Journal of Mormon History Volume 24 Issue 1 Article 1 1998 Journal of Mormon History Vol. 24, No. 1, 1998 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory Part of the Religion Commons Recommended Citation (1998) "Journal of Mormon History Vol. 24, No. 1, 1998," Journal of Mormon History: Vol. 24 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol24/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. 24, No. 1, 1998 Table of Contents CONTENTS LETTERS --Editorial Lavina Fielding Anderson, v --Chronology Lavina Fielding Anderson, xiii --Wilfried Decoo: Response to Bruce Van Orden, xix Appendices xxxvi --Bruce Van Orden: Response, il --Reflections Richard L. Jensen, lv --Anna Jean Duncan Backus: Response to Review by W. Paul Reeve, lvii --W. Paul Reeve: Response, lviii PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS --A Web of Trails: Bringing History Home Linda King Newell, 1 TANNER LECTURE • --Sesquicentennial Reflections: A Comparative View of Mormon and Gentile Women on the Westward Trail Glenda Riley, 28 • --Moses Thatcher in the Dock: His Trials, the Aftermath and His Last Days Kenneth W. Godfrey, 54 • --Single Men in a Polygamous Society: Male Marriage Patterns in Manti, Utah Kathryn M. Daynes, 89 • --The 1938 Train-School Bus Disaster: Mormon Communal Response to Catastrophic Death Melvin L. Bashore, 112 • --The History of LDS Temple Admission Standards Edward L. Kimball, 135 REVIEWS --Edward Leo Lyman. San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community Dean L. May, 177 --Maurine Carr Ward, ed. Winter Quarters: The 1846 -1848 Life Writings of Mary HaskinParker Richards Sharon S. Carver, 181 --Allen Kent Powell, ed. Utah History Encyclopedia Judith Austin, 185 --James P. Wind and James W. Lewis, eds. American Congregations. Vol. 1: Portraits of Twelve Religious Communities, and Vol. 2: New Perspectives in the Study of Congregations Melvyn Hammarberg, 187 --Marilyn Conover Barker. The Legacy of Mormon Furniture: The Mormon Material Culture, Undergirded by Faith, Commitment, and Craftsmanship Nancy R. Clark, 193 BOOK NOTICES --F. Ross Peterson. A History of Cache County, 197 --Jessie L. Embry. A History ofWasatch County, 198 --Marian Wilkinson Jensen, comp. Women of Commitment: Elect Ladies of Brigham Young University, 199 This full issue is available in Journal of Mormon History: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol24/iss1/ 1 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SPRING 1998 JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SPRING 1998 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 Watkinsjorgensen, Patricia Lyn Scott, Jean Bickmore White Editorial Staff: Susan L. Fales, Kenneth A. Hansen, Janet Jenson, Linda Lindstrom, Marianne Perciaccante 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, Arlington, Virginia Susan Sessions Rugh, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 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. Foreign subscriptions $20 payable in U.S. currency, VISA, or Mastercard. Single copies $15. Prices on back issues vary; contact Craig and Suzanne Foster, executive secretaries, at the address above. 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 simultane- ous submissions. Papers for consideration must be submitted in triplicate, typed and double-spaced throughout, including all quotations. 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 24, No. 1 SPRING 1998 CONTENTS LETTERS Editorial Lavina Fielding Anderson v Chronology Lavina Fielding Anderson xiii Wilfried Decoo: Response to Bruce Van Orden xix Appendices xxxvi Bruce Van Orden: Response il Reflections Richard L. Jensen lv Anna Jean Duncan Backus: Response to Review by W. Paul Reeve lvii W. Paul Reeve: Response lviii PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS A Web of Trails: Bringing History Home Linda King Newell 1 TANNER LECTURE Sesquicentennial Reflections: A Comparative View of Mormon and Gentile Women on the Westward Trail Glenda Riley 28 Moses Thatcher in the Dock: His Trials, the Aftermath and His Last Days Kenneth W. Godfrey 54 Single Men in a Polygamous Society: Male Marriage Patterns in Manti, Utah Kathryn M. Daynes 89 The 1938 Train-School Bus Disaster: Mormon Communal Response to Catastrophic Death Melvin L. Bashore 112 The History of LDS Temple Admission Standards Edward L. Kimball 135 REVIEWS Edward Leo Lyman. San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community Dean L. May 177 Maurine Carr Ward, ed. Winter Quarters: The 1846 -1848 Life Writings of Mary HaskinParker Richards Sharon S. Carver 181 Allen Kent Powell, ed. Utah History Encyclopedia Judith Austin 185 James P. Wind and James W. Lewis, eds. American Congregations. Vol. 1: Portraits of Twelve Religious Communities, and Vol. 2: New Perspectives in the Study of Congregations Melvyn Hammarberg 187 Marilyn Conover Barker. The Legacy of Mormon Furniture: The Mormon Material Culture, Undergirded by Faith, Commitment, and Craftsmanship Nancy R. Clark 193 BOOK NOTICES F. Ross Peterson. A History of Cache County 197 Jessie L. Embry. A History ofWasatch County 198 Marian Wilkinson Jensen, comp. Women of Commitment: Elect Ladies ofBrigham Young University 199 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. ©1998 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. LETTERS EDITORIAL Lavina Fielding Anderson IT IS NOT THE CUSTOM of the Journal of Mormon History to publish editorials except for brief introductory notes or occasional comments. I am departing from that custom now and, further, departing from the usual custom of unsigned editorials because the material that follows documents a difficult situation affecting the practice of Mormon history and because this editorial is also a personal statement. As background: The Journal published a lengthy review essay by Wil- fried Decoo of Antwerp, Belgium, in its spring 1997 issue, examining Bruce Van Orden's Building Zion: The Latter-day Saints in Europe (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996). Decoo praised several features of Building Zion but raised a number of concerns about the work which he felt were sympto- matic of broader historiographical and methodological problems. Van Orden responded in the fall 1997 issue; but because of deadline con- straints, the Journal was unable to invite Decoo's comments for the same issue, our usual procedure. He, however, agreed to respond and an an- nouncement to that effect appeared with Van Orden's letter. That re- sponse is in this issue (pp. xix-xxxvi), along with a letter of response from Van Orden (pp. il-lv). In the time that elapsed during this process, Decoo became aware, through Marjorie Newton of Sydney, Australia, that some material from her Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons in Australia (Laie, Hawaii: Institute for Polynesian Studies, 1991) had been copied without quotation marks and/or adequate citations in Van Orden's The International Church, a typescript text