Journal of Mormon History Volume 30 Issue 2 Article 1 2004 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 30, No. 2, 2004 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (2004) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 30, No. 2, 2004," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 30 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol30/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. 30, No. 2, 2004 Table of Contents CONTENTS ARTICLES • --Ownership of the Kirtland Temple: Legends, Lies, and Misunderstandings Kim L. Loving, 1 • --The Kirtland Temple Suit and the Utah Church Eric Paul Rogers and R. Scott Glauser, 81 • --A Wary Heart Becomes "Fixed Unalterably'": Eliza R. Snow's Conversion to Mormonism Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson, 98 • --"You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out": Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s Polly Aird, 129 • --David O. McKay's Progressive Educational Ideas and Practices, 1899-1922 Mary Jane Woodger, 208 REVIEWS --Gary James Bergera, Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith William G. Hartley, 249 --Richard Ian Kimball, Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940 and Stanford J. Layton, ed., Red Stockings & Out-of-Towners: Sports in Utah Michael H. Paulos, 253 --Stewart L. Udall, The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West Brian Q. Cannon, 256 --Boyd Jay Petersen, Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life D. Michael Quinn, 259 --Kahlile B. Mehr, Mormon Missionaries Enter Eastern Europe Gregory A. Prince, 263 --Reed M. Holmes, Dreamers of Zion: Joseph Smith and George J. Adams: Conviction, Leadership, and Israel's Renewal Kahlile B. Mehr, 269 --Dorothy Allred Solomon, In My Father's House: An Autobiography and Dorothy Allred Solomon, Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy Armand L. Mauss, 272 --Dennis B. Home, ed. An Apostle's Record: The Journals of Abraham H. Cannon, Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1889-1896 Anne Wilde, 279 BOOK NOTICES --Ronald G. Walker. Qualities That Count: HeberJ. Grant as Businessman, Missionary and Apostle, 283 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol30/iss2/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 2004 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY FALL 2004 MISSION STATEMENT OF THE MORMON HISTORY ASSOCIATION The Mormon History Association is an independent organization dedicated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history. 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Snow's Conversion to Mormonism Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson 98 "You Nasty Apostates, Clear Out": Reasons for Disaffection in the Late 1850s Polly Aird 129 David O. McKay's Progressive Educational Ideas and Practices, 1899-1922 Mary Jane Woodger 208 REVIEWS Gary James Bergera, Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith William G. Hartley 249 Richard Ian Kimball, Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940 and Stanford J. Layton, ed., Red Stockings & Out-of-Towners: Sports in Utah Michael H. Paulos 253 Stewart L. Udall, The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West Brian Q. Cannon 256 Boyd Jay Petersen, Hugh Nibley: A Consecrated Life D. Michael Quinn 259 CONTENTS Kahlile B. Mehr, Mormon Missionaries Enter Eastern Europe Gregory A. Prince 263 Reed M. Holmes, Dreamers of Zion: Joseph Smith and George J. Adams: Conviction, Leadership, and Israel's Renewal Kahlile B. Mehr 269 Dorothy Allred Solomon, In My Father's House: An Autobiography and Dorothy Allred Solomon, Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy Armand L. Mauss 272 Dennis B. Home, ed. An Apostle's Record: The Journals of Abraham H. Cannon, Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1889-1896 Anne Wilde 279 BOOK NOTICES Ronald G. Walker. Qualities That Count: HeberJ. Grant as Businessman, Missionary and Apostle 283 Kirtland Temple, ca. 1880, cornfield in foreground. Courtesy Community of Christ Library-Archives, Independence. OWNERSHIP OF THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE: LEGENDS, LIES, AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS Kim L. Loving TODAY, AMONG SAINTS OF ALL VARIETIES, the House of the Lord in Kirtland, Ohio, is a "most treasured possession." There is a natu- ral tendency, looking back, to regard it as always having been re- KIM L. LOVING earned a B.A. from Graceland College and a juris doctor from the University of Kansas. He most recently served as president of the Eastern Great Lakes (USA) Mission Center of the Community of Christ in Kirtland, Ohio, and formerly practiced law for twenty-three years in St. Joseph, Missouri. He presented an earlier version of this paper at the Mormon History Association annual meeting in Kirtland in May 2003 and died of cancer on February 3, 2004. Acknowledgements: David Davis and Barbara Walden, Kirtland Tem- ple Historic Center, Community of Christ, generously provided significant research assistance for Part I of this project. A paper by Tom Bennett pre- sented