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Journal of Mormon History Volume 39 Issue 4 Journal of Mormon History, Volume 39, Article 1 issue 4 (2013) 9-17-2013 Journal of Mormon History, Volume 39, issue 4 (2013) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (2013) "Journal of Mormon History, Volume 39, issue 4 (2013)," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 39 : Iss. 4 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol39/iss4/1 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, Volume 39, issue 4 (2013) Table of Contents LETTER --More on Elijah Ables, Russell W. Stevenson, vi ARTICLES --The Affairs of the “Runaways”: Utah’s First Encounter with the Federal Officers, Part 1, Ronald W. Walker, 1 --Isaac Russell: Mormon Muckraker and Secret Defender of the Church, Kenneth L. Cannon II, 44 --Evil in the Family: Mormons and Catholics Struggling with the Dark Side of Their Histories, Father Daniel P. Dwyer, O.F.M., 99 --“It Was Awful in Its Majesty”: Mary Ann Burnham Freeze’s 1892 Mission to San Juan, Robin Russell,121 --The Earliest Written Account of the Mountain Meadows Meadows Massacre?, Connell O’Donovan, 144 --Keeping a Secret: Freemasonry, Polygamy, and the Nauvoo Relief Society, 1842–44, Cheryl L. Bruno,158 --“Saviors on Mount Zion”: Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead, Ryan G. Tobler, 182 REVIEW ESSAY --Torvaldsen’s White-Marbled Christus Reconsidered. Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey. The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, Noel A. Carmack, 239 REVIEWS John G. Turner, Brigham Young, Pioneer Prophet, Henry Wolfinger, 260 Michael G. Reed, Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo Fiona Givens, 265 Richard L. Saunders, ed., Dale Morgan on the Mormons: Collected Works, Part 1, 1939–1951 John P. Hatch, 269 Leland H. Gentry and Todd M. Compton, Fire and Sword:A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836–1839 Alexander L. Baugh, 272 BOOK NOTICES Karl Ricks Anderson. The Savior in Kirtland. 277 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol39/iss4/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY Fall2013 Volume 39 No.4 Cover illustration: Castle Gate, in Price Canyon, Utah, ca. 1898. Mary Ann Burnham Freeze, who traveled through the canyon in 1892, called it “a grand sight” (see p. 131). Detroit Photographic Company. LOT 13923, no. 232, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc. pnp/pp.print. 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The Journal‘s style guide, based on the Chicago Manual of Style and the LDS Style Guide, including specifications for illustrative materials, is available at www. mormonhistoryassociation.org. The peer-reviewed evaluation process usually takes three to six months. JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY VOLUME 39, NO. 4 FALL 2013 CONTENTS LETTERS More on Elijah Ables Russell W. Stevenson vi ARTICLES The Affairs of the “Runaways”: Utah’s First Encounter with the Federal Officers, Part 1 Ronald W. Walker 1 Isaac Russell: Mormon Muckraker and Secret Defender of the Church Kenneth L. Cannon II 44 Evil in the Family: Mormons and Catholics Struggling with the Dark Side of Their Histories Father Daniel P. Dwyer, O.F.M. 99 “It Was Awful in Its Majesty”: Mary Ann Burnham Freeze’s 1892 Mission to San Juan Robin Russell 121 The Earliest Written Account of the Mountain Meadows Meadows Massacre? Connell O’Donovan 144 Keeping a Secret: Freemasonry, Polygamy, and the Nauvoo Relief Society, 1842–44 Cheryl L. Bruno 158 “Saviors on Mount Zion”: Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead Ryan G. Tobler 182 iv CONTENTS v REVIEW ESSAY Thorvaldsen’s White-Marbled Christus Reconsidered Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey. The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America Noel A. Carmack 239 REVIEWS John G. Turner, Brigham Young, Pioneer Prophet Henry Wolfinger 260 Michael G. Reed, Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo Fiona Givens 265 Richard L. Saunders, ed., Dale Morgan on the Mormons: Collected Works, Part 1, 1939–1951 John P. Hatch 269 Leland H. Gentry and Todd M. Compton, Fire and Sword: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836–1839 Alexander L. Baugh 272 BOOK NOTICES Karl Ricks Anderson. The Savior in Kirtland. 277 LETTER More on Elijah Ables had made an enactment that the work of God should not prosper in Additional research on Elijah Ables this city.”3 He sent Phineas to provides an interesting glimpse of his Nauvoo for counsel from his elusive Cincinnati years, discussed in brother, Brigham Young. my previous publication: “‘A Negro The evidence suggests that the Preacher’: The Worlds of Elijah rising troubles stemmed from an in- Ables,” Journal of Mormon History 39, tricate—and tumultuous—relation- no. 2 (Spring 2013): 165–254. ship between the Mormon and abo- At some point in 1842, Ables relo- litionist communities in Cincinnati. catedfromNauvootoCincinnati,