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Journal of Mormon History Vol. 23, No. 1, 1997 Journal of Mormon History Volume 23 Issue 1 Article 1 1997 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 23, No. 1, 1997 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1997) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 23, No. 1, 1997," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 23 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol23/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. 23, No. 1, 1997 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS vi ARTICLES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS • --The Web of Print: Toward a History of the Book in Early Mormon Culture David J. Whittaker, 1 TANNER LECTURE • --National Perceptions of Utah's Statehood Howard R. Lamar, 42 • --St. Johns's Saints: Interethnic Conflict in Northeastern Arizona, 1880-85 Mark E. Miller, 66 • --LDS Sister Missionaries: An Oral History Response, 1910-71 Jessie L. Embry, 100 REVIEW ESSAY • --Issues in Writing European History and in Building the Church in Europe Review of Bruce A. Van Orden. Building Zion: The Latter-day Saints in Europe Wilfried Decoo, 140 REVIEWS --Dean L. May, Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 Charles S. Peterson, 177 --Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith, Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of esidingPr Patriarch Craig L. Foster, 181 --A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73: Elizabeth Kane's St. George Journal Connie Lamb, 185 --"Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religions Excess David J. Whittaker, 189 --H. Donl Peterson, The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism Stanley B. Kimball, 195 --Mary Lythgoe Bradford, Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian Ted L. Wilson, 197 --Richard P. Howard, Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development Robert J. Woodford, 200 --Thomas G. Alexander, Utah: The Right Place, the Official Centennial History Wayne K. Hinton, 203 --Anna Jean Backus, Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith W. Paul Reeve, 207 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol23/iss1/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SPRING 1997 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SPRING 1997 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. ©1997 Mormon History Association ISS 0094-7342 After publication herein, copyright reverts to authors. Copies of articles in this journal may be made for teaching and research purposes free of charge and without securing permission, as permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the United States Copyright Law. For all other purposes, permission must be obtained from the author. 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, Kenneth A. Hansen, Janet Jenson, Linda Lindstrom, Marti S. Lythgoe, Marianne Perciaccante Managing 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 Editor: Kenneth R. Williams Compositor: Brent Corcoran Designer: Warren Archer Board of Editors Mario S. De Pillis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Susan L. Fales, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah Roger D. Launius, NASA, Washington, D.C. Dean L. May, University of Utah, Salt Lake City Isleta Pement, Temple School, Independence, Missouri Marianne Perciaccante, Ithaca, New York 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. It 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 publication 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. The Journal does not consider reprints or simultaneous submissions. 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 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 IBM-DOS format, WordPerfect or ASCII. Send manuscripts to the Journal of Mormon History, P.O. Box 581068, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-1068. JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY VOLUME 23, NO. 1 SPRING 1997 CONTENTS LETTERS vi ARTICLES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS The Web of Print: Toward a History of the Book in Early Mormon Culture David J. Whittaker 1 TANNER LECTURE National Perceptions of Utah's Statehood Howard R. Lamar 42 St. Johns's Saints: Interethnic Conflict in Northeastern Arizona, 1880-85 Mark E. Miller 66 LDS Sister Missionaries: An Oral History Response, 1910-71 Jessie L. Embry 100 REVIEW ESSAY Issues in Writing European History and in Building the Church in Europe Review of Bruce A. Van Orden. Building Zion: The Latter-day Saints in Europe Wilfried Decoo 140 REVIEWS Dean L. May, Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 Charles S. Peterson 177 Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith, Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch Craig L. Foster 181 A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73: Elizabeth Kane's St. George Journal Connie Lamb 185 "Richard S. Van Wagoner, Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religions Excess David J. Whittaker 189 H. Donl Peterson, The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, andMormonism Stanley B. Kimball 195 Mary Lythgoe Bradford, Lowell L. Bennion: Teacher, Counselor, Humanitarian Ted L. Wilson 197 Richard P. Howard, Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development Robert J. Woodford 200 Thomas G. Alexander, Utah: The Right Place, the Official Centennial History Wayne K. Hinton 203 Anna Jean Backus, Mountain Meadows Witness: The Life and Times of Bishop Philip Klingensmith W. Paul Reeve 207 LETTERS Alger Marriage Questioned In order to accept the narrative Fanny out of a window that was of Joseph Smith's and Fanny Alger's more than twenty feet above the relationship as Todd Compton pre- ground. This is all a bit much to sents it in "Fanny Alger Smith Cus- swallow. ter: Mormonism's First Plural There is one fact we do know: on Wife?" (Spring 1996), we must sus- 16 November 1836 Fanny Alger pend our disbelief. We must accept married Solomon Custer in Wayne that Ann Eliza Webb Young, who County, Indiana. That fact alone wasn't even a twinkle in her parents' should speak loudly and authorita- eyes when all this was going on, was tively—and should put this matter to a credible witness; that sixteen-year- rest. Whatever the relationship be- old Fanny Alger, three to four years tween her and Smith, Fanny Alger younger than most women when did not behave as if it were a mar- they married, quickly accepted a riage. Nor, apparently, did Fanny's "marriage" that would give her no parents. They took her to Indiana legal or financial claims on her hus- against Smith's wishes that she go to band, and that her parents ap- Missouri with Levi Hancock, and proved the marriage; that Warren they permitted her marriage to Cus- Parrish, who in 1837-38 did his best ter. Considering nineteenth-century to publicly destroy Smith, failed to legal and social demands on hus- mention the alleged Alger preg- bands and the required submissive- nancy in all his verbal attacks; and ness of wives, Fanny's and her par- that the national press, which loved ents' actions are a good indication to extrapolate on Smith's foibles, that no "marriage" existed. ignored the polygamy angle during This article is an excellent exam- the 1830s. ple of the common failure of Mor- We must also accept that two mon historians to consider what lit- years prior to Smith's public decla- tle evidence female participants do ration that he would assume the leave with the same determining authority to perform marriages, weight they give the public dis- Levi Hancock, a man who had no course and memories of the men civil authority, willingly and quickly involved. What more could Fanny accepted Smith's demand that he Alger have done to prove to us, and perform a "marriage." We must also perhaps to her contemporaries, that believe that even with a wagon Han- she was not Smith's wife? cock was able to get a pregnant What did go on between the two LETTERS VII of them? I don't know.
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