Journal of Mormon History Volume 18 Issue 2 Article 1 1992 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 18, No. 2, 1992 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1992) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 18, No. 2, 1992," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 18 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol18/iss2/1 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. 18, No. 2, 1992 Table of Contents Letters 1 • --"Almost Too Intolerable a Burthen": The Winter Exodus from Missouri, 1838-39 William G. Hartley, 6 • --The Founding of the LDS Church Historical Department, 1972 Leonard J. Arrington, 41 • --Masonry and Mormonism in Utah, 1847-1984 Michael W. Homer, 57 ENCOUNTER ESSAY The Chief: Discontented Mystic --Paul M. Edwards, 97 • --Enduring Believers: Czechoslovakia and the LDS Church, 1884- 1990 KahlileMehr, 111 • --Stereographs and Stereotypes: A 1904 View of Mormonism Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, 155 • --Father of Joseph's Daughter: John Murdock Marlorie Newton, 17 REVIEWS --Grant Underwood: Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times ofWilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet, 194 --James B. Allen: Paul M. Edwards, Our Legacy of Faith: A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 199 --Richard D. Poll: The Encyclopedia of Mormonism: The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedure of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 205 --Marian Ashby Johnson: Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, and William C. Seifrit, Utah Art, 213 --M. Guy Bishop: Thomas G. Alexander, ed. Great Basin Kingdom Revisited, 219 --Kenneth W. Godfrey: George D. Smith, ed. The Journals of William Clayton, 222 --J. Bonner Ritchie: Roger D. Launius and W. B. "Pat" Spillman, eds., Let Contention Cease: The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 227 --Kathryn H. Shirts: Philip L. Barlow, Mormons and the Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion, 231 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol18/iss2/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SEAGULL BOOKS Specializing in Printed Books, Pamplets, and Broadsides on MORMONISM Especially Those Printed 1830 -1860 Catalogues Issued 1720 South Redwood Rd. Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 (801) 972-6006 Fax (801) 972-5496 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY DESIGN by Warren Archer. Cover: Abstraction of the window tracery, Salt Lake City Ward. Support services by Signature Books and Editing, Inc. Typesetting by Brent Corcoran. 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Edwards 97 Enduring Believers: Czechoslovakia and the LDS Church, 1884- 1990 KahlileMehr 111 Stereographs and Stereotypes: A 1904 View of Mormonism Richard Neitzel Holzapfel 155 Father of Joseph's Daughter: John Murdock Mar)orie Newton 177 REVIEWS Grant Underwood: Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times ofWilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet 194 James B. Allen: Paul M. Edwards, Our Legacy of Faith: A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 199 Richard D. Poll: The Encyclopedia of Mormonism: The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedure of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 205 Marian Ashby Johnson: Vern G. Swanson, Robert S. Olpin, and William C. Seifrit, Utah Art 213 M. Guy Bishop: Thomas G. Alexander, ed. Great Basin Kingdom Revisited 219 Kenneth W. Godfrey: George D. Smith, ed. The Journals of Wil- liam Clayton 222 J. Bonner Ritchie: Roger D. Launius and W. B. 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Hail to the Inaugural Semi Issue! sin—complacency—to more fully I would like to give a valentine found and support mature, schol- to Mormon intellectuals who have arly journals, to boldly place our made my past grouching largely gifts on the altar (and not be so irrelevant. intimidated by the "mantle"), to Way back in the 1964 summer create a culture commensurate issue of BYU Studies, the 1966 with the import of the Restoration, summer issue of Dialogue, during to engender an atmosphere in the 1983 Sunstone Symposium, which the intellectual becomes as and in the 1985 spring issue of necessary and as useful as the pio- Dialogue, I pontificated on the neer-plowman of the past and the role and imperative of the Mormon business administrator of the pre- intellectual. sent, to elevate the cryogenically Today most of the desiderata I dwarfed popular Mormon culture, instanced long ago have pretty to better (as well as build) the king- much come to pass. 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