Acknowledgments [Views from the Iowa Side of the Mississippi River]

We are grateful to the State Historical Society of Iowa in Des Moines, the Western Illinois University, the Keokuk Savings Bank & Trust, BYU Studies editors, historian colleagues, production editor Jennifer Hurlbut, designer Marny K. Parkin, student assistants including Veronica J. Anderson, and researchers J. Gregory Welch, John Stuekerjuergen, and Vern Meierotto, as well as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Church History Library, the Joseph Smith Papers, the J. Reuben Clark Law School, and law students and research assistants at Brigham Young University. We thankfully acknowledge permission to publish respective items granted by Mary J. Bennett, Special Collections Coordinator, and Hang Nguyen, Reference Librarian, on behalf of the State Historical Society of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.