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Journal of Mormon History Vol. 39, No. 1, Winter 2013 Journal of Mormon History Volume 39 Issue 1 winter 2013 Article 1 1-4-2013 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 39, No. 1, Winter 2013 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Journal of Mormon History, Vol 39, Winter 2013: Iss. 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. 39, No. 1, Winter 2013 Table of Contents ARTICLES --A Seething Cauldron of Controversy: The First Trial of John D. Lee, 1875 Robert H. Briggs, 1 --To the “Honest and Patriotic Sons of Liberty”: Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843–44 Brent M. Rogers, 36 --"About the Worst Man in Utah”: William R. Campbell and the Crusade against Brigham H. Roberts, 1898–1900 R. Douglas Brackenridge, 69 --Akimel Au-Authm, Xalychidom Piipaash, and the LDS Papago Ward D. L. Turner, 158 --Debating Succession, March 1846: John E. Page, Orson Hyde, and the Trajectories of Joseph Smith’s Legacy Benjamin E. Park and Robin Scott Jensen, 181 REVIEWS --Veda Tebbs Hale. “Swell Suffering”: A Biography of Maurine Whipple Lisa Olsen Tait and Lynne Larson, 206 --Winston Groom. Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846–1847 Sherman L. Fleek, 212 --Hugh J. Cannon. Edited by Reid L. Neilson. To the Peripheries of Mormondom: The Apostolic Around- the-World Journey of David O. McKay, 1920–1921 Gregory A. Prince, 216 --Riley M. Moffat, Fred E. Woods, and Jeffrey N. Walker. Gathering to La‘ie and Hokulani K. Aikau. A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i Dominic F. Martinez, 218 --Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow. Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism David J. Whittaker, 222 --Edward Whitley. American Bards: Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet Jill Mulvay Derr, 229 --John S. McCormick and John R. Sillito. A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary Russell Arben Fox, 232 --Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Donald Q. Cannon. The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois: A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841–1846 Blair G. Van Dyke, 236 --Stephen C. Taysom. Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds: Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries J. Spencer Fluhman, 247 --Matthew Bowman. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith Henry Wolfinger, 251 --Mark Lyman Staker. Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations Gerrit John Dirkmaat, 256 BOOK NOTICES --Beth Shumway Moore. Bones in the Well: The Haun’s Mill Massacre, 1838: A Documentary History, 260 --Jonathan Chamberlain and Beverly Chamberlain. “Happy Is the Man”: A Social Biography of Thomas Chamberlain (1854–1918), 261 --Leslie Albrecht Huber. The Journey Takers, 263 Penne D. Conrad. Out of the Killing Fields, into the Light: Interviews with Mormon Converts from Cambodia, 266 Marianna Edwards Richardson. Alfred Edersheim: A Jewish Scholar for the Mormon Prophets, 267 Dan Barker. Unique Stories and Facts from LDS History, 268 Seth Sorensen. The Utah Story: The People, Places, and Events That Shaped Our State, 269 Davis Bitton. Knowing Brother Joseph Again: Perceptions and Perspectives, 271 Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson. Joseph Smith: The Prophet and Seer, 271 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol39/iss1/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY Winter 2013 Volume 39 No.1 Cover illustration: This depiction of the Mountain Meadows Massacre appears in T. B. H. Stenhouse, Rocky Mountain Saints (NewYork:D.AppletonandCom- pany, 1873), following p. 426. Although numerous figures are shown falling, with presumably fatal wounds, the illustration sidesteps direct acts of violence, masking them with clouds of smoke from discharged firearms. The only woman in the fore- ground is being defended by her husband, while a Mormon in a suit, including a lit- eral black hat, wrestles for control. The Mormon History Association The Mormon History Association (www.mormonhistoryassociation.org) is an independent non-profit 501(c)3 organization devoted to all aspects of the Mor- mon past. 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JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY VOLUME 39, NO. 1 WINTER 2013 CONTENTS ARTICLES A Seething Cauldron of Controversy: The First Trial of John D. Lee, 1875 Robert H. Briggs 1 To the “Honest and Patriotic Sons of Liberty”: Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843–44 Brent M. Rogers 36 “About the Worst Man in Utah”: William R. Campbell and the Crusade against Brigham H. Roberts, 1898–1900 R. Douglas Brackenridge 69 Akimel Au-Authm, Xalychidom Piipaash, and the LDS Papago Ward D. L. Turner 158 Debating Succession, March 1846: John E. Page, Orson Hyde, and the Trajectories of Joseph Smith’s Legacy Benjamin E. Park and Robin Scott Jensen 181 REVIEWS Veda Tebbs Hale. “Swell Suffering”: A Biography of Maurine Whipple Lisa Olsen
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