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English
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Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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[2020 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best First Book]
"At the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Mormons were deliberately excluded from one of the main attractions, the Parliament of Religions. Organizers believed that Mormonism, with its connections to polygamy, did not merit a place alongside other world religions being showcased for the similar ways in which they inspired people to follow God. At the same time, however, Americans who had long shown hatred or distrust toward their Mormon neighbors had begun to see Mormonism in a different light. Underlying this new view of Mormonism was a rapidly developing belief in America’s fading western frontier as a place linked to core American values such as self-reliance, personal freedom, and democratic rule. With a unique history intimately tied to the frontier, Mormonism began to be seen less as something outside America, and more as a faith closely associated with the country’s most important principles." [Publisher]
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
American Republicanism as Shown Through Mormon-Federal Conflict, 1846-1890
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
B. H. Roberts at the World Parliament of Religions
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle : The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895
Dancing with the Devil : The Making of the Mormon-Republican Pact
Defender of the Faith : The B. H. Roberts Story
Defense of the Faith and the Saints
Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Fatal Convergence in the Kingdom of God : The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American History
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
George Q. Cannon : A Biography
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
"I am not and never have been a polygamist" : Reed Smoot's Speech before the United States Senate
Immigration and the 'Mormon Question' : An International Episode
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Making Space on the Western Frontier : Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
Marking Mormon Difference : How Western Perceptions of Islam Defined the 'Mormon Menace'
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Messages of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon History
Mormonism and Islam : From Polemics to Mutual Respect and Cooperation
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Resistance : A documentary account of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858
Moses Thatcher in the Dock : His Trials, the Aftermath, and His Last Days
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Polygamy and Women's Rights : Nineteenth-Century Mormon Female Activism
Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power : Salt Lake City, 1847-1918
Reed Smoot : Apostle in Politics
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Sagwitch : Shoshoni Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1884
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
Take Up Your Mission : Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
The Alienation of an Apostle from his Quorum : The Moses Thatcher Case
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Council of Fifty : A Documentary History
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Church on Trial : Transcripts of the Reed Smoot Hearings
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
The Mormons, or Latter-day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Muhammad–Joseph Smith Comparison: Subjective Metaphor or a Sociology of Prophethood?
The Persistence of Polygamy : Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy
The Political Kingdom of God as a Cause for Mormon-Gentile Conflict
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prophet and the Reformer : The Letters of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
The Reed Smoot Hearings : A Quest for Legitimacy
The Separation of Church and State in Mormon Theory and Practice
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
'To Maintain Harmony' : Adjusting to External and Internal Stress, 1890-1930
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Under the Gun at the Smoot Hearings : Joseph F. Smith's Testimony
Utah : The Right Place. The Official Centennial History
Wife No. 19
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women of Faith in the Latter Days : Volume 3, 1846-1870
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900