Richard W. Sadler, Author at Dialogue Journal

Scissors and Paste Massacre | William Wise, Massacre at Mountain Meadows

The Mountain Meadow Massacre was one of the most tragic criminal events in the history of the United States, and William Wise’s book concerning the massacre is similarly tragic in its lack of scholarship and…

A Taste of Southern Utah | Juanita Brooks, Quicksand and Cactus

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 2

In a letter to Bernard DeVoto dated 5 August 1944, Dale Morgan described a manuscript which would be published thirty-eight years later in 1982 as Quick sand and Cactus. Morgan, who had become a particularly…

Twin Contributions | Eugene E. Campbell, Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-1869

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 3

While Gene Campbell lived through much of the twentieth century (1915-86), the focus of much of his historical research and interest was the nineteenth century. His earlier research and writing on Brig ham Young, Fort…

The Rise of the Church in Great Britain | Richard L. Jensen and Malcolm R. Thorp, eds., Mormons in Early Victorian Britain

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 4

Mormons in Early Victorian Britain, volume 4 in the University of Utah’s Mormon Studies series, is a significant contribution to the understanding of Mormon history in both the United States and Great Britain. As the…