Chapter Seven Bibliography

Life in Utah (1847-1890)

Community and Culture

Allen, James, B., and Glen M. Leonard. The Story of the Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976. 

Alexander, Thomas G. Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Alexander, Thomas G. Utah: The Right Place. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1995.

Anderson, Paul. “William Harrison Folson: Pioneer Architect.” Utah Historical Quarterly 43, no. 3 (1975): 240-59.

Arrington, Leonard J. “Black Pioneer was Union Fort Settler.” The Pioneer (September-October 1981): 8-9. Publication of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers. 

Arrington, Leonard J. Brigham Young: American Moses. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1985.

Arrington, Leonard J. Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1958.

Arrington, Leonard J. “The Settlement of Brigham Young’s Estate, 1877-1879.” Pacific Historical Review 21 (1952): 11-13. 

Ashton, Wendell J. Theirs is the Kingdom. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1948.

Bashore, Melvin L. “The 1876 Arsenal Hill Explosion.” Utah Historical Quarterly 52, no. 3 (1984): 246-55

Beless, James W., Jr. “Daniel S. Tuttle, Missionary Bishop of Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly 27, no. 4 (1959): 359-380.

Burton, D.K. Queen Ann Bassett Alias Etta Place Burton. Vernal: Burton Enterprises, 1992.  

Carter, Kate B. Fire Departments of Utah. Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1941.

Carter, Kate B. Heart Throbs of the West: A Unique Volume Treating Definite Subjects of Western History. 12 Vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1940-51. 

Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage, vol. 4, 6, 7. Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1961-1964.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1989.

Coleman, Ronald G. “A History of Blacks in Utah, 1825-1910.” Ph.D. diss., University of Utah, 1980. 

Cowley, Matthias F., ed. Wilford Woodruff: History of His Life and Labors. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1964. 

Dalton, Mathew W. MS 5289 folder 1, Archives Division, Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt lake City, Utah. Hereafter referred to as LDS Archives.

Dennis, Ronald D. The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon Emigration. Provo: Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center, 1897. 

Derr, Jill Mulvay, Janath Russell Cannon, and Maureen Ursenbach beecher. Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992.

Dweyer, Robert J. “Pioneer Bishop: Lawrence Scanlan, 1843-1915.” Utah Historical Quarterly 20 (1952): 135-58.

Gallup, Luke. “Reminiscences and Diary of Luke Gallup.” Manuscript. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

Gates, Susa Young. “The Gardo House.” Improvement era 20 (1917):1099-1103.

Gates, Susa Young. The Life Story of Brigham Young. New York: Macmillan Company, 1930. 

Grow, Stewart L. “Utah’s Senatorial Election of 1899: The Election that Failed.” Utah Historical Quarterly 39, no. 1 (1971): 30-39.

Hafen, Leroy R. “Utah Food Supplies Sold to the Pioneer Settlers of Colorado.” Utah Historical Quarterly (1931): 62-64.

Heinerman, Joseph. “Amelia’s Palace.” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 29. 1979: 54-63.

Hicks, Michael. “Ministering Minstrels: Blackface Entertainment in Pioneer Utah.” Utah Historical Quarterly 58, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 49-63.

Horton, George A., Jr. “An Early History of Milford.” M.S. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1957. 

Humpherys, Glen A. “Oliver B. Huntington and His Bees.” Beehive History 2 (1976) 12-13.

Jackson, Donald D. The Aeronauts. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1980.

Jenson, Andrew. LDS Biographical Encyclopedia. Vol 2. 1914. Reprint, Salt Lake City: Western Epics, 1970.

John Mills Whitaker Papers. Special Collections, J. Willard M. Willard Library, University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City, UT. 

Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Microfilm. LDS Church Historical Department, Salt Lake city, UT.

Journal of Discourses. 1886. Reprint Salt Lake City: Brigham Young University, 1967. 

Kelly, Charles. The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch. 1938. Reprint, Omaha: Bison Books, 1996. 

Lender, Mark Edward. The Dictionary of American Temperance. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. 

Lyman, Edward Leo. “Isaac Trumbo and the Politics of Utah Statehood.” Utah Historical Quarterly 41, no. 2 (1973): 128-49.

Lyon, T. Edgar. “Evangelical Protestant Missionary Activities in Mormon Dominated Areas, 1865-1900.” Ph.D. diss., University of Utah, 1962. 

Madsen, Brigham D. Corrine: The Gentile Capital of Utah. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1980. 

Madsen, Brigham D. Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 and 1850. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983. 

Madsen, Helen Sharp. “Thomas Davis Giles of Blenavon, Monmouthshire, England.” Manuscript. LDS Church Archives.

Mathew William Dalton. Brigham City: 1917. Edited and retyped in 1982 by Cleone Dalley and Barbara Hubbard in Logan. Copy in Brigham Young University Special Collections. 

Mooney, Bernice M. “A History of Women in the Early Catholic Church in Utah.” MS, Utah State Historical Society.

Moss, Nina Folsom. A History of William Harrison Folsom. Privately published, 1973.

Morgan, Dale L. The Great Salt Lake. 1947. Reprint, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002.

Moyle, James Henry. Mormon Democrat: The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle. Edited by Gene Sessions.  Salt Lake City: Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1975.

O’Neal, Bill. Encyclopedia of Western Gun-Fighters. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979.

Palmer, William R. “Early-day Trading with the Nevada Mining Camps.” Utah Historical Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1958): 353-68.

Palmer, William R., ed. “Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom.” Utah Historical Quarterly 10 (1942): 55-122.

Papanikolas, Helen Z. “The Peoples of Utah.” Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1976. 

Patterson, Richard. Historical Atlas of the Outlaw West. Second edition. Boulder: Johnson Publishing Co., 1985.

Peterson, John Alton. The Black Hawk War. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1999. 

“Record of Members, Fountain Green Ward, 1860-1908.” LDS Church Archives. 

Roberts, Brigham H.  A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6 vols. 1930. Reprint, Orem: Sonos Publishing Inc., 1991.

Roberts, Brigham H. The Life of John Taylor: Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: 1892.

Reynolds, George. “Letter to Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, June 6, 1876.” Letterbooks. Brigham Young Papers. LDS Archives.

Salt Lake City Fireman’s Relief Association. A Pictorial History of the Salt Lake City Fire Department, 1871–1976. Salt Lake City: Salt Lake City Fireman’s Relief Association, 1976.

Salt Lake Sanitarian. Utah State Historical Society Library. 

Seely, Montell and Kathryn Seely. Seely History. Vol. 2. Provo: Justus Azel Seely Family Organization, 1996.

Smith, Bertha Dalton. Mathew William Dalton, 1829-1919: A Biography. Edited and retyped by Clave B. Raty, 1983.

Smith, Joseph Fielding. The Life of Joseph F. Smith: Sixth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938. 

Smith, Ruby K.,  and John D. Giles, Modern Trail Blazer. n.p., 1961.

Spencer, Clarissa Young and Mabel Harmer, Brigham Young at Home. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1972. 

Stegner, Wallace. Mormon Country. 2nd Edition. Salt Lake City: Bison Books, 2003. 

Stella Brighton Nielsen, William Stuart Brighton and Catherine Bow Brighton Histories. Utah State Historical Society Library.

Stuy, Brian H., ed. Collected Discourses. Vol. 1 (1886-89). Burbank: B. H. S. Publishing, 1987.

“Tales of Utah, 1941-1942.” Utah Writer’s Project, Work Projects Administration. Utah State Historical Society Collections. 

Topham, Dorothy Giles. “Thomas Davis Giles (‘The Blind Harpist’) and Hannah Evans.” Manuscript. LDS Archives.

Toll, Robert C. Toll. Blacking Up: The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth-Century America. 1974. New ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Twain, Mark. Roughing It. Hartford: 1872.

Utah Methodism Centennial Committee. The First Century of the Methodist Church in Utah. Salt Lake City: Utah Methodism Centennial Committee, 1970. 

Van Orden, Bruce A. The Life of George Reynolds: Prisoner for Conscience’ Sake. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992. 

Vinson, Michael. “From Housework to Office Clerk: Utah’s Working Women, 1870-1900.” Utah Historical Quarterly 53, no. 4 (1985): 326-35.

Walker, Donald D. “The Cattle Industry of Utah, 1850-1900: An Historical Profile.” Utah Historical Quarterly 32, no. 3 (1964): 182-97.

Warsh, Cheryl Krasnick. “Adventures in Maritime Quackery: The Leslie E. Keeley Gold Cure Institute of Fredericton, N.B.” Acadiensis 17, no. 2 (1988): 109-30.

Watters, Leon L. The Pioneer Jews of Utah. New York: American Jewish Historical Society, 1952.

Weight, Harold O. “When the Horn Silver Caved.” Westways (February 1952).

White, James T. The Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Scribner’s, 1936. 

Woodruff, Wilford. Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 1833-1898. 9 vols. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989.

Geology and Environment

“Abstract of Townsites, Sanpete County.”  Utah State Archives, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Arrington, Leonard J., and Thomas G. Alexander. “The U.S. Army Overlooks Salt Lake Valley: Fort Douglas, 1862-1965.” Utah Historical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (1965): 326-50.

Beautiful Brighton at the Head of Big Cottonwood Canyon. Pamphlet. Utah State Historical Society Library.

Beckstead, James H. Cowboying: A Tough Job in a Hard Land. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991.  

Gressley, Gene M. The American West: A Reorientation. Laramie: University of Wyoming, 1966. 

Noble, Kate Y. “A Great Adventure on Great Salt Lake—A True Story.” Edited by David E. Miller. Utah Historical Quarterly 33, no. 3 (1965): 218-36. 

Notarianni, Philip F. “Copper, the King of the Oquirrh Mountains.” Beehive History 16 (1990):18-20.

Ogden, Annegret S., ed. Frontier Reminiscences of Eveline Brooks Auerbach. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Parson, Robert. “Seeps, Springs, and Bogs: The Changing Historic Landscape of Smithfield.” Utah Historical Quarterly 68, no. 1 (2000): 38-54.

Spafford, Debbie. “Ann Bassett, Queen of the Cattle Rustlers.” Outlaw Trail Journal (Winter/Spring 1992).

Thompson, George A. Some Dreams Die: Utah’s Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures. Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 1982.
Young, Levi Edgar. “Historic Buildings of Salt Lake city.” Young Women’s Journal 6 (1922):309-11.

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