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Comprehensive Works Cited The 1833 Ohio Gazetteer, or, Topographical Dictionary: Being a Continuation of the Work Originally Compiled by the Late John Kilbourn. Revised by a citizen of Columbus. 11th ed. Columbus, OH: Scott and Wright, 1833. Reprint, Knightstown, IN: Bookmark, 1978. A. W. B. “Mormonites.” Evangelical Magazine and Gospel Advocate 2, no. 25 (9 Apr. 1831): 120. Abstract of the Returns of the Fifth Census, Showing the Number of Free People, the Number of Slaves, the Federal or Representative Number; and the Aggregate of Each County of Each State of the United States, H.R. Doc. No. 263, 22nd Cong., 1st Sess. Washington DC: Duff Green, 1832. Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Acts of a General Nature, Enacted, Revised and Ordered to Be Reprinted, at the First Session of the Twenty- Ninth General Assembly of the State of Ohio. Columbus: Olmsted and Bailhache, 1831. Adams, Dale W. “Chartering the Kirtland Bank.” BYU Studies 23 (Fall 1983): 467–482. Adams, Dale W. “Doctor Philastus Hurlbut: Originator of Derogatory Statements About Joseph Smith, Jr.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 20 (2000): 76–93. Adams, Dale W. “Grandison Newell’s Obsession.” Journal of Mormon History 30 (Spring 2004): 159–188. Adams, William, ed. Historical Gazetteer and Biographical Memorial of Cattaraugus County, N.Y. Syracuse, NY: Lyman, Horton, and Co., 1893. Adler, Selig. “Backgrounds of American Policy toward Zion.” In Israel: Its Role in Civilization, edited by Moshe Davis, 251–283. New York: The Seminary Israel Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1956. Affidavits and Certificates, Disproving the Statements and Affidavits Contained in John C. Bennett’s Letters. Nauvoo Aug. 31, 1842. [Nauvoo, IL: 1842]. Copy at CHL. Albany Argus. Albany. 1825–1856. Aldrich, Charles. Autograph Collection. State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines. 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Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1985. Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Circumstantial Confirmation of the First Vision Through Reminiscences.” BYU Studies 9 (Spring 1969): 373–404. Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Clarifications of Boggs’s ‘Order’ and Joseph Smith’s Constitutionalism.” In Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: Missouri, edited by Arnold K. Garr and Clark V. Johnson, 27–83. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1994. Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Impact of the First Preaching in Ohio.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 474–496. 2 Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Joseph Smith’s Brothers: Nauvoo and After.” Ensign, Sept. 1979, 30–33. Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “Joseph Smith’s New York Reputation Reappraised.” BYU Studies 3 (Spring 1970): 283–299. Anderson, Richard Lloyd. “The Alvin Smith Story: Fact and Fiction.” Ensign, Aug. 1987, 58–72. 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Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1977. Angell, Truman O. Autobiography, 1884. CHL. Also available in Archie Leon Brown and Charlene L. Hathaway, 141 Years of Mormon Heritage: Rawsons, Browns, Angells—Pioneers (Oakland, CA: By the authors, 1973), 119–135. Anson Call. Statement, 30 Dec. 1885. CHL. Arnold, Isaac N. Reminiscences of the Illinois Bar Forty Years Ago: Lincoln and Douglas as Orators and Lawyers. Chicago: Fergus Printing, 1881. Arrington, Leonard J. “James Gordon Bennett’s 1831 Report on ‘The Mormonites.’” BYU Studies 10 (Spring 1970): 353–364. Arrington, Leonard J. Brigham Young: American Moses. New York: Knopf, 1985. Arrington, Leonard J., and John Haupt. “Intolerable Zion: The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature.” Western Humanities Review 22 (Summer 1968): 243–260. Arrington, Leonard J., Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean L. May. Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976. Arrington, Leonard J., Susan Arrington Madsen, and Emily Madsen Jones. Mothers of the Prophets. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 2001. Asael Smith Family Bible, 1795–1950. Private possession. Copy of genealogical information at CHL. 3 Asael Smith Family Genealogical Record, ca. 1817–1846. CHL. Asbury, Henry. Reminiscences of Quincy, Illinois, Containing Historical Events, Anecdotes, Matters Concerning Old Settlers and Old Times, Etc. Quincy, IL: D. Wilcox and Sons, 1882. Austin, Emily M. Mormonism: or, Life among the Mormons: Being an Autobiographical Sketch, Including an Experience of Fourteen Years of Mormon Life. N.p.: M.J. Cantwell, 1882. Avery, Elroy McKendree. A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis, 1918. Avery, Valeen Tippetts. From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Bachman, Danel W. “New Light on an Old Hypothesis: The Ohio Origins of the Revelation on Eternal Marriage.” Journal of Mormon History 5 (1978): 19–32. Backman, Milton V. Ohio Research Papers, ca. 1975. CHL. Backman, Milton V., and James B. Allen. “Membership of Certain of Joseph Smith’s Family in the Western Presbyterian Church of Palmyra.” BYU Studies 10 (Summer 1970): 482–490. Backman, Milton V., Jr. “The Quest for a Restoration: The Birth of Mormonism in Ohio.” BYU Studies 12 (Summer 1972): 346–364. Backman, Milton V., Jr. The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830–1838. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983. Backman, Milton V., Jr., comp. A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and Members of Zion’s Camp, 1830–1839: Vital Statistics and Sources. 2nd ed. Provo, UT: Department of Church History and Doctrine and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1983. Bagley, Will, ed. Scoundrel’s Tale: The Samuel Brannan Papers. Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier 3. Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark, 1999. Bailey, Paul. Sam Brannan and the California Mormons. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1959. Baldwin, Thomas, and J. Thomas. A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States; Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1854. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 1845–1889. Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft Series 31. San Francisco: The History Company, 1890. Bangerter, Geraldine Hamblin, and Susan Easton Black.
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