Bibliography
List of abbreviations used in this bibliography follow:
Cedar City Library: Historical Collection, Cedar City Public Library, Cedar City, Utah.
Iron County: Iron County Records, Iron County Recorder’s Office, Parowan, Utah.
LDS Church Archives: Archives Division, Historical Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City.
Perry Special Collections: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Sherratt Library: Special Collections, Gerald R. Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. The William R. Palmer Collection, within Special Collections, is frequently cited herein. Entries from the Special Collections at large will be cited as “Sherratt Library”; entries within the Palmer Collection will be cited as “Palmer Collection.”
Utah State Archives: Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City.
Primary Sources
Corporate Documents
Deseret Iron Company. Untitled account book, Apr–Sep 1854. LDS Church Archives.
———. Journal, 6 Sep 1854–5 Jan 1867. Sherratt Library. In microfilm collection, see “Daughters of Utah Pioneers No. 1402, Deseret Iron Company Financial Ledgers, 1854–1869.”
———. Minutes. Original in LDS Church Archives; typescript in Palmer Collection.
Deseret Iron Company. Miscellaneous Documents. Palmer Collection. Includes: “Articles of Incorporation, 1852”; Charles Jordan to Erastus Snow, undated letter (ca. 1852); Charles Jordan to “Dear Sir,” 27 Apr 1852; “Design of a Blowing Machine and Framing for the Same,” ca. 1852 (misdated “1854” by penciled notation); Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards to Vincent Shurtleff, 1 May 1852; Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards, to “Beloved Brethren of the Deseret Iron Company,” 8 May 1852; James Bulloch, shipping list, Salt Lake to Coal Creek, Nov 1852; Bill of Sale, 30 Nov 1852; Share Register, 1853, holograph, Book A; “Invoice of Goods for Iron County, No. 1,” 28 Feb 1853; “Snow & Richards, Invoice No. 2, Deseret Iron Co.,” Mar 1853; misc. receipts, Jun 1853; Ledger, 1853–1854; “Furnace Account, Cost of Erecting, from 30 May to 16 Sep, 1854”; Inventory, 16 Sep 1854.
Iron Works Account Book. Dec 1851–Nov 1852. Palmer Collection.
Journals, Diaries and Biographies
Ashworth, William. “Autobiography.” 2 vols. Bound typescript. Perry Special Collections.
Bowering, George K. Journal. Original in possession of Bernon Auger, Salt Lake City. Copy in LDS Church Archives (restricted by family).
Dame, William. “Journal of William H. Dame to Iron Co. Utah, 1850–59.” Sherratt Library.
“Diary of Richard Harrison, 1838–1867.” Bound typescript. Perry Special Collections.
“Extracts from the Journal of John Steele.” Utah Historical Quarterly 6 (Jan 1933): 2–28.
Fish, Joseph. “Journal of Joseph Fish.” Bound typescript. Perry Special Collections.
Haight, Isaac C. Journal. Part 1: 7 Jun 1842–Aug 1852; Part 2: 9 Aug 1852–Jan 1862. Original in possession of Herbert Haight, Cedar City, Utah. Typescript copy in Sherratt Library.
“Journal of George A. Smith, President of the Iron County Mission.” Vol. 1 (7 Dec 1850–7 Apr 1851) and vol. 2 (8 Apr 1851–ca. 18 Nov 1851). LDS Church Archives.
“The Journal of Samuel Holister Rogers.” 2 vols. Perry Special Collections.
Lee, John D. “Journal of the Iron Co. Mission.” Original in LDS Church Archives. Published as “Journal of the Iron County Mission, John D. Lee, Clerk, December 10, 1850–March 1, 1851.” Gustive O. Larson, ed. Utah Historical Quarterly 20 (Apr 1952): 109–34; (Aug 1952): 253–82; (Oct 1952): 353–83.
Liston, Commodore Perry. Autobiography, 1821–1879. Typescript. Perry Special Collections.
Lunt, Vern, and Rachel Petty Lunt, comps. Life of Henry Lunt and Family, Together with a Portion of His Diary. Original in possession of Paul Lunt, Cedar City, Utah. Typescript in Perry Special Collections.
Morris, Elias. Diary. Palmer Collection.
Nelson, Bengt, Sr. Autobiography of Bengt Nelson Sr. N.p.: privately printed, ca. 1910. Copy in Perry Special Collections.
Pratt, Parley P., Jr., ed. The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt. 4th ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1985.
Richards, Franklin D. Journal. “May 1852 and Onward.” LDS Church Archives.
Whipple, Edson. Journal. Typescript. Perry Special Collections.
Whittaker, James, Sr. Journal. Occasional entries by James Jr. Sherratt Library.
Family and Local Histories
Baker, Edith L. Tales of the Fore-Bears [Woolf family history]. Bountiful, Utah: privately published, 1989.
“Biography of Chapman Duncan: 1812–1900.” In “Mormon Diaries,” Perry Special Collections.
Bulloch, David. “Life Sketch of David Bulloch.” Typescript. Cedar City Library.
Chatterley, John. “History of Cedar City.” Undated typescript. Cedar City Library.
———. Unsourced, undated list of Cedar Fort pioneers. Cedar City Library.
Fish, Joseph. “History of Enterprise.” Typescript. Perry Special Collections.
Hancock, Jennie Jensen. “Biography of Charles Willden, 1806–1883.” Unpublished typescript in family records of Ronald Payne, Spanish Fork, Utah, and Sharon Rae Payne, Salt Lake City. Similar version, “History and Diary of Charles Willden Sr.,” in Palmer Collection.
“Iron Mission Record.” 1850–59. Working title assigned by Morris Shirts to handwritten MS (anonymous, undated, unpaginated, untitled and missing front page[s]). LDS Church Archives.
“James H. Martineau Record, Parowan, Utah.” 1855–1860. Palmer Collection.
Jarvis, Zora Smith. Ancestry, Biography, and Family of George A. Smith. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1962.
Jenson, Andrew. “Parowan Ward History, 1849–1900.” Microfilm of typescript. Sherratt Library.
———. “Manuscript History of Cedar City Ward.” LDS Church Archives.
John Anthony Woolf Family Life Histories: John Anthony Woolf and Sarah Ann Devoe, Their Children and Grandchildren. Salt Lake City: Woolf Family Organization, 1965.
“John Calvin Lazell [sic] Smith.” Unattributed family history. Typescript. Palmer Collection.
Jones, Evelyn K. Henry Lunt: Biography and History of the Development of Southern Utah and Settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico. Provo, Utah: Privately printed, 1996.
Jones, John Lee. “Biography of John Lee Jones: Principal Residences: Cedar City and Enoch, Utah; Mission to England.” Bound typescript. Perry Special Collections.
“History of John Calvin Lazelle Smith.” Unpublished family history, comp. 1959, expanded 1975, by great-granddaughter Helen Thurber Dalton. Copy in Shirts Collection, Perry Special Collections.
Macfarlane, Kate Palmer. “Facts Furnished by David Bulloch concerning Settlement of Cedar City. Dictated by David Bulloch January 25, 1920. . . Recorded by Kate Palmer Macfarlane.” Palmer Collection.
Martineau, James H., as Stake Historian. Parowan Stake Minutes, 11 Aug 1859 to 13 Feb 1860. Microfilm Collection, LDS Church Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
A Memory Bank for Paragonah. Compiled by the Betsy Topham Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers (Paragonah). Provo, Utah: Community Press, 1990.
Millett, Joseph. “Brief Account of Artemus Millett & Family.” Holograph in possession of Nanon (Mrs. John Reed) Corry, Cedar City, Utah. Copies in Sherratt Library and Perry Special Collections.
“Minutes of First Cedar Stake and High Council (1855–56). Original.” Palmer Collection.
“Minutes of Teachers Meeting—First Division of Cedar Ward (1860).” Palmer Collection.
Palmer, William R. “First Forts at Cedar City, as told by David Bulloch.” Palmer Collection.
———. “Gleanings.” Palmer Collection.
———. “History of Joseph Walker and Sons.” Palmer Collection.
Tennant, Thomas. Estate Papers. Filed under Utah District Court (Salt Lake County): “Probate Records, Estates and Guardianship, 1852–1910: An Index to Book A through F.” LDS Church Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
Urie, John. “Early History of Cedar City and Vicinity.” Multiple versions of this document exist: four, respectively, in Cedar City Library; Utah State Historical Society; Palmer Collection and Perry Special Collections. Fifth, the key quotation appears in Andrew Jenson’s “Manuscript History of Cedar City.” Sixth, a version appears in Kate Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage; seventh, another in Evelyn K. Jones and York F. Jones, Mayors of Cedar City; and eighth, another in Evelyn Jones, Henry Lunt Biography.
Willden, Feargus O’Connor, sources: see “compiled information file” on Willden family in LDS Church Archives (material donated 1957 by Ione Thompson, West Valley City, Utah). A sheet of notes made by William Palmer, entitled “Extracts of Biography of Feargus O’Connor Willden Written by Himself” in Palmer Collection. Copies of unpublished “Biography of Feargus O’Connor Willden” in family records of Ronald Payne, Spanish Fork, Utah, and Sharon Rae Payne, Salt Lake City.
Public Records
Brewer, Charles, Assistant Surgeon. Official Report to Reuben Campbell, 6 May 1859. 36th Cong. 1st Sess., 1860. S. Ex. Doc. 42.
Campbell, Reuben P., Capt. Interim report to F. J. Porter, 30 Apr 1859. 36th Cong. 1st Sess., 1860. S. Ex. Doc. 42.
Carleton, James H. Carleton, Brevet Major. Special Report to W. W. Mackall, Asst. Adj. Gen., 25 May 1859. 57th Cong. 1st Sess., 1902. H. Doc. 605.
Dame, William. “Coal Creek Survey Iron Co. U. T. [Utah Territory], 1853–4.” Old Survey Book. Iron County.
Deed Book A (7 Feb 1851–28 Feb 1855); Deed Book B (28 Feb 1855–15 Sep 1863); Deed Book D (12 Aug 1863–16 Sep 1874). Iron County.
Laws and Ordinances of the State of Deseret (Utah). Compilation 1851, Salt Lake City: Shepard Book, 1919. Microfilm copy, Utah State Archives.
Martineau, James H. 1881 Survey, Township 36 South, Range 10 West. General Land Office, Bureau of Land Management, Cedar City, Utah.
Mining Location Notices. Book A. Iron County.
“Petition of Cedar City Residents.” 12 Nov 1853. Doc. no. 1815. Utah State Archives.
Shirts, Morris A. “Summary of Ordinances, Cedar City, 1853–1856.” Typescript. Sheratt Library.
Territorial Acts and Resolutions Passed at the Second Annual Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Great Salt Lake City, George Hales, Printer, 1853. In Register of the Laws of the State of Utah, 1851–. Microfilm in Utah State Archives.
Territorial Militia Muster Rolls (1851–1867). Iron County. Doc. no. 3285 and no. 3287, acct. no. 014279. Utah State Archives.
Territorial Militia Records. William H. Dame to Daniel H. Wells, 23 Aug 1857. Microfilm. Utah State Archives.
Zabriskie, George O., and Dorothy Louise Robinson. “U.S. Census for Utah, 1851.” Utah Genealogical Magazine 29 (Apr 1938): 65–72; (Jul 1938): 130–42. Original in Census Bureau, Washington, D.C., as “U.S. Federal Census, 1850, Utah . . .” Copy in LDS Church Family History Library, Salt Lake City.
Secondary Sources
Books and Theses
Anderson, Nels. Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
Arrington, Leonard J. Brigham Young: American Moses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.
———. Charles C. Rich: Mormon General and Western Frontiersman. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1974.
———. Great Basin Kingdom: Economic History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1830–1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968.
Baugh, Alexander L. A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri. Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History. Provo, Utah: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History and BYU Studies, 2000.
Britsch, R. Lanier. Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1986.
Brooks, Juanita. John Doyle Lee: Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1962.
———. Mountain Meadows Massacre. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974.
Campbell, Eugene E. Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847–1869. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1988.
Carter, Kate B., comp. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1958–77.
Carvalho, Solomon. Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Col. Frémont’s Expedition. New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857.
Cleland, Robert Glass, and Juanita Brooks, eds. A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848–1876. 2 vols. San Marino, Calif: Huntington Library, 1955. Reprint, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983.
Crook, John G. “The Development of Early Industry and Trade in Utah.” Master’s thesis, University of Utah, 1926.
Dalton, Luella Adams. History of the Iron County Mission, Parowan, Utah. Parowan, Utah: Privately published, 1970.
Day, Stella H., and Sebrina C. Ekins, comps. Milestones of Millard: 100 Years of History of Millard County 1851–1951. Springville, Utah: Art City Publishing, for Millard County Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1951.
Dixon, Madoline Cloward. Peteetneet Town: A History of Payson, Utah. Provo, Utah: Press Publishing, 1974.
Ellsworth, S. George. The Journals of Addison Pratt. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990.
Fish, Rick J. “The Southern Utah Expedition of Parley P. Pratt, 1849–1850.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1992.
Furniss, Norman F. The Mormon Conflict, 1850–59. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960.
Hafen, LeRoy R., and Ann W. Hafen. Old Spanish Trail: Santa Fe to Los Angeles. Vol. 1 of The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series, 1820–1875. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1954.
———, eds. Central Route to the Pacific. Vol. 7 of The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series, 1820–1875. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1957. Reprint of Gwinn Harris Heap and E. F. Beale, and others, Central Route to the Pacific from the Valley of the Missouri to California, 1853. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1854.
———. Journals of Forty Niners—Salt Lake to Los Angeles. Vol. 2 of The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series, 1820–1875. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1954.
———. The Utah Expedition: 1857–1858. Vol. 8 of The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series, 1820–1875. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1958.
Hansen, Ralph. “Administrative History of the Nauvoo Legion in Utah.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1954.
Johnson, Clark V., ed. Mormon Redress Petitions, Documents of the 1833–1838 Missouri Conflict. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, 1992.
Jones, Evelyn K., and York F. Jones. Mayors of Cedar City and Histories of Cedar City. Cedar City: Southern Utah State College, 1986.
Knecht, William L., and Peter L. Crawley. Early Records of Utah: History of Brigham Young, 1857–1867. Berkeley, Calif.: MassCal Associates, 1964.
Larson, Andrew Karl. Erastus Snow: The Life of a Missionary and Pioneer for the Early Mormon Church. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1971.
Larson, Gustive O. Cedar City: Gateway to Rainbow Land. Cedar City, Utah: privately printed, 1950.
Lyman, Edward Leo. San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996.
Macdonald, Graham D., III. The Magnet: Iron Ore in Iron Co. Utah. N.p.: Privately published, 1990.
Neff, Andrew L. History of Utah: 1847–1869. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1940.
Norris, James D. Frontier Iron: The Maramec Iron Works, 1826–1876. Madison, Wis.: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1964.
Overman, Frederick. The Manufacture of Iron in All Its Various Branches. Philadelphia: Henry C. Baird, 1850.
———. A Treatise on Metallurgy. 3d ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1855.
Poll, Richard D., Thomas G. Alexander, Eugene E. Campbell and David E. Miller, eds. Utah’s History. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1989.
Pusey, Merlo J. Builders of the Kingdom: George A. Smith, John Henry Smith, George Albert Smith. No. 1 of Studies on Western History and Culture Series. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1981.
Seegmiller, Janet. A History of Iron County. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1998.
Smart, William B., and Donna T. Smart. Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849–50. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999.
Sonne, Conway B. World of Wakara. San Antonio, Tex.: Naylor, 1962.
Temin, Peter. Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America: An Economic Inquiry. Boston: MIT Press, 1964.
Walker, Ronald W., and Dean Jessee. “First Contacts in Utah” and “Settling Parowan.” In Brigham Young’s Indian Correspondence. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, forthcoming publication.
Whitney, Orson F. History of Utah. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons, Publishers, 1892.
Articles and Unpublished Papers
Coates, Larry. “The Fancher Party before Mountain Meadows.” Brown Library, Special Collections, Dixie State College.
Janetski, Joel. “150 Years of Utah Archeology.” Utah Historical Quarterly 65 (spring 1997): 100–133.
Jones, York, comp. and ed. “Iron Mining and Manufacturing in Iron County, Utah, 1850–1975.” Undated typescript. Shirts Collection.
Larson, Gustive O. “Bulwark of the Kingdom: Utah’s Iron and Steel Industry.” Utah Historical Quarterly 31 (summer 1963): 248–61.
Morgan, Dale L. “State of Deseret” Utah Historical Quarterly 8 (Apr/Jul/Oct 1940): 67–239.
Palmer, William R. “Pioneer Fortifications.” Improvement Era 54 (March 1951): 148–50, 183–87.
———. “Utah’s Pioneer Iron Industry.” Sons of Utah Pioneer News (Aug 1957).
Shirts, Morris A. and William T. Parry. “The Demise of the Deseret Iron Company: Failure of the Brick Furnace Lining Technology.” Utah Historical Quarterly 56 (winter 1988): 23–35.
