David W. Grua

David W. Grua is a legal historian for the forthcoming Joseph Smith Papers, a multivolume collection of all extant Joseph Smith documents, including legal papers. He earned a BA in history from Brigham Young University. The author would like to thank John W. Welch, Gordon Madsen, and Sharalyn Duffin, all of the Joseph Smith Papers team, for their comments on the paper. He would also like to thank Dale Broadhurst, an independent historian living in Hilo, Hawaii, for sharing his many years of inexhaustible work compiling historical documents relating to D. P. Hurlbut.