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Abbreviations 

AH Agricultural History 

AHR American Historical Review 

AW Arizona and the West 

BYU Studies Brigham Young University Studies 

BHR Business History Review 

Dialogue Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought EHR Economic History Review 

Ensign The Ensign (Salt Lake City) 

Era The Improvement Era (Salt Lake City) 

HLQ Huntington Library Quarterly 

IY Idaho Yesterdays 

JAH Journal of American History 

JEH Journal of Economic History 

New Era The New Era (Salt Lake City) 

PHR Pacific Historical Review 

PNQ Pacific Northwest Quarterly 

PUASAL Proceedings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters SUP News Sons of Utah Pioneers News (Salt Lake City) WHR Western Humanities Review 

1935 

Article: 

“Idaho Future Farmer Has Outstanding Project,” American Farm Youth, I (April, 1935), 14.

1950 

Review: 

The Economics of Agriculture, by R. L. Cohen. In Southern Economic Journal XVII (October, 1950), 209-10. 

1951 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“The Deseret Telegraph—A Church-owned Public Utility,” JEH, XI (Spring, 1951), 117-39.

“Economic Policy Crisis in Utah—1869,” PUASAL, XVIII (1951), 123 ff. Abstract. 

“Iron Manufacturing in Southern Utah in the 1880s: The Iron Manufacturing Company of Utah,” Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, XXI (September, 1951), 149-68. 

“Property Among the Mormons,” Rural Sociology, XVI (December, 1951), 339-52. 

“Taming the Turbulent Sevier: A Story of Mormon Desert Conquest,” WHR, V (August, 1951), 383-406. 

“The Transcontinental Railroad and Mormon Economic Policy,” PHR, XX (May, 1951), 143-57. Reprinted in Thomas C. Cochran and Thomas B. Brewer, ed., View of American Economic Growth: The Industrial Era (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966), pp. 50-60. 

“Zion’s Board of Trade: A Third United Order,” WHR V (Winter, 1950-51), 1-20. 

Article in Non-Professional Publication: 

“Brigham Young and the Transcontinental Telegraph Line,” Era, LIV (July, 1951), 510 ff. 

Reviews: 

Beckoning Frontiers: Public and Personal Recollections, by Marriner S. Eccles. In WHR, V (Autumn, 1951), 407-10. With Evan B. Murray. 

Social Economy and The Price System: An Essay in Welfare Economics, by Raymond T. Bye. In Southern Economic Journal, XVII (April, 1951), 483-84. 

1952 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Coin and Currency in Early Utah,” UHQ, XX (January, 1952), 56-76. 

“The Institution of Private Property in Early Utah,” PUASAL, XXIX (1952), 55. Abstract. “The Mormon Debt Problem of the 1890’s.” PUASAL, XXIX (1952), 56. Abstract. “Mormon Finance and The Utah War,” UHQ, XX (July, 1952), 219-238. 

“Price Control in Early Utah,” PUASAL, XXIX (1952), 55. Abstract. 

“The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879,” PHR, XXI (February, 1952), 1-20. 

1953 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Early Mormon Communitarianism: The Law of Consecration and Stewardship,” WHR, VII (Autumn, 1953), 341-369. 

“The Provo Woolen Mills: Utah’s First Large Manufacturing Establishment,” UHQ, XXI (April, 1953), 97-116. 

“Religious Sanction and Entrepreneurship in Pioneer Utah,” PUASAL, XXX (1953), 130. Abstract. 

Review: 

The Mormon Village: A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement, by Lowry Nelson. In PHR, XXII (May, 1953), 181-182.

1954 

Monograph: 

Orderville, Utah: A Pioneer Mormon Experiment in Economic Organization (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Monograph Series, Vol. II, Number 2, March, 1954), 44 pp. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Attitude of the Mormon Church Toward Mining, 1847-1900,” PUA5AL, XXXI (1954), 173-174.

“The Mormon Tithing House: A Frontier Business Institution,” BHR, XXVIII (March, 1954), 24-58. 

Articles in Non-Professional Publications: 

“How the Saints Fed the Indians,” Era, LVII (November, 1954), 800 ff. 

“The LDS Hawaiian Colony at Skull Valley,” Era, LVII (May, 1954), 314 ff. 

1955 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Banking Enterprises in Utah, 1847-1880,” BHR, XXIX (December, 1955), 312-334.

“Economic History of a Mormon Valley: Utah Valley, Utah,” PNQ, XLVI (October, 1955), 97-107.

“The Economic Role of Pioneer Mormon Women,” WHR, IX (Spring, 1955), 145-164.

“Utah’s Coal Road in the Age of Unregulated Competition,” UHQ, XXIII (January, 1955), 35-63. 

Article in Non-Professional Publications: 

“Basic Economic Institutions of Pioneer Utah,” SUP News II (August-September, 1955), 6-7. 

1956 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Agricultural Price Control in Pioneer Utah,” AH, XXX (July, 1956), 104-113. 

“The Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society in Pioneer Utah,” UHQ XXIV (April, 1956), 165-170. 

The History of a Valley: Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho, edited by Joel E. Ricks. Logan: Cache Valley Centennial Commission, 1956. Chapters by Arrington: VII, “Life and Labor Among the Pioneers,” pp. 140-169. VIII. “Railroad Building and Co-operatives, 1869-1879,” pp. 170-204. IX, “Transition to the Modern Era, 1880-1910,” pp. 205-239. X, “Economy in the Modern Era,” pp. 240-274. 

“The Mormon Cotton Mission in Southern Utah,” PHR, XXV (August, 1956), 221-238. This article was awarded the Louis Knott Koontz prize of the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, as the best article published in PHR in 1956-57. 

“Objectives of Mormon Economic Policy,” WHR, X (Spring, 1956), 180-185. 

“Role of the Mormon Church in the Economic Development of the Mountain West, 1847-1900,” PUASAL, XXXIII (1956), 193-194. Abstract. 

“Taxable Income in Utah, 1862-1872,” UHQ, XXIV (January, 1956), 21-47. 

Review: 

A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 (two volumes), edited by Robert Glass Cleland and Juanita Brooks. In PHR, XXV (August, 1956), 405-407. 

1957 

Article in Professional Publication: 

“Religion and Planning in the Great Basin, 1847-1900,” Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association, 1957 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1957), 37-41. Reprinted in The Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Economics.

Article in Non-Professional Publication: 

“Mule Cars in Pioneer Utah,” SUP News, IV (July, 1957), 15-16. 

1958 

Book: 

Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (Cambridge, Massa chusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958), 534 pp. Published in paperback in the Bison Series (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1966). This book won the Award of Merit of the American Association of State and Local History, and was given the annual award of the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, as the best first book by a Western historian published in 1958-1959. The book is among those selected for the White House Library. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“An Economic Interpretation of the ‘Word of Wisdom’, ” BYU Studies, I (1958), 37-49. “Planning an Iron Industry for Utah, 1851-1858,” HLQ, XXI (May, 1958), 237-260. 

“Religion and Planning in the Far West: The First Generation of Mormons in Utah,” EHR, XI (July, 1958), 71-86. With Philip A. M. Taylor. 

“The School of the Prophets,” PUASAL, XXV (1958), 145-146. Abstract. 

1959 

Book: 

Introduzione alia Storia Economica delgi Stati Uniti (Genoa, Italy: Libraria Mario Bozzi, 1959), 272 pp. Pages 241-60 “The American Economy in the Age of the Atom and Automation” appear in English translation as Appendix E in Rebecca F. Cornwall, From Chicken Farm to History: The Life of Leonard Arrington, 1917-1977 (Salt Lake City: Privately Distributed, 1978), pp. 406-421. 

Articles: 

“L’Economia Americana nell ‘Era Atomica,” Civilta degli Scambi (Bari), IV (June, 1959), 13-16. 

“La Lotta Contro i Cicli Economici e l’lnflazione negli Stati Uniti,” Le Compere di San Giorgio (Genoa), VIII (February, 1959), 3-8. 

“II Nuovo Capitalismo negli Stati Uniti,” serially in II Genovese (Genoa), July 12-September 6, 1959. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“L’Intervento Statale nella Vita Economica degli Stati Uniti,” 1959, mimeographed, Bocconi University, Milan. 

1960 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Crusade Against Theocracy: The Reminiscences of Judge Jacob Smith Boreman of Utah, 1872-1877,” HLQ, XXIV (November, 1960), 1-45. 

“L’Economia Americana nell’Era Atomica e dell’Automazione,” in Annali dell’Universita degli Studi di Napoli (Naples, Italy: Istituto di Storia Economica e Sociale, 1960), pp. 35-47. 

“Mormon Economic Organization: A Sheaf of Illustrative Documents” UHQ, XXVIII (January, 1960), 40-55. With Ralph W. Hansen. 

Review: 

The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859, by Norman F. Furniss. In Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XLVII (December, 1960), 509-511. 

1961 

Monograph: 

From Wilderness to Empire: The Role of Utah in Western Economic History, Monograph No. 1, Institute of American Studies, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, 1961), 20 pp.

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Introduction” to “A World Divided in an Age of Space: A Symposium,” WHR, XV (Summer, 1961), 201, 202. This symposium was held in October, 1960, at Utah State University, Logan, Utah. It was part of the semi-annual meetings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Dr. Arrington was chairman of the Social Sciences section at the meeting. 

“Religion and Economics in Mormon History,” BYU Studies, III (Spring and Summer, 1961), 15-33.

“Utah and The Depression of the 1890’s,” UHQ, XXIX (January, 1961), 3-18. 

Address and Duplicated Papers: 

“Economic Policies of the Mormon Church, 1847-1961,” duplicated by Department of History, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1961. Address to Phi Alpha Theta and History Majors at Brigham Young University, May 17, 1961. 26 pp. 

Review: 

The Lamp in the Desert: The Story of the University of Arizona, by Douglas D. Martin, in AW, III (Spring, 1961), 91-94. 

1962 

Monograph: 

The Price of Prejudice: The Japanese-American Relocation Center in Utah During World War II (Twenty-fifth Faculty Honor Lecture, Utah State University, Logan, 1962), 48 pp. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“From Planning Gold to Nuclear Fission: Idaho’s Economic Development, 1860-1960,” IY, III (July, 1962), 2-10. 

“The Industrial Structure of the Mountain West, 1850-1950,” in Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association at Seattle, Washington, August 24-25, 1961 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1962), pp. 19-23. 

“Utah’s Emerging Metropolis: The Wasatch Front” in Utah’s Urban-Rural Revolution: Sixth Annual Agriculture and Industry Conference, Salt Lake City, February 6, 1962 (Logan: Utah State University, 1962), pp. 9-20 plus tables. With George Jensen. 

“Utah’s Spectacular Missiles Industry: Its History and Impact” with Jon G. Perry, UHQ, XXX (Winter, 1962), 1-39. 

Reviews: 

The Charles Ilfeld Company: A Study of the Rise and Decline of Mercantile Capitalism in New Mexico, by William J. Parish. In UHQ, XXX (January, 1962), 92-94. 

Our National Park Policy: A Critical History, by John Ise. In AG, XXXVI (January, 1962), 53.

1963 

Books and Monographs: 

The Changing Economic Structure of the Mountain West, 1850-1950 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Monograph Series, Vol. X, No. 3, June, 1963), 64 pp. Reprinted in the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in History. 

“The Richest Hole on Earth”: A History of the Bingham Copper Mine (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Monograph Series, Vol. XI, No. 1, October, 1963), 103 pp. With Gary B. Hansen. Reprinted by Utah State University, 1969. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Abundance from the Earth: The Beginnings of Commercial Mining in Utah,” UHQ, XXXI (Summer, 1963), pp. 192-219. 

“Anchors Aweigh in Utah: The U. S. Naval Supply Depot at Clearfield, 1942-1962,” UHQ, XXXI (Spring, 1963), 109-126. With Archer L. Durham.

“Comparison of Income Changes in the Western States, 1929-1960,” Western Economic Journal, I (Summer, 1963), pp. 205-217. With George Jensen. 

“They Kept ‘Em Rolling: The Tooele Army Depot, 1942-1962,” UHQ, XXXI (Winter, 1963), 3-25. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

“World’s Largest Military Reserve: Wendover Air Force Base, 1941-1966” UHQ, XXXI (Fall, 1963), 324-335. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

Articles in Non-Professional Publications: 

“Brigham Young and The Great Basin Economy,” in Seminar on Brigham Young 1962 (Provo: Brigham Young University Extension Publications, 1963), pp. 79-96. 

“Paying the Tenth in Pioneer Days,” The Instructor, XCVII (November 1963), 386-387, 390. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“The U. S. Army in Cedar Valley: Camp Floyd, Utah, 1858-1861,” duplicated by Department of History, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1963. Prepared for the Special Tour of the Western History Association, meeting in Salt Lake City, October 19, 1963. 6 pp. with Thomas G. Alexander. 

Reviews: 

The Bonanza West: The Story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900, by William S. Greever. In Northwest Historical Quarterly, LIV (October, 1963), 177-178. 

Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880, by Rodman W. Paul. In Mississippi Valley Historical Review, L (September, 1963), 312-313. 

The Progress of Economics: A History of Economic Thought, by Warren B. Catlin. In AHR, LXVIII (July, 1963), 1013-1014. 

Rebel of the Rockies: A History of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, by Robert G. Athearn. In BHR, XXXVII (Autumn, 1963), 293-294. 

1964 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“The Economic Value of Utah’s Travel and Recreation Business: The Perspective of 117 Years,” Proceedings of the Third Annual Utah Travel Institute, held in Salt Lake City, February 1, 1964, pp. 13-15. 

Editor of “Experiment in Utopia: The United Order of Richfield, 1874-1877,” by Feramorz Y. Fox, UHQ, XXXII (Fall, 1964), 355-80. 

“Origin of the Welfare Plan of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” BYU Studies, V (Winter, 1964), 67-85. With Wayne K. Hinton. 

“Sentinels on the Desert: The Dugway Proving Ground, 1942-1963 and Deseret Chemical Depot (1942-1963),” UHQ, XXXII (Winter, 1964), 32-43. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

“Supply Hub of the West: Defense Depot Ogden, 1941-1964,” UHQ, XXXII (Spring, 1964), 99-121. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

“Utah” in the Encyclopedia Americana (30 vols.; New York, Americana Corporation, 1964), XXVII, 825-38. Revised and updated in 1969 edition. 

“The Utah Military Frontier, 1872-1912: Forts Cameron, Thornburgh and Duchesne,” UHQ, XXXII (Fall, 1964), 330-54. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“Cassandra in Pursuit of Clio; or, Why Economists Become Historians,” duplicated by Department of Economics, Utah State University, Logan, 1964. Luncheon Address to the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Los Angeles, August 27, 1964. 20 pp. 

“The Commercialization of Utah’s Economy: Trends and Developments from Statehood to 1910,” duplicated by Department of Economics, Utah State University, 1964. Paper for the Annual meetings, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, September 12, 1964. 40 pp.

Reviews: 

Intermountain Railroads: Standard and Narrow Gauge, by Merrill D. Beal. In A W, VI (Spring, 1964), 84-85. 

John Doyle Lee: Zealot—Pioneer Builder— Scapegoat, by Juanita Brooks. In Montana, The Magazine of Western History, XIV (April, 1964), 114. 

1965

Books and Monographs: 

The Defense Industry of Utah (Logan, Utah: Department of Economics, Utah State University, 1965), Utah State Planning Program, Economic and Population Studies, 50 pp. With George Jensen. 

A Study of the Impacts of Research and Development-Based Manufacturing in Utah. Prepared under contract C-394 with the National Science Foundation and subcontract No. 1 with Utah State University. Mimeographed (Washington, D.C.: The George Washington University, November, 1965). 127 pp. With Reed R. Durtschi, Bartell C. Jensen, Charles T. Stewart, Don W. Thomas and Thomas C. Anderson 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Cooperative Community in the North: Brigham City, Utah,” UHQ, XXXIII (Summer, 1965), 198-217. “Launching Idaho’s Beet Sugar Industry,” IY, IX (Fall, 1965), 16-27. 

“The U. S. Army Overlooks Salt Lake Valley: Fort Douglas, 1862-1865,” UHQ, XXXIII (Fall, 1965), 326-350. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

“Utah’s Biggest Business: Ogden Air Material Area at Hill Air Force Base, 1938-1965,” UHQ, XXXIII (Winter, 1965), 9-33. With Thomas G. Alexander and Eugene A. Erb, Jr. 

“Utah’s First Line of Defense: The Utah National Gurd and Camp W. G. Williams, 1926-1965,” UHQ, XXXIII (Spring, 1965), 141-156. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

“Utah’s Small Arms Ammunition Plant During World War II,” PHR, XXXIV (May, 1965), 185-196. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“The Economic Development of Utah,” duplicated by Department of Economics, Utah State Univer sity, 1965. Address at the Annual Fellowship Banquet, Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, Logan, Utah, April 16, 1965. 15 pp. 

“The Secularization of Mormon History and Culture,” duplicated by Department of Economics, Utah State University, 1965. Paper for the annual meetings Western History Association, Helena, Montana, October 22, 1965. 20 pp. 

Review: 

On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout, edited by Juanita Brooks. In the Utah Alumnus, XLI (April, 1965), 12-14. 

1966 

Books and Monographs: 

Beet Sugar in the West A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966 (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1966), 234 pp. 

Water for Urban Reclamation: The Provo River Project. Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, Utah Resources Series 29 (Logan, 1966). 35 pp. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Camp in the Sagebrush: Camp Floyd, Utah, 1858-1861,” UHQ, XXXIV (Winter, 1966), 3-21. With Thomas G. Alexander. 

Editor of “Reappraisals of Mormon History,” a 120-page “Special Section,” in Dialogue, I (Autumn, 1966), 21-140.

“The Horn Silver Bonanza/’ in Gene M. Gressley, ed., The American West: A Reorientation. (Laramie: University of Wyoming Publications, Vol. XXXII, 1966), pp. 35-54. With Wayne K. Hinton. 

“Inland to Zion: Mormon Trade on the Colorado River, 1864-1867,” AW, VIII (Autumn, 1966), 239-50. 

“Reclamation in Three Layers: The Ogden River Project, 1934-1965” PHR, XXXV (February, 1966), 16-34. With Lowell Dittmer. 

“Scholarly Studies of Mormonism in the Twentieth Century,” Dialogue, I (Spring, 1966), 15-32. “The U and I Sugar Company in Washington,” PNQ, LVII (July, 1966), 101-09. 

“Utah’s Pioneer Beet Sugar Plant: The Lehi Factory of the Utah Sugar Company,” UHQ, XXXIV (Spring, 1966), 95-120. 

Reviews: 

The Mormon Establishment, by Wallace Turner, and The Latter-day Saints: The Mormons Yesterday and Today, by Robert Mullen. In Dialogue, I (Winter, 1966), 118-22. 

Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi, by Robert Bruce Flanders. In WHR, XX (Autumn, 1966), 356-57.

1967 

Monograph: 

Impact of Defense Spending on the Economy of Utah. (Logan, Utah: Department of Economics, Utah State University, 1967), Utah State Planning Program, Economic and Population Studies, 84 pp. With George Jensen. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“The Founding of the L.D.S. Institutes of Religion,” Dialogue, II (Summer, 1967), 137-47. Dr. Arrington graduated from the L.D.S. Institute of Religion, Moscow, Idaho in 1939, and he taught occasionally at the Institute of Religion at Utah State University. 

“Science, Government, and Enterprise in Economic Development: The Western Beet Sugar Industry,” AH, XLI (January, 1967), 1-17. 

Article in Non-Professional Publication: 

“Gather Ye Together . . . Upon the Land of Zion,” The Instructor, CII (April, 1967), 148-49. Reviews: 

Claus Spreckels: The Sugar King in Hawaii, by Jacob Adler. In AH, XLI (July, 1967), 319-20. Company Towns in the West, by James B. Allen. In AHR, LXXII (January, 1967), 721-22. History of Wyoming, by T. A. Larson. In AH, XLI (April, 1967), 196. 

Nevada’s Twentieth-Century Mining Boom: Tonapah, Goldfield, Ely, by Russell R. Elliott, In JAH, LIII (March, 1967), 843-44. 

1968 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Arizona in the Great Depression Years,” Arizona Review, XVII (December, 1968), 11-19. 

“Charles Mackay and His True and Impartial History’ of the Mormons,” UHQ, XXXVI (Winter, 1968), 24-40. 

“Intolerable Zion: The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature,” WHR, XXII (Summer, 1968), 243-60. With Jon Haupt. This article was awarded the Mormon History Association Prize as best article on Mormon History published in 1968-1969. 

“The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History,” Dialogue III (Summer, 1968), 56-66. This article was awarded the Mormon History Association Prize as best article on Mormon history published during the year 1967-1968.

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“Mormon Economic Idealism/’ duplicated by the L.D.S. Student Association, University of Utah (Salt Lake City, 1968). Address to the L.D.S. Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 25, 1968. 10 pp. 

.Review: 

American Business History, by Louis Galambos. In JEH, XXVII (September, 1968), 468-470. 

1969 

Books and Monographs: 

Federally-Financed Industrial Plants Constructed in Utah During World War II. (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Monograph Series, Vol. XVI, Number 1, March, 1969), 72 pp. With Anthony T. Cluff. 

“Service Above Self.” A History of Logan Rotary Club, 1919-1969 (Logan, Utah, 1969), 42 pp. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“From Apache-hunting to ‘Hosting’ America: The Economic Development of Arizona, 1863-1950,” Arizona Review, XVIII (August-September, 1969), 1-5. 

“Idaho and the Great Depression,” IY, XIII (Summer, 1969), 2-8. 

“Introduction,” to Rails from the West: A Biography of Theodore D. Judah, by Helen Hinckley (San Marino, California: Golden West Books, 1969). 

“The Intellectual Tradition of Mormon Utah,” PUASAL, (Salt Lake City, 1969), XLV, Part 2, 1968, 346-365. An address to the Utah Academy in St. George, Utah, on September 13, 1968, upon receiving the Charles H. Redd Award. 

“The Intellectual Tradition of the Latter-day Saints,” Dialogue, IV (Spring, 1969), 13-26. 

“Mormon Origins in New York: An Introductory Analysis” BYU Studies, IX (Spring, 1969), 241-274. With James B. Allen. 

“The New Deal in the West: A Preliminary Statistical Inquiry,” PHR, XXXVIII (August, 1969), 311-316. 

“The Transcontinental Railroad and the Development of the West,” UHQ, XXXVII (Winter, 1969), 3-15. 

“Willard Young: The Prophet’s Son at West Point,” Dialogue, IV (Winter, 1969), 37-46. 

Article in Non-Professional Publication: 

“Louisa Lula Green Richards: Woman Journalist of the Early West,” Era, LXXII (May, 1969), 28 ff. 

Review: 

The Rockies, by David Lavender. In AHR, LXXIV (February, 1969), 1075. 

1970 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“‘Divinely Tall and Most Divinely Fair’: Josephine Donna Smith—’Ina Coolbrith’,” Utah Libraries, XIII (Spring, 1970), 8-14. 

“James Gordon Bennett’s 1831 Report on ‘The Mormonites,”‘ BYU Studies, X (Spring, 1970), 353-364. 

“The Missouri and Illinois Mormons in Ante-bellum Fiction,” Dialogue, V (Spring, 1970), 37-50. With Jon Haupt. 

“The Mormons and the Indians: A Review and Evaluation,” The Record, 31 (Friends of the Library, Washington State University, 1970), 4-29. 

“Western Agriculture and the New Deal,” AH, LXIV (October, 1970), 337-353. Presidential address to the Agricultural History Society, at its annual luncheon held in Los Angeles on April 17, 1970.

“Women as a Force in the History of Utah,” UHQ, XXXVIII (Winter, 1970), 3-6. This constitutes the “Introduction” to the special issue on the same topic. 

Articles in Non-Professional Publications: 

“Achievements of Latter-day Saint Women,” Era, LXXIII (April, 1970), 61-62. 

“How the Mormons Settled Idaho LDS Communities,” The Prospector, No. 4, unpaged. This is the junior historical magazine of the Idaho Historical Society, Boise, Idaho. 

“Why Did the Latter-day Saints Experience Persecution?” Era, LXXIII (August, 1970), 49-53. 

Reviews: 

AZn: A History of the American Zinc Company, by James D. Norris. JAH, LVII (June, 1970), 191-192. The Farm Boy and the Angel, by Carl Carmer. In Dialogue, V (Summer, 1970), 97-98. 

The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young, by Stanley P. Hirshson. In BYU Studies, X (Winter, 1970), 240-45. Includes important listing of manuscript material in Church Archives on Brigham Young. 

Silver and the First New Deal, by John A. Brennan. In IY, XIV (Fall, 1970), 31. 

1971 

Books and Monographs: 

Kate Field and J. H. Beadle: Manipulators of the Mormon Past (Salt Lake City: Western History Center, University of Utah, 1971), 20 pp. Semi-annual American West Lecture. 

William Spry: Man of Firmness, Governor of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah: Published by the Utah State Historical Society and the Western History Center, University of Utah, 1971). 236 pp. With William L. Roper. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Blessed Damozels: Women in Mormon History,” Dialogue, VI (Summer, 1971), 22-31. This article won Second Prize in Dialogue’s annual competition for the best article in the field of Mormon social literature. 

“The ‘First’ Irrigation Reservoir in the United States: The Newton, Utah, Project,” UHQ, XXXIX (Summer, 1971), 207-223. With Thomas C. Anderson. 

“The 1921 Depression: Its Impact on Idaho,” IY, XV (Summer, 1971), 10-15. With Gwynn W. Barrett. 

“Stopping a Run on a Bank: The First Security Bank of Idaho and the Great Depression,” IY, XIV (Winter, 1970-71), 2-11. With Gwynn W. Barrett. 

Articles in Non-Professional Publications: 

“Background” to “The Order is Love” by Carol Lynn Pearson, New Era, (Salt Lake City), I (April, 1971), 19-20. Also the “Introduction” to The Order is Love by Carol Lynn Pearson (Provo, Utah; Trilogy Arts, 1971), 7-9. 

“The Human Qualities of Joseph Smith, the Prophet,” Ensign (Salt Lake City), I (January, 1971), 35-38. Appears in Spanish translation in Liahona (Salt Lake City), XVII (July, 1971), 7-10. 

Address and Duplicated Papers: 

“Highlights of Utah’s Industrial History.” An address given to the annual membership luncheon of the Utah Manufacturers Association. Duplicated and distributed by the Utah Manufacturers Association, January 1971. 

Reviews: 

The “Americanization” of Utah for Statehood, by Gustive O. Larson. In The American West, VIII (November, 1971), 56.

The First 100 Years: A History of the Salt Lake Tribune, 1871-1971, by O. N. Malmquist. In Ensign, I (October, 1971), 66-67. 

The Reminiscences and Civil War Letters of Levi Lamoni Wight: Life in a Mormon Splinter Colony on the Texas Frontier. Edited by Davis Bitton. In Southwest Historical Review, LXXIV (April, 1971), 565-66. 

Wyoming: A Political History, 1868-1896, by Lewis L. Gould. In Journal of the West, X (January, 1971), 185. 

1972 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Centrifugal Tendencies in Mormon History,” in Truman G. Madsen and Charles D. Tate, Jr., eds., To the Glory of God: Mormon Essays on Great Issues (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1972), pp. 163-77. 

“Church History and the Achievement of Identity,” Commissioner’s Lecture Series, (Salt Lake City: Church Education System, 1972). 

“Church Leaders in Liberty Jail,” BYU Studies, XIII (Autumn, 1972), 20-26. 

“Crisis in Identity: Mormon Responses in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” in Marvin S. Hill and James B. Allen, eds., Mormonism and American Culture (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), pp. 168-84. 

“Joseph Fielding Smith: Faithful Historian,” Dialogue, VII (Spring, 1972), 21-24. “Oliver Cowdery’s Kirtland, Ohio, ‘Sketch Book’,” BYU Studies, XII (Summer, 1972), 410-26. 

Article in Non-Professional Publication: 

“How Do You Know if You Have Received the Holy Ghost?” New Era, II (October, 1972), 40-41. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“Achievements of Utah’s Pioneer Businessmen,” address to Salt Lake City Rotary Club, July 25,1972. Duplicated by Historical Department of the Church, Salt Lake City, 13 pp. 

“How Relief Society Minutes Help Us in Writing Church History,” duplicated typescript, Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, 8 pp. Address to Relief Society Conference, October 5, 1972. 

“Joseph Fielding Smith: The Training of a Prophet,” duplicated typescript, 1972, the Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, 11 pp. 

Reviews: 

Hutterian Brethren: The Agricultural Economy and Social Organization of a Communal People, by John W. Bennett. In the EHR, XXV (May, 1972), 385-86. 

Snake River Country, by Bill Gulick, photographs by Earl Roberge, in IY, XV (Winter, 1972), 36. Union Pacific Country, by Robert G. Athearn. In UHQ, XL (Winter, 1972), 89-90. 

1973 

Book: 

Bankers Extraordinary: A History of First Security Corporation, 1928-1973, 365 pp. Submitted to First Security Corporation, 1973. It has not been released to the public. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” 1973 Britannica Book of the Year, (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc.), pp. 587-588. 

“Community and Isolation: Some Aspects of ‘Mormon Westerns’,” Western American Literature, VIII (Spring and Summer 1973), 15-31. With Jon Haupt. 

“The Latter-day Saints in the Far West, 1847-1900,” in F. Mark McKiernan, Alma R. Blair, and Paul Edwards, eds., The Restoration Movement: Essays in Mormon History (Lawrence, Kansas: Coronado Press, 1973), pp. 257-271. With D. Michael Quinn. 

“The Logan Tabernacle and Temple,” UHQ, XLI (Summer, 1973), 301-314. With Melvin A. Larkin.

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“A Pioneer Mormon Bishop and His Ward: Edwin D. Woolley and the Salt Lake City Thirteenth Ward,” duplicated by Historical Department of the Church, 1973. 24 pp. Address prepared for Mormon History Association Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, October 12, 1973. 

“Pioneer Mormon Midwives,” duplicated by Historical Department of the Church, 1973. 21 pp. Address prepared for Idaho Education Week, August, 1973. 

“Reflections on Pioneer History,” duplicated by Historical Department of the Church, 1973. 8 pp. Address prepared for the annual luncheon of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Salt Lake City, October 6, 1973. 

“Significance of the Mormons in American History,” prepared for the LDS Institute at Stanford University, March 1, 1973. Duplicated by Historical Department of the Church, Salt Lake City, 21 PP. 

“The Utah War,” duplicated by Historical Department of the Church, 1973, 23 pp. 

Book Review: 

Restless Strangers: Nevada’s Immigrants and Their Interpreters, by Wilbur S. Shepperson. In AHR, LXXVIII (February, 1973), 167-68. 

1974 

Book: 

Charles C. Rich, Mormon General and Western Frontiersman (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1974), 386 pp. First volume in the “Studies in Mormon History” Series. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“The Commercialization of Utah’s Economy: Trends and Developments from Statehood to 1910,” in Dean May, ed., A Dependent Commonwealth: Utah’s Economy from Statehood to the Great Depression (Provo, Utah: Charles Redd Monographs in Western History, No. 4, 1974), pp. 3-34. 

“Foreword” to A Believing People: Literature of the Latter-day Saints, Richard H. Cracroft and Neal E. Lambert, eds. (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1974), pp. xv-xvi. 

“General Editor’s Preface,” in Letters of Brigham Young to His Sons, Dean C. Jessee, ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company in collaboration with the Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1974), pp. vi-vii. 

“Mormonism: Views from Without and Within,” BYU Studies, XIV (Winter, 1974), 140-53. 

Articles in Non-Professional Publications: 

“All is Well,” in Mormon Pioneer Memorial Monument (Salt Lake City, 1974), unpaged [pp. 5-13]. “Eleventh President: Harold B. Lee (1899-1973),” in Preston Nibley, The Presidents of the Church (13th ed., rev. and enl., Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1974), pp. 427-57. 

“Latter-day Saint Women on the Arizona Frontier,” New Era, LV (April, 1974), 42-50. 

“The Many Uses of Humor,” Last Lecture Series, (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1974). 33 pp. 

“Where Does the Term ‘Jack-Mormon’ Come From?” Ensign, IV (March 1974), 25. 

Book Review: 

The American West in the Twentieth Century: A Short History of an Urban Oasis, by Gerald D. Nash. In JAH, LXI (June, 1974), 233-34. 

1975 

Book: 

David Eccles: Pioneer Western Industrialist (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1975), 294 pp.

Articles in Professional Publications: 

‘”A Different Mode of Life’: Irrigation and Society in Nineteenth-Century Utah,” in AH, XLIX (January, 1975), pp. 3-20. With Dean May. 

“Foreword” to Latter-day Patriots: Nine Mormon Families and Their Revolutionary War Heritage, by Gene Allred Sessions, (Salt Lake City, Deseret Book Company, 1975), pp. xi-xii. 

“Foreward,” to Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years, Ernest L. Wilkinson, ed. (4 vols., Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1975-1976), l:vii-xii. 

“Foreword” to Mormon Democrat: The Political and Religious Memoirs of James Henry Moyle, Gene A. Sessions, ed. (Salt Lake City: The James Moyle Genealogical and Historical Association, 1975), pp. iii, iv. 

“Panaca: Mormon Outpost Among the Mining Campus,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, XVIII (Winter, 1975), 207-216. With Richard Jensen. 

“Seven Steps to Greatness: Overview of the History of Brigham Young University,” Commencement Address to the Graduates of Brigham Young University, April 18,1975, published in Task Papers in LDS History, No. 3, (Salt Lake City: Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1975), 25 pp. 

Articles in Non-Professional Publications: 

“History Is Then and Now: A conversation with Leonard J. Arrington, Church Historian,” Ensign, V (July 1975), pp. 8-13. 

“The Looseness of Zion: Joseph Smith and the Lighter View,” BYU Devotional Address, November 19, 1974, published in Speeches of the Year: BYU Devotional and Ten-Stake Fireside Addresses, 1974 (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1975), pp. 291-300. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“The Book of Mormon as an Influence in the Life of People,” duplicated, 28 pp., 1975. 

“Great Basin Queendom,” address to the Salt Lake Retrenchment Society and the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, in Richfield and Salt Lake City, Utah, September 18, 25, 1975. 21 pp. 

“H.L.A. Culmer—First President of Salt Lake Rotary,” address to Salt Lake Rotary Club, Salt Lake City, July 22, 1975, duplicated, 1975. 

“Latter-day Saint Men at West Point,” duplicated, 1975. 

“The Marrow in the Bones of History: New Directions in Historical Writing,” address for Western University Press Association, Salt Lake City, October 12, 1975. 14 pp. 

“Reflections on Economics and the Church,” address to the Conference on Economics and Mormon Culture, Brigham Young University, October 7, 1975, duplicated, 14 pp. 

1976 

Books: 

Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years, Volumes 3 and 4 (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1976). Co-editor with Ernest L. Wilkinson, pp. 789; 644. 

Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation Among the Mormons (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976), 512 pp. With Dean May and Feramorz Y. Fox. Received the Best Book Award for 1976 from the Mormon History Association. 

From Quaker to Latter-day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976), 592 pp. 

Tar Heels, Hoosiers, and Idahoans: A History of the Noah and Edna Arrington Family to 1933 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Privately Printed, 1976), 167 pp. With Rebecca F. Cornwall. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Cache Valley’s Bicentennial Heritage,” address to Banquet for the George Washington Bicentennial Ball, Logan, Utah, February 20, 1976, published in Douglas D. Alder, ed., Cache Valley: Essays on Her Past and People (Logan: Utah State University, 1976), pp. 1-12.

“Seven Steps to Greatness/’ BYU Studies, XVI (Summer, 1976), 459-70. 

Article in Non-Professional Publication: 

“Joseph Smith and the Lighter View,” New Era, VI (August, 1976), pp. 8-13. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

“Agriculture and Mormonism: The Historical Perspective,” address at Centennial Agricultural Week, Brigham Young University, March 30, 1976, 19 pp. 

“Blessed Relief Society Sisters,” prepared for Parley’s First Ward Relief Society, 24 August 1976, 15 pp. 

“Cedar City: The Building of a Community,” prepared for 125th anniversary of the settlement of Cedar City, Utah, November 11, 1976. 24 pp. With Dean L. May. 

“A History [of Sorts] of the Practice of Medicine in Utah,” address to Annual Banquet of Western Anaesthesiologists, Salt Lake City, February 21, 1976, duplicated, 18 pp. 

“The Importance of the Humanities,” prepared for the Nevada Humanities Council, Lake Tahoe, July 22, 1976, 11 pp. 

“John Tanner, His Children, and Their Families Who Came West,” prepared for the John Tanner Family, September 13, 1976, 26 pp. 

“The Mormon Experience in Idaho,” Summer School Lecture, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, on June 15, 1976, 25 pp. 

“Their Share and More: The Story of the Salt Lake Emigration Stake,” prepared for Bicentennial Lecture Program, Emigration Stake, September 30, 1976, 32 pp. 

“Foreward,” to The Story of the Latter-day Saints by James B. Allen and Glen M. Leonard (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1976), pp. vii, viii. 

“This is the Place’: The Mormon Trek to Utah,” in The American Destiny: An Illustrated Bicentennial History of the United States, 10 vols. (New York: The Danbury Press, 1976), vol. 5, pp. 94-114. 

1977 

Book: 

“I’m Glad My House Burned Down: The Personal Story of Grace Fort Arrington.” (Salt Lake City: Privately Distributed, 1977). 189 pp. Edited with Rebecca F. Cornwall. 

Articles in Professional Publications: 

“Building a Commonwealth: The Secular Leadership of Brigham Young,” address for Statehood Day, St. George, Utah, January 4, 1977. UHQ, XLV (Summer, 1977), 216-32. With Ronald K. Esplin. 

“George Albert Smith,” in Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement Five, 1951-1955, John A. Garraty, ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977), pp. 639-40. 

“Historian as Entrepreneur: A Personal Essay,” BYU Studies, XVII (Winter, 1977), 193-209. “Idaho’s Benson Family,” in Idaho Heritage, 9: (1977), 18-19. 

Howard R. Lamar, ed., The Reader’s Encyclopedia of the American West (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1977). Leonard Arrington authored the following entries: John Milton Bernhisel (p. 90); George Q. Cannon (p. 161); Patrick Edward Connor (p. 254); William Godbe (p. 445); handcart companies (p. 485); William Henry Hooper (p. 511); William Jennings (p. 598); Latter-day Saints (pp. 646-652); Logan, Utah (p. 673-74); Ogden, Utah (p. 859); Joseph Smith, Jr. (pp. 1122-24); Joseph Fielding Smith (p. 1124); Eliza Roxey Snow (pp. 1126-27); James E. Talmage (pp. 1155-56); John Taylor (p. 1161); uranium mining (p. 1207-08); Utah (pp. 1208-11); Wilford Woodruff (p. 1287); Brigham Young (pp. 1299-1300); Mahonri Macintosh Young (p. 1301); and Zion’s Co operative Mercantile Institution (p. 1306). 

“The Latter-day Saints and Public Education,” Southwestern Journal of Social Education, VII (Spring Summer, 1977), 9-25. 

“The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher,” BYU Studies, XVIII (Fall, 1977), 27-47. With Jon Haupt.

“The Six Pillars of Utah’s Pioneer Economy,” presidential address to Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, St. George, Utah, March 25, 1977, Encyclopedia: Journal of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, LIV (Part I, 1977), 9-24. 

Articles in Non-Professional Publications: 

“Have the Saints Always Given as much Emphasis to the Word of Wisdom as They do Today?” Ensign, VII (April, 1977), 32-33. 

“Mississippi Saints,” Ensign, VII (June, 1977), 46-51. 

“Vistas in Church History,” The First Annual Church Educational System Religious Educators Symposium, held August 19, 20, 1977, at Brigham Young University (Salt Lake City: Church Educational System, 1977), pp. 17-21. 

Review: 

Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Legacy and A Monumental Crime, by William Wise, in BYU Studies, 17 (Spring 1977), 382-384. 

1978 

Article in Professional Publication: 

‘”In Honorable Remembrance’: Thomas L. Kane’s Services to the Mormons,” Task Papers in LDS History, No. 22 (Salt Lake City: Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, 1978). Based on an address delivered at the Centennial Service, Kane Memorial Chapel, Kane, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1978. 

Addresses and Duplicated Papers: 

‘”Clothe These Bones’: The Reconciliation of Faith and History,” address delivered at History Division Retreat, Ensign Peak, Salt Lake Valley, June 23, 1978. 16 pp. 

“Mormon Colonization of the Great Basin Kingdom,” address delivered at the Days of ’47 Luncheon, Salt Lake City, July 24, 1978. 12 pp. 

“The Mormon Experience in Illinois,” address delivered to a Stake Fireside, Urbana, Illinois, April 15, 1978. 18 pp. 

“The Mormon Settlement of Cassia County Idaho, 1873-1921,” prepared for the Snake River Series under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Address delivered at Burley, Idaho, October 18, 1978. 27 pp. 

1979 

Book: 

The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979). c. 500 pp. with Davis Bitton.