S. Lyman Tyler

Professor of history and director of the American West Center, University of Utah.

The Availability of Information Concerning the Mormons

One might say of Mormonism, as the Apostle Paul said of Christianity in his testimony before King Agrippa, “This thing was not done in a corner.” Before the Book of Mormon was off the press,…

A Window on Utah, 1849–50 | Brigham D. Madsen, ed., A Forty-niner in Utah: With the Stansbury Exploration of Great Salt Lake: Letters and Journals of John Hudson, 1848–50, and Brigham D. Madsen, Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City, 1849 and 1850

Articles/Essays – Volume 17, No. 4

It is a pleasure to discuss these two books edited and written by Brigham D. Madsen, professor of history at the University of Utah. Their primary subject matter is the westward migration during the California…