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English
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Dale Morgan on the Mormons : Collected Works
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Norman, OK
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The Arthur H. Clark Company
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Dale L. Morgan (1914-1971) remains one of the most respected historians of the American West--and his career, one of the least understood. Among today's scholars his reputation rests largely on his studies of the fur trade and overland trails, yet throughout his life, Morgan's primary interest was the history of the Latter Day Saints. In this volume--the first of a two-part set--Morgan's writings on the Mormons finally receive the attention and analysis they merit.
Dale Morgan on the Mormons is a far-reaching compilation of the historian's published and unpublished writings. Edited and annotated by Richard L. Saunders, the collection includes not only essays but also book reviews and bibliographic studies, many published here for the first time. This first volume includes key extracts from Morgan's contribution to the WPA guide to Utah (1941), which remains an excellent introduction to the complex history of the Beehive State. It further provides a new historiographic introduction to his seminal work The State of Deseret and presents important previously unpublished works on the Kingdom of God, the Deseret Alphabet, and the origins of the infamous Danite society. In addition, the volume illuminates Morgan's legacy as a bibliographer and the significance of that contribution to Latter Day Saint studies. Throughout, Saunders provides informative introductions that place each of the writings or groups of writings into biographical and historical context.
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Explaining Mormonism: A Believing Skeptic's Guide to the Latter-day Saint Worldview
Jan Shipps : A Social and Intellectual Portrait
John Hawley, Mormon Ulysses : His LDS Mission to Iowa and Eventual RLDS Conversion
Joseph Smith as Book of Mormon Storyteller
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Revelation, Scripture, and Authority in the Latter-day Saint Diaspora, 1840-1870
The Joseph Smith Papers : Administrative Records, Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846
The Last Called Mormon Colonization: Polygamy, Kinship, and Wealth in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin
The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks
The Writings of Oliver Olney : April 1842 to February 1843 — Nauvoo, Illinois
Toward a Mormon Literary Theory
Writing Ourselves : Essays on Creativity, Craft, and Mormonism