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The Missouri & Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction

[…] by studies which have made use of literary sources. Few works, for example, surpass the challenging insights and interpretations of Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land (1950), William R. Taylor’s Cavalier and Yankee (1961), Edmund […]

The Current Restoration of Nauvoo, Illinois

[…] above the old city.  On this land, encircled by the river on three sides, the Sac and Fox Indians established a large agricultural village in the days preceding the settlement of Illinois by white […]

Utah’s Peculiar Death Penalty

[…] he would mellow with age.  One night when I reported for work the prison was buzzing with news of an escape attempt. The death row officer on the afternoon shift had been care less. […]

My Fifty Years in Journalism

[…] of newspapers, I plunged into a fascinating life.  The printing of our school paper at the Deseret News plant brought me into contact with some of the executives of that journal. Near the end […]

The Poetics of Provincialism: Mormon Regional Fiction

[…] sunset for America’s future.” It was, he declared, “a good book, by far the best book I am never going to write.” DeVoto’s point is that the story is too big and the reality […]

Church Historians I Have Known

[…] B. Colton said: “You spent four years between 1922-1927 as president of the Eastern States Mission. I am overwhelmed by the responsibility of directing the missionaries and making the mission productive. I’d like to […]

Magic and the Supernatural in Utah Folklore

[…] legends dealing with the Three Nephites, one of the most prolific genres of religious folklore in America today. Collection did not begin until 1938; but thanks to the work of the Fifes, Hector Lee, […]