 (2002): 707-729.

“Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy,” New York Times February 28, 2003: A1.

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