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[email protected]. Journal of Mormon History Vol. 34, No. 3, 2008 Table of Contents LETTER --Update on Louisa Bonelli Todd Compton, vii ARTICLES --The Many Uses of Humor Leonard J. Arrington, 1 --An “American Mahomet”: Joseph Smith, Muhammad, and the Problem of Prophets in Antebellum America J. Spencer Fluhman, 23 --The Last Smith Presidents and the Transformation of the RLDS Church William D. Russell, 46 --The Wives of the Patriarchs Irene M. Bates, 85 --Emily Dow Partridge Smith Young on the Witness Stand: Recollections of a Plural Wife H. Michael Marquardt, 110 --The Concept of a “Rejected Gospel” in Mormon History, Part 2 William Shepard, 142 REVIEWS --Melissa Lambert Milewski, ed. Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris Jennifer L. Lund, 187 --B. Carmon Hardy, ed. Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy, Its Origin, Practice, and Decline. Thomas G. Alexander, 191 --Ron Romig, ed.