Journal of Mormon History Volume 27 Issue 2 Article 1 2001 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (2001) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 27, No. 2, 2001," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 27 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol27/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. 27, No. 2, 2001 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS vii ARTICLES • --Polygamy and Prostitution: Comparative Morality in Salt Lake City, 1847-1911 Jeffrey D. Nichols, 1 • --"Called by a New Name": Mission, Identity, and the Reorganized Church Mark A. Scherer, 40 • --Samuel Woolley Taylor: Mormon Maverick Historian Richard H. Cracroft, 64 • --Fish and the Famine of 1855-56 D. Robert Carter, 92 • --"As Ugly as Evil" and "As Wicked as Hell": Gadianton Robbers and the Legend Process among the Mormons W.Paul Reeve, 125 • --The East India Mission of 1851-1856: Crossing the Boundaries of Culture, Religion, and Law R. Lanier Britsch, 150 • --Steel Rails and the Utah Saints Richard O. Cowan, 177 • --"That Canny Scotsman": John Sharp and the Negotiations with the Union Pacific Railroad, 1869-1872 Craig L. Foster, 197 • --Charles S. Whitney: A Nineteenth-Century Salt Lake City Teenager's Life Kenneth W. Godfrey, 215 REVIEWS --Michael K. Winder, John R. Winder: Member of the First Presidency, Pioneer, Temple Builder, Dairyman Boyd Petersen, 252 --Gene A. Sessions, ed., Mormon Democrat: The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle Richard D. Ouellette, 255 --Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West Thomas G. Alexander, 260 --Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons Lavina Fielding Anderson, 262 --Davis Bitton, ed., Historical Dictionary of Mormonism John Hatch, 265 --Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Orson Hyde: The Olive Branch of Israel Gary James Bergera, 267 --Susan Arrington Madsen, I Walked to Zion; Susan Arrington Madsen, Growing Up in Zion; and Susan Arrington Madsen and Fred E. Woods, I Sailed to Zion Dean Hughes, 274 --John Forres O'Donnal, Pioneer in Guatemala: The Personal History of John Forres O'Donnal, Including the History of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints in Guatemala Henri P. P. Gooren, 277 --Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard O. Cowan, eds., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History Brian S. Stuy, 280 --Donald G. Godfrey, Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television Val E. Limburg, 283 BOOK NOTICES --Colleen Whitley, ed., Worth Their Salt, Too: More Notable But Often Unnoted Women of Utah, 286 --Gladys Knight, Between Each Line of Pain and Glory: My Life Story, 287 --Douglas J. Davies, Mormon Identities in Transition: Latter Day Saints in Wales and Zion, 288 --Barbara B. Smith and Blythe Darlyn Thatcher, eds., Heroines of the Restoration, 289 --[no editor], Heroes of the Restoration, 289 --Bryan Waterman, ed., The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith, 291 --Michael S. Durham, Desert Between the Mountains: The Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869, 292 --Ogden Kraut,John H. Koyle's Relief Mine; and Ogden Kraut, Relief Mine II: Through Others' Eyes, 293 --Orson Pratt, The Seer, 294 --Mary Bywater Cross, Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations: Treasures of Transition; and Kae Covington, Gathered in Time: Utah Quilts and Their Makers, Settlement to 1950, 295 --Lawrence R. Flake, George Q. Cannon: His Missionary Years, 297 --Heidi S. S win ton, Pioneer Spirit: Modern-Day Stories of Courage and Conviction, 298 --Bruce A. Van Orden, D. Brent Smith, and Everett Smith Jr., Pioneers in Every Land, 299 --Linda Allred Steele, James and Elizabeth Allred, 300 --Stan Larson, Quest for the Gold Plates: Thomas Stuart Ferguson's Archaeological Search for the Book of Mormon, 301 --Lynda Cory Robinson, Boys Who Became Prophets ,302 --Cary Austin and Greg Newbold, illus., The Prophet Joseph's Own Account, 303 -Michael W. Johnson with Robert E. Parson and Daniel A. Stebbins, A History ofDaggett County: A Modern Frontier, 304 --Miriam B. Murphy, A History of Wayne County, 305 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol27/iss2/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 2001 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 2001 COVER: Abstraction of the window tracery, Salt Lake City Tenth Ward. Design by Warren Archer. 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Authors should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition (see a recent edition of the Journal) and be prepared to submit accepted manuscripts on computer diskette, IBM-DOS format preferred. Send manuscripts to the Journal of Mormon History, P.O. Box 581068, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-1068. JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY Volume 27, No. 2 Fall 2001 CONTENTS LETTERS vii ARTICLES Polygamy and Prostitution: Comparative Morality in Salt Lake City, 1847-1911 Jeffrey D. Nichols 1 "Called by a New Name": Mission, Identity, and the Reorganized Church Mark A. Scherer 40 Samuel Woolley Taylor: Mormon Maverick Historian Richard H. Cracroft 64 Fish and the Famine of 1855-56 D. Robert Carter 92 "As Ugly as Evil" and "As Wicked as Hell": Gadianton Robbers and the Legend Process among the Mormons W.Paul Reeve 125 The East India Mission of 1851-1856: Crossing the Boundaries of Culture, Religion, and Law R. Lanier Britsch 150 Steel Rails and the Utah Saints Richard O. Cowan 177 "That Canny Scotsman": John Sharp and the Negotiations with the Union Pacific Railroad, 1869-1872 Craig L. Foster 197 Charles S. Whitney: A Nineteenth-Century Salt Lake City Teenager's Life Kenneth W. Godfrey 215 REVIEWS Michael K. Winder, John R. Winder: Member of the First Presidency, Pioneer, Temple Builder, Dairyman Boyd Petersen 252 CONTENTS V Gene A. Sessions, ed., Mormon Democrat: The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle Richard D. Ouellette 255 Mark Fiege, Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West Thomas G. Alexander 260 Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons Lavina Fielding Anderson 262 Davis Bitton, ed., Historical Dictionary of Mormonism John Hatch 265 Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Orson Hyde: The Olive Branch of Israel Gary James Bergera 267 Susan Arrington Madsen, / Walked to Zion; Susan Arrington Madsen, Growing Up in Zion; and Susan Arrington Madsen and Fred E.