Gary Topping
GARY TOPPING {[email protected]} has been Curator of Manuscripts at the Utah State Historical Society and Professor of History at Salt Lake Community College. Since 2001 he has been Archivist of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. He is author of, among other books and articles, Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History and The Story of the Cathedral of the Madeleine.
Genealogical Blockbuster | Arlene H. Eakle and Johni Cerny, eds., The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy
Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 2
You don’t have to be consumed with genealogical passion to profit from this new work of far-reaching and fundamental importance, though those who are will buy it as a matter of course and use it…
Read moreThe Ultimate Stegner Interview | Wallace Stegner and Richard W. Etulain, Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature
Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 4
With the possible exception of Louis L’Amour, Wallace Stegner has probably been interviewed more frequently than any other living Western writer. This is an impressive tribute to Stegner’s accessibility to representatives of both scholarly and…
Read moreDale Morgan’s Unfinished Mormon History | John Philip Walker, ed., Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence and a New History
Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 1
It would be difficult to say too much in praise of John Phillip Walker’s new contribution to Mormon historiography, a field that is bursting with recent major studies. Walker’s book deserves a place on the…
Read moreWomen Coping | Linda Sillitoe, Sideways to the Sun
Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 2
What happens when a Mormon house wife, faithful to husband and church, encounters the dark side of human experience including adultery, child molestation, spouse abandonment, and divorce? In this fine first novel, Linda Sillitoe answers…
Read moreHistory of Historians | Davis Bitton and Leonard Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians
Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 1
That such a volume as this could be written at all is happy testimony to the development of a Mormon historiographical tradition. Its appearance at this late date, however—over a century and a half after…
Read moreMormon Woman Historian | Levi S. Peterson, Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian
Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 2
Students of Utah and Mormon historiography ought to be rejoicing at the flowering of literature in that field over recent years. Beginning perhaps in the last decade with Wallace Stegner’s biography of Bernard DeVoto and…
Read moreQuest for Meaning: The Chinchilla Farm: A Novel by Judith Freeman
Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 2
Nothing New Under the Sun: New Religions and the Theological Imagination in America by Mary Farrell Bednarowski
Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3
Reappraisal of a Classic: Great Basin Kingdom Revisited: Contemporary Perspectives edited by Thomas G. Alexander
Articles/Essays – Volume 25, No. 2