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St. George Conference May 26-29, 2011

“From Cotton to Cosmopolitan: Local, National, and Global Transformations in Mormon History” Tanner Lecture George A. Miles William Robertson Coe Curator Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University

Tours Pre-Conference St. George Temple through Vineyards in 1917 Courtesy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church History Library Tour 1: Las Vegas and the Mormon Corridor Special Guests & Plenary Speakers Tour 2: St. George LIVE Tour 3: Tour of Art Galleries Friday Morning Plenary W. Paul Reeve Associate Professor of History Post-Conference University of Utah Tour 1: Southern Utah & Northern Friday Luncheon Speaker Arizona Elder Bruce C. Hafen St. George LDS Temple President Tour 2: Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition

Film Preview and Discussion Phil Tuckett Assistant Professor of Film Dixie State College

Saturday Luncheon Speaker Susan S. Rugh Professor of History Brigham Young University

Presidential Banquet William P. MacKinnon MHA President, 2010-11

Sunday Devotional President Michael T. Benson Southern Utah University St. George 2009

Mormon History Association Mormon History Courtesy St. George Tourism Douglas D. Alder Dixie State College President, 1986-93 The Latest in Mormon History Scholarship St. George is located in southwest Utah, 303 miles south of Salt Lake City and 119 miles northeast of Las Vegas. It boasts a population of more than 80,000 and is one the fastest growing cities in the United States. Founded in 1861 as a Mormon cotton mission, St. George is celebrating its sesquicentennial in 2011.

Dixie Center 1835 Convention Center Drive St. George, UT 84790 800-748-5011 (toll free) www.dixiecenter.com

DIRECTIONS

Take I-15 to St. George, Bluff Street (Exit 6).

From Salt Lake City: turn left on Bluff at stoplight, turn right at second stoplight onto Convention Center Drive for two blocks. The Convention Center is located on the left.

From Las Vegas: turn right on Bluff. At the next stoplight turn right onto Conven- tion Center Drive, drive for two blocks. The Convention Center is on the left.

See list of conference hotels and rates on page 7

2 President’s Greeting

Transformation! Welcome to a conference for which that word will be the key to understanding what you will see and hear with us. The canyonlands and river systems for which the St. George area is the portal are themselves a gorgeous reminder of the geological changes that have shaped our conference site over millions of years. A bit more recently, the City of St. George, our host, stands as a welcoming civic record of how the Mormon footprint first appeared here 150 years ago – at the very time that the United States, Utah Territory, and the Latter-day Saints stood on the brink of perhaps their greatest upheavals. Joining us in St. George for the Mormon History Association’s 46th Annual Conference, May 26-29, 2011, promises to provide you not only with a wonderful start to our national celebration of Memorial Day, but a memorable experience through which to learn about this extraordinary area and the flow of events to which it is linked. When from a White House balcony a war-weary President Abraham Lincoln asked a visiting band to strike up “Dixie,” his favorite tune, he probably did not have southern Utah in mind. But 2,000 miles to the west, President William P. MacKinnon MHA President 2010-11 Brigham Young surely did. Here is a chance to find out how and why.

What awaits you at MHA’s St. George conference is an unusual, stimulating opportunity to see and learn about a stunning series of transformations. It is a story that is both stark and richly colorful, just like our conference site and the region that surrounds it. Welcome to an opportunity to take part in: pre- and post-conference tours to canyons, rivers, deserts, pioneer towns, and golf courses that draw visitors from throughout the world; plenary session speakers as diverse as an emeritus General Authority of the LDS Church to the keeper of some of the great documents of Mormon history to one of the leading chroniclers of the American vacation experience; conference papers that break new ground on subjects ranging from Utah and the Civil War to the changing face of polygamy in the West to the Mountain Meadows Massacre; and a sneak preview of an exciting new film-in-progress on the life of St. George’s Juanita Brooks, a historian and MHA member who did as much as perhaps any chronicler of that latter subject to change it.

But for me, the best part of St. George is not the past, fascinating as it is, but rather what lies just ahead for us – a celebratory gathering in southern Utah’s “Dixie” region with some of the warmest, most welcoming people I know. I refer, of course, to the members of the Mormon History Association. I urge you to be part of this group for MHA-St. George. For good reason, it will be a landmark, if not transformational, event in your study of the Mormon experience as well as in your enjoyment of a scenic land that attracts the world.

Cordially,

3 MHA Officers 2010 - 11

President: William P. MacKinnon Independent Historian Santa Barbara, CA

President-Elect: Richard L. Jensen Joseph Smith Papers LDS Church History Department Salt Lake City, UT

Past President: Ronald E. Romig Site Director Kirtland Temple Historic Center Kirtland, OH

Executive Director: Patricia Lyn Scott

Business Manager: Marilyn S. Barney Board Members:

Noel A. Carmack (2011) Andrea Radke-Moss (2012) Art Department Assistant Professor College of Eastern Utah Brigham Young University-Idaho Price, UT Rexburg, ID

J. Spencer Fluhman (2011) Curtis Atkisson (2012) Assistant Professor of Church Retired CEO History & Doctrine Salt Lake City, UT Brigham Young University Provo, UT Grant Underwood (2013) Professor of History Jenny Reeder (2011) Brigham Young University Doctoral Candidate Provo, UT George Mason University Barbara Walden (2013) Fairfax, VA Community of Christ Historic Sites Foundation Lexington, KY

4 Mormon History Association

The Mormon History Association (MHA) was founded under the leadership of noted historian Leonard J. Arrington in December 1965 at the American Historical Association (AHA) meeting in San Francisco. MHA was organized to promote understanding, scholarly research, and publication in the field of Mormon history. For the first seven years, until 1972, it operated as an affiliate of the American Historical Association. In 1972 it became an independent organization with its own annual conferences and publications. The Journal of Mormon History, the official publication of the association, began publication in 1974.

Organization

MHA is governed by its members who elect a president, president-elect, and board members. The term of the executive officers is for one year, and the six board members serve for three years. The executive director, business manager, and editor of the Journal of Mormon History are ap- pointed by the board.

Mission Statement

The Mormon History Association is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history. We welcome all who are interested in the Mormon past, irrespective of religious affiliation, academic training, or world location. We promote our goals through scholarly research, conferences, awards, and publications.

Vision Statement

The Mormon History Association seeks to be the preeminent worldwide catalyst for encour- aging the scholarly study and appreciation of the Mormon past.

5 Conference Information Registration form is located in center section

Mormon History Association Pre-registration 10 West 100 South, Suite 610 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Conference pre-registration deadline is 801-521-6565 Saturday, April 30, 2011 888-642-3678 801-521-8686 (fax) Registration must be received, with full [email protected] payment, in the MHA office by the above www.mhahome.org date in order to receive the pre-registration discounted price. Patricia Lyn Scott Executive Director Pre-registration prices for the conference: MHA members $110 Marilyn S. Barney Non-MHA members $150 Business Manager Students $50 Single day $80 Conference Location: Dixie Center Registration after April 30 1835 Convention Center Drive MHA members $135 St. George, UT 84790 Non-MHA members $175

Conference Dates Students $75 Thursday, May 26, 2011, through Single day $105 Sunday, May 29, 2011 All conference attendees, including presenters Conference Registration Schedule and program and tour participants, are required Distribution of name badges, conference programs, to register. Please pre-register for all tours and and on-site registration will take place during the meals, as space is limited. Pre-registration receipts will be emailed or mailed to each reg- following hours in the Dixie Center’s north lobby: istrant, but name badges and event tickets are Wednesday 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. to be picked up at the conference registration Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. table. Friday 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. MHA Membership Membership in the Mormon History Association is not required to attend the conference, but those who wish to join are encouraged to do so. Membership can Cancellation Policy be included with your registration. In the event a person finds it necessary Name Badges to cancel his/her registration, MHA It is required that all attendees wear their name will refund the full registration for all badges at all times during the conference. This is nec- activities, less a handling charge of $30 essary to prevent people coming into the conference per person, until April 30, 2011. After without registering. that date, no refunds will be made. The If you misplace or forget your badge, please obtain paid registration fees will then be recog- a replacement at the registration desk before attempt- nized as a donation and a receipt will be ing to attend any event or entering the exhibit hall. issued. There will be people available to remind you of this policy.

6 Enterprise (435-634-1556, www.enterprise.com), and Hotel Room Reservations Hertz (435-652-9941, www.hertz.com).

MHA has negotiated a rate of $89 (single/ Taxi Services: There are two St. George Taxi com- double/triple/quadruple) per night at six St. George panies. They are: AAA Quality Cab (435-656-5222) hotels. All hotels are located within three miles of and Taxi USA (435-656-1500). the Dixie Center. The hotels are the following: Best McCarran International Airport (LAS) Western Abbey Inn (888-222-3946, www.bwab- The Las Vegas McCarran International Airport is beyinn.com); Clarion Suites (formerly the Comfort located 129 miles from St. George (a 1-1/2 to 2 hour Suites) (800-245-8602, stgeorgecomfortsuites. drive). com); Fairfield Inn by Marriott (888-236-2427, www.marriott.com/travel/hotels/sgufi-fairfield-in- Rental Cars: Ten rental car companies are avail- st-george); Hilton Garden Inn (877-STAY-HGI, able at the airport’s car rental facility. (See: www. www.stgeorge.hgi.com); LaQuinta Inn & Suites mccarran.com/03-carrentals.aspx). (888-788-2457, www.laqstgeorge.com); and the Shuttle Services: There are three shuttle companies Lexington Hotel and Conference Center (formerly offering daily service between the McCarran Interna- the Holiday Inn) (800-457-9800, www.lexing- tional Airport and St. George. The shuttles are the fol- tonhotels.com). The MHA website provides the lowing: Canyon Country Shuttle (435-272-4495, www. addresses and descriptions of all hotels including canyonshuttle.com), St. George Shuttle (435-628-8320, a map showing their locations. This rate is good www.stgeorgeshuttle.com), and St. George Express for up to three days before and three days after (435-652-1100, www.stgeorgeexpress.com). Costs the conference. This rate is only guaranteed until average $30 for a one-way ticket and $50 for a round April 24, 2011. Make certain you say MHA! trip. Reservations are requirred.

Parking: The Dixie Center provides free parking for confer- Transportation ence attendees.

Transportation from Salt Lake City: Exhibitors: The following three bus/shuttle companies provide Exhibits and displays will be located in the exhibit daily service between Salt Lake City and St. George: area located in the Dixie Center. Exhibitors can set up Aztec Shuttle Service (435-656-9040, www.aztec- any time between noon and 5 p.m. on Thursday after- shuttle.com), St. George Shuttle (435-628-8320, www. noon. Exhibit hours are: stgeorgeshuttle.com), and Utah Trailways, (800-876- Friday 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 5825, www.utahtrailways.com). Costs range from Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. $90-$100 for a round-trip ticket. Exhibitor and advertisers pay a fee to MHA for Airports: the space they occupy. We encourage all conference attendees to patronize and support them. They are sup- St. George Municipal Airport (SGU) porting MHA. The new St. George Municipal Airport was dedicated on January 13, 2011. It is located five miles Emergency Procedures: southeast of St. George (620 South Airport Rd.) and is MHA seeks to be prepared properly in the event of easily reached by I-15 (Exit 2). Delta Airlines (delta. any emergency that may arise during the conference. com) offers four weekday flights and three weekend We recognize that there are inherent risks involved in flights from Salt Lake City. In March, United Airlines holding a large conference of 500 to 600 people. While (united.com) will begin a direct six-day-a-week flight it is difficult to eliminate all risks and contingencies, (not Saturday) from Los Angeles. For more informa- we seek to minimize them. MHA and the conference tion see: www.flysgu.com. center have established an emergency management plan. Information on its details will be available at the Airport Transportation Most conference hotels registration desk upon request. In part, this plan calls offer free airport shuttles. for each attendee to voluntarily provide at registration an “emergency contact” and other related information. Rental Cars: Alamo (800-327-9633, www.alamo. We will maintain this information if the situation arises com), AVIS (435-627-2002, www.avis.com), Budget for its use. (435-652-8542/435-673-6825, www.budget.com), 7 OPENING CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Special

THURSDAY ON THE SQUARE (MAY 26) St. George’s history and culture are highlighted in Thurs- day’s activities. Events are centered in St. George’s historic downtown on Main Street. They begin with two tours - St. George LIVE -- five historic sites with Jacob Hamblin, Or- son Pratt, Erastus Snow, Judge John Menzies Macfarlane, and Brigham Young present through reenactors and a tour of sev- eral art galleries. Both begin at the Pioneer Center for the Arts (200 North Main Street) just north of the Post Office at 1:00 p.m. and are repeated at 3:00 p.m. (see page 12 for details). Also, since fifty historic buildings are located downtown ,maps will be available for attendees to create their own walk- Brigham Young’s Home Courtesy St. George Tourism ing tour. Free public parking is available downtown, and shuttles will also be available at the Dixie Center for those needing transportation.

MHA’s third Research Fair will be held in the Washington County Library, 88 West 100 South, on the south side of Town Square, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. University, state, and church li- brarians, archivists, and curators will be available to discuss their Mormon history collections, spotlight their records of the Colo- rado Plateau region, and demonstrate internet access to their online registers and digital collections. Exhibitors will include: Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University; LDS Church His- tory Library; Dixie State College; Mountain West Digital Library; Southern Utah University; Utah State University; Utah Valley Uni- versity; Washington County Library; and Weber State University. Nine area restaurants are available for dinner before evening events.

Town Square looking toward the Washington County Library

The St. George Tabernacle at 18 South Main Street is the site of MHA’s opening session, “Celebrating St. George’s Musical Heritage” (7:00 - 8:00 p.m.). The 150-voice St. George Heri- tage Choir, directed by Floyd Rigby and accompanied by Nancy Allred, will perform a selection of sacred music. This noted choir has toured nationally and internationally from China to the Czech Republic. The concert will be followed with excerpts from the musical reader’s theater production, “Tony Ivins He No Cheat,” created by Nonnie Sorenson and performed by Robert Proffit.

The opening reception will follow the concert outside on the Town Square adjacent to the Tabernacle. Dessert will be served.

Historic St. George Tabernacle and Sculpture

8 Friday, Events . . . May 27, 2011

Newcomers’ Breakfast Plenary Session Friday, May 27, 2011 6:30 a.m. -7:30 a.m. Friday, May 27, 2011 We welcome all first-time conference attendees and 8:00-9:00 a.m. invite you to a special breakfast with MHA officers. There is no charge, but we ask you to please register “From Cotton to Cosmopolitan: Local, for this activity. National, and Global Transformations in Utah’s Dixie”

W. Paul Reeve Luncheon Speaker Associate History Professor Friday, May 27, 2011 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. University of Utah “Pools of Living Water: No Longer a Thirsty Land?” Dr. Reeve was raised in nearby Hur- ricane and explores the conference Elder Bruce C. Hafen theme by showing ways in which lo- St. George LDS Temple President cal, national, and international forces and Emeritus LDS General Authority have constantly shaped and reshaped Mormon communities in southwest- ern Utah. He sees in Utah’s Dixie a microcosm of broader trends in Mor- monism as a whole.

Awards Banquet Friday, May 27, 2011 7:15 to 9:00 p.m.

The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of MHA’s annual books, ar- ticles, and other awards.

President Hafen was born and raised in St. George and believes its settlers blessed their posterity by conquering much opposi- Student Reception tion that profoundly shaped their character. This presentation Friday, May 27, 2011 shares some of those founding-era stories and introduces the 9:15 - 10:00 p.m. region’s more recent transition into a high-growth retirement MHA cordially invites all students and younger scholars to join community. He notes that the early settlers came to an isolated, us for refreshments and networking among Mormon history stu- desert region in part to get away from the world, and asks “Is dents. This is a great opportunity to meet other students from the world now coming to them?” around the country/world, learn about the benefits and challenges of working on Mormon history, discuss online networking, and learn more about what MHA has for you and how you can contribute to the study of Mormon history. Food and prizes will be provided.

9 Saturday, May 28, 2011 Tanner Lecture Saturday, May 28, 2011 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

George A. Miles William Robertson Coe Curator Yale Collection of Western Americana Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library George A. Miles Yale University

“Mormon History and the History of Mormonism: One and the Same? A Librarian’s Perspective” George A. Miles has served as the William Robertson Coe Curator since 1981. He earned his graduate history degrees from Yale University (1975 and 1977) and has taught classes on the history of the American West in Yale’s Graduate School with John Farragher and Alan Trachtenberg, and Jay Gitlin at the Yale College. He has authored numerous essays on the sources of the history of the American West. He is responsible for creating more than twenty exhibits at Yale University and for developing a series of symposia with Yale faculty on the history of the American West. He has edited and written a number of publications including James Swan, Cha-tic of the Northwest Coast (New Haven: Beinecke Library, 2003). Mormon Women’s History Breakfast Saturday, May 28, 2011 Presidential Banquet 6:30 - 7:45 a.m. Saturday, May 28, 2011 This breakfast provides an opportunity to connect with 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. women and men interested in the field of Mormon women’s history. The breakfast will include a short program with Conducting: updates on research, projects, and publications. It is Richard L. Jensen sponsored by the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team. MHA President-Elect Presidential Address: “‘Not as a Stranger’: A Presbyterian Membership Luncheon Speaker Afoot in the Mormon Past” Saturday, May 28, 2011 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. William P. MacKinnon MHA President, 2010-11 “From Peculiar People to Big Love: Mormonism and the Making of Utah as a Tourist Mecca” Closing Reception Susan S. Rugh 9:00 -10:00 p.m. Professor of History Brigham Young University There will be a reception with dessert Provo, UT following the banquet. All are invited to attend.

SPECIAL FILM PREVIEW AND DISCUSSION Juanita Brooks, Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier Friday, May 27, 2011

Phil Tuckett 5:15 -6:30 p.m. Assistant Professor of Film Dixie State College

Juanita Brooks was a writer, historian, wife, mother, and MHA member who authored the first balanced book on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. She was born and raised in Bunkerville, Nevada, and lived most of her life in St. George. She is the subject of filmmaker Phil Tuckett’s current project. This preview presentation will screen com- pleted film segments, update and discuss the project, and anwer questions. Tuckett has been at Dixie State College, his alma mater, since 2007 and is the director of Dixie’s Digi- tal Film Product Track. He had previously been with NFL Films, first as a producer and director (1969-86) and finally as vice president of special projects (1986-2007). Brooks Juanita Brooks was a luncheon speaker at the 1976 MHA conference in St. George.

DEVOTIONAL Sunday, May 29, 2011 8:30-9:30 a.m.

St. George Tabernacle 18 South Main Street St. George, UT “By Study and by Faith: Southern Utah, Higher Education, and Mormon History”

Michael T. Benson Douglas D. Alder

“Small-Town Mormon Settlers with Big-Time Educational Aspirations: A Legacy of Sacrifice Still Impacting Us Today” Opened in 1875, the historic St. George Tabernacle

has hosted thousands of religious services and Michael T. Benson, President, Southern Utah University public events. On Sunday, it is the site of the Cedar City, UT closing devotional. Speakers will address the importance of faith and education in the founding, “The New Mormon History: growth, and development of southern Utah. Music By Study and By Faith” will be provided by organist Geoffrey Myers.

Douglas D. Alder Dixie State College President, 1986-93 St. George, UT

11 Conference Tours Pre-Conference Tours Thursday, May 26, 2011

Three pre-conference tours are planned for Thursday. Free downtown public parking is available for those driving to the Pioneer Center for the Arts and to the St. George Tabernacle. Shuttles will be available for those needing transportation.

Tour 1 - “Las Vegas and the Tour 2-“Historic St. George LIVE” Tour 3 -“Tour of Art Galleries” Mormon Corridor” 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (repeated) 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. (repeated) This is a full-day bus tour of Mormon This two-hour bus tour begins at the This walking tour begins at the settlements, historic trails, and sites Pioneer Center for the Arts. Through the St. George Museum of Art at the in southern Nevada led by Michael N. skill of reenactors, Jacob Hamblin will Pioneer Center for the Arts. Tour Landon, an archivist at the LDS Church welcome visitors at the original adobe participants will have a half-hour History Library. This tour highlights house in the courtyard. Entering the guided tour of the Museum and significant locations along the Spanish Pioneer Opera House, visitors will meet then will stroll down Main Street Trail, the Warm Springs campsite of the Orson Pratt who has the odometer he for two blocks, visiting six art gal- 1849 Mormon gold missionaries, and the designed on the 1847 trek to the Salt Lake leries in various historic buildings. Mormon communities along the “Mormon Valley and is eager to describe his role in The tour ends at the St. George Corridor.” In Las Vegas, attendees will visit founding St. George. A bus will take the Tabernacle and Town Square. Pre- the Old Mormon Fort, now a Nevada State group to the St. George Tabernacle to join registration is not required. While Park, as well as the Clark County Heritage Erastus Snow, then to the Old Courthouse, there is a $3 entrance fee to the Mu- Museum in Henderson. Tour registration where a trial is in progress with Judge seum, the balance of the tour is free. includes bus transportation, a box lunch, all John Menzies Macfarlane presiding. entrance fees, and gratuities. Since weather The last stop is Brigham Young’s Home can be warm in southern Nevada in May, to meet with St. George’s most famous The Pioneer Center for the Arts is lo- attendees are encouraged to bring a hat and winter resident and tour his home. cated at 200 North Main Street across sunglasses. Tour is limited to one bus. from the St. George Post Office. Tour departs from the Dixie Center. Pre-registration is required. Tour costs include bus transportation, guide fees, and gratuities.

Old Mormon Fort The St. George Museum of Art Courtesy Old Mormon Fort State Park Brigham Young’s home in St. George, 1950s at the Pioneer Center for the Arts Courtesy Arthur K. Haven Collection, Sherratt Library Special Collections, Southern Utah University

12 Post-Conference Tours May 29-31, 2011

Tour 2: “The Incredible Passage: The Hole-in-the- Rock Expedition and More”

May 29-30, 2011 Departs: Sunday, St. George Tabernacle, 10:00 a.m. Returns: Monday, 5:00 p.m.

This two-day, one-night tour will spotlight the remarkable 1879-80 Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition to settle what is now Bluff, Utah. This rugged trek has been called one End of Bright Angel Trail at North Rim of the most difficult colonization efforts in the United of the Grand Canyon States. Attendees will visit Parowan’s Rock Church (the Courtesy Utah Parks Company Collection mission’s departure point), Panguitch, Bryce Canyon, Sherratt Library Special Collections, Southern Utah University and Escalante. Hear the tales of those remarkable pio- Tour 1: neers; travel the “All American Highway” (Highway 12) to Boulder (one of the most remote areas in the conti- “‘We Call It ‘Canyon Country’: nental U.S.) and visit the Anasazi State Park, and return History and Scenery of Southern Utah and through Salina and Richfield with a visit to Cove Fort. Northern Arizona” While restrictions prevent traversing the trail south of Escalante, attendees will hear the stories from historian May 29-31, 2011 Jerry Roundy and see the rugged countryside. Tour Departs: Sunday, St. George Tabernacle, 10:00 a.m. guide Karin Barker of the Glen Canyon Natural History Returns: Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. Association will share her knowledge of the area’s ar- chaeology, geology, and local history. Tour registration This three-day, two-night bus tour has it all: geology and includes bus transportation, all meals, entrance fees, one scenery at the Grand Canyon and Zion national parks, plus night’s lodging in Escalante, all guide fees, and gratuities. three diverse national monuments, a variety of cultural Tour is limited to one bus. history, and nineteenth- and-twentieth century Mormon history sites. In three days and only 450 miles, attendees will visit Pipe Springs National Monument (with its mixed Paiute and Mormon history), the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, House Rock Valley (that borders the Vermillion Cliffs), Lee’s Ferry, and Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell, Page, AZ, Kanab, UT, Maynard Dixon’s Mt. Carmel home, Zion National Park, and various pioneer communities, each with a unique history. The tour will travel along the Honeymoon Trail, see film locations made famous by movies from the 1920s to the present, and observe the wildlife that has made the Kaibab Forest famous.

The tour will be led by historians Todd Compton, John A. Peterson, and Janet Burton Seegmiller. Tour registration includes bus transportation, all meals, entrance fees, two 1963 Reenactment of the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition. nights lodging in Kanab, all guide fees, and gratuities. Courtesy Hole -in-the-Rock Foundation Tour is limited to one bus.

13 Conference Presenters

NAME: Pg. # NAME: Pg. # NAME: Pg. #

Aird, Polly 16 Hafen, Bruce C. 17 Pulido, Elisa 17 Alder, Douglas D. 21, 24 Hafen, Lyman 17 Pulsipher, J. David 24 Alexander, Thomas G. 21 Hales, Brian C. 23 Reed, Michael G. 18 Alford, Kenneth L. 16 Hammond, John J 17 Reeder, Jennifer 16 Anderson, Christian K. 16 Harper, Steven 22 Reeve, W. Paul 15 Anderson, Elizabeth O. 17 Hartley, William G. 22 Reeves, Brian D. 16 Barlow, Philip L. 22 Haws, J. B. 23 Rogers, Eric Paul 21 Barrus, Clair 18 Henson, Kevin R. 22 Rolapp, Anna 17 Bartholomew, Clinton 18 Holbrook, Kate 21 Rugh, Susan S. 22 Bashore, Melvin L. 16 Hutchison-Jones, Cristine 23 Russell, Robin 23 Bench, Curt 18 Jensen, Marlin K. 17 Rutherford, Taunalyn 17 Bennett, Richard E. 18 Jensen, Robin Scott 17 Schaefer, Mitchell 22 Bennion, Lowell “Ben” 22 Jessop, Joseph Lyman 21 Schow, Sarah 21 Bennion, Michael K. 22 Johnson, Janiece 16 Seegmiller, Janet Burton 17 Bennion, Shawn E. 23 Johnson, Liane 22 Shamo, Michael Lyle 18 Benson, Michael T. 24 King, Brian D. 17 Shipps, Jan 22 Blythe, Christine Elyse 23 King, Farina 17 Snow, Diane M. 23 Blythe, Christopher 24 Kuehne, Raymond M. 17 Snow, Donald R. 23 Bowman, Matthew 23 Lamb, Connie 21 Söderborg, Joseph 18 Bradford, Janet B. 23 Lambson, Val Eugene 22 Stuart, Joseph R. 16 Bradley, Don 23 Landon, Michael N. 18 Sybrowsky, Paul K. 17 Briggs, Robert H. 21 Lindell, Jennifer 22 Tait, Lisa Olsen 18 Bringhurst, Newell G. 16 Lyman, Edward Leo 22 Taylor, Sheila 23 Brown, Barbara Jones 21 MacKinnon, William P. 24 Taysom, Stephen C. 24 Brown, Samuel 23 Mackley, Jennifer Ann 18 Thurston, Morris A. 16 Cannon, Kenneth L., II 21 McLachlan, James M. 22 Tobler, Ryan 16 Chapman, Brittany 18 McPherson, Robert 17 Tomlinson, Terry L. 16 Christofferson, Gregory P. 17 Metcalf, Brandon J. 18 Turley, Richard E., Jr. 17, 21 Clayton, Lisa 17 Metcalf, Whitney 22 Tuckett, Phil 21 Compton, Todd 16 Miles, George A. 22 Turnbow, Diana 23 Crandell, Jill N. 23 Millet, Sandra 17 Turner, D. L. 22 Daynes, Kathryn M. 22 Mott, Elizabeth J. 17 Underwood, Grant 16 dos Reis, Luís Alves 18 Moyar, Rachel Ann Belk 18 Utt, Emily 18 Driggs, Ken 16 Mueller, Max Perry 18 Van Huss, Jami J. 24 Ellis, Catherine H. 22 Neilson, Reid L. 17 Ventilla, Andrea 16 Ellsworth, Brant 18 Olsen, Steven L. 23 Waite, Nathan N. 22 Embry, Jessie L. 17 Oppedisano, Callie 17 Watkins, Jordan Tuttle 21 Esplin, Scott C. 21 Osborne, Rachel M. 22 Watson, Marianne T. 21 Farnes, Sherilyn 22 Palmer, Arvin 22 Wilson, Lynne Hilton 16 Fifield, Bryce 23 Paulos, Michael Harold 21 Winslow, Brady 22 Fleming, Stephen J. 16 Perego, Ugo Alessandro 21 Woodbury, Kim 23 Foster, Craig L. 16 Peterson, John A. 18 Woodger, Mary Jane 18 Foster, Lawrence 23 Phelan, Ben 17 Woods, Fred E. 24 Freeman, Erik J. 18 Plewe, Brandon S. 23 Young, Kristi A. 23 Freeman, Robert 16 Pollock, Gayle 17 Young, Margaret Blair 23 Green, Deidre 23 Probert, Josh 16

14 Preliminary Program (Subject to Change)

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Board Meeting 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration Dixie Center - North Foyer Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 1: “Las Vegas and the Mormon Corridor”

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 2: “Historic St. George LIVE” (repeated 3:00- 5:00 p.m.)

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 3: “Tour of Art Galleries” (repeated 3:30 -3:30 p.m.)

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pre- Conference Tour 2: “Historic St. George LIVE”

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 3: “Tour of Art Galleries”

3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Research Fair – Washington County Library - Community Room A/B 88 West 100 South St. George, UT

Exhibitors will include the following institutions: Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University; LDS Church History Library; Dixie State College; Mountain West Digital Library; Southern Utah University; Utah State University; Utah Valley Uni- versity; Washington County Library; and Weber State University.

Free public parking is available in downtown St. George. Shuttles from the Dixie Center will be available for those needing downtown transportation starting at 12:30 p.m. Please register to determine the need for transportation.

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Opening Plenary Session – St. George Tabernacle

“Celebrating St. George’s Musical Heritage” 18 South Main Street St. George, UT

8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Opening Reception - St. George Town Square (adjacent to Tabernacle) Dessert will be served.

Friday, May 27, 2011

6:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. Newcomers’ Breakfast 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibitor Displays

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Plenary Session

“From Cotton to Cosmopolitan: Local, National, and Global Transformations in Utah’s Dixie” W. Paul Reeve, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

15 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Concurrent Session I

1A. The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Public Perceptions of Mormonism “Yearning for Notoriety: Questionable and False Claimants to America’s Worst Emigrant Massacre” Melvin L. Bashore, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT “What Lurked Behind Polygamy: Popular Constructions of Mormonism and the Mountain Meadows Massacre” Janiece Johnson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT “John D. Lee’s Execution and the Near Death of Missionary Work” Brian D. Reeves, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT 1B. The FLDS and the Outside World “Media Malfeasance? Misrepresentations of the FLDS” Craig L. Foster, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT “The April 2008 YFZ Texas Raid: Its Impact on the FLDS Community and Other Fundamentalist Mormons” Newell G. Bringhurst, Visalia, CA “The 1944 Polygamy Raids and the Supreme Court Decisions That Followed” Ken Driggs, Atlanta, GA 1C. Biographies of Cotton Mission Settlers “Edson Barney: ‘The Oldest Member in the Church’” Morris A. Thurston, Villa Park, CA “‘Once I Lived in Cottonwood’: George A. Hicks and the Cotton Mission” Polly Aird, Seattle, WA “The Great Colonizer and the Missionary-Explorer: The Relationship of Brigham Young and Jacob Hamblin” Todd Compton, Cupertino, CA 1D. Early Mormon Theology “Was Joseph Smith’s Pneumatology a Product of His Environment?” Lynne Hilton Wilson, Stanford Institute, Stanford, CA “Transformations in Mormon Soteriology: A Historical Overview” Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “‘The Welfare of Our Souls’: The Smiths’ Folk Rites and the False Dichotomy between Religion and Magic” Stephen J. Fleming, University of California, Santa Barbara 1E. Latter-day Saints and the Civil War “Mormons and the American Civil War Press” Kenneth L. Alford, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “Civil War Saints: Latter-day Saints Serving in the Civil War” Robert Freeman, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “A Closer Look at the Utah Cavalry in the Civil War” Joseph R. Stuart, Sandy, UT 1F. Living Mormonism: Lived Religion in Latter-day Saint History “The Influence of Elite Design on Temple Worship in the 1890s” Josh Probert, University of Delaware, Newark “From Nauvoo’s Red Brick Store to the Western Settlements: The Usable Past of Relief Society Halls and Granaries as Material Culture and Memory” Jennifer Reeder, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA “Lived Religion for the Dead: Early Baptism by Proxy and LDS Experience” Ryan Tobler, University of Chicago Divinity School 1G. Latter-day Saints and Higher Education “Laying the Foundation of the Institute of Religion Movement: The Educational Career and Contributions of J. Wyley Sessions, the Director of the First LDS Institute of Religion” Terry L.Tomlinson, University of California, Riverside “Academic Apostles” Christian K. Anderson, University of South Carolina, Columbia

“Micro Levels of LDS Women’s Education, 1875-1896” Andrea Ventilla, University of Pécs, Hungary

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Luncheon / Plenary Session “Pools of Living Water: No Longer a Thirsty Land?” Bruce C. Hafen, President of the St. George LDS Temple; General Authority Emeritus, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Session II 2A. Introducing the Church History Department’s Integrated Catalog and Joseph Smith Papers Website Chair: Richard E. Turley Jr. Elder Marlin K. Jensen Elder Paul K. Sybrowsky Reid L. Neilson Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT 2B. From Isolated Outpost to Recreation Destination: The Transformation of Southern Utah’s National Parks and Nearby Communities “The Mormon Story behind Zion National Park” Lyman Hafen, Zion Natural History Association, Springdale, UT “The Mormon Story behind Bryce Canyon National Park” Gayle Pollock, Bryce Canyon Natural History Association, Bryce, UT

“The Utah Parks Company: A Story of National Parks Communities” Janet Burton Seegmiller, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT 2C. American Indians in LDS Homes and at Brigham Young University “Indian Placement Host Families: A Cultural Exchange” Jessie L. Embry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “Standing for Monster Slayer, Praying to Jesus: Traditional Navajo Teachings, the LDS Placement Program, and Syncretism” Robert McPherson, College of Eastern Utah, Price “Miss Indian BYU: American Indian Experiences at Brigham Young University” Farina King, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2D. Performing Utah: Transforming Representations of Contemporary Mormonism “Shakespeare and the Invention of the Mormon” Sandra Millet, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “Performing the Archival Landscape: ‘That Which Will Not Go Away’ in Julie Jensen’s ‘Two Headed: A Tale of History’” Callie Oppedisano, Draper, UT “Choreographies of Communities, Constitutions, and California: Performing the Proposition 8 Protests” Ben Phelan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 2E. Mormons and Politics “President or Politician?: Anthony W. Ivins” Elizabeth Oberdick Anderson, Casper, WY “Potential Mormon Espionage in East Germany? Henry Burkhardt’s Stasi File” Raymond M. Kuehne, St. George, UT “From Rural Mormon Town to National Stage: William H. King’s Journey” Brian D. King, Madison, WI 2F. New Perspectives on Early Mormon History “Re-examining the Adams/Quincy May 1844 Visit to Nauvoo” John J Hammond, Kent State University, Kent, OH “The Psychological Effect of Childhood Medical Trauma on Joseph Smith: Narcissistic Personality Disorder or Post-Traumatic Growth?” Gregory P. Christofferson, Lockhart, TX “Publishing, Printing, and Preserving: New Insights into the Book of Commandments” Robin Scott Jensen, Joseph Smith Papers, Salt Lake City, UT 2G. Mormon Women Reflect on Their Lives: Voices from the Silent Majority A readers’ theater based on the Claremont Oral History Project Chair: Taunalyn Rutherford, Claremont Graduate University, CA Elizabeth J. Mott Elisa Pulido Lisa Clayton Anna Rolapp 17

3:30-5:00 p.m. Concurrent Session III

3A. Wilford Woodruff and the Transformation in Mormon Temple Consciousness “Wilford Woodruff: Pivotal Prophet” Jennifer Ann Mackley, Seattle, WA “‘Which Is the Wisest Course?’ The Transformation in Mormon Temple Consciousness, 1877-1893” Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 3B. The Story behind the Stone: Historic Buildings in Southern Utah “A City, with Spires, Towers, and Steeples” Michael Lyle Shamo, University of Utah, Salt Lake City “‘A Shrine to the Whole Church’: The Story of the St. George Tabernacle” Michael N. Landon, LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, UT “Using Architecture as a Research Source: The Jacob Hamblin Home, Brigham Young Winter Home, and Southern Utah Religious Spaces” Emily Utt, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT 3C. Writing and Reading Southern Utah History James G. Bleak and the Annals of the Southern Mission” Brandon J. Metcalf, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT “Reading and Collecting Juanita Brooks” Curt Bench, Salt Lake City, UT

3D. Mormon Esoterica “Cipher in the Kirtland Snow: The Royal Arch Cipher and Joseph Smith’s Conception of Ancient Languages” Clinton Bartholomew, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor “The Mormon Endowment and the ‘Christianization of Freemasonry’” Michael G. Reed, Sacramento, CA “Oliver Cowdery’s Rod of Nature” Clair Barrus, Draper, UY 3E. Transitions and Transformations: Leaders and Publications of the Young Women’s Program “Susa Young Gates, Ellen Jakeman, and Abraham Cannon: The Young Woman’s Journal between Two Economies” Lisa Olsen Tait, American Fork, UT “‘The Most Forbidding Journey a Merry Picnic’: Ruth May Fox and the Travels of Young Women Officers, 1898-1937” Brittany Chapman, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT “‘What Were Wine and Cigars to a Girl like This’: Women’s Moral Authority in the Young Woman’s Journal” Rachel Ann Belk Moyar, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“The Innovations, Inspirations, and Implementations of Ardeth Greene Kapp on the Young Women’s Organization” Mary Jane Woodger, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 3F. International Mormon History “Zion in Afrika: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Mission to South Africa in the Early 1970s” Max Perry Mueller, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA “From Évora to Sintra: The LDS Church in Portugal” Luís Alves dos Reis, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) “The Evacuation Crisis of 1914: LDS Missionaries in Europe on the Eve of War” Joseph Söderborg, Salt Lake City, UT 3G. Mormons and the U.S. Military in the Nineteenth Century “Saints and Soldiers: Mormon Soldier Motivation for Enlisting in the Civil War” Brant Ellsworth, Penn State University, University Park “A Mormon Revolution: Mission President Louis Bertrand’s Predictions of America’s Downfall” Erik J. Freeman, Utah Valley University, Orem “The Last Bastion: Pipe Springs and Its Place in Brigham Young’s ‘Great Game’” John A. Peterson, Kaysville, UT

Online registration will be available February 28th and is the preferred method of registration. Please go to www.mhahome. org and click on “conference registration.”

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7:15-9:00 p.m. Awards Banquet 9:15-10:00 p.m. Student Reception

Saturday, May 28, 2011

6:30 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Mormon Women’s History Initiative Breakfast 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Exhibitor Displays 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Concurrent Session IV 4A. Aftermath of Mountain Meadows: Transformations in Landscape, Presence, and Interpretation “‘Poisoned Springs’? Scientific Testing of the More Recent Anthrax Theory” Ugo Alessandro Perego, Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT “Mountain Meadows Monuments and the ‘Marvelous Flood’ of 1862” Barbara Jones Brown, University of Utah, Salt Lake City “From Isolation to National Spotlight: The Powell Survey in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona” Richard E. Turley Jr., LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT 4B. The History of Higher Education in Southern Utah “A Century of Dixie State College of Utah” Douglas D. Alder, Dixie State College, St. George, UT “Selling a Soul to Save a School: The 1933 Transfer of Dixie College as Indicator of Social Transformation” Scott C. Esplin, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Edward Hunter Snow and the Founding of Southern Utah University (1897) and the Founding and Operation of Dixie College (1907-1932)” Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 4C. Allred/Jensen Group Fundamentalism “Prelude to Polygamy: The Early Life of Rulon C. Allred” Eric Paul Rogers, Hamilton, MT “Beyond Stereotypes: Understanding Diversity within the Allred/Jensen Fundamentalist Group” Joseph Lyman Jessop, St. Anthony, ID “Descendants of Early Mormon Polygamists among Contemporary Fundamentalists” Marianne T. Watson, Lehi, UT

4D. Cartoonists and Muckrakers: Selected Media Images of Mormonism at the Turn of the Century “The Making of an Anti-Mormon: J. H. Beadle in Utah Territory” Robert H. Briggs, Fullerton, CA “‘Horrib[le] Caricature[s]’ and ‘Hideous . . . Cartoons’: Political Cartooning and the Reed Smoot Hearings” Michael Harold Paulos, San Antonio, TX

“The ‘Magazine Crusade’ against the Mormon Church, 1910-11” Kenneth L. Cannon II, Salt Lake City, UT 4E. Symbols and Signs in Mormon Women’s History “Table Tableaux: A Look at Mormon Meals” Kate Holbrook, Boston University “Symbols of the LDS Relief Society” Connie Lamb, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “Raising the Bar…Or the Hemline: Student Activism, Feminism, and the Dress Code at BYU in the 1970s” Sarah Schow, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 4F. Mormons and Non-Mormons in the West “Mormons and the West in the American Mind” Jordan Tuttle Watkins, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 21 “Miners and Mormons: Cooperation and Conflict in Utah Mining Towns, 1880-1900” Rachel M. Osborne, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

“‘Surely This Is God’s First Temple’: Aesthetics and Land Use in Nineteenth-Century Zion Canyon” Nathan N. Waite, LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, UT

4G. Native Americans and Latter-day Saints in the Nineteenth Century “Successful Sentinels: Southern Paiutes and Jacob Hamblin Oppose Navajo Raiders, 1866-70” Edward Leo Lyman, Leeds, UT “‘Only One Man Would I Marry’: Native American Agency in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Families” Michael K. Bennion, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “Lamanites or Savages? Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Mormon Press” Jennifer Lindell, San Diego State University, CA 10:00-11:30 a.m. Tanner Lecture (Plenary Session) “Mormon History and the History of Mormonism: One and the Same? A Librarian’s Perspective” George A. Miles, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

12:00-1:30 p.m. Membership Luncheon “From Peculiar People to Big Love: Mormonism and the Making of Utah as a Tourist Mecca” Susan S. Rugh, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 2:00-3:30 p.m. Concurrent Session V 5A. New Perspectives on Early Mormon History from the Edward Partridge Papers Chair: Steven Harper, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Brady Winslow Whitney Metcalf Sherilyn Farnes Mitchell Schaefer 5B. St. George: Starting Point for Settlement in Arizona “Rediscovering and Refining an Understanding of Regional Arizona History: A Focus on Taylor, Arizona, and Other Communities in Northeastern Arizona” Arvin Palmer, Taylor, AZ “Utah’s Diaspora as Recorded by Roberta Flake Clayton” Catherine H. Ellis, Oracle, AZ “‘I Never Met a Man I Couldn’t Take’: Criminal Justice, Progressive Reform, and the Expansion of LDS Influence in Arizona as Experienced by Lorenzo Wright” D. L. Turner, Mesa, AZ 5C. Possible Explanations for St. George’s High Proportion of Polygamous Families, 1861-80 “The Demographic Limits of Polygyny” Val Eugene Lambson, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “Mapping and Interpreting St. George’s Prevalence of Polygamy” Lowell “Ben” Bennion, Salt Lake City, UT “Problem of Prevalence: A Portrait of St. George Plural Wives” Kathryn M. Daynes, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 5D. Transformations in the Twentieth-Century LDS Intellectual Community “William H. Chamberlin’s Personalism and the 1911 Modernism Controversy at BYU” James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University, Collowhee, NC “More Important than Evolution: W. H. Chamberlin, BYU, and the Nature of Scripture” Philip L. Barlow, Utah State University, Logan “The Creation of a Mormon Intellectual Community after World War II” Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis and Liane Johnson, Bloomington, IN 5E. Pioneer Trails “Trails in the Sand, Trails on the Screen: Using Google Earth to Trace a Restoration Migration” Kevin R. Henson, Midland, MI “‘A Road of Great Value to Our Country’: The Mormon Battalion, Wagons, and Cooke’s Wagon Road” William G. Hartley, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

22 “Arise and Let Us Go Up to Zion: The Untold Story of Disabled Mormon Pioneers and the Trek West” Bryce Fifield and Christine Elyse Blythe, Utah State University, Logan 5F. Mormons in Popular Media “Saving the Mormons: Victims and Villains in Popular American Westerns, 1890-1920” Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Boston University “Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns: Photographing Stability and Change in the Post-War American West” Diana Turnbow, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “From The Godmakers to The Myth Maker: Simultaneous—and Lasting—Challenges to Mormonism’s Reputation in the 1980s” J. B. Haws, Hooper, UT 5G. New Perspectives on Mormon History “The Mormon Philosophy of History: Toward a Greater Critical Self-Consciousness” Steven L. Olsen, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT “Ethnicity and the Mormon Cultural Renaissance” Shawn E. Bennion, Claremont Graduate University, CA “Re-Discovering the Geography of Mormon History: The New Atlas of LDS History” Brandon S. Plewe, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 4:00-5:30 p.m. Concurrent Session VI 6A. I Am Jane An abbreviated performance of the award-winning play about Jane Manning James Margaret Blair Young, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 6B. Early Mormon Polygamy “‘Angel with a Drawn Sword’: Kirtland Roots of Nauvoo Polygamy” Don Bradley, Utah State University, Logan “Two Mormon Enigmas: Emma Hale Smith and Polygamy, An Update” Brian C. Hales, Layton, UT “The Albatross: The Complex and Changing Challenges that Polygamy Posed to Mormon Institutional Development during the Nineteenth Century” Lawrence Foster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta 6C. Views of Southern Utah: Latter-day Saint Music, Folklore, and Identity “Music Beginnings in the St. George Area: Modeling for Cultural Development in Other Early Mormon Settlements?” Janet B. Bradford, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “William A. Wilson, Mormons, and the West: A Look at Folklore in Southern Utah” Kristi A. Young, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 6D. Women and Families in Southern Utah “‘Determined to Make a Success of It’: Ann Cannon Woodbury and Dixie’s Silkworm Industry” Kim Woodbury, Bountiful, UT “‘It Was Awful in Its Majesty’: Mary Ann Freeze’s 1892 Mission to the San Juan Stake” Robin Russell, Salt Lake City, UT “Erastus Snow’s Life and Families from Their Personal Letters” Donald R. Snow and Diane M. Snow, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 6E. Who Do They Say that He Is? Mormon Theologies of Christ, the Trinity, and the Lord’s Supper “Christ’s Incarnation in Mormonism: A Theological and Contextual Treatment” Sheila Taylor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA “‘To The Souls of All Those Who Partake’: A Communal Interpretation of the Mormon Lord’s Supper, 1830-2000” Matthew Bowman, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. “The Early Mormon Imitation of Christ” Samuel Brown, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City

“Doing the Works of Sarah: Erastus Snow on Women” Deidre Green, Claremont Graduate University, CA 6F. Immigration and Assimilation “Garden Grove, Iowa: The Economics of a Mormon Way Station, 1846-52” Jill N. Crandell, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Gathering and Scattering: A Look at the Assimilation of LDS Converts Arriving at Salt Lake City in the Nineteenth Century” Fred E. Woods, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“The Trajectories of Conversion: Documenting the Vernacular Architecture of Mormon Converts” Jami J. Van Huss, Wellsville, UT 6G. Transformations in Mormon Narrative and Ritual “Rites of Affliction in Mormon History: The Case of Mormon Exorcisms” Stephen C. Taysom, Cleveland State University, OH “Ambivalent Admiration: The People of Ammon in Latter-day Saint Curriculum” J. David Pulsipher, Brigham Young University–Idaho, Rexburg “Satan’s Stronghold in Preston, England: A Case Study in Early Mormon Narratives of Diabolism” Christopher J. Blythe, Florida State University, Tallahassee

5:15-6:30 p.m. Book Exhibitors and Book Signings 7:00-9:00 p.m. Presidential Banquet Presidential Address: “‘Not as a Stranger’: A Presbyterian Afoot in the Mormon Past” William P. MacKinnon, 2010-11 MHA President Sunday, May 29, 2011

8:30-9:30 a.m. Devotional at the St. George Tabernacle

“Small-Town Mormon Settlers with Big-Time Educational Aspirations: A Legacy of Sacrifice Still Impacting Us Today” Michael T. Benson, President, Southern Utah University, Cedar City

“The New Mormon History: By Study and by Faith” Douglas D. Alder, Dixie State College President, 1986-93

10:00 a.m. Post Conference Tours Depart from the Tabernacle

Tour 1: “‘We Call It ‘Canyon Country’: History and Scenery of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona”

Tour 2: “The Incredible Passage: The Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition and More”

Monday, May 30, 2011

5:00 p.m. Tour 2 – Returns to St. George Tuesday, May 31, 2011

4:30 p.m. Tour 1 – Returns to St. George