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Western History and Utah History

General Titles

Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Will Bagley
Building the "Goodly Fellowship of Faith" A History of the Episcopal Church in Utah, 1867-1996 Frederick Quinn
Castle Valley, America Hard Land, Hard-won Home Nancy J. Taniguchi
Comb Ridge and Its People: The Ethnohistory of a Rock Robert S. McPherson
Disaster at the Colorado Beale's Wagon Road and the First Emigrant Party Charles W. Baley
Exploring Desert Stone John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado Steven K. Madsen
From the Ground Up The History of Mining in Utah ed. Colleen K. Whitley
Hell or High Water James White's Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867 Eilean Adams
In Another Time Sketches of Utah History Harold Schindler
Lee's Ferry From Mormon Crossing to National Park P. T. Reilly ed. Robert H. Webb
My Life on Mountain Railroads William John Gilbert Gould, ed. William R. Gould
The Next Time We Strike Labor in Utah's Coal Fields, 1900-1933 Allan Kent Powell
Old Deseret Live Stock Company: A Stockman's Memoir W. Dean Frischknecht
Over the Range: A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad Richard V. Francaviglia
Over the Rim The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-50 ed. William B. Smart & Donna T. Smart
Quicksand and Cactus A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier Juanita Brooks
Robbers Roost Recollections Pearl Baker
Route for the Overland Stage: James H. Simpson's 1859 Trail Across the Great Basin Jesse G Petersen
Trailing the Pioneers Peter H. Delafosse, ed
"Unfortunate Emigrants" Narratives of the Donner Party ed. Kristin Johnson
Utah's History ed. Richard D. Poll, et al.
Utah in the Twentieth Century ed. Brian Q. Cannon and Jessie Embry

Mormon History

Henry William Bigler Soldier, Gold Miner, Missionary, Chronicler, 1815-1900 M. Guy Bishop
Brigham Young's Homes ed. Colleen Whitley
Cultures in Conflict A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois John E. Hallwas & Roger D. Launius
John Doyle Lee Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat Juanita Brooks
Junius and Joseph Presidental Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet Robert S. Wicks & Fred R. Foister
The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847 Norton Jacob's Record ed. Ronald O. Barney
The Mormon Battalion United States Army of the West, 1846-1848 Norma Baldwin Ricketts
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt Ronald G. Watt

Mormonism's Last Colonizer The Life and Times of William H. Smart William B. Smart
One Side by Himself The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 Ronald O. Barney
Place the Headstones Where They Belong Thomas Neibaur, WWI Soldier Sherman Fleek
Polygamy on the Pedernales Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858 Melvin C. Johnson
Reconsidering No Man Knows My History Fawn M. Brodie and Joseph Smith in Retrospect ed. Newell G. Bringhurst
Religion, Politics, and Sugar Matthew C. Godfrey

Leonard Arrington Lecture Series

The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures, USU Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives

Volume 1 Faith and Intellect as Partners in Mormon History Leonard J. Arrington (OUT OF PRINT)
Volume 2 Making Space for the Mormons Richard L. Bushman (OUT OF PRINT)
Volume 3 "My Idea is to Go Right Through": The Exodus as Reformation Richard E. Bennett ISBN 0-87421-251-0 26pp
Volume 4 The Theater in Mormon Life and Culture Howard R. Lamar ISBN 0-87421-285-5 30pp
Volume 5 Mormon Domestic Life in the 1870s: Pandemonium or Arcadia? Claudia L. Bushman ISBN 0-87421-289-8 32pp
Volume 6 The Importance of the Temple in Understanding the Latter-day Saint Nauvoo Experience: Then and Now Kenneth W. Godfrey (OUT OF PRINT)
Volume 7 Signifying Sainthood Jan Shipps ISBN 0-87421-446-7 28pp
Volume 8 Encountering Mormon Country: John Wesley Powell, John Muir, and the Nature of Utah Donald Worster ISBN 0-87421-558-7 32pp
Volume 9 Rachel's Death How Memory Challenges History Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ISBN 0-87421-578-1 32pp
Volume 10 The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures, volumes 1 to 10; ISBN 978-087421-598-4
Volume 11 In-Laws and Outlaws: Lessons in Research and Friendship and a Report from the Archives Sarah Gordon Barringer ISBN 978-0-87421-682-0 38pp
Volume 12 Brigham Young, the Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-Day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre Thomas G. Alexander ISBN 978-0-87421-687-5 48pp.
Volume 13 What's True in Mormon Folklore? The Contribution of Folklore to Mormon Studies William A. Wilson ISBN 978-0-87421-717-9 20pp.

Kingdom in the West Series

Army of Israel Mormon Battalion Narratives ed. David L. Bigler and Will Bagley
Forgotten Kingdom The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896 David L. Bigler
Scoundrel's Tale The Samuel Brannan Papers Will Bagley
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock ed. Will Bagley
Fort Limhi The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1856-1858 David L. Bigler

Western Women in History

Emma Lee Juanita Brooks
Faithful Transgressions in the American West Six Twentieth Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts Laura L. Bush
Leave the Dishes in the Sink Adventures of an Activist in Conservative Utah Alison Comish Thorne, foreword by F. Ross Peterson
Madame Chair: Autobiography of an Unintentional Pioneer Jean Westwood
Mormon Healer and Folk Poet Mary Susannah Fowler's Life of "Unselfish Usefulness" Margaret K. Brady
Mormon Sisters Women in Early Utah New Edition ed. Claudia L. Bushman
Uncommon Common Women Ordinary Lives of the West Anne M. Butler and Ona Siporin
Women in Utah History Paradigm or Paradox? Ed. Patricia Lyn Scott & Linda Thatcher
Worth Their Salt Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah ed. Collen Whitley
Worth Their Salt Too More Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah ed. Colleen Whitley

Life Writings of Frontier Women Series Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Series Editor

Volume 1 Winter Quarters The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards ed. Maurine Carr Ward
Volume 2 Mormon Midwife The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions ed. Donna Toland Smart
Volume 3 The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer ed. S. George Ellsworth
Volume 4 Out of the Black Patch The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer ed. Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson
Volume 5 The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
Volume 6 A Widow's Tale 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney ed. Charles M. Hatch and Todd Compton
Volume 7 No Place to Call Home The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities ed. Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and George S. Ellsworth editors
Volume 8 Recollections of Past Days The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer, ed. Sandra Ailey Petree
Volume 9 Before the Manifesto The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris, ed. Melissa L. Milewski
Volume 10 An Expose of Polygamy: A Lady's Life among the Mormons Fanny Stenhouse; ed. Linda DeSimone