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Abbreviations

BYU: L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

FHL: Family History Library, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

JNCD: “Jens Nielson History” CD-ROM. Eds. Mike Halliday and Donna Jensen.

CHL: Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City.

USHS: Research Library of the Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City.

 

Adams, Mary Kisten. “Life of Margaret Adams.” JNCD, 187.

Adams, William. “Autobiography.” January 1894. BYU.

Adams, William. “History of William Adams.” 1894. Typescript. JNCD, 314–333.

Allred, Mary Ann Mackelprang. “Life Sketch of Samuel William Mackelprang and Adelia Terry.” April 1, 1933. Typescript. CHL.

“Ann Taylor Rowley.” Rowley Family Collection, CHL.

“‘Aunt Mary’ Nielson Jones.” N.d. JNCD, 85–86.

Barney, Alma. “Diary of Alma Barney.” 1922. CHL.

Bluff Ward, General Minutes. CHL.

Bluff Ward. Letter to President John Taylor, May 19, 1884. John Taylor Presidential Papers, 1877–87, CHL, as provided by archives staff.

“Bluff Ward Manuscript History.” CHL.

“Bluff Ward Relief Society Minutes.” CHL.

Butt, Julia Nielson. “Ane Katrine Jorgensen Nielson.” In “Bishop Jens Nielson: History and Genealogy,” comp. Jay P. Nielson. N.d. JNCD, 227–28.

Cannon, George Q. Letters to Francis A. Hammond, January 1, 1887; February 2, 1898. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Cedar Ward, General Minutes. CHL.

“Cedar Ward Manuscript History.” CHL.

Christensen, C. L. Diary. BYU.

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint. “Bluff Ward Record of Members, 1880–1921.” FHL.

Davis, James L. Journal. CHL.

———. “San Juan Mission Reminiscence.” 1917. CHL.

Day, Franklin D. “The Cattle Industry of San Juan County, Utah, 1875–1900.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1958.

Decker, Cornelius Isaac. “Pioneering in Utah, Arizona, and Colorado.” N.d. Typescript. CHL.

Egler, Daniel. “A Blessing by Daniel Egler, Patriarch, upon the Head of Jens Nielson, Son of Niels and Doratha Nielson.” November 23, 1875. CHL.

Ellertson, Norman W., and Carol A. Ellertson. “Julia Ann Nielson and Willard (Dick) Butt.” N.d. JNCD, 133–137.

Elliott, Vilate. Diary, 1899–1900. BYU.

First Presidency Bulletin, February 9, 1898. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

First Presidency, “General Bulletin,” June 6, 1888. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Frost, Melvin J. “Factors That Influenced Homesteading and Land Abandonment in San Juan County, Utah.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1960.

Gabbart, Helena N., and Caroline Nielson Redd. “A Brief History of Kirsten Jensen Nielson.” In “Bishop Jens Nielson: History and Genealogy,” comp. Jay P. Nielson. N.d. JNCD, 134–39.

Hammond, Francis A. Journals. December 13, 1884 to September 9, 1885; April 6, 1886 to January 23, 1887; September 15, 1888 to May 5, 1889; January 22, 1890 to February 2, 1891; September 25, 1891 to March 17, 1893; July 23, 1893 to November 25, 1900, Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

———. Journals. September 10, 1885 to April 5, 1886; January 24, 1887 to September 17, 1888; May 6, 1889 to January 21, 1890; February 3, 1891 to September 24, 1891; March 18, 1893 to July 22, 1893, Francis A. Hammond Collection, CHL.

———. Letters to Capt. D. M. Edwards, June 14, 1889; January 1899; October 22, 1900. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

———. Letter to Bishop Jens Nielson, January 27, 1885. In “Bishop Jens Nielson, History and Genealogy,” comp. Jay P. Nielson. 1965. BYU.

———. Letter to D. H. Edwards, January 1899. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Hammond, Martha. Letters to Francis A. Hammond, December 11, 1889; January 21, February 26, 1890; March 29, 1895. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Hammond, Silas S. Letters to Francis A. Hammond, February 12, 1891; July 25, 1892. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Hyde, Herbert. “As I Recall Grandfather Jens Nielson.” N.d. JNCD, 25–28.

Jensen, Bryant L. “An Historical Study of Bluff City, Utah, from 1878 to 1906.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1966.

Johnson, Ezekiel. “Autobiography.” USHS.

Jones, Gwen H. “History of Kumen Jones.” N.d. JNCD, 98–109.

Jones, Kumen. “Aunt Mary Jones, My Wife.” JNCD, 90.

———. “Bishop Jens Nielson Sketch.” JNCD, 21.

———. “Writings of Kumen Jones.” Ed. Albert R. Lyman. N.d. Typescript. BYU.

Jones, Lenora. “Pioneer Story: Dorthea Jensen Bayles, Handcart Veteran of 1857.” In “Bishop Jens Nielson: History and Genealogy,” comp. Jay P. Nielson.

Journal History of the Church (chronology of typed entries and newspaper clippings, 1830–present). CHL, microfilm copy in Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Kimmerle, Myrna. “A Little Visit with Aunt Caroline Nielson Redd.” August 1957. JNCD, 233–36.

Lewis, James. “Life History of James Lewis, Son of James, Son of George.” In “Utah Pioneer Biographies,” 18:154–59. FHL.

“Life History of Mary Elizabeth Openshaw Ipson.” N.d. CHL.

“Life of Thomas Rowley.” Rowley Family Papers, CHL.

Lunt, Henry. “A Blessing by Henry Lunt, Patriarch, upon the Head of Kirsten Nielson.” October 23, 1879. CHL.

Lyman, Albert R. “Accounts of the Homes of Bluff, 1890–1900.” 1970. USHS.

———. “Bishop Jens Nielson.” 1936. In “Bishop Jens Nielson, History and Genealogy,” comp. Jay P. Nielson. 1965. BYU.

———. “Bishop Jens Nielson: The Old Wagon.” N.d. JNCD, 68–77.

———. “Experiences and Impressions.” N.d. Typescript. Albert R. Lyman Collection, BYU.

———. “Hans Joseph Nielson.” 1958. JNCD, 146–51.

———. “History of San Juan County, 1879–1917.” 1965. Typescript. BYU.

———, ed. “History of San Juan Stake.” 1946. Typescript. BYU.

———. Interviews by Charles S. Peterson, February 3, 1970; [?], 1970. Transcript. USHS.

———. Journals, 1893–1973. Albert R. Lyman Collection, BYU.

———. “Letter to the Family of My Dear Bishop Jens Nielson of Bluff, Utah,” September 21, 1965. JNCD, 46–48.

———. “Notes on the Life of Sarah Williams Perkins.” April 27, 1930. Typescript. CHL and BYU.

———. “Platte DeAlton Lyman.” N.d. USHS.

———. Summaries of Each Year. 1935. Typescript. Albert R. Lyman Collection, BYU.

Lyman, Francis Marion. Letters to Platte D. Lyman, February 27, 1880; July 3, 1899. In Platte D. Lyman Collection, CHL.

Lyman, Platte D. “Diary of Platte D. Lyman.” Typescript. BYU.

Meo, Ruth, ed. “Uriah and Annie Butt Talk about Elsie Rasmussen.” N.d. JNCD, 81–82.

Morgan, John. Letter to Francis A. Hammond, February 13, 1886. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Nielson, Floyd. “Francis and Leona Nielson.” N.d. JNCD, 191–92.

———. “Jens Nielson, A Personal Experience.” N.d. JNCD, 58.

Nielson, Hans Joseph. “Letter to Ida Nielson, July 1, 1902.” JNCD, 165.

———. Letter to Ida Nielson, September 14, 1902. JNCD, 173–74.

Nielson, Jay P. “Jens Peter Nielson, As I View Him.” 1994. JNCD, 173–75.

———, comp. “Bishop Jens Nielson, History and Genealogy.” 1965. Typescript. BYU.

Nielson, Jennie R. “Memory Gems of Jens Peter Nielson.” 1958. JNCD, 170–72.

Nielson, Jens. Letter to Francis A. Hammond, June 15, 1887. John Taylor Presidential Papers, 1877–87, CHL.

———. Letter to Uriah Nielson, March 20, 1901. JNCD, 29–31.

———. “Short History of Jens Nielson.” N.d. CHL.

Nielson, Jens P. “Settlement of Bluff.” N.d. JNCD, 178–79.

Nielson, Katrine. Letters to Jens Nielson, April 15, 1883; June 9, 1884; n.d. JNCD, 229–231, 233, 240.

Nielson, Kirsten. Letter to Mr. and Mrs. John Lollin and Family, January 10, 1904. JNCD, 142–43.

Nielson, Marion G. “Apostle on Horseback.” N.d. JNCD, 248–51.

Nielson, Maxine. “Grandpa Uriah Nielson History.” N.d. JNCD, 239–42.

Nielson, Uriah. “Elsie Nielson.” 1935. JNCD, 80.

Nuttall, John H. Diary. BYU.

Parowan Stake, General Minutes. CHL.

“Parowan State Manuscript History.” CHL.

Perkins, Kisten. “Address Made in Evening Services, Blanding Ward Chapel.” July 24, 1956. JNCD, 41.

———. “Life of Kirsten Jensen Nielson.” N.d. JNCD, 132–33.

———. “Life of Margaret Adams.” 1944. JNCD, 180–85.

Preston, William B. Letter to Francis A. Hammond, July 1, 1893. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Redd, Alice. “Sketch of the Life of Caroline Nielson Redd.” N.d. JNCD, 208–12.

Redd, L. Wayne. “Jens Nielson Family.” 1997. JNCD, 59–67.

Redd, Leland W. “Bishop Jens Nielson.” 1965. JNCD, 34–37.

Redd, Lemuel Hardison, Sr. Autobiographical Sketches. 1902 and 1907. CHL.

———. Letter to Family, January 22, 1889. CHL.

Redd, Lucinda Alvira Pace. Journal, 1898–1902. CHL.

Redd, Wayne H. Journals, 1895–1928. CHL.

———. Letter to L. H. Redd Sr., October 13, 1895. CHL.

Reeve, Mary Lyman. “Lucinda Diantha Nielson Hyde.” May 21, 1955. JNCD, 197–207.

Roring, Corinee. “Leona Jane Walton—As I Remember My Little Grandmother.” N.d. JNCD, 195.

Rose, Bobbette Reading. “Annetta Nielson, 1875–1930.” N.d., JNCD, 234.

Rowley, Samuel. Autobiography. N.d. Typescript. Rowley Family Collection, CHL.

“Samuel Rowley.” Typescript. Rowley Family Papers. CHL.

“A Short History of Elsie Rasmussen Nielson.” N.d. JNCD, 81–83.

San Juan Cooperative Association. Ledger, 1887–1916. CHL.

San Juan County Minute Book. Photocopy. USHS.

San Juan County, Utah, County Clerk. “Marriage License Records, 1888–1966. FHL.

San Juan County, Utah, County Clerk. “Register of Births and Deaths, 1897–1917.” FHL.

San Juan Stake General Minutes, 1880–1914. CHL.

“San Juan Stake Manuscript History.” CHL.

San Juan Stake Relief Society Records. CHL.

Smith, Joseph F. Letter to Francis A. Hammond, March 4, 1886. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Smith, Silas S. Letter to Platte D. Lyman, August 5, 1880. Platte D. Lyman Collection, CHL.

Snow, Erastus. Letter to Platte D. Lyman and Jens Nielson and to the Saints on the San Juan, October 26, 1883. CHL.

———. Letter to John Taylor, September 19, 1884. CHL.

Snow, Lorenzo, George Q. Cannon, and Joseph F. Smith. Circular Letter, December 1, 1898. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Taylor, John. Letters to Erastus Snow, January 9, 1879; February 15, 1879. John Taylor Presidential Papers, 1877–87, CHL.

Taylor, John, and George Q. Cannon. Letters to Francis A. Hammond, September 7 and December 8, 1885; January 14, 1886; March 25, 1887. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

United States Manuscript Census. Iron County, Utah. 1860 and 1870. FHL.

United States Manuscript Census. San Juan County, Utah. 1880, 1900, and 1910. FHL.

Utah District Court, San Juan County. “District Court Minutes, 1896–1921; and County Court Minutes, 1892–1899.” Microfilm. FHL.

Utah District Court, San Juan County. Probate Division. “Probate Records and Register of Estates, 1888–1966.” Microfilm. FHL.

Walton, Charles Eugene. Diary, 1872–94. Photocopy. USHS.

Wilson, Helen. “Recollections of Her Father, Francis Nielson, and Her Mother, Leona Jane Walton Nielson.” 1997. JNCD, 186–88.

Wilson, Mary Ann Perkins. Personal History. In “Utah Pioneer Biographies,” 30:75–88. FHL.

Wood, Josephine Catherine Chatterley. Journal. JNCD.

Woodruff, Wilford. Letters to Francis A. Hammond, October 3, 1887; December 11, 1888. Francis A. Hammond Papers, BYU.

Published Works

Abbreviations

BMS: Blue Mountain Shadows

UHQ: Utah Historical Quarterly

NEI: Nearly Everything Imaginable: The Everyday Life of Utah’s Mormon Pioneers. Ed. Ronald Walker and Doris R. Dant. Provo, Utah: BYU Studies and Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History, 1999.

 

Abruzzi, William S. “Ecology, Resource Redictribution, and Mormon Settlement in Northeastern Arizona.” American Anthropologist 91, no. 3 (1989): 642–55.

Adams, Julie. “Tales of a Cowboy.” BMS 15 (Summer 1995): 49–50.

Adamson, Nathan W. Francis Asbury Hammond, Pioneer and Missionary. Salt Lake City: David H. Allred and West Hammond, 1993.

Alder, Douglas D. “Writing Southern Utah History: An Appraisal and a Bibliography.” Journal of Mormon History 20 (Fall 1994): 156–78.

Alexander, Thomas G. Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890–1930. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

———. Utah, the Right Place: The Official Centennial History. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, 1996.

Allen, Stephen. “The Killing of Jane McKechnie Walton.” BMS 10 (1992): 13–15.

Arrington, Leonard J. Brigham Young: American Moses. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

———. From Quaker to Latter-day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976.

———. Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. Reprint. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1993.

———. “The Mormon Tithing House: A Frontier Business Institution.” Business History Review 28 (March 1954): 24–58.

———. Utah’s Audacious Stockman: Charlie Redd. Logan: Utah State University Press; Provo, Utah: The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 1995.

Arrington, Leonard J., and Davis Bitton. The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Reprint. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.

Arrington, Leonard J., Feramorz Fox, and Dean L. May. Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1976.

Aton, James M., and Robert S. McPherson. River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000.

Aton, Jim. “The River, the Ditch and the Volcano: Bluff, 1879–1884.” BMS 12 (Summer 1993): 15–23.

Austin, Thomas E., and Robert S. McPherson. “Murder, Mayhem, and Mormons: The Evolution of Law Enforcement on the San Juan Frontier, 1880–1900.” UHQ 55 (Winter 1987): 36–49.

Bachman, Daniel, and Ronald K. Esplin. “Plural Marriage.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 3:1091–95. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

Bannon, John Francis. The Spanish Borderland Frontier, 1513–1821. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1970.

Bean, Lee L., Geraldine P. Mineau, and Ken R. Smith. “The Effect of Pioneer Life on the Longetivity of Married Couples.” In NEI, 387–403.

Bennion, Lowell “Ben.” “The Incidence of Mormon Polygamy in 1880: ‘Dixie’ versus Davis Stake.” Journal of Mormon History 11 (1984): 27–42.

“Bert Loper and the Gold Rush of 1893: Adventures of a Placer Miner on the San Juan River.” BMS 17 (Summer 1996): 25–26.

Black, Marcia, and Robert S. McPherson. “Soldiers, Savers, Slackers, and Spies.” UHQ 63 (Winter 1995): 4–23.

Blackburn, Fred, and Winston Hurst. “Charley Lang: Pioneer Photographer, Musician, and Archaeologist.” BMS 14 (Winter 1994): 5–13.

Bolton, Herbert E. The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1921.

Booher, Gary. “The Mormon Village and Bluff, Utah.” In Migrations, Settlement Patterns, and Ethnic Groups in the United States, ed. Richard H. Jackson, 227–49. Occasional Papers in Historical Geography, vol. 1. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1972.

Brooks, Juanita. “Indian Relations on the Mormon Frontier.” UHQ 12 (January to April 1944): 1–48.

Bushman, Claudia L. “Reports from the Field: The World of the Women’s Exponent.” In NEI, 297–313.

Carter, Kate B., comp. Heart Throbs of the West. 12 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1939–51.

———. Our Pioneer Heritage. 20 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1958–77.

———. Treasures of Pioneer History. 6 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1952–57.

Christy, Howard A. “Handcart Companies.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, ed. Daniel H. Ludlow, 2:571–73. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

———. “Weather, Disaster, and Responsibility: An Essay on the Willie and Martin Handcart Story.” BYU Studies 37, no. 1 (1997–98): 6–74.

Correll, J. Lee. “Navajo Frontiers in Utah and Troublous Times in Monument Valley.” UHQ 39 (1971): 145–61.

Crabtree, Lamont J. The Incredible Mission: The Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition/San Juan Mission Story and Trail Guide. Salt Lake City: Lamont J. Crabtree, 1980.

Cronon, William, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, eds. Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.

Dalton, Luella Adams, ed. History of Iron County Mission, Parowan, Utah. [Parowan, Utah]: n.p., [1973?].

Embry, Jessie L. Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987.

Foster, Lawrence. Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, The Mormons, and the Oneida Community. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Reprint, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

Geary, Edward A. “For the Strength of the Hills: Imagining Mormon Country.” In After 150 Years: The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective, ed. Thomas G. Alexander and Jessie L. Embry, 73–94. Provo, Utah: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 1983.

Gonzalez, William H., and Genaro M. Padilla. “Monticello, the Hispanic Cultural Gateway to Utah.” UHQ 52 (Winter 1984): 9–28.

Hartley, William G. “Common People: Church Activity during the Brigham Young Era.” In NEI, 249–95.

———. “The Priesthood Reorganization of 1877: Brigham Young’s Last Achievement.” BYU Studies 20, no. 4 (1979): 3–36.

Hedges, Andrew H. “Battle of the Homefront: The Early Pioneer Art of Homemaking.” In NEI, 118–36.

Holzapfel, Richard Neitzel, and David A. Allred. “A Peculiar People: Community and Commitment in Utah Valley.” In NEI, 89–115.

Hoopes, Francis Hansen. “The Birth Records of ‘Aunt Jody’: Josephine Catherine Chatterley Wood,” BMS 17 (Summer 1996): 55–65.

———. “Josephine Catherine (Jody) Chatterley Wood: Midwife of San Juan.” BMS 2 (Fall 1988): 32–41.

Hurst, Winston. “Colonizing the Dead: Early Archaeology in San Juan County.” BMS 17 (Summer 1996): 2–13.

Ivins, Stanley. “Notes on Mormon Polygamy.” Western Humanities Review 10 (Summer 1956): 229–39. Reprinted in UHQ 35 (Fall 1967): 309–21.

Jackson, Richard H. “The Mormon Village: Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan.” BYU Studies 17, no. 1 (1977): 223–40.

———. “Myth and Reality: Environmental Perception of the Mormon Pioneers.” Rocky Mountain Social Sciences Journal 9 (January 1972): 33–38.

Jackson, Richard H., and Robert L. Layton. “The Mormon Village: Analysis of a Settlement Type.” Professional Geographer 28 (May 1976): 136–41.

Jenson, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Jenson. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.

———. History of the Scandinavian Mission. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1927. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1979.

———. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Company, 1914. Reprint, Salt Lake City: Western Epics, 1971.

Johnson, Donald Bruce, comp. National Party Platforms: Volume I, 1840–1956. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.

Jones, Evelyn K. Henry Lunt: Biography and History of the Development of Southern Utah and Settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico. Cedar City, Utah: E. K. Jones, 1996.

Kane, Elizabeth Wood. Twelve Mormon Homes Visited in Succession on a Journey through Utah to Arizona. Philadelphia: n.p., 1874. Reprint, Dallas: R. K. Taylor Publishing, 1973.

Lambert, Neal. “Al Scorup: Cattleman of the Canyons.” UHQ 32 (Summer 1964): 301–20.

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. The “Americanization” of Utah for Statehood. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1971.

Leone, Mark P. “The Evolution of Mormon Culture in Eastern Arizona.” UHQ 40, no. 2 (1972): 122–41.

Lesson Committee, comp. Chronicles of Courage. 7 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1990–96.

———. An Enduring Legacy. 12 vols. Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1978–89.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987.

Logue, Larry M. A Sermon in the Desert: Belief and Behavior in Early St. George, Utah. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Lyman, Albert R. “Fort on the Firing Line.” Improvement Era 51 (October 1948) to 53 (March 1950).

———. Indians and Outlaws: Settling of the San Juan Frontier. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1962.

Lyman, Edward Leo. Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Statehood. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Madsen, Carol Cornwall. Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1997.

Madsen, Susan Arrington. “Growing Up in Pioneer Utah: Agonies and Ecstasies.” In NEI, 317–28.

May, Dean L. “A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830–1980.” In After 150 Years: The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective, ed. Thomas G. Alexander and Jessie L. Embry, 73–94. Provo, Utah: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 1983.

———. “The Making of Saints: The Mormon Town as a Setting for the Study of Cultural Change.” UHQ 45 (1977): 75–92.

———. “Rites of Passage: The Crossing as Cultural Credo.” Journal of Mormon History 29 (Spring 2003): 2–41.

———. Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850–1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

McPherson, Robert S. A History of San Juan County: In the Palm of Time. Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society, 1995.

———. “Howard Antes and the Navajo Faith Mission: Evangelist of Southeastern Utah.” BMS 17 (Summer 1996): 14–24.

———. “Navajos, Mormons, and Henry L. Mitchell: Cauldron of Conflict on the San Juan.” UHQ 55 (Winter 1987): 50–65.

———. The Northern Navajo Frontier, 1869–1900: Expansion through Adversity. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

———. “The Ute Invasion of San Juan County, 1894: A Study in Differing Perception.” BMS 17 (Summer 1996): 46–50.

McPherson, Robert S., and Mary Lou Mueller. “Divine Duty: Hannah Sorenson and Midwifery in Southeastern Utah.” UHQ 65 (Fall 1997): 335–54.

McPherson, Robert S., and Winston B. Hurst. “The Fight at Soldier Crossing, 1884: Military Considerations in Canyon Country,” UHQ 70 (Summer 2002): 258–81.

Meinig, D. W. “The Mormon Culture Region: Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847–1964.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 55, no. 2 (1965): 191–219.

Miller, David E. Hole-in-the-Rock: An Epic in the Colonization of the Great American West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1959.

Mulder, William. “Five Years on the San Juan.” Improvement Era 44 (January 1941): 20–21, 53–55.

———. Homeward to Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957.

Nelson, Lowry. The Mormon Village: A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1952.

Newell, Linda King. A History of Piute County. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Commission, 1999.

Newell, Linda King, and Vivian Linford Talbot. A History of Garfield County. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Commission, 1998.

Noall, Clair. “Mormon Midwives.” UHQ 10 (1942): 84–144.

O’Dea, Thomas F. “The Effects of Geographical Position on Belief and Behavior in a Rural Mormon Village.” Rural Sociology 19, no. 4 (1954): 358–64.

Palmer, Jay W., and Merilyn Palmer Lisenby. “First Woman Elected to Public Office in San Juan County.” BMS 19 (Fall 1997): 41–42.

———. “Law, Order, Print and Political Developments in Southeastern Utah.” BMS 17 (Summer 1996): 65–68.

Perkins, Cornelia Adams, Marian Gardner Nielson, and Lenora Butt Jones. Saga of San Juan. 2d ed. Monticello, Utah: San Juan County Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1968.

Perkins, Hilda, and Deanna Cook. “Another Bluff Pioneer: Samuel Rowley.” BMS 6 (Spring 1990): 53–56.

Peterson, Charles S. “Imprint of Agricultural Systems on the Utah Landscape.” In The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West, ed. Richard H. Jackson, 91–106. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1978.

———. “Life in a Village Society.” UHQ 49 (Winter 1981): 78–96.

———. Look to the Mountains: Southeastern Utah and the La Sal National Forest. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1975.

———. “San Juan in Controversy: American Livestock Frontier vs. Mormon Cattle Pool.” In Charles Redd Monographs in Western History: Essays on the American West, 1972–1973, ed. Thomas G. Alexander. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1974.

———. Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing along the Little Colorado River, 1870–1900. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973.

Peterson, Levi S. “The Development of Utah Livestock Law, 1848–1896.” UHQ 32 (Summer 1964): 198–216.

Pincock, Renee. “Time Line.” BMS 19 (Fall 1997): 33–40, 75.

Poll, Richard D., Thomas G. Alexander, Eugene Campbell, and David E. Miller, eds. Utah’s History. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1978.

Powell, Allan Kent, ed. San Juan County, Utah: People Resources, and History. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1983.

———. Utah History Encyclopedia. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994.

Redd, Amasa Jay, ed. Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr., 1856–1923. Salt Lake City: Amasa Jay Redd, 1967.

Ricks, Joel E. Forms and Methods of Early Mormon Settlement in Utah and Surrounding Regions, 1847–1877. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1964.

Ridge, Martin. “Mormon ‘Deliverance’ and the Closing of the Frontier.” Journal of Mormon History 18 (Spring 1992): 137–152.

Riis, John. Ranger Trails. Richmond, Va.: Dietz Press, 1937.

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