Utah Historical Quarterly Volume XXVI

Reviews and recent publications - 2

REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS The Mormons. By THOMAS F. O'DEA. (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1957, xii + 289 pp., $5.00) The excellence of Professor O'Dea's work is the product of a care­ful study of the historical materials and a close look at the Mormons in real life, combined with a fine sensitivity to human values, a good education in the sociology of religion, and competence in the analysis and appraisal of human situations. It is neither an essentially historical study nor an extended and intensive analysis of Mormon thought and institutions. Nor is it the kind of work that professes to be a definitive treatment of its subject. But the attractive synthesis of the material and its scholarly treatment, together with O'Dea's knowing insight into the character of the contemporary problems and his eminent fairness in handling the subject, make the volume easily the best general statement yet published on the Mormons. Mormonism as a subject has suffered much from the attentions of three classes of authors: biased critics, often with questionable intent and deficient information; Mormon writers bent on apologetics or dis­qualified by honest inability to see the whole picture; and journalists who always find a ready market for a Mormon piece that promises a touch of sensationalism. But there is a growing group of competent scholars and writers both within and without the church who find in Mormon history and society a wealth of material deserving serious 184 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY attention and who are willing to treat the subject with a measure of honesty and objectivity. O'Dea, who is associate professor of sociology at Fordham University, qualifies for the latter category. His look at the Mormons and their religion is from the mature perspective of a person who knows more than a little about the history of religion and has a good grasp of the American scene in which Mormonism has played its role and to which he so effectively relates it. The merit of O'Dea's historical essays does not lie in new data or original interpretations but rather in the fine balance and restrained assessments that characterize his conclusions. Although he gives too little attention to the Campbellite connections of the early church, his description of the background of Mormon beginnings is especially good in the treatment of the general relevance to Mormonism of Protestant theology. In contrast to many authors who describe Joseph Smith in terms of medical and abnormal psychology, O'Dea treats him as a normal person functioning in a somewhat unusual environment. He assumes uncritically Joseph Smith's authorship of the Boo\ of Mormon and proceeds with an interesting analysis of the religious and moral ideas of that book as a reflection of the thought, attitude, and life of the prophet's own world. In contrast to the not uncommon dismissal of the Book °f Mormon as a worthless and boring illiterate concoction, O'Dea is found saying that "in some of the scenes of prophecy and preaching the Book °f Mormon reaches something like greatness in portraying the tension of hope, the inner soaring of the spirit, of the common man who embraced revival Christianity." As in his discussion of the Book °f Mormon, O'Dea throughout his volume has given a prominent place to the theological ideas and philosophical insights of Mormonism. Better than most writers on the subject, he recognizes fully the intellectualistic character of the religion and comes to grips with the problem of the relation of the doctrine to the practice of the people. He has not only a good book understanding of the doctrine but through his own participation in the life of a Mor­mon community has achieved something of the distinctive feeling of Mormon theology with its broad perspectives combined with hope, aspiration, and almost naive confidence. As a sociologist, and supported by a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Harvard University, O'Dea was involved, prior to the writing of the present book, in a study of the value structure of a small Mormon vil­lage. It was here that he met at first hand the distinctive community character of Mormonism and was attracted to its healthy and aggressive REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 185 life-affirming quality as evidenced, for instance, in the patterns and techniques of social co-operation. He encountered here also the au­thoritarian structure of the church government which he so effectively describes not only in its present state but in its historical development from early congregational tendencies. Certainly one of the best pieces to be found in the analysis of the development of Mormon institutions or in the study of Joseph Smith is O'Dea's brief discussion on the "Con­tainment of Charisma." In such sections as this he demonstrates the relevance to his task of his specialized education in social psychology and in the social history of religion. It is in the analysis of current internal conflict within the Mormon community that O'Dea has made his most interesting observations. In a comparatively short time, by shrewd observation and effective inter­viewing, he quite successfully grasped the basic sources of the strains that are the chief problems of the church today. The encounter of orthodoxy with liberal and secular thought, the democratic challenge to authority, the progressive industrialization of Mormon country, and the general threat to Mormon provincialism come in for brief but spirited treatment. It is worth noting that while O'Dea is fully cognizant of the disintegrating power of numerous factors that have become a part of Mormon life, as, for instance, the inevitable threat to orthodoxy posed by the church's commitment to higher education, he nevertheless refuses to agree with the not uncommon judgment that the end of Mormonism as an effective movement is at hand. "It is a tremendous presumption to attempt to judge the future of a movement like Mormonism. Yet it is my suspicion that those who emphasize the obsolescence of Mormon­ism, those who see the end of the movement in a stereotyped lack of creativity and a routine running down, who believe that this Mormon world will end not with a bang but a whimper, are wrong. There is still too much vitality - the characteristic Mormon vitality - remaining for such a prognosis to be likely." This is not in any sense a monumental product of long and meticu­lous research. It depends heavily on the scholarly work of others. But it has done what many meritorious studies of the subject, both published and unpublished, have failed to do. And it is perhaps a fair guess that even the Mormons, who are not accustomed to self-examination and do not enjoy the objective gaze of others, will find Professor O'Dea's volume both interesting and provocative. STERLING M. MCMURRIN University of Utah 186 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Intimate Disciple: A Portrait of Willard Richards. By CLAIRE NOALL. (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1957, 630 pp., $4.75) This historical novel based on the life of Willard Richards is an intensely moving and colorful story of one of Utah's great pioneer citi­zens. It is a study of dedication to the Mormon faith, for it was his almost unheralded devotion and unswerving loyalty to this cause, and especially to its leader, Joseph Smith, that enabled Richards to overcome mob violence, domestic tragedy, and heartless persecution. However, the volume is much more than a personal portrait. Because of the author's skill in integrating the narrative with the locale of Richards' life, it becomes in reality the history of the Berkshire country in western Massachusetts, of the frontier Mormon communities of Kirtland, Nauvoo, Salt Lake City, and even of the Lancashire towns of England during the first half of the nineteenth century. "The story of his life seems best told through his own eyes," writes the author. "I have fre­quently used his words but have supplied many others. The latter have been largely chosen from his own statements and the language of his lucid family, who left thousands and thousands of lines in letters, jour­nals, maxims, as he himself did. I have employed in my portrait the pigments supplied by his brothers, sisters, friends, and enemies, striving always to grasp the inner truth of a situation." (p. viii.) And how well she has succeeded. In the opinion of the reviewer, the author's study is perhaps the best of its type in western Americana to appear within the past decade. Her style is lucid, forceful, convincing, even dramatic. She has succeeded like an artist in drawing a portrait of Willard Richards, great Mormon leader, which is historically accurate, vital, and com­pelling. Willard Richards was born of stern Congregational parentage in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, near Boston, June 24, 1804; the eleventh and last child of Joseph and Rhoda Howe Richards. Eight years later the family moved to Richmond in the Berkshire country of western Massachusetts. Here the boy Willard, completely yet unhappily domi­nated by Congregational orthodoxy, sought spiritual emancipation. For a while he won this freedom by teaching school, barnstorming with an electrical show, and even by practicing medicine, for which he was licensed in the art of herb healing. Thereafter he was called Dr. Richards. His emancipation from Congregational influences came finally, though rather accidentally, through the procurement of a copy of the Boor\ of Mormon from one Lucius Parker, a cousin, who in turn REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 187 had received it from another cousin, Brigham Young. Fired with enthusiasm, Willard determined to repair to Kirtland, Ohio, and confer with the Prophet in person. As a result of this experience, he was readily converted and baptized a member of the Mormon Church. In 1837 he left with Heber C. Kimball to introduce Mormonism in England. Here at Preston he met one Jennetta Richards, who is said to have been the first British convert to become baptized and confirmed a member of the Mormon Church. Within a few months, culminating a most romantic courtship, the couple were married. A year later a son, Heber John Richards, was born, who, however, died a few months later. In 1841 Richards returned to America and repaired at once to Nauvoo, Illinois, the new headquarters of the church. Shortly before his de­parture from Preston he was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Willard Richards had earned a fine reputation through his experi­ences in England, especially as a writer, and the Prophet accordingly made him his private secretary and commissioned him to write his per­sonal history. He was also named editor and manager of the Times and Seasons, Mormon periodical. In 1842 he was secretly apprized by the Prophet of the practice of polygamy and enjoined to enter that order. After much hesitation Willard agreed. This decision gave him much mental anguish. Subsequently he married nine additional polygamous wives. Two years later, in 1844, he, Joseph and Hyrum Smith, and John Taylor were arrested and incarcerated at Carthage jail. This pre­cipitated an attack on June 27 by a frenzied mob, during which Joseph and Hyrum were martyred. Taylor was severely wounded but Willard miraculously escaped injury and was thus enabled to record the only eye-witness account of the tragedy. When the pioneers left Winter Quarters on their trek to Utah, April 7, 1847, Willard Richards was assigned to the Second Company of Ten commanded by Ezra T. Benson. As the pioneers approached the Great Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young ordered him to proceed with sixty wagons and one hundred ten Saints through the mouth of Emigration Canyon and over the mesa into Salt Lake Valley. This he did, and established the first pioneer encampment on the north bank of Parley's Creek, near the junction of the present Seventeenth South and Fifth East streets, on the evening of July 22,1847. Richards returned to Winter Quarters in the fall of 1847 to expedite the migration of the Saints to Utah. At Kanesville (Council Bluffs) in December of that year he received his greatest signal honor by being 188 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY named second counselor to Brigham Young in the First Presidency of the church, an action which was reaffirmed a year later at Salt Lake City. Because of his unusual ability as a writer, this faithful servant of the church won recognition first as secretary of the State of Deseret, then as secretary of the territory of Utah, and finally as editor of the Deseret News, which he founded in 1850. He also served as president of the territorial assembly, church historian, and postmaster of Great Salt Lake City. Church and state papers that came from his adroit pen prove his linguistic eloquence. Judged by the standard of service, the life of Willard Richards, though marred with domestic tragedy and sorrow, was an abundant and happy one. He died March 11, 1854, three months short of his fiftieth year. The book is handsomely bound and printed, thanks to the Uni­versity of Utah Press, to whom a debt of gratitude is due. There are copious notes appended, two genealogical appendixes, and an adequate and helpful bibliography. Two fine maps and several excellent photo­graphs add interest to the volume. LELAND HARCRAVE CREER University of Utah Kingdom of the Saints. The Story of Brigham Young and the Mor­mons. By ROY B. WEST, JR. (New York, Viking Press, 1957, xxii + 389 pp., $6.00) For those readers who eagerly anticipate the disclosure of new and startling source materials on Mormon history, this volume will be a dis­tinct disappointment. Mr. West's intent has been to give an impartial and understanding appraisal of the Mormon story from the founding of the church in 1830 to the present. Although some readers may strongly object to his point of view and conclusions, the narrative of Mormon trials and trails which he presents seems eminently fair and, in fact, a bit prosaic to students of the subject who have long supported the ap­proach. The important contribution of the book is that here is set down in succinct and readable fashion the Mormon saga which modern scholar­ship has delineated but which has not been readily available to the average reader. Documented research and monographic materials on REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 189 specific phases of Latter-day Saint history have become increasingly numerous in recent years, so that such a synthesis is essential. As the sub-title suggests, Brigham Young rides through almost every page, dominates nearly every scene, and in the end captures the book, converting it into a creditable biography of himself. The drama of Joseph, the Prophet, unfolds to the reader through the eyes of Brig­ham Young, as does the movement to Utah and the establishment of Deseret. In a final essay the author surveys "The Kingdom of God" today, points out its shortcomings, praises its accomplishments, and notes that "it has reached a point of salvation and has begun to flow backward into a world which was once a world of enemies." At such a point in history, the summing up of a century and a quarter of Mormon activity is both desirable and necessary. The present volume accomplishes that ob­jective. BRIGHAM D. MADSEN Salt Lake City, Utah The Mariposa Indian War 1850-1851: Diaries of Robert Eccleston: The California Gold Rush, Yosemite, and the High Sierra. Edited by C. GREGORY CRAMPTON. (Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, 1957,168 pp., $6.00) The first published volume of the diaries of Robert Eccleston was entitled Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail, 1849, and was edited by George P. Hammond and Edward H. Howes and dis­tributed to Friends of the Bancroft Library in 1950. This second volume deals largely with the period from October, 1850, to December, 1851. Apparently upon reaching California late in December, 1849, Eccleston abandoned his practice of keeping a diary but resumed it on October 20, 1850. After giving a brief account of his movements during the preced­ing summer, he made occasional entries until February 12, 1851, when he was mustered into the Mariposa Battalion for service against the Indians. He then began to make daily entries which were continued with few breaks until early in the following December. The encroaching of the early California gold seekers upon lands occupied by Indians soon caused trouble. In September, 1850, James D. Savage learned that the Indians of the Mariposa region were planning a general war against the whites. Savage had come to California in 190 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 1846 and after service with Fremont had become an Indian trader and established three or four trading posts. He had learned some of the languages of the Indians and according to tribal custom had married several Indian wives. Savage sought to prevent the war, but about the middle of December, 1850, his post on the Fresno River was destroyed by the Indians and three of his men were killed. Governor John Mc- Dougal promptly ordered the formation of a volunteer force of two hundred men to prosecute the war. In response to this order the Mari­posa Battalion of three companies was organized. Savage, who had already gathered a considerable band for defense against the Indians, was elected to command the battalion, with the rank of major. In the meantime a federal commission composed of Redick McKee, George W. Barbour, and O. M. Wozencraft had reached California with full authority to deal with Indian affairs. The commissioners set out from Stockton for the Mariposa area with a military escort, three wagons, and a hundred and fifty pack mules loaded with their baggage and presents for the Indians. Governor Mc- Dougal placed the Mariposa Battalion under the command of these commissioners, who urged patience and moderation until they could meet with the Indians and try to make treaties. As a result the battalion saw almost no fighting but made three major expeditions deep into the Indian country. On one of these an advance party camped on the floor of the Yosemite Valley, probably the first white persons to do so. Another party discovered some of the big trees and a third explored the high Sierra. Peace was made with the Indians by the commissioners and the Mariposa Battalion was mustered out on July 1, 1851. Eccleston re-formed his companions of the "Cayata Mess" of which he had earlier been a member, and the group continued mining until December 8, 1851. The appendix of the book lists the members of the Mariposa Battalion and for two of its three companies gives the age and former home of each man. This reveals the cosmopolitan nature of the mining population and the youth of most of the miners. Seventeen states and three foreign countries were represented in Companies A and C in the total membership of 125 men. Of these states Missouri, New York, and Texas, in that order, contributed the largest number, while the foreign countries were Australia, France, and England. Only two of the 125 were more than forty years old, 97 were under thirty, and 60 under twenty-five. The Eccleston diaries have great historical importance since they give prices, daily returns from mining, and details of life in the camps. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 191 Their value has been enormously increased by the scholarly and volumi­nous notes of the editor, which make the book a very significant con­tribution to the literature of early mining operations in California. EDWARD EVERETT DALE University of Oklahoma Why the North Star Stands Still. By WILLIAM R. PALMER. (New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1957,118 pp., $3.50) Not for forty years, since Frank B. Linderman's delightful books told "how things came about" among the Blackfeet, Chippewas, and Crees, has this reviewer seen a collection of folk tales that carried more sense of authenticity than this book of "why-stories" from the Pahutes of southern Utah and Nevada. The stories have in them the ring of the true folk tale. For one thing, they give answers to questions which a white man would never think of asking. They explain, for example, why the coyote looks up when he howls, why rocks cannot travel, why the sun rises cautiously, how the beaver lost the hair on his tail, how the eagle got smoke on his feathers, why the porcupine can't throw his quills, how the packrat got his pouches, and other such fascinating though unuseful phenomena. Nature was the Indian's book, and he tried to understand every page of it, including the footnotes. Whenever he found it impossible to answer his own questions through natural causes, he invented an answer and called it magic. The magic in this book is Indian magic without question, for the culture patterns show through. Indian taboos, Indian goals and desires, and Indian ways of achieving them are ap­parent throughout. Moreover, one finds a fertility of fancy and a variety of resolutions to the plot complications of the stories that point to multiple authorship or folk origin of the tales. The author has lived in close proximity to the Pahutes (as he insists on spelling the tribal name) for most of a lifetime. He learned the native language and ingratiated himself with the people through acts of kindness and consideration, until ultimately their confidence in him was such that they were willing to have him hear and tell their tribal tales and, after many years, to put the stories into a book. The telling of the tales is somewhat less satisfying than the tales themselves. No doubt the tales were set down at different times and in different moods. Then, many years afterward, they were brought 192 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY together in this collection. A shifting point of view is almost inevitable under the circumstances. Sometimes the narrator is an old Pahute tell­ing his tale in simple primer sentences of three or four words each; at other times the narrator is a white man speaking of "the Indian" as though he were far away and strange. At such times the sentences are of much more complex structure, being simply white man's English with no pretense at primitive communication. The author takes little pains to prepare the reader for these sudden shifts in point of view. As a result some tales are more dramatic than others, and the tone is alternately naive and sophisticated. Yet the stories are intrinsically interesting, and most children and many adults will appreciate them. Westerners, especially, will feel grate­ful for another indigenous contribution to their bookshelves. The book is copiously illustrated with drawings by Ursula Koering. These are adequate but not remarkable, the lack which one feels in them being that the images are generic Indians rather than Pahutes. The fact that many of the characters illustrated are supernatural per­sonages does not mitigate the charge, for Pahutes, like other primitive people, probably created their folk characters in their own image. However, despite any shortcomings the book may have, Dr. Palmer is to be congratulated for having assembled, without academic training, a notable collection of Indian folk tales. [Ed. note: This book was issued in 1946 by the Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, Utah, under another title and with a different arrangement of the stories.] KARL YOUNG Brigham Young University ANNOUNCEMENT Too newly off the press for review at this time, yet too important to be overlooked, is the book by two men prominently identified with history in Utah and the West and intimately associated with the affairs of the Utah State Historical Society. We call your attention to the impos­ing volume, Among the Mormons: Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers, edited by WILLIAM MULDER and A. R. MORTENSEN. (New York, A. A. Knopf, 1958, xiv, xiv + 482 pp., $6.75). The book represents the culmination of years of painstaking research as the editors scoured literally thousands of obscure, rare, and unique materials, published and unpublished: letters, newspaper columns, documents, memoirs of the REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 193 Mormons themselves and travelers, journalists, soldiers, officials (and their wives), humorists, and sensation-seekers who followed and ob­served the Mormons in their westward trek and later struggles in Zion. The history of the Mormon people is presented from the fresh and novel viewpoint of the "contemporary observer" himself. By extremely read­able, interesting, and informative introductory comments to each chap­ter, the editors have succeeded in keeping the historical thread intact, and the book emerges as a documentary history which should prove to be an invaluable source book. A full-scale review will appear in a later issue of this magazine. D.S. The American Heritage Boot\ of Great Historic Places. The Editors. (American Heritage-Simon & Schuster, 1957) The Bannoc\ °f Idaho. By BRICHAM D. MADSEN. (Caldwell, Idaho, The Caxton Printers, 1958) British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period. By W. S. SHEPPERSON. (Minneapolis, Uni­versity of Minnesota Press, 1957) The Charles M. Russell Book- By HAROLD MCCRACKEN. (New York, Doubleday & Co., 1957) The Exploration of the Colorado River. By JOHN WESLEY POWELL. (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1957) The Hudson's Bay Company as an Imperial Factor, 1821-1869. By JOHN S. GILBRAITH. (Berkeley, University of California Press, [1957]) Magnificent Missourian. By ELBERT B. SMITH. (Philadelphia, Lippin-cott, 1957) Mormonism. By WALTER R. MARTIN. (Grand Rapids, Michigan, Zon-dervan Publishing House, 1957) The North West Company. By MARJORIE WILKINS CAMPBELL. (New York, St. Martin's Press, [1957]) 194 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Revivalism and Social Reform in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. By TIMOTHY L. SMITH. (New York, Abingdon Press, 1957) Roads, Rails &• Waterways. By FOREST G. HILL. (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1957) The Young Mustangers. By- JONREED LAURITZEN. (New York, Little Brown & Co., 1957) A. V. KIDDER, "Earl Halstead Morris - 1889-1956," American Antiquity, April, 1957. NEIL M. JUDD, M. R. HARRINGTON, and S. K. LOTHROP, "Frederick Webb Hodge-1864-1956," z'fef. DOUGLAS W. SCHWARTZ, "Climate Change and Culture History in the Grand Canyon Region," ibid. OLIVER JENSEN, "Farewell to Steam," American Heritage, December, 1957. Lucius BEEBE, "Pandemonium at Promontory," ibid., February, 1958. MAURINE CARLEY, "Oregon Trail Trek No. Five," Annals of Wyoming, October, 1957. THELMA GATCHELL CONDIT, "The Hole-In-The-Wall," Part V, ibid. AKE HULTKRANTZ, "The Indians in Yellowstone Park," ibid. DALE L. MORGAN, "Washakie and the Shoshoni," Part IX, ibid. LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL, "A Southwestern Century," Arizona High­ways, March, 1958. "Change Comes to Zion's Empire," Business Wee\, November 23,1957. J. N. BOWMAN, "Driving the Last Spike at Promontory, 1869" (conclu­sion), California Historical Society Quarterly, September, 1957. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 195 "Battalion Gold Bought Ogden," Church News [Deseret News], De­cember 1,1957. MERWIN G. FAIRBANKS, "Assassin's Bullet Ends Prophet's Campaign for U.S. Presidency," ibid., December 14,1957. DOROTHY O. REA, "Old Fort Bridger," ibid., February 8,1958. LULITA CRAWFORD PRITCHETT, "Tilford Stillings, Pioneer Mail Carrier to Brown's Park," The Colorado Magazine, October, 1957. ROBERT G. ATHEARN, "The Denver and Rio Grande Railway," ibid., January, 1958. BILL ALLRED, "The Old Spanish Trail," Corral Dust [Brand Book of the Potomac Corral of Westerners], September, 1957. LOUIS H. RODDIS, "Fact and Fiction about the American Indian in the History of the United States," ibid. THEODORE H. HAAS, "Indian Treaties Broken and Unbroken," ibid., December, 1957. "Pierre Jean DeSmet 'Black Robe' 1801-1873," The Denver Westerners Monthly Roundup, September, 1957. NOLIE MUMEY, "Your Writers of Western History" (Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1793-1864), ibid., October, 1957. , "Your Writers of Western History" (George Catlin, 1796- 1872), ibid., November, 1957. , "Your Writers of Western History" (John Charles Fremont, 1813-1890), ibid., December, 1957. IDA LIBERT UCI-IILL, "Pioneer Jewish History, Etc.," ibid. GENE SPERRY, "Collecting Gizzard Stones in Utah," Desert, July, 1957. 196 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY RANDALL HENDERSON, "With Harry Goulding in Mystery Valley," ibid., August, 1957. , "We Camped in the Land of the Standing Rocks" [south­eastern Utah], ibid., October, 1957. , "The Water Was Rough in Cataract Canyon," ibid., Febru­ary, 1958. O. V. DEMING, "The Antiquities Laws and You," ibid., November, 1957. JEAN PAGE KILLGORE, "In His Memory, A New Town" [Page, Glen Canyon damsite community], ibid. W. THETFORD LEVINESS, "Harrison Begay - Navajo Artist," ibid., De­cember, 1957. ROBERT O. GREENAWALT, "Guano Tramway in Granite Gorge," ibid., January, 1958. NELL MURBARGER, "Flaming Gorge Dam on the Green River," ibid. ELIZABETH RIGBY, "Primitive Village in Havasupai Canyon," ibid. JOSEF AND JOYCE MUENCH, "Crossing of the Fathers," ibid., March, 1958. CECIL M. OUELLETTE, "Over the Top of Landscape Arch" [Arches Na­tional Monument, Utah], ibid. FRANK ELMER MASLAND, JR., "Running the Colorado Rapids," Explorers Journal, December, 1957. CORNELIUS C. SMITH, JR., "Navaho and Hopi Country," Ford Times, December, 1957. WILLARD LUCE, "Natural Bridges National Monument," ibid., January, 1958. "Cody [Wyoming] Mural Tells History of the Church," Improvement Era, November, 1957. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 197 DOYLE L. GREEN, "The Saga of Mormonism," ibid. MABLE HARMER, "When the Candle Was Lit" [Young family in the Lion House], The Instructor, June, 1957. BOYD O. HATCH, "Utah Trails before the Mormons," ibid. HOWARD R. DRIGGS, "Highways from their Wagon Tracks," ibid., Janu­ary, 1958. GEORGE R. GAYLER, "Governor Ford and the Death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Winter, 1957. HARTZELL SPENCE, "The Story of Religions in America - the Mormons," Loo\, January 21,1958. JOSEPH F. GORDON, "The Political Career of Lilburn W. Boggs," Mis­souri Historical Review, January, 1958. TRUMAN C. EVERTS, "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril, or Lost in the Wilder­ness" [Washburn-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone], Montana the Magazine of Western History, Autumn, 1957. WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB, "The West and the Desert," ibid., Winter, 1958. ROBERT G. ATHEARN, "The Great Plains in Historical Perspective," ibid. CARL F. KRAENZEL, "The Great Plains, Voiceless Region," ibid. BARTLETT BODER, "Missouri and The Latter-Day Saints," Museum Graphic, Fall, 1957. , "Temple of the Latter-Day Saints" [Nauvoo, Illinois], ibid. , "This is the Place," ibid. "Pyramid Lake," Nevada Highways and Parks, No. 2, 1957. 198 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY AUSTIN E. HUTCHESON, "A Life of Fifty Years in Nevada" [memoirs of the Comstock], Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, November, 1957. WILLIAM C. MILLER, "The Pyramid Lake Indian War of 1860," Part II, ibid. GEORGE P. HAMMOND and AGAPITO REY, "The Crown's Participation in the Founding of New Mexico," New Mexico Historical Review, October, 1957. JAMES ABARR, "City in the Sky [Acoma]," New Mexico Magazine, De­cember, 1957. ROY L. BUTTERFIELD, "On the American Migrations," New Yor\ His­tory, October, 1957. "Fort Garland 1858-1883," The Overland News, November, 1957. "The First Newspapers {Deseret News)," ibid., February, 1958. CAROLYN HOGG AN, "DeVoto's Letters From Harvard," Pen [University of Utah], Spring, 1957. TOM V. BROADBENT, "Notes: Emerson and the Mormons," ibid., Winter, 1957. WILLIAM Y. ADAMS, "New Data on Navajo Social Organization," Plateau, January, 1958. EDWARD B. DANSON, "The Glen Canyon Project," ibid. WILLIAM C. MILLER and DAVID A. BRETERNITZ, "1957 Navajo Canyon Survey - Preliminary Report," ibid. PEARL WILCOX, "Journeying and Reminiscing" [In the Green Moun­tains of Vermont], Part I, Saints' Herald, February 3, 1958. , "Journeying and Reminiscing" [Palmyra], Part II, ibid., February 10, 1958. REVIEWS AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS 199 -, "Journeying and Reminiscing" [Palmyra, continued], Part III, ibid., February 17,1958. -, "Journeying and Reminiscing" [Harmony, Pa.], Part IV, ibid., February 24,1958. JOHN BIRD, "The Miseries of Elder Benson," Saturday Evening Post, December 21,1957. PAUL SCHUBERT, "Roundup in Bloody Basin" [Zane Gray country in Arizona], ibid., February 15,1958. KENNETH T. GREEN, "Touring Kirtland Temple," Stride, March, 1958. LELAND H. CREER, "Lansford W. Hastings and Discovery of Old Mor­mon Trail," SUP News, May-June, 1957. ELIAS L. DAY, "General Albert Sidney Johnston," ibid. ILENE H. KINGSBURY, "Chief Wanship," ibid. J. SEDLEY STANFORD, "Then Came the Gulls," ibid. S. LYMAN TYLER, "Utes and Spaniards in the Eighteenth Century," ibid., October, 1957. ADOLPH M. REEDER, "The Salmon River Saga," ibid., November, 1957. EUGENE E. CAMPBELL, "The Mormons and the Tragic Donner Party," ibid., December, 1957. ORAN WHITTAKER, "City of the Rocks -On the Trail of the Forty- Niners," ibid. "Roll Call of Original Pony Express Riders," ibid., January, 1958. BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON, "The Old Co-op Dairy at Collinston, Utah," ibid. LELAND H. CREER, "Miles Goodyear," ibid. 200 UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY ANNIE CARTER JOHNSON, "A Tribute to Pioneer Mothers," ibid. L. C. BOLLES, "Possible Proof of Pueblo Origins," Uranium Prospector - American Outdoorsman, November, 1957. GERALD R. 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