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Journal of Mormon History Vol. 21, No.1, 1995 Journal of Mormon History Volume 21 Issue 1 Article 1 1995 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 21, No.1, 1995 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1995) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 21, No.1, 1995," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 21 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol21/iss1/1 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. 21, No.1, 1995 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS vi ARTICLES • --Presidential Address Mormon Memory, Mormon Myth, and Mormon History Roger D. Launius, 1 • --Conflict in the Camps of Israel: The 1853 Cutlerite Schism Danny L Jorgensen, 25 • --Migration, Social Change, and Mormonism in Portugal Mark L Grover, 65 • --"Are You That Damned Presbyterian Devil?" The Evolution of an Anti-Mormon Story R. Douglas Brackenridge, 80 • --The Mormon Relief Society and the International Women's Year Martha Sonntag Bradley, 106 REVIEWS --In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo by Carol Cornwall Madsen Lynne Watkins Jorgensen, 168 --Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons by Jessie L. Embry PaulR. Spickard, 171 --Seasons of Faith and Courage: The Church of fesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in French Polynesia, A Sesquicentennial History, 1843-1993 by S. George Ellsworth and Kathleen C. Perrin Kenneth W. Baldridge, 175 --The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation by Armand L. Mauss Thomas G. Alexander, 178 --Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader by Leonard J. Arrington and John R. Alley, Jr. Glenn Willett Clark, 182 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol21/iss1/ 1 Journal of Mormon History Spring 1995 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SPRING 1995 COVER: Abstraction of the window tracery, Salt Lake City Tenth Ward. Design by Warren Archer. Articles appearing in this journal are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life, published by ABC-CLIO, and in Religion Index One: Periodicals, published by the American Theological Library Association. ©1995 Mormon History Association ISS 0094-7342 After publication herein, copyright reverts to authors. The Mormon History Association assumes no responsibility for contributors' statements of fact or opinion. Staff of the Journal of Mormon History EDITORIAL STAFF Editor: Lavina Fielding Anderson Executive Committee: Lavina Fielding Anderson, William G. Hartley, Jeffery O. Johnson, G. Kevin Jones, Lynne Watkins Jorgensen, D. Michael Quinn, Patricia Lyn Scott, Jean Bickmore White Editorial Staff: Susan L. Fales, Susette Fletcher Green, Kenneth A. Hansen, Janet Jenson, Marti S. Lythgoe, Vaneese C. Nelson, Marianne Perciaccante Associate Editor: Martha Dickey Esplin Book Review Editor: Richard L. Jensen Letters Editor: Jean Bickmore White Editorial Manager: Patricia Lyn Scott Business Manager: G. Kevin Jones Abstracts Editors: Craig L. Foster and Suzanne L. Foster Compositor: Brent Corcoran Designer: Warren Archer BOARD OF EDITORS Valeen Tippets Avery, Center for Colorado Plateau Studies, Flagstaff, Arizona M. Guy Bishop, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Mario S. De Pillis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Susan L. Fales, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Norma Derry Hiles, Liberty Hall, Lamoni, Iowa Roger D. Launius, NASA, Washington, D.C. Dean L. May, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Susan Sessions Rugh, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota The Journal of Mormon History is published semi-annually by the Mormon History Association, 2470 N. 1000 West, Layton, UT 84041 (801) 773-4620, and is distributed to members upon payment of annual dues: student, $12.50; regular, $15; sustaining, $20; Friend of Mormon History, $50; Mormon History Association Patron, $500 or more. Single copies $10. The Journal of Mormon History exists to foster scholarly research and publica- tion in the field of Mormon history. Manuscripts dealing with all aspects of Mormon history are welcome, including twentieth-century history, regional and local history, women's history, and ethnic/minorities history. First consideration will be given to those which make a strong contribution to knowledge through new interpretations and/or new information. The Board of Editors will also consider the paper's general interest, accuracy, level of interpretation, and literary quality. Papers for consideration must be submitted in triplicate, typed and double-spaced throughout, including all quotations. A preferred length is twenty pages, but longer manuscripts may be considered. Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (see a recent edition of the Journal) and be prepared to submit accepted manuscripts in WordPerfect (any version) or ASCII, in IBM/MS-DOS format. Send manuscripts to the Journal of Mormon History, Box 581068, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-1068. JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY VOLUME 21, NO. 1 SPRING 1995 CONTENTS LETTERS vi ARTICLES Presidential Address Mormon Memory, Mormon Myth, and Mormon History Roger D. Launius 1 Conflict in the Camps of Israel: The 1853 Cutlerite Schism Danny L Jorgensen 2 5 Migration, Social Change, and Mormonism in Portugal Mark L Grover 65 "Are You That Damned Presbyterian Devil?" The Evolution of an Anti-Mormon Story R. Douglas Brackenridge 80 The Mormon Relief Society and the International Women's Year Martha Sonntag Bradley 106 REVIEWS In Their Own Words: Women and the Story ofNauvoo by Carol Cornwall Madsen Lynne Watkins Jorgensen 168 Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons by Jessie L. Embry PaulR. Spickard 171 Seasons of Faith and Courage: The Church of fesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in French Polynesia, A Sesquicentennial History, 1843-1993 by S. George Ellsworth and Kathleen C. Perrin Kenneth W. Baldridge 175 The Angel and the Beehive: The Mormon Struggle with Assimi- lation by Armand L. Mauss Thomas G. Alexander 178 Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader by Leonard J. Arrington and John R. Alley, Jr. Glenn Willett Clark 182 LETTERS The Journal of Mormon History welcomes comments on articles and book reviews, queries about Mormon history topics, additional information on subjects covered in the Journal, and ideas that will help us make future issues more interesting, stimulating, and valuable to readers. We will consider letters that are one or two typewritten, double-spaced pages; occasionally, a longer letter may be important enough to print as an exception to this policy. Because of limited space, we must reserve the right to select letters to be published and to edit them. Send letters to the Letters Editor, Journal of Mormon History, Box 581068, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-1068. Corrected Study in Scarlet en plates which contained the par- Subsequent to completing my ticulars of Christ's (white) people review (Fall 1994 issue of the Jour- in America during Christ's life- nal of Mormon History) of Arthur time" has been changed to "It was Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, at Manchester, NY, in 1827 that he edited with an introduction by received the golden plates which Owen Dudley Edwards (Oxford contained the particulars of and New York: Oxford University Christ's supposed people in Amer- Press, 1993), the paperback edi- ica in Christ's lifetime." tion was published. I wish to in- 3. Footnote 78: "Zion means the form readers that many of the mi- holy place, implicit in the great nor inaccuracies pointed out in my phrase supposedly uttered review of the hardback edition (though never authenticated) by have been corrected, among them: Young on arrival at the future Salt 1. Footnote 30: "presumably Lake City: 'This is the Place'" has Mormons would not be permitted been changed to "Zion means the to be Masons: the association is holy place, implicit in Young's cry further evidence of Drebber's on arrival at the future Salt Lake apostasy" has been changed to City 'This is the Right Place!' (Usu- "some Mormons were Masons at ally rendered as 'This is the this time, Brigham Young being Place'.)" photographed wearing a Masonic 4. Footnote 78: "It is certain that device." the Mormons succoured others 2. Footnote 77: "It was at Man- whom they encountered on their chester, NY, in 1827 that he journey (if they were white)," has [Joseph Smith] received the gold- been changed to "It is certain that LETTERS VII the Mormons succoured others Grant (1817-56) revived Smith's whom they encountered on their doctrine of 'blood atonement' in journey (black and white)." which sinners could only remit 5. Footnote 79: "It was organ- their sins by the shedding of their ized as Utah Territory, limited to blood." what is now the states of Utah and 8. Footnote 89: "Kemball cer- Nevada, in 1850 but was not admit- tainly spoke in this strain, ['his hun- ted to the Union until 1896" has dred wives'] even though the con- been changed to "It was organized text has not been found. He had, as Utah Territory, limited roughly however, only forty-five wives. to what is now the states of Utah The exaggeration is the fruit of and Nevada, in 1850 but was not rage on ACD's [Arthur Conan admitted to the Union until 1896. Doyle's] part of the degradation. Nevada had been admitted in He was thinking of his mother and 1864." his sisters; and of his own wife," 6. Footnote 82: "In the strictest has been changed to "Heber C. sense the Mormons thought of Kimball, the next in office to themselves as predestined or Elect, Brigham, frequently mentions his and they were convinced that [45] wives by the endearing appel- blacks, as the children of Cain, lation of his 'cows'." Edward F.
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