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Journal of Mormon History Volume 19 Issue 1 Article 1 1993 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 19, No. 1, 1993 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1993) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 19, No. 1, 1993," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 19 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol19/iss1/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of Mormon History by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 19, No. 1, 1993 Table of Contents LETTERS ARTICLES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS • --Seeking the "Remnant": The Native American During the Joseph Smith Period Ronald W. Walker, 1 TANNER LECTURE • --Two Restoration Traditions: Mormons and Churches of Christ in the Nineteenth Century Richard T. Hughes, 34 • --The Significance of riviaT Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 52 • --Masons and Mormons: Released-Time Politics in Salt Lake City, 1930-56 Frederick S. Buchanan, 61 • -Victorian Pornographic Imagery in Anti-Mormon Literature Craig L Foster, 115 • --Mormon Polygamy: A Bibliography, 1977-91 Patricia Lyn Scott, 133 REVIEWS -Claudia L. Bushman: Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society by Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher --Kimberly Jensen: Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, Plural Wife, edited by Jennifer Moulton Hansen and Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife, edited by Maria S. Ellsworth --Roger D. Launius: The Church Through the Years, Volume 1. RLDS Beginnings, to 1860, by Richard P. Howard --Ken Driggs: Undermined Establishment: Church-State Relations in America 1880-1920, by Robert T. Handy and Mormons & Cowboys, Moonshiners & Klansmen. Federal Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870-1893, by Stephen Cresswell --Martha Sonntag Bradley: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, by B. Carmon Hardy --Susan L. Fales: Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in Selected Utah Repositories: A Machine- Readable Edition. --R. Lanier Britsch: The Journals of Addison Pratt: Being a Narrative of Yankee Whaling in the Eighteen Twenties, A Mormon Mission to the Society Islands, and of Early California and Utah in the Eighteen Forties and Fifties, edited by S. George Ellsworth --Marjorie Newton: "Come, Let Us Rejoice." The Relief Society Sesquicentennial Exhibition at the Museum of Church History and Art, Salt Lake City --Francine R. Bennion: Women, Family, and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons, by Lawrence Foster --Richard L. Bushman: The Papers of Joseph Smith: Volume 1. Autobiographical and Historical Writings and The Papers of Joseph Smith: Volume 2: Journal: 1832- 1842, edited by Dean C. Jessee --Douglas J. Davies: Men with a Mission: The Mission of the Quorum of Twelve to Britain, 1837-1841, by James B. Allen, Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker --Geoffrey F. Spencer: Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons in Australia, by Marjorie Newton --Lola Van Wagenen: Eliza and Her Sisters, by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol19/iss1/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SPRING 1993 Seagull Book & Tape® The Salt Lake Temple: A Monument to a People This magnificent book brings to your home the SLC Temple. 208 pages and 200 color and archival photographs detailing the history, planning and symbolism with full views of every room of the interior, including the Holy of Holies, on acid free paper. Seagull $53.95 Corporate Tayiorsville 1345 S. 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Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, published by ABC-CLIO, and in Religion Index One: Periodicals, published by the American Theological Library Association. ©1993 Mormon History Association ISSN 0094-7342 After publication herein, copyright reverts to authors. The Mormon History Association assumes no responsibility for contributors' statements of fact or opinion. Staff of the Journal of Mormon History EDITORIAL STAFF Editor: Lavina Fielding Anderson Executive Committee: Lavina Fielding Anderson, Karl F. Best, William G. Hartley, Jeffery 0. Johnson, Lynne Watkins Jorgensen, Patricia Lyn Scott, Jean Bickmore White Editorial Staff: Martha Dickey Esplin, Susan L. Fales, Susette Fletcher Green, Kenneth A. Han- sen, Janet Jensen, Marti S. Lythgoe, Vaneese C. Nelson, Jennifer E. Newell, Marianne Perciaccante, Elizabeth Shaw Smith Book Review Editor: Richard L. Jensen Letters Editor: Jean Bickmore White Editorial Manager: Patricia Lyn Scott Business Manager: Karl F. Best Abstracts Editor: Craig L. Foster Production Manager, Spring Issue: Jack Lyon Compositor: Patricia J. Parkinson Designer: Warren Archer BOARD OF EDITORS Valeen Tippets Avery, Center for Colorado Plateau Studies, Flagstaff, Arizona James B. Allen, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah M. Guy Bishop, Seaver Center for Western History Research, Los Angeles, California Claudia L. Bushman, New York City Susan L. Fales, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Norma Derry Hiles, Liberty Hall, Lamoni, Iowa Mario S. De Pillis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Roger Launius, NASA, Washington, D.C. The journal of Mormon History is published semi- annually by the Mormon History Association, P.O. Box 7010, University Station, Provo, UT 84602, (801) 378-4048, and is distributed to members upon payment of annual dues: student, $7.50; regular, $10; sustaining, $20; Friend of Mormon History, $100; Mormon History Association Patron, $500 or more. Single copies $10. The Journal of Mormon History exists to foster scholarly research and publication in the field of Mormon history. Manuscripts dealing with all aspects of Mormon history are welcome, including twentieth-century history, regional and local history, women's history, and ethnic/minorities history. First consideration will be given to those which make a strong contribution to knowledge through new interpretations and/or new information. The Board of Editors will also consider the paper's general interest, accuracy, level of interpretation, and literary quality. The editors annually award a $300 prize to the paper that best meets these criteria and guarantee publication in the Journal. Papers for consideration must be submitted in triplicate, typed and double-spaced throughout, including all quotations. A preferred length is twenty pages, but longer manuscripts may considered. Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 13th edition (see a recent edition of the Journal) and be prepared to submit accepted manuscripts in WordPerfect, Multimate, or Wordstar. Send manuscripts to the Journal of Mormon History, Box 581068, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-1068. All manuscripts are deposited in the MHA Archives (Utah State Historical Society) after review unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY VOLUME 19, No. 1 SPRING 1993 CONTENTS LETTERS ARTICLES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Seeking the "Remnant": The Native American During the Joseph Smith Period Ronald W. Walker 1 TANNER LECTURE Two Restoration Traditions: Mormons and Churches of Christ in the Nineteenth Century Richard T. Hughes 34 The Significance of Trivia Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 52 Masons and Mormons: Released-Time Politics in Salt Lake City, 1930-56 Frederick S. Buchanan 61 Victorian Pornographic Imagery in Anti-Mormon Literature Craig L Foster 115 Mormon Polygamy: A Bibliography, 1977-91 Patricia Lyn Scott 133 REVIEWS Claudia L. Bushman: Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society by Jill Mulvay Derr, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher Kimberly Jensen: Letters of Catharine Cottam Romney, Plural Wife, edited by Jennifer Moulton Hansen and Mormon Odyssey: The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife, edited by Maria S. Ellsworth Roger D. Launius: The Church Through the Years, Volume 1. RLDS Be- ginnings, to 1860, by Richard P. Howard Ken Driggs: Undermined Establishment: Church-State Relations in Amer- ica 1880-1920, by Robert T. Handy and Mormons & Cowboys, Moon- shiners & Klansmen. Federal Law Enforcement in the South and West, 1870-1893, by Stephen Cresswell Martha Sonntag Bradley: Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, by B.
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    Agnes Ayres (1898-194): Rodolfo Valentino e Agnes Ayres em “The Sheik” (1921) The Donovan Affair (1929) The Affairs of Anatol (1921) The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball Broken Hearted (1929) Cappy Ricks (1921) (1918) Bye, Bye, Buddy (1929) Too Much Speed (1921) Their Godson (1918) Into the Night (1928) The Love Special (1921) Sweets of the Sour (1918) The Lady of Victories (1928) Forbidden Fruit (1921) Coals for the Fire (1918) Eve's Love Letters (1927) The Furnace (1920) Their Anniversary Feast (1918) The Son of the Sheik (1926) Held by the Enemy (1920) A Four Cornered Triangle (1918) Morals for Men (1925) Go and Get It (1920) Seeking an Oversoul (1918) The Awful Truth (1925) The Inner Voice (1920) A Little Ouija Work (1918) Her Market Value (1925) A Modern Salome (1920) The Purple Dress (1918) Tomorrow's Love (1925) The Ghost of a Chance (1919) His Wife's Hero (1917) Worldly Goods (1924) Sacred Silence (1919) His Wife Got All the Credit (1917) The Story Without a Name (1924) The Gamblers (1919) He Had to Camouflage (1917) Detained (1924) In Honor's Web (1919) Paging Page Two (1917) The Guilty One (1924) The Buried Treasure (1919) A Family Flivver (1917) Bluff (1924) The Guardian of the Accolade (1919) The Renaissance at Charleroi (1917) When a Girl Loves (1924) A Stitch in Time (1919) The Bottom of the Well (1917) Don't Call It Love (1923) Shocks of Doom (1919) The Furnished Room (1917) The Ten Commandments (1923) The Girl Problem (1919) The Defeat of the City (1917) The Marriage Maker (1923) Transients in Arcadia (1918) Richard the Brazen (1917) Racing Hearts (1923) A Bird of Bagdad (1918) The Dazzling Miss Davison (1917) The Heart Raider (1923) Springtime à la Carte (1918) The Mirror (1917) A Daughter of Luxury (1922) Mammon and the Archer (1918) Hedda Gabler (1917) Clarence (1922) One Thousand Dollars (1918) The Debt (1917) Borderland (1922) The Girl and the Graft (1918) Mrs.