JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY SPRING 2012
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JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY VOLUME 38, NO. 2 SPRING 2012 CONTENTS LETTERS Augusta Adams Cobb Young: Priesthood Holder Connell O Donovan vii PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Not as a Stranger : A Presbyterian Afoot in the Mormon Past William P. MacKinnon 1 TANNER LECTURE Mormon Stories: A Librarian s Perspective George A. Miles 47 ARTICLES From Doctor to Disciple: Willard Richards s Journey to Mormonism Devery S. Anderson 67 New Ways In: Writing Interdisciplinary Mormon History Introduction Rachel Cope 99 Shifting the Plot: Possibilities in Mormon Women s History Rachel Cope 100 History through Liturgy: What Worship Remembers Matthew Bowman 108 A Shared Historicist Enterprise: Mormon History through a Literary Lens Amy Easton-Flake 114 Mormon History and Lived Religion Ryan G. Tobler 119 iv
CONTENTS v Where Nothing Is Long Ago : Childhood and Youth in Mormon History Rebecca de Schweinitz 125 Religion in a Recipe Kate Holbrook 139 Conclusion Rachel Cope 143 Eleven Witnesses Behold the Plates Gale Yancey Anderson 145 Joseph Smith s Personal Polygamy Brian C. Hales 163 REVIEWS Mark T. Decker and Michael Austin, eds., Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen David W. Scott 229 David L. Bigler and Will Bagley, The Mormon Rebellion: America s First Civil War, 1857 1858 Polly Aird 233 J. Kenneth Davies and Lorin K. Hansen, Mormon Gold: Mormons in the California Gold Rush Contributing to the Development of California and the Monetary Solvency of Early Utah Edward Leo Lyman 240 William Logan Hebner, ed., Southern Paiute: A Portrait Todd M. Compton 244 R. Jean Addams, Upon the Temple Lot: The Church of Christ s Quest to Build the House of the Lord Steven L. Shields 249 Nathaniel R. Ricks, ed., My Candid Opinion : The Sandwich Islands Diaries of Joseph F. Smith, 1856 1857 John J Hammond 252 Stephen C. Taysom, Dimensions of Faith: A Mormon Studies Reader Blair Dee Hodges 260 Brandon G. Kinney, The Mormon War: Zion and the Missouri Extermination Order of 1838 Richard A. McFarlane 264
vi The Journal of Mormon History Kim Östman, The Introduction of Mormonism to Finnish Society, 1840 1900 Paul Wilson 267 BOOK NOTICES George W. Givens and Sylvia Givens, 500 Little-Known Facts about Nauvoo 271 Benjamin G. Bistline, Colorado City Polygamists: An Inside Look for the Outsider 272 Richard Clothier, 150 Years of Song: Hymnody in the Reorganization, 1860 2010 274 Tiffany Fletcher, Mother Had a Secret 275