Selected Bibliography

Abbreviations

BYUSC L. Tom Perry Special Collections. Harold B. Lee Library. Brigham Young

University. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Provo, UT.

CHL Church History Library. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake

City, UT.

JD Journal of Discourses. 26 vols. London: Latter-day Saints’ Book Depot, 1854–86.

JS Joseph Smith.

JSH, A-1 Joseph Smith, History, 1838–1856. Volume A-1 (23 December 1805–30 August 1834). The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-a-1-23-december-1805-30-august-1834/1.

JSH, C-1 Joseph Smith, History, 1838–1856. Volume C-1 (2 November 1838–31 July 1842). The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-c-1-2-november-1838-31-july-1842/1.

JSH, D-1 Joseph Smith, History, 1838–1856. Volume D-1 (1 August 1842–1 July 1843).

The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-d-1-1-august-1842-1-july-1843/1.

JSH, E-1 Joseph Smith, History, 1838–1856. Volume E-1 (1 July 1843–30 April 1844). The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-e-1-1-july-1843-30-april-1844/1.

JSH, F-1 Joseph Smith, History, 1838–1856. Volume F-1 (1 May 1844–8 August 1844). The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-f-1-1-may-1844-8-august-1844/1.

JSJ Joseph Smith, Journal, September–October 1838, December 1841–22 June 1844. The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/the-papers/journals/jsppj1.

JSJ 3 Joseph Smith, Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 3, 15 July 1843–29

February 1844. The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-3-15-july-1843-29-february-1844/1.

JSJ 4 Joseph Smith, Journal, December 1842–June 1844; Book 4, 1 March–22 June

1844. The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/journal-december-1842-june-1844-book-4-1-march-22-june-1844/1.

JSP Joseph Smith Papers. Church Historian’s Press. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City, UT.

JSP, CFM Matthew J. Grow, Ronald K. Esplin, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and

Jeffrey D. Mahas, eds. Administrative Records: Council of Fifty, Minutes, March

1844–January 1846. Vol. 1 of the Administrative Records series of The Joseph Smith

Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin, Matthew J. Grow, and Matthew C. Godfrey. Salt

Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.

JSP, D7 Godfrey, Matthew C., Spencer W. McBride, Alex D. Smith, and Christopher James Blythe, eds. Documents, Volume 7: September 1839–January 1841. Vol. 7 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin, Matthew J. Grow, and Matthew C. Godfrey. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2018.

Archival Materials

Adams, George J. Letter to Brigham Young, August 1844. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Allen, Orval Morgan. Diary of Orval Morgan Allen, September–October 1846. CHL.

Amy, Dustin. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 11th Quorum, 1845. Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration CHL.

Andrus, Milo. Milo Andrus Autobiography, 1875. CHL.

Appleby, William I. William I. Appleby Autobiography and Journal, 1848–1856. CHL.

Barlow, Israel. Israel Barlow Diary, March–August 1854. CHL.

———. Letter to Elizabeth Barlow, 12 September 1853. Israel and Elizabeth Haven Barlow Correspondence, 1853-1855. Barlow Family Collection, 1816–1969. CHL.

———. Letter to Elizabeth Barlow, October 1853. Israel and Elizabeth Haven Barlow Correspondence, 1853-1855. Barlow Family Collection, 1816–1969. CHL.

———. Letter to Elizabeth Barlow, 30 November 1854. Israel and Elizabeth Haven Barlow Correspondence, 1853-1855. Barlow Family Collection, 1816–1969. CHL.

Barney, Edson. Edson Barney Autobiography. Biographical Information Relating to Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Database, 2003–2017. CHL.

Bernhisel, John M. Letter to Brigham Young, 21 March 1850. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Bigler, Henry. Diary of a Mormon in California; Discovery of Gold, 1848. Utah and the Mormons Collection. CHL.

Boyle, Henry G. Henry G. Boyle Reminiscences and Diaries, 1846–1888. 2 vols. CHL.

Browning, Jonathan. “Biographical Sketch” (typescript). Manuscript Collection. BYUSC.

Bullock, Thomas. Thomas Bullock Journals, 1843–1849. CHL.

Burgess, James. James Burgess Journal, 1841–1848. CHL.

Cannon, Abraham H. Abraham H. Cannon Diaries, 1879–1895. CHL.

Carter, Simeon. Letter to Brigham Young, 1 October 1844. General Letters, 1840–1877. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Cass, Lewis. “Letter from Lewis Cass, 9 December 1843,” p. [1]. The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-lewis-cass-9-december-1843/1.

Clayton, William. William Clayton, Journal, 1 April 1843. The Joseph Smith Papers. http://josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-william-clayton-journal-excerpt-1-4-april-1843.

Cleveland, Sarah. “A Record of the Organization and Proceedings of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” and other articles (1842–1844). “Women of Covenant” Drafts 1960, 1965, 1984, 1987–1994, 2000. CHL.

Cluff, Harvey Harris. Autobiography of Harvey Harris Cluff (1836–1846). Microfilm Collection. BYUSC.

Cole, Joseph M. Letter, Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Adelia B. Cole, 19 May 1852. CHL.

Coray, Howard. Autobiographical Sketches. Howard Coray Papers, circa 1840–1941. CHL.

———. Letter, Sanford, Colorado, to Martha Jane Lewis, 2 August 1889. CHL.

Coray, William. Journal, August 1846–August 1847. CHL.

Cordon, Alfred. Alfred Cordon’s Journal and Travels in the Ministry of the Gospel. Alfred Cordon Reminiscences and Journals, 1839–1849, 5 vols. CHL.

Crosby, Jesse Wentworth. Autobiography (1820–1869). BYUSC.

———. The History and Journal of Jesse W. Crosby, 1820–1869. Americana Collection. BYUSC.

Crosby, Jonathan. Autobiography, 1850–1852. Jonathan Crosby, Papers, 1807–1882. Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City.

Curtis, Joseph. Joseph Curtis Reminiscences and Diary, October 1839–March 1881. CHL.

Cutler, William L. William L. Cutler Diary, January 1849–December 1850. CHL.

Davis, Amos. Amos Davis Account Book, 1839–1842. CHL.

Dunn, Crandell. “History and Travels of Elder Crandell Dunn.” Vol. 1. Crandell Dunn Papers, 1842–1895. CHL.

Dykes, George P. Letter to Brigham Young, 29 October 1844. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

———. Letter to Mrs. King, 8 August 1864. CHL.

Eldredge, Horace Sunderlin. Horace S. Eldredge Journal, September 1852–April 1854. Daughters of Utah Pioneers Collection, 1828–1963. CHL.

Elliot, Bradford. Autobiography, 1842–1845. Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum. Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 53. CHL.

Ellsworth, Edmund. Edmund Ellsworth Reminiscence, Undated. CHL.

Flanigan, James Henry. James H. Flanigan Diaries, 1842–1851. CHL.

Fullmer, John S. Letter, Springville, Utah, to Wilford Woodruff, 18 October 1881. Historian’s Office Correspondence Files, 1856–1926. CHL.

Gates, Jacob. Jacob Gates Journals, 1836–1861. CHL.

Glines, James H. James H. Glines Reminiscences and Diary, March 1845–December 1899. CHL.

———. Statement, 9 August 1899. CHL.

Groves, Elisha Hurd. Autobiography (1797–ca. 1866). Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 67. CHL.

Guinand, Julius J. Autobiography (1846). Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum. Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 69. CHL.

Harding, Ralph. Letter to Dwight Harding, 22 August 1844. Ralph Harding Correspondence, 1844–1846. CHL.

———. Letter to Dwight Harding, 3 March 1846. Ralph Harding Correspondence, 1844–1846. CHL.

Harriman, Henry. Henry Harriman Autobiography, circa 1847. CHL.

Hamblin, Jacob. Record of the Life of Jacob Hamblin: As Recorded by Himself, circa 1854. CHL.

Hancock, Levi W. Levi W. Hancock Autobiography, circa 1854. CHL.

———. Levi W. Hancock “Autobiographical Sketch,” 1878. CHL.

Hancock, Mosiah Lyman. Mosiah L. Hancock Autobiography, undated. CHL.

Hatch, Lorenzo Hill. Autobiography, 1826–1846. Lorenzo Hill Hatch Journals. BYUSC.

Heywood, Joseph Leland. Joseph L. Heywood Diary, May 1855–January 1857. CHL.

———. “Letter from Joseph L. Heywood, 23 October 1843.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-joseph-l-heywood-23-october-1843/1.

———. Letter to Nephew, 28 July 1841. Joseph L. Heywood Letters, 1841–1847. Joseph L. Heywood Collection, 1839–1912. CHL.

Hickerson, George Washington. George W. Hickerson Autobiographical Sketch, 1866. CHL.

Holbrook, Joseph. The Life of Joseph Holbrook, 1806–1871. Americana Collection. BYUSC.

Hollister, David Sprague. “Letter from David S. Hollister, 9 May 1844.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-david-s-hollister-9-may-1844/1.

———. Letter to JS, 26 June 1844. CHL.

Holt, James. James Holt Autobiographical Sketch, 1881. CHL.

Hunt, Daniel Durham. Daniel D. Hunt Diary, May–September 1844; January 1845. CHL.

Hyde, William. William Hyde Journal, circa 1868–1873. CHL.

Hyde, Orson. Letter to David Fullmer, 19 July 1847. Garden Grove Branch Papers Relating to Reinstatement of Branch. CHL.

———. “Letter from Orson Hyde, 30 April 1844.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-orson-hyde-30-april-1844/8.

———. Letter to JS, 9 June 1844. Joseph Smith’s Office Papers. CHL.

———. “Appendix 3: Orson Hyde, Statement about Quorum of the Twelve, circa Late March 1845.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/appendix-3-orson-hyde-statement-about-quorum-of-the-twelve-circa-late-march-1845/1.

Jackman, Levi. Levi Jackman Journal and Autobiography, 1835–1847. CHL.

Jacob, Norton. Norton Jacob Reminiscence and Journal, May 1844–January 1852. CHL.

———. The Record of Norton Jacob. Edited by C. Edward Jacob, Jacob family historian, and Ruth S. Jacob. N.p.: Norton Jacob Family Association, 1953. CHL.

Johnson, Benjamin Franklin. “An Interesting Letter from Patriarch Benjamin F. Johnson to George S. Gibbs (1911).” Delbert L. Stapley Files, 1951–1976. CHL.

Johnson, Joel Hill. Joel H. Johnson Autobiography, circa 1880. 19th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts. BYUSC.

Johnstun, Jesse Walker. Jesse W. Johnstun Reminiscences, 1849–1853. CHL.

King, Joseph. Letter to Brigham Young, 29 October 1844. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Knapp, Edward K. Autobiography (n.d.). Seventies Record, 27th Quorum. Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 91. CHL.

Lambson, Alfred Boaz. [Letter]. In Donnette Smith Kesler, Reminiscences by Donnette Smith Kesler: The Wife of Alonzo Pratt Kesler [1952], 102–5.

Langley, George W. Autobiography of George W. Langley (1845). Seventies Record, 25th Quorum. Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 92. CHL.

Lee, John D. John D. Lee Journal, May 1844–November 1846. John D. Lee Journals, May 1844–November 1853. CHL.

Lewis, David. David Lewis Autobiography, 1854. CHL.

Littlefield, Lyman Omer. “Lyman Omer Littlefield Autobiography [1819–1848].” Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints: Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience. Logan, UT: Utah Journal Company Printers, 1888. CHL.

Loveless, John. John Loveless Autobiographical Sketch, 1859. CHL.

Luddington, Elam. “Luddington Family and All Existing Portions of an Autobiographical Sketch.” Family History Library. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City.

Lyman, Amasa. Journal, 4 June 1844–16 March 1845, 24 January–18 April 1845. Amasa M. Lyman Collection, 1832–1877. CHL.

———. Journal, 4 June to 13 August 1844. BYUSC.

Markham, Stephen. Letter, Fort Supply, to Wilford Woodruff, 20 June 1856. Materials Used by Church Historians, 1854–1856. Joseph Smith History Documents, 1839–1860. CHL.

McArthur, Daniel Duncan. Daniel D. McArthur Autobiography, Undated. CHL.

McIntire, William Patterson. William P. McIntire Notebook, 1840–1845. CHL.

Moore, William A. Letter to Brigham Young, 25 September 1844. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Morris, Jacob. Letter to Charles Allen, Nauvoo, Illinois, circa November 1844. CHL.

Moss, David. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 9th Quorum (1858). Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 115–16. CHL.

Nichols, John. Diary. Manuscript Collection. BYUSC.

Nuttall, L. John. Notebook, 1880–1882. Council of Fifty, Papers, 1845–1883. CHL.

Ott, Frederick. Frederick Ott Autobiography, circa 1844. CHL.

Pace, James. A Biographical Sketch of the Life of James Pace, Undated. CHL.

Perry, Josiah H. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum (1845). Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 125. CHL.

Pettegrew, David. David Pettigrew’s Journal, 1840–1857, 1926–1930. David Pettegrew Family Collection, 1836–1883; 1926–1930. CHL.

Phippen, James W. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 12th Quorum (1858). Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 127–28. CHL.

Porter, Nathan Tanner. Nathan T. Porter Reminiscences, circa 1879. CHL.

Post, Stephen. Journal, July 1839–December 1848. Stephen Post Papers, 1835–1921. CHL.

Pratt, Parley P. “Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 19 April 1844.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-parley-p-pratt-19-april-1844/4

Rich, Charles Coulson. Journal, 1 March–20 September 1845. Charles C. Rich Collection, 1832–1908. CHL.

———. Journal, 14 May–28 July 1844. Charles C. Rich Collection, 1832–1908. CHL.

Richards, Franklin D. Journal Typescript, May 1840–1844. Franklin D. Richards Journals, 1844–1899. Richards Family Collection, 1837–1961. CHL.

———. Journal No. 2. Volume 1, 21 May–22 July 1844. Richards Family Collection, 1837–1961. CHL.

Richards, Samuel Whitney. Diary. BYUSC.

Richards, Samuel Whitney. Samuel W. Richards Statement, circa 1900–1909. CHL.

Richards, Willard. Letter, Nauvoo, to Orson Hyde, 25 May 1844. Outgoing Correspondence. Willard Richards Journals and Papers, 1821–1854. CHL.

———. Journal (Volume 10), March–August 1844. Willard Richards Journals and Papers, 1821–1854. CHL.

———. Proposed Plan for a Moot Organization and Congress, 6 February 1844. Joseph Smith’s Office Papers, 1835–1844. CHL.

Rigdon, Sidney. Oration Delivered by Mr. S. Rigdon, on the 4th of July, 1838, at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri. Far West: Printed at the Journal Office, 1838. CHL.

Riley, William Wommack. William W. Riley Diary, circa 1844–1861. CHL.

Riser, George Christian. Reminiscences and Diary Entries, Undated; 1864–1869. CHL.

———. “Unfinished Life Story.” Special Collections. J. Willard Marriott Library. University of Utah.

Robbins, Lewis. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum (1845). Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 143–44. CHL.

Robinson, Joseph Lee. “History of Joseph Lee Robinson.” Autobiography and Journals, 1883–1893. Joseph Lee Robinson Autobiography and Journals, 1883–1892. CHL.

Rogers, David. Letter to Brigham Young, August 1844. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Rogers, Samuel Hollister. Samuel H. Rogers Reminiscences and Diary, 1841–1886. CHL.

———. Letter, Harford County, Maryland, to Daniel Page, Newport, New Jersey, 21 April 1844. CHL.

Savage, William. Letter, Flintville, Wisconsin, to J. M. Waite, Binghamton, Wisconsin, 23 October 1872. CHL.

Scott, Andrew Hunter. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 34th Quorum. Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 150. CHL.

Scovil, Lucius. Lucius N. Scovil Journal, 1846–1847; 1860–1861. CHL.

Sharp, Thomas C. Typed Transcript and Manuscript Copies of Unsigned Letter to the Editor of the Warsaw Signal, 15 February 1844. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Yale University Library. Yale University. Newhaven, CT.

Shaw, Samuel. Letter to Brigham Young, 1 October 1844. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Sheets, Elijah Funk. Elijah F. Sheets Journal, August 1845–July 1904. Elijah F. and Margaret H. Sheets Journals, 1843–1904. CHL.

———. Elijah F. Sheets Journal, May 1844–August 1845. Elijah F. and Margaret H. Sheets Journals, 1843–1904. CHL.

Smith, Emma Hale. “Emma Smith Blessing,” 1844. CHL.

Smith, George A. George A. Smith Autobiography and Journals, 1839–1875. CHL.

Smith, Joseph, Jr. Letter to James Arlington Bennet, 13 November 1843. CHL.

———. “Letter to Presidential Candidates, 4 November 1843, Draft.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-presidential-candidates-4-november-1843-draft/1.

———. “Letter to Thomas Ford, 22 June 1844–B.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-thomas-ford-22-june-1844-b/1.

———. General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States. The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/transcript/general-smiths-views-of-the-powers-and-policy-of-the-government-of-the-united-states-7-february-1844?print=true#ft-source-note.

Smoot, Abraham Owen. “A. O. Smoot’s Day Book or Journal From the City of Nauvoo, Beginning Tuesday, the 7th of May, AD, 1844, Through the State of Tennessee.” Journal, May 1844–April 1845. Abraham O. Smoot Diaries, 1837–1845. CHL.

———. “Early Experience of A. O. Smoot,” in Early Scenes in Church History: Eighth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1882. 21–24.

Snow, Erastus. Erastus Snow Autobiography, 1875. CHL.

———. Erastus Snow Journals, 1835–1851; 1856–1857. CHL.

Snow, James Chauncey. James C. Snow Reminiscences, circa 1836. CHL.

Snow, Lorenzo. Journal, 1836–1845. Lorenzo Snow Journals, 1836–1845; 1872. CHL.

Snow, Warren Stone. Warren S. Snow Reminiscences and Notebook, circa 1874. CHL.

Snow, William. William Snow Autobiography (ca. 1850). Vault Manuscript Collection. BYUSC.

Spaulding, Ira N. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum (1846). Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 167. CHL.

Spencer, Thomas Daniel. Biography of Daniel Spencer, 1953. CHL.

Stout, Hosea. Letter, San Francisco, to Brigham Young, 27 August 1853. Deseret News Editor’s Files, 1850–1854. CHL.

Stowell, William R. R. Manuscript. BYUSC.

Stratton, Joseph Albert. Joseph A. Stratton Diary, May 1844–October 1846. CHL.

Strong, Ezra, Jr. Ezra Strong Notebook, circa 1882–1884. CHL.

Taylor, John. Revelations Dated June 25–26, 1882. BYUSC.

———. Revelation Dated June 27, 1882. BYUSC.

Terry, Jacob E. Jacob E. Terry Journal, May–July 1844. CHL.

Tracy, Moses. Moses Tracy Papers, 1836–1857. CHL.

Tracy, Nancy Naomi Alexander. Nancy A. Tracy Reminiscences and Diary, May 1896–July 1899. CHL.

Tyler, John. “Message of the President of the United States.” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 28th Cong., 1st Sess. 1–4 (1843).

Watkins, William Lampard. A Brief History of the Life of William Lampard Watkins from His Birth until His Arrival in Utah on 12 September 1852. CHL.

Watkins, Joseph H. “William Lampard Watkins: Continuation of His Life’s History after His Arrival in the Salt Lake Valley” (1946). CHL.

Webster, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language. 1st ed. New York: S. Converse, 1828. Available online at webstersdictionary1828.com.

West, Joseph. Autobiography. Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum (1846). Seventies’ Autobiographies Compiled by Nauvoo Restoration, 184. CHL.

Wheelock, Cyrus H. Cyrus H. Wheelock Journal, June–October 1846; March–July 1849. CHL.

Whitney, Alonzo Wells. Autobiography. Whitney Family Genealogies. Manuscript Collection. BYUSC.

Whipple, Edson. Diary, December 1850–September 1851 and November 1871–February 1872. Edson Whipple Record Book and Diary, circa 1849–1873. CHL.

———. Edson Whipple Record Books, circa 1836–1936. CHL.

Wight, Lyman, George Miller, Phineas R. Bird, Pierce Hawley, and John Young. Lyman Wight Letter, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to JS, 15 February 1844. Joseph Smith Collection (Supplement), 1833–1844. CHL.

Wight, Lyman, and Heber C. Kimball. “Letter from Lyman Wight and Heber C. Kimball, 19–24 June 1844.” The Joseph Smith Papers. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-from-lyman-wight-and-heber-c-kimball-19-24-june-1844/1.

Wilcox, Edward. “Death of Faithful Veteran: Sketch of the Life of Elder Daniel Allen.” 19th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts. BYUSC.

Wilson, Bushrod W. Bushrod W. Wilson Journal, circa 1856. Daughters of Utah Pioneers Collection, 1828–1963. CHL.

Woodward, William. Reminiscences, Undated. William Woodward Collection, 1851–1919. CHL.

Woodruff, Wilford. Letter, Nauvoo, Illinois, to Solomon Copeland, Henry County, Tennessee. 9 March 1844. Joseph Smith’s Office Papers, 1835–1844. CHL.

Yearsley, David Dutton. David D. Yearsley Account Book, circa 1843–1845. CHL.

———. Letter to Ziba C. Wolerton, 20 September 1844. General Correspondence, Incoming, 1840–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Young, Alfred Douglas. “Alfred D. Young Vision, circa 1888.” CHL.

Young, Alfonso. Letter to JS, 6 May 1842. Whitney Family Papers. BYUSC.

Young, Brigham. Manuscript History of Brigham Young—1801–1844. Vol. 1. Compiled by Elden Jay Watson. CHL.

———. Journal, 28 September 1844–3 February 1846. Journals, 1832–1877. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

———. Letter, Nauvoo, Illinois, to Lebbeus T. Coons, Camp Creek, Illinois, 16 September 1845. CHL.

———. Letter, St. George, Utah, to Samuel Mulliner, Lehi, Utah, 8 March 1877. CHL.

Young, Brigham, and Willard Richards. Letter to Reuben Hedlock, 3 May 1844. General Correspondence, Outgoing, 1843–1876. Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL.

Young, Joseph. Joseph Young Diaries, 1844–1881. CHL.

———. Joseph Young Hawn’s Mill Massacre Account. BYUSC.

———. Letter, Clarksburgh, Ohio, to Jane A. Young, Nauvoo, Illinois, 14 June 1844. CHL.

———. Joseph Young Autobiographical Sketch, circa 1872. CHL.

Young, Phineas Howe. Phineas H. Young Diary, April 1856–May 1857. CHL.

Public Documents

1830 United States Federal Census (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2010). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1830usfedcenancestry/. Original data: Fifth Census of the United States, 1830 (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.

1840 United States Federal Census (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2010). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1840usfedcenancestry/. Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840 (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.

1850 United States Federal Census (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2009). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1850usfedcenancestry/. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1,009 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, DC.

1860 United States Federal Census (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2009). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1860usfedcenancestry/. Original data: 1860 US census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860.

1870 United States Federal Census (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2009). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1870usfedcen/. Original data: 1870 US census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1870.

1880 United States Federal Census (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2010). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1880usfedcen/. 1880 US Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880 (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.

1890 United States Federal Census Fragment (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2009). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1890orgcen/. Original data: Eleventh Census of the United States, 1890 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M407, 3 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.

1900 United States Federal Census (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2004). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1900usfedcen/. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1,854 rolls.

Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884–1958 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2010). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/texasconfederatepensions/. Original data: Texas, Confederate Pension Applications, 1899–1975. Vol. 1–646 and 1–283. Austin, TX: Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows. Richmond, VA: Library of Virginia. Confederate Pension Applications, 1880–1940. Montgomery, AL: Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 1998). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/conbio/. Original data: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Eightieth Congress, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1949, Inclusive. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1950.

Boggs, Lilburn W. Letter to General John B. Clark, 27 October 1838. In Document Containing the Correspondence, Orders, &c., in Relation to the Disturbances with the Mormons; and the Evidence Given before the Hon. Austin A. King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri, at the Court-House in Richmond, in a Criminal Court of Inquiry, Begun November 12, 1838, on the Trial of Joseph Smith, Jr., and Others, for High Treason and Other Crimes against the State, General Assembly of Missouri. Fayette, MO: Boon’s Lick Democrat office, 1841.

California State Roster, 1911 Government and Military Records (online database hosted by Ancestry.com). Compiled by Debra Graden. Provo, UT: Generations Network, 2002. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/castro1911/. Original data: California Blue Book or State Roster, 1911. Sacramento, CA: State Printing Office, 1911.

Commission Records, Illinois State Militia, 1835–1844 (typescript). Compiled by Lyman Platt. Family History Library. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City.

Deseret (State). Constitution of the State of Deseret, with the Journal of the Convention which Formed It and the Proceedings of the Legislature Consequent Thereon. CHL.

Illinois, Compiled Marriages, 1851–1900 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2005). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/illinoismarriages_ga/. Original data: Dodd, Jordan, and Liahona Research, comps. Illinois, Marriages, 1851–1900. Index compiled from county marriage records on microfilm located at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City by Jordan Dodd of Liahona Research.

Iowa State Census Collection, 1836–1925 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2007). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/iastatecen/. Original data: Microfilm of Iowa State Censuses, 1856, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915, and 1925, as well as various special censuses from 1836 to 1897 obtained from the State Historical Society of Iowa via Heritage Quest.

Nauvoo, Illinois Tax Index, 1842 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 1999). Compiled by Lyman Platt. https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/nauvooiltax/.

Salt Lake County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1887 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2003). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/utslccriminal/. Original data: Salt Lake County, UT. Salt Lake County (Utah). Probate Court, Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852–1887. Salt Lake City: Utah State Archives and Records Service. Series 373.

State of Illinois. Illinois, Public Land Purchase Records, 1813–1909 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 1999). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/lantrac/.

Territory of Utah. Legislative Assembly Rosters, 1851–1894. Division of Archives and Records Service. Department of Administrative Resources, State of Utah. https://archives.utah.gov/research/guides/legislative-assembly-rosters.pdf.

United States, Bureau of Land Management. Wisconsin, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 1997). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/wi/. Original data: United States, Bureau of Land Management. Wisconsin Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat Index. General Land Office Automated Records Project.

United States, General Land Office Records, 1776–2015 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2008). Original data: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, VA: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007.

United States Library of Congress, Legislative Reference Service. “The Presidential Election Campaign of 1844 and the Role of Joseph Smith as Candidate.” Washington, DC: US Library of Congress, 1941.

Utah, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1850–1890 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 1999). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/utcen/. Original data: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Utah Census, 1850–1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the US Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.

Utah Historical Records Survey. “County Government of the Provisional State of Deseret.” Historical Records Survey, Division of Women’s and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, 1937.

Legal Documents

Chase, Isaac. Isaac Chase Deeds, 1828–1846. CHL.

Land Claims in Mississippi Territory, 1789–1834 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2002). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/earlysettlersmiss/. Original publication: Lowrie, Walter, ed. Early Settlers of Mississippi as Taken from Land Claims in the Mississippi Territory: American State Papers. Washington, DC: Duff Green, 1834.

Newspapers

Alton Telegraph, Alton, IL.

Buffalo Courier, Buffalo, NY.

California Star, San Francisco, CA.

Daily Missouri Republican, St. Louis, MO.

Deseret News, Salt Lake City, UT.

Evening and Morning Star, Independence, MO.

Frontier Guardian, Kanesville, IA.

Gospel Reflector, Philadelphia, PA.

Jeffersonian Republican, Jefferson, MO.

Latter-day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate, Pittsburgh, PA.

Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star, Manchester, England.

Nauvoo Expositor, Nauvoo, IL.

Nauvoo Neighbor, Nauvoo, IL.

New York Herald, New York City, NY.

New York Times, New York City, NY.

Niles National Register, Washington, DC.

Ogden Standard, Ogden, UT.

Pittsburgh Morning Post, Pittsburgh, PA.

The Politician, Belleville, IL.

The Prophet, New York City, NY.

Saints’ Herald, Plano, IL.

Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, UT.

Sangamo Journal, Sangamo, IL.

St. Louis Luminary, St. Louis, MO.

Times and Seasons, Nauvoo, IL.

Voree Gospel Herald, Voree, WI.

Warsaw Signal, Warsaw, IL.

Wayne Sentinel, Wayne, NY.

Zion’s Reveille, Voree, WI.

Electronic Materials

Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2003). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/bancroftshist-1884/. Originally printed in thirty-nine volumes. San Francisco, CA: A. L. Bancroft, 1882–88.

Bates, William H. Souvenir of Early and Notable Events in the History of the North West Territory, Illinois and Tazewell County (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2004). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/genealogy-glh46544092/. Original publication: Pekin, IL: W. H. Bates, 1916.

Black, Susan Easton. Latter-day Saint Vital Records II Database. BYUSC.

College of Life Sciences, Brigham Young University. “Winter Quarters.” Winter Quarters Project. Accessed 7 July 2005. http://winterquarters.byu.edu.

Early Latter-day Saints: A Mormon Pioneer Database. Historical Pioneer Research Group. http://earlylds.com.

History of Cincinnati, Ohio: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2005). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/genealogy-glh28364506/. Original publication compiled by Henry A. Ford and Kate B. Ford. Los Angeles: Williams, 1881.

History of Jefferson County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2003). Original publication: Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1912–14.

IAGenWeb Project. “First Families of Jefferson County.” Jefferson County, Illinois, Online. Published 4 November 2007. http://iagenweb.org/jefferson/First_Families.html.

Overland Travel Database. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. https://history.lds.org/overlandtravels.

Pioneer Immigrants to Utah Territory (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2001). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/suppionbind/. Original data: Questionnaires compiled by Sons of the Utah Pioneers in Salt Lake City.

Sons of the Utah Pioneers—Ancestor Histories, Presented by Members of the East Mill Creek Chapter (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2001). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/suppionfact/. Original data: Pioneer Facts Presented During 1978–1983, by Members of the East Mill Creek Chapter SUP.

Strangite database. http://strangite.com.

Tales of a Triumphant People: A History of Salt Lake County, Utah, 1847–1900 (online database hosted by Ancestry.com, 2005). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/genealogy-glh42044148/. Original publication: Salt Lake City: Deseret, 1947.

Utah, Our Pioneer Heritage (online database, Ancestry.com, 1998). https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/oph/. Original publication: International Society of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Our Pioneer Heritage. Salt Lake City: Infobases, 1996.

Biographical Materials

Published Works

Anderson, Devery S., and Gary James Bergera, eds. Joseph Smith’s Quorum of the Anointed, 1842–45: A Documentary History. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005.

———. The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845–1846: A Documentary History. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2005.

Benson, Ezra Taft. “Ezra Taft Benson, I: An Autobiography.” Juvenile Instructor, May 1945, 213–18.

Bitton, Davis. Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1971.

Bingham, Stephen D. Early History of Michigan, with Biographies of State Officers, Members of Congress, Judges and Legislators. Lansing, MI: Thorp and Godfrey, state printers, 1888.

Black, Harvey Bischoff, ed. LDS Seventies: Early Seventies. BYUSC.

Boyle, Henry G. “The Savior’s Promise to Believers.” Juvenile Instructor 17 (June 1882): 180–81.

Brown, Lisle. Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings: A Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841–1846. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2006.

Brown, Benjamin. Testimonies for the Truth: A Record of Manifestations of the Power of God, Miraculous and Providential, Witnessed in the Travels and Experience of Benjamin Brown, High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Pastor of the London, Reading, Kent and Essex Conferences. Liverpool: S. W. Richards, 1853.

Browning, John, and Curt Gentry. John M. Browning, American Gunmaker: An Illustrated Biography of the Man and His Guns. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964.

Burns, Enoch. “Biographical Sketch.” Miscellaneous Mormon Diaries, vol. 16. BYUSC.

“Buzzard, P. H.” Polk County 1880 Saylor Township Biographies, Polk County, Iowa. Accessed 22 June 2007. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ia/polk/bios/plktwpbio9.txt.

Candland, David. A Transcription of the Journal of David Candland (1819–1902) from the Years 1841 to 1902 concerning His Conversion to the Mormon Church. Lewisburg, PA: D. K. Candland, 1967.

Carter, Kate, comp. Heart Throbs of the West. 12 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1947.

Duke Family Organization, eds. Journal of Jonathan Oldham Duke. Provo, UT?: Duke Family Organization, 1970. CHL.

Duke, Jonathan O. Jonathan O. Duke Reminiscences and Diary, June 1850–July 1857. CHL.

Duncan, Chapman. “Biography of Chapman Duncan, 1812–1900.” Americana Collection. Bound within BX 8670 .M82 vol.15 no. 1–6. BYUSC.

Egan, Howard. Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan’s Diary. Edited by William Monroe Egan. Richmond, UT: Howard R. Egan Estate, 1917.

Farr, Aaron F. Aaron F. Farr Journal, 1852–1854. Manuscript Collection. BYUSC.

Gregg, Thomas. History of Hancock County, Illinois: Together with an Outline History of the State, and a Digest of State Laws. Chicago: C. C. Chapman, 1880.

Gudde, Erwin G. Bigler’s Chronicle of the West: The Conquest of California, Discovery of Gold, and Mormon Settlement as Reflected in Henry William Bigler’s Diaries. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1962.

Hardy, John. History of the Trials of Elder John Hardy. Boston: Conway, 1844.

Hatch, JoAnn F. Willing Hands: A Biography of Lorenzo Hill Hatch, 1826–1910. Pinedale, AZ: Kymera, 1996. http://www.b13family.com/html/journal-lorenzo_hatch.htm#_ftn58.

“History of Henry Bailey Jacobs.” Oa Jacobs Cannon Collection of Biographical Papers, circa 1980. CHL.

Hogan, Mervin Booth. The Vital Statistics of Nauvoo Lodge. Des Moines, IA: Research Lodge No. 2, 1976. CHL.

Horner, James M. “Adventures of a Pioneer.” Improvement Era 7 (1904): 214.

Jackman, Levi. “A Short Sketch of the Life of Levi Jackman.” 20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts. MSS SC 605. BYUSC.

Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History, 1901.

Johnson, Joel Hills. Voice from the Mountains, Being a Testimony of the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as Revealed by the Lord to Joseph Smith Jr. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor, 1881. 3–4, 12–16.

Kimball, Heber C. On the Potter’s Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball. Edited by Stanley B. Kimball. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987.

Lee, John D. A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848–1876. Edited by Juanita Brooks. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1955.

———. Mormonism Unveiled: Or, The Life and Confessions of the Late Mormon Bishop John D. Lee. St. Louis, MO: Bryan, Brand, 1877.

Lisonbee, Janet. Obituaries and Life Sketches of the Early Saints Who Lived and Died in the Kirtland, Ohio Area. Self-published, 2003.

Little, James Amasa. “Biography of William Rufus Rogers Stowell (1893–ca. 1950).” CHL.

Littlefield, Lyman Omer. Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints: Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience. Logan, UT: Utah Journal, 1888.

Mecham, Leonidas De Von. Tolman Family Book of Remembrance and Genealogy with Allied Lines. Printed by the author, 1952.

Meynell, J. B. A Few Incidents of Travel in England Connected with the Immutable Principles of Truth, Called the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Boston: John Gooch, 1845.

Miller, George. Correspondence of Bishop George Miller with the Northern Islander, From His First Acquaintance with Mormonism up to Near the Close of His Life. Burlington, WI: Wingfield Watson, 1916.

Polk, James K. James K. Polk: The Diary of a President, 1845–1849. Edited by Allan Nevins. Reprint Services Corp., 1929.

Pratt, Parley P. Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985.

Quincy, Josiah. Figures of the Past from the Leaves of Old Journals. 3rd ed. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883.

Sly, James Calvin. Journal. Edited by Jeffrey M. Sly. Unpublished journal, 2003. CHL.

Stout, Hosea. On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout, 1844–1861. Edited by Juanita Brooks. 2 vols. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1964.

Tullidge, Edward W. History of Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City: Star Printing Co., 1886.

———. Tullidge’s Histories. Vol. 2. Containing the History of All the Northern, Eastern and Western Counties of Utah; Also the Counties of Southern Idaho. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor, 1889.

Wilkerson, Ben. “Lewis Robbins” (biography). Accessed 23 October 2019. https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/20959224?p=16741486&returnLabel=Beri%20Lewis%20Robbins%20(KWVQ-6M8)&returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.familysearch.org%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fmemories%2FKWVQ-6M8.

Woodbury, Angus Cannon. History of the Jeremiah Woodbury Family. Burley, ID: Reminder Press, 1958.

Woodruff, Wilford. Wilford Woodruff, Fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: History of His Life and Labors As Recorded in His Daily Journals. Edited by Matthias F. Cowley. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1909.

———. Wilford Woodruff’s Journal of 1833–1898, Vol. 2, 1 January 1841–31 December 1845, edited by Scott G. Kenney. Midvale, UT: Signature Books, 1983.

———. Wilford Woodruff’s Journal of 1833–1898, Vol. 4, 1 January 1846–31 December 1850, edited by Scott G. Kenney. Midvale, UT: Signature Books, 1983.

Youngberg, Florence C., ed. Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers. 2 vols. Salt Lake City: Agreka Books, 1999.

Unpublished Works

Austad, Thomas R. “The Life of Nathaniel Leavitt (Son of Nathaniel Leavitt and Deborah Delano).” Unpublished biography, accessed 5 January 2007. http://leavittfamilies.org/family_history/Library/Docs/H_Nathaniel%20Leavitt%20Jr.htm.

Christopherson, Ressman, comp. “History of Lindsay Anderson Brady.” In The Lindsay Anderson Brady Book, last modified 2000. Electronic edition. https://www.familysearch.org/service/records/storage/das-mem/patron/v2/TH-201-37108-2-91/dist.txt?ctx=ArtCtxPublic.

Correspondence F, Foutz Article, and McCaslin Frost History, 1968–1969. Nauvoo Restoration, Inc. Corporate Files, 1839–1992. CHL.

“Enoch Reese: Builder, Mason, Politician, Church Leader, Explorer, Blacksmith, Businessman, Banker, Settler, Freighter, Missionary.” Unpublished biography, accessed 8 February 2006. http://mormontrails.org/Pioneer%20SLC/GSLC/Property%20Owners/Biographies/Reese,%20Enoch.docx.

Gardner, Maurice. “Daniel and Lorena Gardner: History and Genealogy, 1773–1997.” Unpublished biography. https://moobbq.com/aaqvkv/daniel_and_lorena_gardner_history_and_genealogy_1773_1997.pdf.

Hansen, Stanley D. “Story of Charles Henry Bassett.” Unpublished biography, last modified 2007. CHL.

“A History and Genealogy of John Chapman Duncan and Teresa Ann Ferrell, Their Ancestors and Descendants. Compiled by Ivan Perry, Archie Perry, and Rolland Perry.” CHL.

George Burton Standley, comp. “History of Freeman Upson [father-in-law of Arteus Greer].” Unpublished biography, copy in author’s possession, 8 November 1931.

Hubbard family. “A Biography of Charles Wesley Hubbard [1956].” Unpublished biography. CHL.

Jennings, Annie McArthur. “History of Duncan and Susan McArthur [1990].” Unpublished biography. CHL.

Morrell, Eldon P., and Irene V. Deeben, comps. “Ancestry and Descendants of Chapman Duncan” (1991). Americana Collection. BYUSC.

McDonough, Lynee W. “Chauncey Walker West [n.d.].” Unpublished biography. In author’s possession.

Paxton, Robert C. “Short History of John S. Fullmer” (2007). Accessed 15 November 2007. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/ViewStory.aspx?tid=1298896&pid=-1956607911&did=447113fc-a200-46a4-bf5c-930cb28ff5d5&src=search.

Rogers, Leo Richie. “Biographical Sketch of David White Rogers, circa 1981.” CHL.

Slater, Regina R. “A Short Sketch of the Life of My Grandfather: Samuel Whitney Richards.” CHL.

Stewart, Amelia Spencer. Histories of Daniel Spencer, circa 1931. CHL.

Sudweeks, Earl Max. “Biography of David and Mary Savage [1991].” CHL.

Thomas, William. “Historical Sketch and Genealogy of the Thomas Families, 1888–1895.” CHL.

Secondary

Monographs

Abzug, Robert. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Allen, James B., and Glen M. Leonard. The Story of the Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976.

Anderson, Nels. Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1942.

Andrus, Hyrum L. Joseph Smith and World Government. Salt Lake City: Hawkes Publishing, 1972.

Arrington, Leonard J. Great Basin Kingdom: Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1966.

———. From Quaker to Latter-day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976.

Backman, Milton V., Jr. “Establish a House of Prayer, a House of God: The Kirtland Temple.” In The Prophet Joseph: Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith, edited by Larry C. Porter and Susan Easton Black, 208–25. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1988.

———. The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830–1838. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983.

Baker, LeGrand L. Murder of the Mormon Prophet: Political Prelude to the Death of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Eborn Books, 2006.

Barrett, Ivan J. Joseph Smith and the Restoration: A History of the LDS Church to 1846. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1973.

Berrett, William Edwin. The Restored Church: A Brief History of the Growth and Doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1961.

Bigler, David L. The Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847–1896. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998.

Bitton, Davis. The Martyrdom Remembered: A One-Hundred-Fifty-Year Perspective on the Assassination of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Aspen Books, 1994.

———. The Redoubtable John Pack: Pioneer, Proselyter, Patriarch. Salt Lake City: John Pack Family Association, 1982.

Black, Susan Easton. Who’s Who in the Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1997.

Boller, Paul F., Jr. Presidential Campaigns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Brock, William R. Parties and Political Conscience: American Dilemmas, 1840–1850. Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1979.

Brodie, Fawn M. No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith. New York: Vintage Books, 1945.

Brooke, John L. “The Refiner’s Fire,” The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Bushman, Richard Lyman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.

Byrne, Gary C., and Paul Marx. The Great American Convention: A Political History of Presidential Elections. Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books, 1976.

Campbell, Eugene E. Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847–1869. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988.

Carter, Kate, comp. Treasures of Pioneer History. Vol. 3. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1954.

Carwardine, Richard J. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.

Church History in the Fulness of Times Student Manual. 2nd ed. Salt Lake City: Church Educational System, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2003.

Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Compton, Todd. In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997.

Cooley, Brigham, and Everett L. Young. Diary of Brigham Young, 1857. Salt Lake City: Tanner Trust Fund, University of Utah Press, 1980.

Cornog, Evan and Richard Whelan. Hats in the Ring: An Illustrated History of American Presidential Campaigns. New York: Random House, 2000.

Cross, Whitney. The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800–1850. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1950.

Daynes, Kathryn M. More Wives Than One: Transition of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840–1910. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Doyle, Don Harrison. The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825–70. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

Durham, G. Homer. Joseph Smith, Prophet-Statesman: Readings in American Political Thought. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1944.

Elliott, Norma L. A Biographical Sketch of Jefferson Hunt. N.p.: Karen LaDuke, 1983.

Esshom, Frank. Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah. 2 vols. Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book, 1913.

Faragher, John. Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986.

Field, Homer H., and Joseph R. Reed. History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1907.

Fitzpatrick, Doyle C. The King Strang Story: A Vindication of James J. Strang, the Beaver Island Mormon King. Lansing, MI: National Heritage, 1970.

Flake, Kathleen. The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Flanders, Robert Bruce. Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965.

Godfrey, Kenneth. The Importance of the Temple in Understanding the Latter-day Saint Nauvoo Experience. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001.

Grant, Carter E. The Kingdom of God Restored. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1955.

Gregory, Tom. History of Sonoma County, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County, Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present Time. Los Angeles: Historic Record, 1911.

Hale, Heber Quincy. Bishop Jonathan H. Hale of Nauvoo, His Life and Ministry: Including Brief Biographies of Aroet L. Hale, Alma H. Hale, Rachel Hale Hoagland, Solomon H. Hale. University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1938.

Hand, H. Wells, ed. 1808–1908 Centennial History of the Town of Nunda. Rochester, NY: Rochester Herald Press, 1908.

Hansen, Klaus. Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974.

Hardinge, Emma. Modern American Spiritualism: A Twenty Years’ Record of the Communion between Earth and the World of the Spirits. New York: Published by the author, 1870.

Hartshorn, Leon R., Dennis A. Wright, and Craig J. Ostler, eds. The Doctrine and Covenants, a Book of Answers: The 25th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996.

Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989.

Havel, James T. U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections: A Biographical and Historical Guide. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996.

Hill, Marvin S. Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989.

Jackson, Richard H. The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1978.

Kling, David W. A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut, 1792–1822. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993.

Launius, Roger D., and Linda Thatcher, eds. Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Launius, Roger D. Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Larson, Gustive Olof. Prelude to the Kingdom: Mormon Desert Conquest, a Chapter in American Cooperative Existence. Francestown, NH: Marshall Jones, 1947.

Leonard, Glen. Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002.

Little, James A. Jacob Hamblin, a Narrative of His Personal Experience, as a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer: Disclosing Interpositions of Providence, Severe Privations, Perilous Situations, and Remarkable Escapes. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1909.

Ludlow, Daniel H., ed. Encyclopedia of Mormonism. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Lyman, Edward L. San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1996.

Martin, Stuart. The Mystery of Mormonism. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1920.

Matthews, Robert J. “A Plainer Translation:” Joseph Smith’s Translation of the Bible; A History and Commentary. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1975.

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———. Utah: A People’s History. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2002.

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———. Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Religious Excess. Midvale, UT: Signature Books, 1994.

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Articles, Academic Papers, and Chapters

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Allen, Bruce. “Academy Tennessee Branch.” Amateur Mormon Historian (blog), 27 April 2015. http://amateurmormonhistorian.blogspot.com/2015/04/academy-tennessee-branch.html.

Anderson, Margo J., ed. Encyclopedia of the US Census. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2000.

Arrington, Leonard J. “The John Tanner Family.” Ensign, March 1979.

Bates, Irene M. “William Smith, 1811–93: Problematic Patriarch.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 16, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 11–23.

Bergera, Gary James. “Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841–44.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 38, no. 3 (Fall 2005): 1–74.

Bitton, Davis. “Mormons in Texas: The Ill-Fated Lyman Wight Colony, 1844–1858.” Arizona and the West 11, no. 1 (Spring 1969): 5–26.

——–. “A Re-evaluation of the ‘Turner Thesis and Mormon Beginnings . . . .’” Utah Historical Quarterly 34, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 326–33.

Beecher, Dale F. “Colonizer of the West.” In Lion of the Lord: Essays on the Life and Service of Brigham Young, edited by Susan Easton Black and Larry C. Porter. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995: 172–208.

Bennett, Richard. “‘Has the Lord Turned Bankrupt?’ The Attempted Sale of the Nauvoo Temple, 1846–1850.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 95, no. 3 (Autumn 2002): 235–63. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40193435.

Black, Susan Easton. “How Large Was the Population of Nauvoo?” BYU Studies 35, no. 2 (Spring 1995): 91–94.

———. “The Pivotal Role of John Taylor in the Political Campaign of Joseph Smith.” In Champion of Liberty: John Taylor, edited by Mary Jane Woodger, 21–44. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009.

Bringhurst, Newell G. “Charles B. Thompson and the Issues of Slavery and Race.” Journal of Mormon History 8 (1981): 37–47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23285871.

———. “Elijah Abel and the Changing Status of Blacks within Mormonism.” In Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church, edited by Lester E. Bush Jr. and Armand L. Mauss, 131–49. Midvale, UT: Signature Books, 1984.

Buerger, David John. “‘The Fulness of the Priesthood’: The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 16, no. 1: 10–44.

Campbell, Eugene Edward. “The Mormon Gold Mining Mission of 1849.” BYU Studies 1, no. 2 and 2, no. 1 (Autumn 1959–Winter 1960): 19–31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43041704.

Carol, Mary. “Weakley County’s Connection to the Ill-Fated Donner Party of 1846–47: Murphy Family of Weakley County–Part of Donner Party.” Accessed 22 January 2009. http://sites.rootsweb.com/~tnweakle/MurphySarah.htm.

Carruth, LaJean P., comp. “John Taylor’s June 27, 1854, Account of the Martyrdom.” Edited by Mark L. Stakerohn. BYU Studies 50, no. 3 (2011): 47–49.

Christensen, Craig H. “The Separation of Ecclesiastical and Civil Court Jurisdiction in Early LDS Church History” (Typescript). Paper for Comparative Church and State Seminar. J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, 1985.

Christy, Howard A. “Weather, Disaster, and Responsibility: An Essay on the Willie and Martin Handcart Story.” BYU Studies 37, no. 1 (1997): 6–74.

Crawley, Peter L., and Richard L. Anderson. “The Political and Social Realities of Zion’s Camp.” BYU Studies 14, no. 4 (Summer 1974): 406–20.

Cook, Lyndon W. “William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter.” BYU Studies 22, no. 1 (1982): 47–72.

Daynes, Kathryn. “Mormon Polygamy: Belief and Practice in Nauvoo.” In Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History, edited by Roger D. Launius and John E. Hallwas, 130–46. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Dennis, Ronald D. “Dan Jones, Welshman: Taking the Gospel Home.” Ensign, April 1987.

Derr, Jill Mulvay. “The Lion and the Lioness: Brigham Young and Eliza R. Snow.” BYU Studies 40, no. 2 (2001): 54–101.

Dredge, C. Paul. “Dispute Settlement in the Mormon Community: The Operation of Ecclesiastical Courts in Utah.” In Access to Justice, Volume IV: The Anthropological Perspective, edited by Klaus-Friedrich Koch, 193–214. Milan, Italy: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1979.

“Early Black Mormons.” Mormon Heretic (blog). Published 9 March 2009. https://mormonheretic.org/2009/03/09/early-black-mormons/.

Ehat, Andrew F. “‘It Seems Like Heaven Began on Earth’: Joseph Smith and the Constitution of the Kingdom of God.” BYU Studies 20, no. 3 (Spring 1980): 253–79.

Esplin, Ronald K. “‘A Place Prepared’: Joseph, Brigham, and the Quest for Promised Refuge in the West.” In Window of Faith: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on World History, edited by Roy A. Prete, 71–97. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005.

———. The “Council of Fifty” in History and Theology—An Inquiry into the Role of the Government of God in the Last Days. Americana Collection. BYUSC.

———. “The Significance of Nauvoo for Latter-day Saints.” In Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History, edited by Roger D. Launius and John E. Hallwas, 19–38. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Flanders, Robert Bruce. “The Kingdom of God in Illinois: Politics in Utopia.” In Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History, edited by Roger D. Launius and John E. Hallwas, 147–159. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Faulring, Scott. “The Return of Oliver Cowdery.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 117–73. Provo, UT: FARMS, 2000.

Gaunt, LaRene Porter. “Edward Hunter: Generous Pioneer, Presiding Bishop.” Ensign, July 2004.

Gentry, Jeffrey S. “Joseph Smith—Religious Prophet and Secular Politician.” BYU Student Paper, 1994. Americana Collection. BX 8608 .A1a no. 7422. BYUSC.

Gentry, Leland Homer. “The Danite Band of 1838.” BYU Studies 14, no. 4 (Summer 1974): 421–50.

Godfrey, Kenneth. “Crime and Punishment in Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846.” BYU Studies 32, no. 1 (1992): 195–228.

———. “Joseph Smith and the Masons.” Journal of the Illinois Historical Society 64, no. 1 (Spring 1971): 79–90.

Hampshire, Annette P. “Nauvoo Politics.” Encyclopedia of Mormonism. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Harper, Howard K., Steven C. Harper, and David P. Harper. “Van Wagoner’s Sidney Rigdon: A Portrait of Biographical Excess.” FARMS Review of Books 14, no. 1 (2002): 261–74.

Hartley, William G. “From Men to Boys: LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829–1996.” Journal of Mormon History 22, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 81–136.

———. “Missouri’s 1838 Extermination Order and the Mormons’ Forced Removal to Illinois.” Mormon Historical Studies 2, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 5–27.

IAGenWeb Project. “Boyer Township: 1868 History of Harrison County.” Accessed 22 June 2007. http://iagenweb.org/harrison/twp/twpboyer.htm.

Ingals, Ephraim. “Autobiography of Dr. Ephraim Ingals.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 28 (1936): 279–308.

“An Introduction to the Mormon Participation in the Civil War.” Juvenile Instructor (blog), 17 March 2009. https://juvenileinstructor.org/an-introduction-to-the-mormon-particpation-in-the-civil-war/.

Jack, Ronald Collett. Utah Territorial Politics: 1847–1876. Salt Lake City: Department of Political Science, University of Utah, 1970.

Johnson, Janiece L. “‘The Scriptures Is a Fulfilling’: Sally Parker’s Weave.” BYU Studies 44, no. 2 (2005): 111–22. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol44/iss2/9.

“Jonathan Browning, Mormon Gunsmith.” Muzzle Blasts Online. Published August/September 1997. https://www.muzzleblasts.com/archives/vol2no4/articles/mbo24-2.shtml.

Kimball, James L., Jr. “The Nauvoo Charter: A Reinterpretation.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 54 (Spring 1971): 66–78.

Lyman, E. Leo. “Larger than Texas: Proposals to Combine California and Mormon Deseret as One State.” California History 80, no. 1 (Spring 2001): 18–33.

Mason, Patrick Q. “God and the People: Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism.” Journal of Church and State 53, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 349–75. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csq135.

Matthews, Robert J. “The Restoration of All Things: What the Doctrine and Covenants Says.” In The Heavens Are Open: The 1992 Sperry Symposium on the Doctrine and Covenants and Church History, compiled by Byron R. Merrill, 68–91. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1993.

Mayo, Martha, and Connell O’Donovan. “Members and Missionaries of the Lowell, Massachusetts Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1835–1860.” https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/overlandtravel/sources/30072/mayo-martha-and-o-donovan-connell-members-and-missionaries-of-the-lowell-massachusetts-branch-of-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints-1835-1860.

Oaks, Dallin H., and Joseph I. Bentley. “Joseph Smith and Legal Process: In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo.” BYU Studies 19, no. 2 (Winter 1979): 167–99. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43040808.

O’Donovan, Connell. “‘I Would Confine Them to Their Own Species’: LDS Historical Rhetoric and Praxis Regarding Marriage between Whites and Blacks.” Published 28 March 2009. http://www.connellodonovan.com/black_white_marriage.html.

———. “‘Let This Be a Warning to All Niggers’: The Life and Murder of Thomas Coleman in Theocratic Utah.” Unpublished paper, last modified June 2008. Microsoft Word file.

Parkin, Max H. “Joseph Smith and the United Firm: The Growth and Decline of the Church’s First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and Missouri, 1832–34.” BYU Studies 46, no. 3 (2007): 5–66. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol46/iss3/1.

Peterson, Paul H. “The Mormon Reformation of 1856–1857: The Rhetoric and the Reality.” Journal of Mormon History 15 (1989): 59–87.

Petty, James W. “A Walk Down Parley Street.” Ensign, August 2003.

Poll, Richard. “Joseph Smith’s Presidential Platform.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 3, no. 3 (Autumn 1968): 17–36.

Porter, Larry C. “The Restoration of the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods.” Ensign, December 1996.

Congressional Quarterly Inc. Presidential Elections since 1789. Edited by Margaret C. Thompson. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1987.

Quinn, D. Michael. “The Council of Fifty and its Members, 1844–1945.” BYU Studies 20, no. 2 (Winter 1980): 163–97.

———. “Joseph Smith’s Experience of a Methodist ‘Camp-Meeting’ in 1820.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Dialogue e-paper #3, 12 July 2006. Copy in author’s possession.

———. “The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844.” BYU Studies 16, no. 2 (Winter 1976): 187–233.

Reeve, W. Paul. Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Ridge, Martin. “Mormon ‘Deliverance’ and the Closing of the Frontier.” In The American West: The Reader, edited by Walter Nugent and Martin Ridge. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Riggs, Michael S. “‘His Word Was As Good As His Note’: The Impact of Justus Morse’s Mormonism(s) on His Families.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 17 (1997): 49–80.

Robertson, Margaret C. “The Campaign and the Kingdom: The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith’s Presidential Campaign.” BYU Studies 39, no. 3 (2000): 147–80.

“Salt Lake’s Original Nineteen LDS Wards.” An Enduring Legacy (online database hosted by Ancestry.com). Accessed 18 September 2007.

Shumway, Craig Leland. “Social Variables of Ecclesiastical Leadership.” Thesis, Department of Sociology, Marriott Library, University of Utah (1972).

Smith, George D. “Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841–46: A Preliminary Demographic Report.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 34, no. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2001): 123–58 .

“The Trail Ran East from Council Bluffs: Mormons Who Made It So Far, then Left for Wisconsin and Michigan.” Paper prepared for the annual meeting of the Mormon History Association, Omaha, NE, 23 May 1997. http://www.strangite.org/Bluffs.htm.

Van Orden, Bruce. “William W. Phelps’s Service in Nauvoo as Joseph Smith’s Political Clerk.” BYU Studies 32, nos. 1, 2 (1992): 81–94. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol32/iss1/9.

Wahlquist, Wayne L. “Population Growth in the Mormon Core Area: 1847–90.” In The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West, edited by Richard H. Jackson, 107–34. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1978.

Walker, Jeffrey N. “Mormon Land Rights in Caldwell and Daviess Counties and the Mormon Conflict of 1838: New Findings and New Understandings.” BYU Studies 47, no. 1 (2008): 4–55. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/byusq/vol47/iss1/1.

Walker, Ronald W. “‘A Banner Is Unfurled’: Mormonism’s Ensign Peak.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 26: 71–91.

Ward, Maurine Carr. “A Partial List of Church Members Living in Nauvoo.” The Nauvoo Journal 4 (1992): 15–69.

Watson, Elden J. “The Nauvoo Tabernacle.” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (Spring 1979): 416–21.

Watt, Ronald G. “Sailing ‘The Old Ship Zion’: The Life of George D. Watt.” BYU Studies 18, no. 1 (Fall 1977): 48–65.

Whitsitt, William H. “Sidney Rigdon: The Real Founder of Mormonism.” Unpublished manuscript, accessed 5 July 2010. Library of Congress. http://sidneyrigdon.com/wht/1891WhtB.htm.

Whittaker, David J. “East of Nauvoo: Benjamin Winchester and the Early Mormon Church.” Journal of Mormon History 21, no. 2 (Fall 1995): 31–83. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/mormonhistory/vol21/iss2/1.

Widtsoe, John Andreas. “Questions Concerning Priesthood, 1941.” CHL.

Winkler, Phillip. “A Mormon in Tennessee: Presenting the Life of Colonel Solomon Copeland.” Presentation at Dyersburg State Community College, Dyersburg, TN, n.d.

Dissertations and Theses

Andrus, Hyrum L. “World Government as Envisioned in the Latter-day Saint ‘City of Zion.’” Master’s thesis. Brigham Young University. 1952.

Bailey, Raymond T. “Emma Hale: Wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1952.

Baumgarten, James N. “The Role and Function of the Seventies in LDS Church History.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1960.

Clegg, Dennis A. “Levi Ward Hancock, Pioneer, Soldier, Political and Religious Leader of Early Utah.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1966.

Colvin, Don F. “A Historical Study of the Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1962.

Drake, J. Raman. “Howard Egan, Frontiersman, Pioneer and Pony Express Rider.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1956.

Eddy, Majorie E. “The Precepts of Zion and Joseph Smith’s City of Zion Plan: Major Influences for the Planning of Nauvoo.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1999.

Ehat, Andrew F. “Joseph Smith’s Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1982.

Gentry, Leland Homer. “A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836–1839.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1965.

Hansen, Klaus. “The Theory and Practice of the Political Kingdom of God in Mormon History, 1829–1890.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1959.

Hawkes, John Douglas. “A History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Australia to 1900.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1965.

Jack, Ronald Collett. “Political Participation in Utah Before the Formation of Political Parties, 1847–1869.” Master’s thesis, University of Utah, 1967.

Jensen, Robin Scott. “Gleaning the Harvest: Strangite Missionary Work, 1846–1850.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 2005.

Jensen, Therald N. “Mormon Theory of Church and State.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1938.

Kilts, Clair T. “A History of the Federal and Territorial Court Conflicts in Utah, 1851–1874.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1959.

Lawson, John. “A Study of the History of the Office of High Priest.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 2006.

Marrot, Robert L. “History and Functions of the Aaronic Priesthood and the Offices of Priest, Teacher, and Deacon in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1829 to 1844.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1976.

Olsen, Steven L. “The Mormon Ideology of Place: Cosmic Symbolism of the City of Zion, 1830–1846.” PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1985.

Page, Albert R. “Orson Hyde and the Carson Valley Mission.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1970.

Peterson, John A. “Warren Stone Snow, a Man in between: The Biography of a Mormon Defender.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1985.

Quinn, D. Michael. “Organizational Development and Social Origins of the Mormon Hierarchy, 1832–1932: A Prosopographical Study.” Master’s thesis, University of Utah, 1973.

Shipps, Jan. “The Mormons in Politics: The First Hundred Years.” PhD diss., University of Colorado, 1965.

Shumway, Craig Leland. “Social Variables of Ecclesiastical Leadership.” Thesis, University of Utah, 1972.

Travis, Marilyn Reed. “Social Stratification and the Dissolution of the City of Zion in Salt Lake City.” PhD diss., University of Utah, 1994.

Warner, Edward Allen. “Mormon Theodemocracy: Theocratic and Democratic Elements in Early Latter-day Saint History, 1827–1846.” PhD diss., University of Iowa, 1973.