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A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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[2004 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Documentary Editing]
"Mormon culture has produced during its history an unusual number of historically valuable personal writings. Few such diaries, journals, and memoirs published have provided as rich and well rounded a window into their authors' lives and worlds as the diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Because it provides a rare account of the widely experienced situations and problems faced by widows, her record has relevance far beyond Mormon history though. As a teenager Helen Kimball had been a polygamous wife of Mormon founder Joseph Smith. She subsequently married Horace Whitney. Her children included the noted Mormon author, religious authority, and politician Orson F. Whitney. She herself was a leading woman in her church and society and a writer known especially for her defense of plural marriage. Upon Horace's death, she began keeping a diary. In it, she recorded her economic, physical, and psychological struggles to meet the challenges of widowhood. Her writing was introspective and revelatory. She also commented on the changing society around her, as Salt Lake City in the last decades of the nineteenth century underwent rapid transformation, modernizing and opening up from its pioneer beginnings. She remained a well-connected member of an elite group of leading Latter-day Saint women, and prominent Utah and Mormon historical figures appear frequently in her daily entries. Above all, though, her diary is an unusual record of difficulties faced in many times and places by women, of all classes, whose husbands died and left them without sufficient means to carry on the types of lives to which they had been accustomed. " [Publisher's abstract]
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Mormon Democrat : The Religious and Political Memoirs of James Henry Moyle
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Mormonism and Music : A History
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Mormon Polygamy : A History
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir
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Mormon Women and Depression
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Reminiscences of a Missionary Bishop
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Reminiscences of Latter-day Saints, Giving an Account of Much Individual Suffering Endured for Religious Conscience
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Scenic Utah : Pen and Pencil
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Scrap Book of Mormon Literature : Religious Tracts
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Sister Saints
Sister Saints : Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy
Sisters and Little Saints : One Hundred Years of Primary
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Sketches and Reminiscences of Prison Life
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Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Speaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
Spencer W. Kimball : Twelfth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Spokesman for the Kingdom : Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News, 1830-1898
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Sunbonnet Sisters : True Stories of Mormon Women and Frontier Life
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Susa Young Gates : Her Life and Literary Work
Susa Young Gates : The Thirteenth Apostle
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'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
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The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Alienation of an Apostle from his Quorum : The Moses Thatcher Case
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts
The Avenues of Salt Lake City
The Beehive and Lion Houses
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The Brigham Young Farm House
The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America
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The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood
The History of a Valley : Cache Valley, Utah-Idaho
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The History of Salt Lake City and Its Founders
The John Taylor Papers : Records of the Last Utah Pioneer
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The Law of Adoption : One Phase of the Development of the Mormon Concept of Salvation, 1830-1900
The 'Leading Sisters' : A Female Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Mormon Society
The Legislative Antipolygamy Campaign
The Life of Edward Stevenson, Member of the First Council of the Seventy, Friend of the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Three Witnesses
The Life of John Taylor, Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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The Making of Saints : The Mormon Town as a Setting for the Study of Cultural Change
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The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
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The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormons and the Law : The Polygamy Cases
The Mormon Village : A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement
The Negro Pioneer
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
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The Peoples of Utah
The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
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The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith : A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants
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Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Thrilling Experiences
Through Memory's Halls : The Life Story of Orson F. Whitney
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Truman Leonard : Pioneer Mormon Farmer
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Urban Utah : Toward a Fuller Understanding
Utah and the Depression of the 1890s
Utah As It Is, with a Comprehensive Statement of Utah As It Was
Utah History Encyclopedia
Utah Labor before Statehood
Utah's Black Hawk War
Utah's Chinatowns : The Development and Decline of Extinct Ethnic Enclaves
Utah's Delegates to Congress, 1851-1896
Utah's Ethnic Minorities : A Survey
Utah's History
Utah since statehood, historical and biographical
Utah's Leading Ladies of the Arts
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Vilate Murray Kimball : Chronicling Church History
Walker Borthers
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
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Widowhood among the Mormons : The Personal Accounts
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William B. Smith : The Persistent 'Pretender'
William C. Staines : 'English Gentleman of Refinement and Culture'
Wives in Wagons : Winter Quarters and the Trek West
Woman's Place is in the Constitution : The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895
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Women Alone : The Economic and Emotional Plight of Early LDS Women
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women of Principle : Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny
Women's Voices : An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Worth Their Salt : Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah
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Xanadu by the Salt Flats : Memories of a Pleasure Dome
Young, Brigham, Jr.
Young, John Willard
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Zion's Cameramen : Early Photographers of Utah and the Mormons