Addendum: A Bibliography on Mormon Imprints

Author’s Note: In the twenty years since this dissertation was completed, many works have been published on the topic of Mormon book history. The following listing will help students trace the research, old and new, that will complement the topics of this dissertation.

A. Bibliographies and Reference Works

Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume One, 1830–1847. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997.

Dennis, Ronald D. Welsh Mormon Writings from 1844 to 1862: A Historical Bibliography. Religious Studies Center Monograph Series. Vol. 4. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1988.

Flake, Chad J., comp. A Mormon Bibliography, 1830–1930: Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1978. 
A supplement appeared in 1989: Chad J. Flake and Larry W. Draper. A Mormon Bibliography, 1830–1930: Ten Year Supplement. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989. Both volumes were indexed in Chad J. Flake and Larry W. Draper, comps. A Mormon Bibliography, 1830–1930: Indexes to A Mormon Bibliography and Ten Year Supplement. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992.

Jacobs, L. R. Mormon Non-English Scriptures, Hymnals, and Periodicals, 1830–1986: A Descriptive Bibliography. Ithaca, New York: By the compiler, 1986.

Sudweeks, Joseph. Discontinued LDS Periodicals. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1955.

Whittaker, David J. “The Web of Print: Toward a History of the Book in Early Mormon Culture.” Journal of Mormon History 23 (spring 1997): 1–41. Includes an introduction to the discipline of book history, a survey of reference works, a guide to American book history, and a bibliography of published works on early Mormon book history.

———, Ronald W. Walker, and James B. Allen. “Mormon Imprints As Sources for Research: A History and Evaluation.” In Mormon History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

B. Nineteenth-Century Publications by Locale

New York

Crawley, Peter. “A Bibliography of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York, Ohio, and Missouri.” BYU Studies 12 (summer 1972): 465–537.

Gutjahr, Paul. “The Golden Bible in the Bible’s Golden Age: The Book of Mormon and Antebellum Print Culture.” ATQ 12 (December 1998): 275–93.

Norton, Walter A. “Comparative Images: Mormonism and Contemporary Religions as Seen by Village Newspapermen in Western New York and Northeastern Ohio, 1820–1833.” Ph.D. diss., Brigham Young University, 1991.

Skousen, Royal. “Towards a Critical Edition of the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 30 (winter 1990): 41–69.

Stocks, Hugh G. “The Book of Mormon, 1830–1879: A Publishing History.” Master’s thesis, UCLA, 1979.

Missouri

Crawley, Peter. “Two Rare Missouri Documents.” BYU Studies 14 (summer 1974): 502–27.

Jennings, Warren A. “Factors in the Destruction of the Mormon Press in Missouri, 1833.” Utah Historical Quarterly 35 (winter 1967): 57–76.

Merrill, Harrison. “The Latter-day Saint Press, 1830–1930.” Master’s thesis, Columbia University, 1930.

Moore, Richard G. “A History of Mormon Periodicals from 1830–1838.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1983.

Peterson, Virgil V. “Early Mormon Journalism.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 35 (March 1949): 627–38.

Robertson, A. Richard. “A Comparative History of the Periodicals of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” Master’s thesis, University of Utah, 1951.

Romig, Ronald E. and John H. Siebert. “First Impressions: Independence, Missouri, Printing Operation, 1832–33.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 10 (1990): 51–66.

Smith, Heman C. “Independence Publications.” Journal of History 5 (April 1912): 144–55.

Smith, Walter W. “The Periodical Literature of the Latter Day Saints.” Journal of History 14 (July 1921): 257–99.

Ohio

Cook, Lyndon. Joseph Smith and the Law of Consecration. Provo: Grandin Books, 1985. 45–55. [On the Literary Firm.]

Crawley, Peter. “Joseph Smith and a Book of Commandments.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 42 (fall 1980): 18–32.

———. “Parley P. Pratt: Father of Mormon Pamphleteering.” Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought 15 (fall 1982): 13–26.

Macaré, Helen Hanks. “The Singing Saints: A Study of the Mormon Hymnal, 1835–1950.” Ph.D. diss., UCLA, 1961.

Parkin, Max. “Mormon Political Involvement in Ohio.” BYU Studies 9 (summer 1969): 484–502. [On the Northern Times.]

Underwood, Grant. “The Earliest Reference Guides to the Book of Mormon: Windows into the Past.” Journal of Mormon History 12 (1985): 69–89.

Illinois

Bray, Robert T. “Times and Seasons: An Archaeological Perspective on Early Latter-day Saints’ Printing.” Historical Archaeology 13 (1979): 53–119.

Gayler, George R. “The ‘Expositor’ Affair, Prelude to the Downfall of Joseph Smith.” Northwest Missouri State College Studies 25 (February 1961): 3–15.

Jolley, Jerry C. “The Sting of the WASP: Early Mormon Newspaper, April 1842 to April 1843.” BYU Studies 22 (fall 1982): 487–96.

Oaks, Dallin H. “The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor.” Utah Law Review 9 (winter 1965): 862–903.

Sorenson, Parry D. “Nauvoo Times and Seasons.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 55 (summer 1962): 117–35.

Tanner, Terence A. “The Mormon Press in Nauvoo, 1839–1846.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 11 (fall 1988): 5–29.

Whittaker, David J. “The ‘Articles of Faith’ in Early Mormon Literature and Thought.” In New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington, eds. Davis Bitton and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987.

———. “Early Mormon Pamphleteering.” Journal of Mormon History 4 (1977): 35–49.

———. “East of Nauvoo: Benjamin Winchester and the Early Mormon Church.” Journal of Mormon History 21 (fall 1995): 31–83.

Kanesville, Iowa Territory

Crawley, Peter. “The Constitution of the State of Deseret.” BYU Studies 29 (fall 1989): 7–22.

Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. “Orson Hyde and The Frontier Guardian.” Nauvoo Journal 8 (fall 1996): 62–70.

McMurtrie, Douglas C. “The First Printing at Council Bluffs.” Annals of Iowa 18 (July 1931): 2–11.

———. “Two Early Issues of the Council Bluffs Press.” Annals of Iowa 18 (August 1931): 82–86. [Includes the Constitution of Deseret.]

Nederhiser, Jean Marie. “The Frontier Guardian: A Study of Conflicting Loyalties, 1849–1852.” Master’s thesis, Iowa State University, 1986.

Trumbo, Jean. “Orson Hyde’s Frontier Guardian.” Iowa Heritage Illustrated 77 (summer 1996): 74–85.

England, Europe, and the British Empire

Allen, James B., Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker. “To ‘Hurl Truth through the Land’: Publications of the Twelve.” In Men with a Mission: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles, 1837–1841. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992.

Clark, James R. “Our Pearl of Great Price: From Mission Pamphlet to Standard Work.” Ensign 6 (August 1976): 12–17.

Crawley, Peter. “The First Australian Mormon Imprints.” Gradilis Review 2 (fall 1973): 38–51.

Crawley, Peter and David J. Whittaker. Mormon Imprints in Great Britain and the Empire, 1837–1857. No. 30. Provo: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library Newsletter, 1987.

Jenson, Andrew. “Scandinavian Latter-day Saint Literature.” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 13 (October 1922): 181–91.

Lyon, Thomas Edgar Jr. “Publishing a Book of Mormon Poetry: The Harp of Zion.” BYU Studies 27 (winter 1987): 84–95.

Mulder, William. “Denmark and the Mormons: The Jørgen W. Schmidt Collection.” Princeton University Library Chronicle 52 (spring 1991): 331–57.

Whittaker, David J. “Early Mormon Imprints in South Africa.” BYU Studies 20 (summer 1980): 404–16.

———. “Richard Ballantyne and the Defense of Mormonism in India in the 1850s.” In Supporting Saints: Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons, eds. Donald Q. Cannon and David J. Whittaker. Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1985.

———. “Orson Pratt: Prolific Pamphleteer.” Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought 15 (fall 1982): 27–44.

———. “Placing the Keystone: George Q. Cannon’s Mission of Translating and Printing the Book of Mormon in the Hawaiian Language.” In Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen, eds. Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and Stephen D. Ricks. Provo: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2003.

Utah and the West

Alder, Douglas D., Paul J. Goodfellow, and Ronald G. Watt. “Creating a New Alphabet for Zion: The Origin of the Deseret Alphabet.” Utah Historical Quarterly 52 (summer 1984): 275–86.

Alter, J. Cecil. Early Utah Journalism: A Half Century of Forensic Warfare Waged by the West’s Most Militant Press. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1938.

Allen, James B. “The Latter-day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide: How and Why It Came to Be.” In The Latter-day Saints’ Emigrants’ Guide, ed. Stanley B. Kimball. Gerold, Missouri: Patrice Press, 1983. 1–9. [Work by William Clayton, first published in 1848.]

Ashton, Wendell J. Voice in the West: Biography of a Pioneer Newspaper. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950. [On the Deseret News.]

Bennion, Sherilyn Cox. “The Woman’s Exponent: Forty-two Years of Speaking for Women.” Utah Historical Quarterly 44 (summer 1977): 222–39.

———. “Enterprising Ladies: Utah’s Nineteenth-Century Women Editors.” Utah Historical Quarterly 49 (summer 1981): 291–304.

———. “Lula Greene Richards: Utah’s First Woman Editor.” BYU Studies 21 (spring 1981): 155–74.

Bitton, Davis. “Mormon Catechisms.” Task Papers in LDS History, No. 15. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1976.

Buice, David. “Chattanooga’s Southern Star: Mormon Window on the South, 1898–1900.” BYU Studies 28 (spring 1988): 5–15.

Conner, Helen West. “A Check List of Utah Imprints for the Years 1862–1882.” Master’s thesis, Catholic University of America, 1962.

Flake, Lawrence R. “The Development of the Juvenile Instructor under George Q. Cannon and Its Functions in Latter-day Saint Religious Education.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1969.

Fleming, Robert. “Turning the Tide: The Mountaineer vs. the Valley Tan.” Utah Historical Quarterly 64 (summer 1996): 224–45.

Holley, Robert P., ed. Utah’s Newspapers: Traces of Her Past. Salt Lake City: Marriott Library, University of Utah, 1984. Includes Dennis McCargar. “Checklist of Utah Newspapers.” 107–319.

Madsen, Carol Cornwall. “‘Remember the Women of Zion’: A Study of the Editorial Content of the Woman’s Exponent, a Mormon Woman’s Journal.” Master’s thesis, University of Utah, 1977.

McLaws, Monte B. Spokesman for the Kingdom: Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News, 1830–1898. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1977.

———. “The Mormon Deseret News: Unique Frontier Newspaper.” Journal of the West 19 (April 1980): 30–39.

McMurtrie, Douglas C. The Beginnings of Printing in Utah, with a Bibliography of the Issues of the Utah Press, 1849–1860. Chicago: John Calhoun Club, 1931.

———. “Early Printing in Utah Outside of Salt Lake City.” Utah Historical Quarterly 6 (July 1932): 83–87.

Mortensen, A. R. “The Deseret News and Utah, 1850–1867.” Ph.D. diss., UCLA, 1949.

Newquist, Jerreld L. “The Western Standard.” Improvement Era 62 (April 1959): 238–39; 274–82.

Page, Alfene. “Woman’s Exponent: Cradle of Literary Culture among Early Mormon Women.” Master’s thesis, Utah State University, 1988.

Parry, Edwin F. “Early Writers for the Juvenile Instructor.” Instructor 50 (October 1915): 684–86.

Peterson, Tarla Rai. “The Woman’s Exponent, 1872–1914: Champion for ‘The Rights of the Women of Zion and the Rights of Women of All Nations.” In A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840–1910, ed. Martha M. Solomon. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1991. 165–82.

Saunders, Richard. Printing in Deseret, Mormons, Economy, Politics and Utah’s Incunabula, 1849–1851. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000.

———. “‘Rags! Rags!! Rags!!!’: Beginnings of the Paper Industry in the Salt Lake Valley, 1849–1858.” Utah Historical Quarterly 62 (winter 1994): 42–52.

Whittaker, David J. “Almanacs in the New England Heritage of Mormonism.” BYU Studies 29 (fall 1989): 89–113.

———. “‘The Bone in the Throat’: Orson Pratt and the Public Announcement of Plural Marriage.” Western Historical Quarterly 18 (July 1987): 293–314. [On The Seer.]

———. “Early Mormon Polygamy Defenses.” Journal of Mormon History 11 (1984): 43–63.

———. “Parley P. Pratt and the Pacific Mission: Mormon Publishing in ‘That Very Questionable Part of the Civilized World’.” In Mormons, Scripture, and the Ancient World: Studies in Honor of John L. Sorsenson, ed. Davis Bitton. Provo: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 1998.

C. Twentieth-Century Publications

Anderson, John Ryan. “American Women and Conservative Religion in the Post-war Decades: Southern Baptists and Mormon Women’s Magazines, 1945–1975.” Ph.D. diss., Washington State University, 1986.

Garr, Arnold K. “A History of the Liahona the Elders’ Journal: A Magazine for the Mormon Missions of America, 1903–1945.” Ph.D. diss., Brigham Young University, 1986.

Green, Doyle L. “The Improvement Era—The Voice of the Church (1897–1970).” The Improvement Era 73 (November 1970): 12–14, 19–20.

Jack, Mary R. “Sixty-nine Years of the Children’s Friend.” Improvement Era 73 (December 1970): 10–12.

Knowles, Eleanor. Deseret Book Company, 125 Years of Inspiration, Information, and Ideas. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1991.

Mann, Patricia Ann. “A History of the Relief Society Magazine, 1914–1970.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1971.

Roberts, Paul T. “A History of the Development and Objectives of the LDS Church News Section of the Deseret News.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1983.

Sharp, Marianne C. “The Relief Society Magazine.” Improvement Era 73 (September 1970): 26–29.

Todd, Jay. “A Status Report on Church Magazines: A Look at How They Came to Be.” Ensign 6 (February 1976): 70–75.

Waterman, Bryan. “A Guide to the Mormon Universe: Mormon Organizations and Periodicals.” Sunstone 17 (December 1994): 44–64.

Wells, Junius F. “The Contributor.” Improvement Era 33 (November 1929): 55–57.

Wheelwright, Lorin F. “The Instructor: A Voice of Truth for 105 Years, 1866–1970.” Improvement Era 73 (October 1970): 16–19.

Young, Vern Maesar. “A Readership Study of the Instructor Magazine.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1970.