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Download Pdf AMONG THE MORMONS A Survey of Current Literature EDITED BY STEPHEN W. STATHIS WOODROW WILSON, WHILE STILL A PROFESSOR at Princeton, told his students in 1900 that he "would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it." Unfortunately, most of us seldom have the opportunity to converse with authors as President Wilson recom- mends. As a result we are left to browsing among our favorite bookstores and reviewing the thousands of reviews which burst forth anew each month. Further complicating the whole process is the sheer volume of books being published today. Those readers interested in Mormon topics likewise con- tinue to experience prodigious growth in the selections which might con- ceivably appeal to them. Even the most casual reading of the some three hundred books which have been selected for inclusion in the bibliography (encompassing the period from late 1974 to early 1978) will find several studies which will be of more than passing interest. Perhaps even more important, however, is the realization that "church books" have become a big business. Equally significant is the vast number of older books on Mormonism now being reprinted. A separate compilation of the reprints which are currently available has been prepared by Gregory A. Prince. In the end, apart from some few works which genuinely enrich our understand- ing, examination of most of the studies here listed call to mind the words of Francis Bacon: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RECENT WORKS ON MORMONS AND MORMONISM GENERAL Allen, James B., and Glen M. Leonard. The Story of the Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976. Bergon, Frank, and Zeeze Papenikolas. The Search for the American West in History, Myth and Literature. New York: New American Library, 1978. Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. Vols. 17-20. Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1974-77. Decoo, Wilfred. Anthologie Francaise surles Mormons. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1974. Ellsworth, S. George. Utah's Heritage. Santa Barbara, California: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1977. Fodor, Eugene, Stephen Birnbaum, and Robert Fisher, eds. Fodor's Rockies and Plains: Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana. New York: David McKay Co., Inc., 1974. Gerstner, John H. Teachings of Mormonism. Grand Rapids, Iowa: Baker Book House Co., 1978. Green, Doyle L., and Randall L. Meet the Mormons: A Pictorial Introduction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Its People. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1974. 108 / DIALOGUE: A Journal of Mormon Thought Gurgel, Klaus. Mormons in Canada and Religious Travel Patterns to the Mormon Culture Hearth. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University, Department of Geography, 1975. Haack, Friedrich-Wilhelm. Mormonen. Munich, Germany: Evangelischer Presseverband f. Bayern, 1974. Luce, Willard, and Celia. Utah! Salt Lake City and Santa Barbara, California: Peregrine Smith, Inc., 1975. Miller, Ken. Mormonism: A Happy Way to Live! Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishers, 1977. The Mormons. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978. Peterson, Charles S. Utah: A History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977. Peterson, F. Ross. Idaho: A Bicentennial History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1976. Smart, William B., and Henry A. Smith. Deseret, 1776-1976: A Bicentennial Illustrated History of Utah by the Deseret News. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1976. Warner, James A., and Styne M. Slade. The Mormon Way. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1976. Weber, Francis J. The Religious Heritage of Southern California: A Bicentennial Survey. Los Angeles: Interriligious Council of Southern California, 1976. Wise, William. Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Legend and a Monumental Crime. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976. Zimmerman, Dean R. LDS Church History Atlas. 3 vols. Salt Lake City: Dean R. Zimmerman, 1975. APOSTATES AND GENTILES Collire, Fred C. The Church of the Firstborn. Part I. West Jordan, Utah: Mormon Underground Press, 1977. Shields, Stephen L. Divergent Paths of the Restoration: A History of the Latter-day Saint Movement. Provo, Utah: David C. Martin, 1975. Simmonds, A. J. The Gentile Comes to Cache Valley: A Study of the Logan Apostasies of 1874 and the Establishment of Non-Mormon Churches in Cache Valley, 1873-1913. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1976. ARCHITECTURE Andrew, Laurel B. The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1978. Case, J. Hogue. Salt Lake Sketchbook: Historic Buildings From An Artist's View. Salt Lake City: Clyde H. Harvey, 1975. Hayden, Dolores. Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism. Independence, Missouri: Church of Jesus Christ, 1974. ART AND MUSIC Hassrick, Peter H. The Way West: Art of Frontier America. New York: Abrams, 1977. Hubbard, Lester A., ed. Ballads and Songs from Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1977. Paxman, Shirley B. Homespun: Domestic Arts and Crafts of Mormon Pioneers. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976. Wadsworth, Nelson B. Through Camera Eyes. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1975. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bitton, Davis. Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1977. Crawley, Peter, and Chad Flake. Notable Mormon Books 1830-1857. Provo, Utah: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1974. Flake, Chad John. A Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930: Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978. Grover, Mark L. The Mormon Church in Latin America: A Periodical Index (1830-1976). Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1977. Short, Dennis R. Questions on Plural Marriage With a Selected Bibiliography and 1600 References. Salt Lake City: Dennis R. Short, 1974. Among the Mormons / 109 BIOGRAPHY AND FAMILY HISTORY Allen, James B., and Thomas G. Alexander, eds. Manchester Mormons: The Journal of William Clayton, 1840 to 1842. Classic Mormon Diary Series vol. I. Santa Barbara, California and Salt Lake City: Peregine Smith, Inc., 1974. Alston, Ray L. Thomas Alston and Mary Ellen Holt Alston Book of Remembrance. Salt Lake City: Ray L. Alston, 1975. Arrington, Leonard J. David Eccles: Pioneer Western Industrialist. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1975. From Quaker to Latter-day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976. , and Rebecca Cornwall. Tar Heels, Hoosiers, and Idahoans: A History of the N. W. Arrington Family to 1933. Salt Lake City: Leonard J. Arrington, 1976. Aylworth, Martha Hendricks. A Sketch of the Life of William Dorris Hendricks. Rexburg, Idaho: Martha Hendricks Aylworth, n.d. Barron, Howard H. Orson Hyde: Missionary, Apostle, Colonizer. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publishers, 1977. Bauer, Phillip J. This Is My Life. Salt Lake City: Phillip J. Bauer, 1976. Belnap, Gilbert. Heritage With Honor: Genealogy and History of Ancestry and Descendants of Gilbert Belnap (1821-1899). Bountiful, Utah: W. Dean Belnap, 1974. Brooks, Juanita, ed. Nor By Bread Alone: The Journal of Martha Spencer Heywood 1850-56. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1978. , On the Ragged Edge: The Life and Times of Dudley Leavitt. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1973. Brown, Archie Leon, and Charlene L. Hathaway. 141 Years of Mormon Heritage: Rawsons, Browns, Angells-Pioneers. Oakland, California: Archie Leon Brown, 1973. Butcher, Marie Ross, comp. Hakan Anderson and Mariane Marie Nielson. Provo, Utah: J. Grant Stevenson, 1972. Campbell, Eugene E., and Richard D. Poll. Hugh B. Brown: His Life and Thought. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Inc., 1976. Cannon, Elaine. The Summer of My Content. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976. Collier, Fred C, and Robert R. Blank. The Trials for the Membership of John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley. Salt Lake City: Fred C. Collier, 1976. Cook, Melvin Alonzo. The Autobiography of Melvin A. Cook, Vol. I, Reflections on Ancestry and Early Life. Salt Lake City: Melvin A. Cook Foundation, 1973. Corbett, Pearson H. Hyrum Smith Patriarch. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976. Reprint of 1963 edition. Cornwall, Claude C. Claude and Evelyn: An Anecdotal Account of the Lives of Claude Cornwall and Evelyn Thurston. Ithaca, New York: Claude C. Cornwall, 1975. Croft, Alfred Russell. Our of Our Past: A Brief History of Alfred Russell Croft Sr. and Irene Hutchings Croft, compiled and written by themselves. Provo, Utah: J. Grant Stevenson, 1973. Curtis, Catherine B. Valiant Venture II: Continuation of the History of James Blazzard and Mary Catherine Jolley. Catherine B. Curtis, 1976. Cutler, Alice May. Ralph Cutler. Champaign, Illinois: The Ralph Cutler Family Association, 1976. Cutler, Rupert J., and Daisy Whiting Fletcher. Alpheus Cutler and the Church of Jesus Christ. Independence, Missouri: Church of Jesus Christ, 1974. Dahl, Richard. BYU's Stan Watts: The Man and His Game. Bountiful, Utah: Horizon Publica- tions, 1976. Dear, Mary Cleora, comp. Two Hundred Thirty-Eight Years of the Whitmer Family, 1737-1976. Richmond, Virginia: Beck Printing Company, 1976. DeMille, Janice Force. Portraits of the Hurricane Pioneers. St. George, Utah: Dixie College Press, 1976. Dunn, Paul H. The Osmonds. Provo, Utah: Knowledge Unlimited, 1975. Evans, Richard L., Jr. Richard L. Evans: The Man and the Message. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, Inc., 1973. Fisher, J. Robert. F. Peirce Fisher 1882-1962. Medicine Hat, Alberta: The Printer, 1977. Flake, Carol Read. Of Pioneers and Prophets. Boise, Idaho: Joel A. Flake, 1974. Flake, Lawrence R. Mighty Men of Zion: General Authorities of the Last Dispensation. Salt Lake City: Karl D. Butler, 1974. Fotheringham, Mae Richards. Stayner Richards. Salt Lake City: Mae Richards Fotheringham, 1975. Gardner, Helen Richards. Levi Richards, 1799-1876: Some of His Ancestors and Descendants.
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