Richard M. Dorson

RICHARD M. DORSON, author of American Folklore and Buying the Wind: Regional Folklore in the United States, is director of the Folklore Institute at Indiana University.

J. Golden Kimball: Apostle and Folk Hero | Thomas E. Cheney, The Golden Legacy: A Folk History of J. Golden Kimball

Articles/Essays – Volume 08, No. 3

Even before his death in 1938 at the age of eighty-five, J. Golden Kimball had become the most talked about of all Mormon churchmen. He was himself cognizant of his reputation, and when a nephew…