Selected Bibliography [Views from the Iowa Side of the Mississippi River]

Baugh, Alexander L. “Joseph Smith’s Dog, Old Major.” BYU Studies Quarterly 56, no. 4 (2017): 53–67. [Quoting A. W. Harlan’s letter of 1888.]

Baugh, Alexander L. “Remembering the Mormons in Lee County, Iowa: Marking the Past in Montrose and Keokuk.” Mormon Historical Studies 4, no. 2 (2003): 175–84.

Bentley, Joseph I. “Road to Martyrdom: Joseph Smith’s Last Legal Cases.” In Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. Interpreter Foundation, 2024. Expanded and updated from BYU Studies Quarterly 55, no. 2 (2016): 9–73.

Campbell, Isaac R. “Recollections of the Early Settlement of Lee Co.” Annals of Iowa 5, no. 3 (1867): 883–95.

Cook, Lyndon W. “Isaac Galland—Mormon Benefactor.” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (1979): 261–84.

Davis, Caleb Forbes. Scrapbooks. Caleb F. Davis Collection, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines. https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/archiveComponent/65518996.

Everett, Derek R. “To Shed Our Blood for Our Beloved Territory: The Iowa-Missouri Borderland.” Annals of Iowa, 3rd ser., 67, no. 4 (2008): 269–97.

Godfrey, Kenneth W. “Crime and Punishment in Mormon Nauvoo, 1839–1846,” BYU Studies 32, no. 1 (1992): 195–228.

Hallwas, John, and Roger Launius. Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois. Utah State University Press, 1999.

Harlan, A. W. “Mormon Mummies: Remarkable Experiences of Mr. Harlan during a Visit to Nauvoo in [the City] of the Saints.” The Post, March 2, 1888. In the Caleb F. Davis Collection, Keokuk, Iowa, vol. 9.

Hillam, Alisha Erin. “Latter-day Saints in Lee County, Iowa.” Journal of Mormon History 43, no. 3 (2017): 46–67.

The History of Lee County, Iowa, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c., a Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Record of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Lee County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, &c. Chicago, 1879.

Jennings, Warren A. “Two Iowa Postmasters View Nauvoo: Anti-Mormon Letters to the Governor of Missouri.” BYU Studies 11, no. 3 (1971): 275–92.

The Joseph Smith Papers. Church Historian’s Press. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/.

Kimball, Stanley B. “Nauvoo West: The Mormons of the Iowa Shore.” BYU Studies 18, no. 2 (1978): 132–142.

Kraus, Carroll J. “A Study in Border Confrontation: the Iowa-Missouri Boundary Dispute.” Annals of Iowa, 3rd ser., 40, no. 2 (1969): 81–107.

LeFevre, Brooke R. “An Anti-Mormon in Montrose: David W. Kilbourne.” Paper presented at Mormon History Association Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, 2019. [Included as an appendix to the digital version of this book on byustudies.byu.edu.]

Mahoney, Timothy R. Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

“The Mason-Remey and the Kilbourne Collections.” Annals of Iowa, 3rd ser., 15, no. 4 (1926): 307–13.

Moody, Thurmon Dean. “Nauvoo’s Whistling and Whittling Brigade.” BYU Studies 15, no. 4 (1975): 480–90.

Oaks, Dallin H., and Marvin S. Hill. Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith. University of Illinois Press, 1975.

Parish, John C. Robert Lucas. State Historical Society of Iowa, 1907. [Lucas was the twelfth governor of Ohio, 1832–1836, and the first governor of Iowa Territory, 1838–1841.]

Ress, David. The Half Breed Tracts in Early National America: Changing Concepts of Land and Place. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

Reid, J. M. Sketches and Anecdotes of the Old Settlers, and New Comers, the Mormon Bandits and Danite Band. Keokuk, Iowa, 1876.

Roberts, Nelson Commins, and Samuel W. Moorhead, eds. Story of Lee County, Iowa. 2 vols. S. J. Clark, 1914.

Shepard, Bill. “Stealing at Mormon Nauvoo.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 23 (2003): 91–110.

Spencer, Thomas M. “‘Demand Nothing but What Is Strictly Right and Submit to Nothing That Is Wrong’: Governor Lilburn Boggs, Governor Robert Lucas, and the Honey War of 1839.” Missouri Historical Review 103, no. 1 (2008): 22–40.

Stueckerjuergen, John. “Hawkins Taylor: In the Thick of Things.” Lee County Iowa [Biographies], IAGenWeb. Accessed September 27, 2025. http://iagenweb.org/boards/lee/biographies/index.cgi?read=524442.

Taylor, Hawkins. “Early Days in Keokuk.” Annals of Iowa 8, no. 2 (1870): 144–48.

———. “Squatters and Speculators at the First Land Sales.” Annals of Iowa 8, no. 3 (1870): 269–74.

———. “Recollections of Thirty-Four Years Ago.” Annals of Iowa 8, no. 4 (1870): 332–42.

———. “Law Ministers of the Olden Time.” Annals of Iowa 9, no. 3 (1871): 606–13.

———. “Early Men and Early Days Recalled.” Annals of Iowa 10, no. 1 (1872): 25–30.

———. “Random Recollections.” Annals of Iowa 10, no. 2 (1872): 147–52.

———. “General Jesse B. Brown.” Annals of Iowa 10, no. 3 (1872): 196–206.

———. “A Mysterious Disappearance and Timely Discovery.” Annals of Iowa 11, no. 2 (1873): 469–76.

———. “Dr. Galland.” The Daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa), November 10, 1875.

———. “Mormonism at Nauvoo.” The Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa), December 27, 1878.

———. “Mormonism.” The Weekly Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa), January 2, 1879.

———. “The Mormons.” The Daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa), October 19, 1886.

———. “Henry Clay Dean.” Keokuk Constitution (Keokuk, Iowa), February 18, 1887.

Thurston, Morris A. “The Boggs Shooting and Attempted Extradition: Joseph Smith’s Most Famous Case.” BYU Studies 48, no. 1 (2009): 5–56.

Wick, B. L. “The Struggle for the Half-Breed Tract.” Annals of Iowa, 3rd ser., 7, no. 1 (1905): 16–29.

Winslow, Brady G. “David W. Kilbourne: The Creation of an Iowa Anti-Mormon.” Annals of Iowa, 3rd ser., 78, no. 3 (2019): 241–67.

Welch, John W. “Joseph Smith’s Short Trip to Iowa, June 23, 1844, to Secure Lawyers to Go with Him to Carthage.” In Joseph Smith: A Life Lived in Crescendo, edited by Jeffrey M. Bradshaw. Interpreter Foundation, 2024. Expanded and updated from BYU Studies 57, no. 3 (2018): 111–42.