Dean L. May

DEAN L. MAY is assistant professor of history in the University of Utah History Department and director of its Center for Historical Population Studies. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Mormon History. This essay was originally prepared for presentation, with accom- panying performance of hymns, at the Mormon History Association annual meeting in Ogden, Utah, May 1982.

A Latter-day Ode to Irrigation

Articles/Essays – Volume 10, No. 1

In 1907 J. J. McClellan, then organist for the Mormon Tabernacle, published a new choral suite under the extravagant title, “Ode to Irrigation.” The first of five choruses described in heavy Victorian prose a truly…

An Enduring History | Charles S. Peterson, Utah: A Bicentennial History

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 4

The States and the Nation Series is a set of histories of each state and the District of Columbia “designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they have espoused…

The Millennial Hymns of Parley P. Pratt

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 1

Born in 1807 in Burlington, New York, Parley P. Pratt was baptized by Oliver Cowdery in Seneca Lake on 1 September 1830, less than five months after the Church’s founding. Among the first to be…