MORMON PIONEERING JOURNEYS: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
GUIDE TO THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY EXPERIENCE
I. The Mormon Trail: Bibliographies, Atlases, and Guides to Ocean and
Overland Travel
- Allen, James B. and Glen M. Leonard. The Story of the Latter-day
Saints 2nd ed. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992).
-
- Brown, S. Kent, Donald Q. Cannon and Richard H. Jackson, eds. Historical
Atlas of Mormonism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994).
- Contains a variety of maps relating to Mormon migration; especially
valuable is Map #37: "Mormon Settlements in the Middle Missouri River
Valley" prepared from research by Gail G. Holmes.
- Hill, William E. The Mormon Trail, Yesterday and Today (Logan:
Utah State University Press, 1996).
-
- Kimball, Stanley B. Mormon Battalion on the Santa Fe Trail in 1846:
An Analysis of Mormon Battalion Trail Accounts (Santa Fe, NM: U.S.
National Park Service, 1996).
-
- ________. "Mormon Emigration Trails," in Mormon Americana,
A Guide to Source and Collections in the United States ed. David J.
Whittaker (Provo: Brigham Young University Studies Monograph Series, 1995),
pp. 407-436.
- Best single guide to the sources, publications and trail organizations.
- ________. Discovering Mormon Trails (Salt Lake City: Deseret
Book, 1979).
-
- ________. Historic Sites and Markers along the Mormon and Other
Great Western Trails (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988).
-
- ________. Historic Resource Study: Mormon Pioneer National Historical
Trail (Denver, CO: National Park Service, 1991).
-
- Ludlow, Daniel H. Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of Mormonism,
4 volumes (New York: Macmillan, 1992).
- Includes a number of entries with maps and statistical information
on all aspects of Mormon migration.
- Roberts, Brigham H. A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter day Saints, Century I 6 Volumes (Salt Lake City: Deseret
News Press, 1930), 3:1-381.
-
- Sonne, Conway B. Saints on the Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon
Migration, 1830 90 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983).
-
- ________. Ships, Saints, and Mariners: A Maritime Encyclopedia of
Mormon Migration, 1830-1890 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press,
1987).
-
-
II. The Context: The American Westward Movement
- Billington, Ray Allen, and Martin Ridge. Westward Expansion, A History
of the American Frontier 5th ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1982).
-
- DeVoto, Bernard. The Year of Decision, 1846 (Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1943).
-
- Goetzmann, William H. Army Exploration in the American West: 1803-1863
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979).
-
- ________. Exploration and Empire, The Explorer and the Scientist
in the Winning of the American West (New York: Knopf, 1966).
-
- Hafen, LeRoy R., W. Eugene Hollon and Carl Coke Rister, Western
America, The Exploration, Settlement, and Development of the Region beyond
the Mississippi 3rd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1970).
-
- Jackson, W. Turrentine. Wagon Roads West: A Study of Federal Surveys
and Construction in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1846-1869 (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1979).
-
- Lass, William E. From the Missouri to the Great Salt Lake: An Account
of Overland Freighting (Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society,
1972).
-
- Mattes, Merrill J. The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon
Mainline via Fort Kearney to Fort Laramie (1969; Reprint, Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1987).
-
- Myers, Sandra . Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982).
-
- Milner II, Clyde A., Carol A. O'Connor and Martha A. Sandweiss, eds.
The Oxford History of the American West (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994).
-
- Paden, Irene D. The Wake of the Prairie Schooner (New York:
MacMillan, 1944).
-
- Paul, Rodman W. Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963).
-
- Reid, John Phillip. Law for the Elephant, Property and Social Behavior
on the Overland Trail (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1980).
-
- Unruh, Jr., John D. The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and
the Trans Mississippi West, 1840-60 (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1979).
- Very useful study.
-
- West, Elliott. Growing Up with the Country, Childhood on the Far
Western Frontier (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989).
-
- White, Richard. "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own":
A New History of the American West (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1991).
-
- Winther, Oscar Osburn. The Transportation Frontier: Trans-Mississippi
West, 1865-1890 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974).
III. Histories of Mormon Migration
- A. Causes and Consequences
- Christian, Lewis Clark. "A Study of Mormon Knowledge of the American
Far West prior to the Exodus (1820-February, 1846)," (Master's thesis,
BYU, 1972).
-
- ________. "A Study of the Mormon Westward Migration between February
1846 and July 1847: With Emphasis on and Evaluation of the Factors that
Led to the Mormons' Choice of Salt Lake Valley as the Site of Their Initial
Colony," (Ph.D. diss., BYU, 1976).
-
- ________. "Mormon Foreknowledge of the West," BYU Studies
21 (Fall 1981):403-415.
-
- Esplin, Ronald K. "'A Place Prepared': Joseph, Brigham and the
Quest for a Refuge in the West," Journal of Mormon History
9 (1982):85-111.
- See also Esplin, "A 'Place Prepared' in the Rockies," Ensign
18 (July 1988):6-13.
-
- ________. "The Significance of Nauvoo for Latter-day Saints,"
Journal of Mormon History 16 (1990):71-86.
-
- Hartley, William G. "Coming to Zion: Saga of the Gathering,"
Ensign 5 (July 1975):14-18.
-
- Kimball, Stanley B. "Nauvoo West: The Mormons of the Iowa Shore,"
BYU Studies 18 (Winter 1978):132-42.
-
- Lyon, T. Edgar. "Some Uncommon Aspects of the Mormon Migration,"
Improvement Era 71 (September 1969):33-40.
-
- Mulder, William. "Mormonism's 'Gathering': An American Doctrine
with a Difference," Church History 23 (September 1954):248-64.
B. Nauvoo to Winter Quarters
- Bennett, Richard E. Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852: 'And Should
We Die' (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987).
-
- ________. "Eastward to Eden: The Nauvoo Rescue Missions,"
Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought 19 (Winter 1986):100-108.
-
- Black, Susan Easton, and William G. Hartley, eds., The Iowa Mormon
Trail (Orem, Utah: Helix Publishing, 1997).
- Good collection of recent scholarship. Note especially the essays by
William G. Hartley, Stanley B. Kimball, Larry C. Porter, Richard E. Bennett,
and Gail G. Holmes.
- Coates, Lawrence G. "Brigham Young and Mormon Indian Policies:
The Formative Period, 1836-1851," BYU Studies 18 (Spring 1978):428-52.
-
- ________. "Refugees Meet: The Mormons and Indians in Iowa,"
BYU Studies 21 (Fall 1981):491-514.
-
- ________. "Cultural Conflict: Mormons and Indians in Nebraska,"
BYU Studies 24 (Summer 1984):275-300.
-
- Crockett, David R. Saints in Exile, A Day-By-Day Pioneer Experience
LDS-Gems Pioneer Trek Series, Volume 1, "Nauvoo to Council Bluffs"
(Tucson, Arizona: LDS-Gems Press, 1996).
-
- ________. Saints in the Wilderness, A Day-By-Day Pioneer Experience
LDS Gems Pioneer Trek Series, Volume 2, "Winter Quarters and Mormon
Battalion March" (Tucson, Arizona: LDS-Gems Press, 1997).
-
- Dahl, Paul E. "'All is Well...'" The Story of 'the Hymn That
Went around the World'," BYU Studies 21 (Fall 1981):515-27.
-
- Durham, Reed C., Jr. "The Iowa Experience: A Blessing in Disguise,"
BYU Studies 21 (Fall 1981):463-74.
-
- Gentry, Leland H. "The Mormon Way Stations: Garden Grove and Mt.
Pisgah," BYU Studies 21 (Fall 1981):445-61.
-
- Godfrey, Kenneth W. "Winter Quarters: Glimmering Glimpses into
Mormon Religious and Social Life," in The Eighth Annual Sidney
B. Sperry Symposium: A Sesquicentennial Look at Church History (Provo,
UT: Church Education System and Religious Instruction, BYU, 1980), pp.
149-61.
-
- Hartley, William G. "Latter-day Saints at Iowaville, Iowa: 1846-1851,"
Nauvoo Journal 7 (Spring 1995):38-43.
-
- ________. "The Pioneer Trek: Nauvoo to Winter Quarters,"
Ensign 27 (June 1997):31-43.
-
- Holmes, Gail G. "The LDS Legacy in Southwestern Iowa," Ensign
18 (August 1988):54-57.
-
- ________. Winter Quarters Revised: Untold Stories of the Seven-Year
Stay of the Mormons in the Missouri Valley, 1846-53 (Omaha: By the
author, 1979).
-
- Jessee, Dean C. "Brigham Young's Family: The Wilderness Years,"
BYU Studies 19 (Summer 1979):474-500.
-
- Kimball, Stanley B. "The Iowa Trek of 1846: The Brigham Young
Route from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters," Ensign 2 (June 1972):36-45.
-
- ________. "The Mormon Trail Network in Iowa, 1838-63," BYU
Studies 21 (Fall 1981):417-30.
-
- Nederhiser, Jean Marie. "The Frontier Guardian: A Study of Conflicting
Loyalties, 1849-1857," (Master's thesis, Iowa State University, 1986).
-
- Pearson, Carol Lynn. "'Nine Children Were Born': A Historical
Problem from the Sugar Creek Episode," BYU Studies 21 (Fall
1981):441-44.
-
- Pratt, Steven F. "Parley P. Pratt in Winter Quarters and the Trail
West," BYU Studies 24 (Summer 1984):373-88.
-
- Shumway, Ernest W. "History of Winter Quarters, Nebraska, 1846-1848,"
(Master's thesis, BYU, 1953).
-
- ________. "Winter Quarters, Nebraska, 1846-1848," Nebraska
History 35 (June 1954):115-25.
-
- Trennert, Jr., Robert A. "The Mormons and the Office of Indian
Affairs: The Conflict over Winter Quarters, 1846-1848," Nebraska
History 53 (Fall 1972):381 400.
-
- Webb, L. Robert. "The Contributions of the Temporary Settlements
Garden Grove, Mount Pisgah, and Kanesville, Iowa to Mormon Emigration,
1846-1853," (Master's thesis, BYU, 1954).
C. Mormon Battalion
- Golder, Frank Alfred. The March of the Mormon Battalion from Council
Bluffs to California: Taken from the Journal of Henry Standage (New
York: Century, 1928).
-
- Hafen, LeRoy R. and Frank M. Young, "The Mormon Settlement at
Pueblo, Colorado, During the Mexican War," Colorado Magazine
9 (July 1932):121-36.
-
- Kimball, Stanley B. "The Mormon Battalion March, 1846-47,"
Ensign 9 (July 1979):57-61.
-
- ________. "Rediscovering the Fort Leavenworth Military Branch
of the Santa Fe Trail," Journal of the West 28 (April 1989):59-68.
-
- Ricketts, Norma Baldwin. The Mormon Battalion, U.S. Army of the
West, 1846 1848 (Logan: Utah State University Press, 1996).
- Most recent history, with extensive lists of members and bibliography.
- Tyler, Daniel. A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the
Mexican War: 1846-1847 (1881; reprint, Chicago: Rio Grande, 1964).
-
- Yurtinis, John F. "A Ram in the Thicket: The Mormon Battalion
in the Mexican War," (Ph.D. diss, BYU, 1975).
-
- Zobell, Jr., Albert. Sentinel in the East, A Biography of Thomas
L. Kane (Salt Lake City: Nicholas G. Morgan, Sr. Publisher, 1965).
- See also Leonard J. Arrington, "'In Honorable Remembrance': Thomas
L. Kane's Services to the Mormons," BYU Studies 21 (Fall 1981):389-402.
D. Winter Quarters to the Salt Lake Valley
- Arrington, Leonard J. "Mississippi Saints," Ensign
7 (June 1977):46-51.
-
- Arrington, Leonard J. and Susan Arrington Madsen, Sunbonnet Sisters:
True Stories of Mormon Women and Frontier Life (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft,
1984).
-
- Beecher, Maureen Ursenbach. "The Overland Diaries of Eliza R.
Snow," in Beecher, Eliza and Her Sisters (Salt Lake City: Aspen
Books, 1991), pp. 98-107.
-
- ________. "Women in Winter Quarters," in Beecher, Eliza
and Her Sisters (1991), pp. 98-107.
-
- ________. "Women's Work on the Mormon Frontier," Utah
Historical Quarterly 49 (Summer 1981):276-90.
-
- Bennett, Richard E. "Finalizing Plans for the Trek West: Deliberations
at Winter Quarters, 1846-1847," BYU Studies 24 (Summer 1984):301-320.
- Brown, Joseph E. The Mormon Trek West (Garden City, New York:
Doubleday, 1980). Illustrated with photographs.
-
- Durham, Michael S. "'This is the Place': Retracting the Pioneer
Trail in Mormon Utah," American Heritage 44 (April 1993):65-82.
-
- Hartley, William G. "Gathering the Dispersed Nauvoo Saints, 1847-1852,"
Ensign 27 (July 1997):11-29.
-
- Homer, Michael W. "After Winter Quarters and Council Bluffs: The
Mormons in Nebraska Territory, 1854-1867," Nebraska History
65 (Winter 1984):467-83.
-
- Jackson, Richard H. "The Overland Journey to Zion," in Jackson,
ed. The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West Charles Redd Monographs
in Western History, No. 9 (Provo: BYU Press for the Charles Redd Center,
BYU, 1978), pp. 1-27.
-
- Jenson, Andrew. "Church Emigration," The Contributor
12-14 (May 1891 September 1893).
- Thirty-part series.
-
- ________. Day by Day with the Utah Pioneers, 1847: A Chronological
Record of the Trek Across the Plains (Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Tribune,
1934).
-
- ________. "The Pioneers of 1847," Historical Record
9 (January-December 1890).
- Six-part series.
-
- Kimball, Stanley B. "The Captivity Narrative on Mormon Trails,
1846-65," Dialogue, A Journal of Mormon Thought 18 (Winter
1985):81-88.
-
- ________. "Eastern Ends of the Trail West," Ensign
10 (January 1980):30-47.
-
- ________. "A Forgotten Trail and Mormon Settlements," Ensign
10 (February 1980):33-35.
-
- ________. "The Mormon Pioneer Trail, 1846-47," Ensign
9 (September 1979):72-76.
-
- ________. "Mormon Trail Network in Nebraska, 1846-68: A New Look,"
BYU Studies 24 (Summer 1984):321-36.
-
- Knight, Hal, and Stanley B. Kimball. 111 Days to Zion (Salt
Lake City: Deseret News, 1978).
- Good day-by-day account with maps.
- Lambourne, Alfred. The Pioneer Trail (Salt Lake City: Deseret
News, 1913).
-
- Leonard, Glen M. "1847 Odometer Ticked Away the Miles, Then Was
Lost to History," Church News, Deseret News (10 February 1980),
p. 11.
- See also Norman E. Wright, "Odometers: Distance Measurement on
Western Emigrant Trails," Overland Journal 13 (Fall 1995).
- Madsen, Susan Arrington. I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young
Pioneers on the Mormon Trail (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1994).
-
- Nibley, Preston. Exodus to Greatness: The Story of the Mormon Migration
(Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1947.
-
- Pruday, William E. "They March Their Way West: The Nauvoo Brass
Band," Ensign 10 (July 1980):20-23.
-
- Stegner, Wallace. The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon
Trail (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964).
-
E. Later Migrations
- Bartholomew, Rebecca, and Leonard J. Arrington. Rescue of the 1856
Handcart Companies Charles Redd Monographs in Western History, No.
11 (Provo, UT: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, BYU, 1993).
- Revision of 1981 edition.
- Dennis, Ronald. The Call of Zion: The Story of the First Welsh Mormon
Emigration (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, BYU, 1987).
-
- Hafen, LeRoy and Ann Hafen, Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique
Western Migration, 1856-1860 (Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1960).
-
- Hafen, Mary Ann. Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A
Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier (1938; reprinted, Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 1983).
-
- Hartley, William G. "Down-and Back Wagon Trains: Travelers on
the Mormon Trail in 1861," Overland Journal 4 (Winter 1993):21-34.
- See also Hartley's essay on the same topic in Ensign 15 (September
1985):26-31.
- _______. "The Great Florence Fitout of 1861," BYU Studies
24 (Summer 1984):341-71.
-
- Hulmston, John K. "Mormon Immigration in the 1860s: The Story
of the Church Trains," Utah Historical Quarterly 58 (Winter
1990):32-48.
-
- Jensen, Richard L. "Steaming Through: Arrangements for Mormon
Emigration from Europe," Journal of Mormon History 9 (1982):3-23.
-
- Jensen, Richard L. and Gordon Irving. "The Voyage [1863] of the
Amazon: A Close View of One Immigrant Company," Ensign 10 (March
1980):16-19.
-
- Jenson, Andrew. "Latter-Day Saints Emigration from Wyoming, Nebraska:
1864 66," Nebraska History Magazine 27 (1936):113-27.
-
- Kimball, Stanley B. "Sail and Rail Pioneers before 1869,"
BYU Studies 35 (No. 2, 1995):6-42.
-
- Larson, Gustive O. "The Story of the Perpetual Emigration Fund
Co.," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 17 (September 1931):184-94.
- Based on his Master's thesis, University of Utah, 1926).
- Mulder, William. Homeward to Zion: The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957).
-
- Sherlock, Richard. "Mormon Migration and Settlement after 1875,"
Journal of Mormon History 2 (1975):53-68.
-
- Sonne, Conway B. "Under Sail to Zion," Ensign 21 (July
1991):6-14.
-
- Taylor, Philip A.M. Expectations Westward: The Mormons and the Emigration
of Their British Converts in the Nineteenth Century (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1965).
IV. Diaries and Autobiographies
A. Bibliographies and Guides
- Bashore, Melvin. The Mormon Pioneer Companies Crossing the Plains
(1847 1868) Narratives: Guide to Sources in Utah Libraries and Archives
3rd ed. revised (Salt Lake City: Historical Department, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1990).
-
- Bashore, Melvin, and Linda L. Haslem. Mormons on the High Seas:
Ocean Voyage Narratives to America (1840-1890): Guide to Sources in the
Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
and Other Utah Repositories (Salt Lake City: Historical Department,
LDS Church, 1990).
-
- Bitton, Davis, Compiler, Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies
(Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1977).
-
- Mattes, Merrill J. Platte River Road Narratives: A Descriptive Bibliography
of Travel over the Great Overland Route to Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado,
Montana, and Other Western States and Territories, 1812-1866 (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 1988).
-
- Mintz, Lannon, W. The Trail: A Bibliography of the Travelers on
the Overland Trail to California, Oregon, Salt Lake City, and Montana during
the Years 1841 1864 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987).
-
- Rittenhouse, Jack D. The Santa Fe Trail: A Historical Bibliography
(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1971).
-
- Townley, John M. The Trail West: A Bibliography--Index to Western
American Trails, 1841-1869 (Reno, NV: Jamison Station Press, 1988).
B. Selected Published Journals/Diaries
- Bullock, Thomas. "'Surely It has Fallen': The Thomas Bullock Nauvoo
Journal, 1845-46," BYU Studies 31 (Winter 1991):15-75. Edited
by Greg R. Knight.
-
- Bullock, Thomas. The Pioneer Camp of the Saints, The 1846 and 1847
Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock ed. Will Bagley (Spokane, WA:
Arthur H. Clark Co., 1997).
-
- Clayton, William. William Clayton's Journal (Salt Lake City:
The Clayton Family Association, 1921).
- See also An Intimate Chronicle: The Diaries of William Clayton
ed. by George D. Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books in association
with Smith Research Associates, 1991).
- Holmes, Kenneth L. ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters
From the Western Trails, 1840-1890 4 vols. to-date (Glendale, CA and
Spokane, WA: Arthur H. Clark, 1983-97).
- Includes accounts by Mormon women.
- Kimball, Heber C. On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C.
Kimball ed. by Stanley B. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Signature Books
in association with Smith Research Associates, 1987).
-
- Lee, John D. Journals of John D. Lee, 1846-47 and 1859 edited
by Charles Kelly (1938; Reprinted with Introduction by Charles S. Peterson,
Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1984).
-
- Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail (1849).
-
- Pratt, Orson. The Orson Pratt Journals Eldon J. Watson, compiler
(Salt Lake City: By the compiler, 1975).
- See also the nine-part series "Extracts from the Private Journal
of Orson Pratt," Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine
15-17 (April 1924-July 1926).
- Richards, Mary Haskin Parker. Winter Quarters, The 1846-1848 Life
Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards ed. Maurine Carr Ward (Logan:
Utah State University Press, 1996).
-
- Sessions, Patty Bartlett. Mormon Midwife, The 1846-1888 Diaries
of Patty Bartlett Sessions ed. Donna Toland Smart (Logan: Utah State
University Press, 1997).
-
- Snow, Eliza R. The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow ed.
Maureen Ursenbach Beecher (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1995).
- Includes the overland diary.
- Snow, Erastus. "From Nauvoo to Salt Lake in the Van of the Pioneers,"
The Improvement Era 14, 15 (February 1911-October 1912).
- Seventeen-part series, edited by Moroni Snow. See also "Journey
to Zion: From the Journal of Erastus Snow," Utah Humanities Review
2 (April, July 1948), two-part series edited by Leland H. Creer.
- Snow, Lorenzo. "The Iowa Journal of Lorenzo Snow," BYU
Studies 24 (Summer 1984):261-73.
- Edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher.
-
- Stout, Hosea. On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout,
1844-1861 2 vols., Juanita Brooks, ed. (Salt Lake City: University
of Utah Press and Utah State Historical Society, 1964).
-
- Twain, Mark. Roughing It (1872)
-
- Woodruff, Wilford. Wilford Woodruff's Journal 9 volumes (Midvale,
UT: Signature Books, 1983-84.
- Edited by Scott Kenney.
-
- Young, Brigham. Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846-1847
compiled by Eldon J. Watson (Salt Lake City: by the Compiler, 1971).
- See also History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
Period II, From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original
Documents Volume 7, Introduction and Notes by B.H. Roberts (1932; Salt
Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1964).
V. Miscellaneous References
A. Contemporary Works
- Andrews, Thomas F. "'Ho! For Oregon and California!': An Annotated
Bibliography of Published Advice to the Emigrant, 1841-47," Princeton
University Library Chronicle 33 (Autumn 1971):41-64.
-
- Clayton, William. The Latter-Day Saints' Emigrants Guide Eds.
Stanley B. Kimball and James B. Allen (1848; Gerald, MO: Patrice Press,
1983).
- Best edition.
-
- Fremont, John C. A Report on a Exploration of the Country Lying
between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains on the Line of the Kansas
and Great Platte Rivers (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1843).
- A work studied by Mormon leaders in Nauvoo prior to the Exodus. See
also Alexander L. Baugh, "John C. Fremont's Expeditions Into Utah:
An Historical Analysis of the Explorer's Contribution and Significance
to the Region," (Master's thesis, BYU, 1986).
- Hastings, Lansford W. The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California
(Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1845).
-
- Krol, Helen B. "The Books That Enlightened the Emigrants,"
Oregon Historical Quarterly 45 (June 1944):103-23.
-
- Piercy, Frederick Hawkins. Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake
Valley (1855; Reprinted, with Introduction and Notes by Fawn M. Brodie,
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962).
B. Visual/Photographic Accounts
- Holzafel, Richard Neitzel. Their Faces Toward Zion: Pictures and
Images of the Trek West (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1996).
-
- Kimball, Stanley B. "The Way It Looks Today: Sites on the Trail
West," Ensign 10 (January 1980):34-47.
-
- Proctor, Maurine, and Scott Facer Proctor. The Gathering: Mormon
Pioneers on the Trail to Zion (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996).
C. Miscellaneous Topics
- Anderson, Carma Rose de Jong. "A Historical Overview of the Mormons
and Their Clothing, 1840-1850." (Ph.D. diss., 3 vols. BYU, 1992).
-
- Godfrey, Audrey M. "Pioneer Beauty: A Formula of Bear Grease,
Charcoal Toothpaste, and Milkweed Juice," New Era 2 (July 1972):16-17.
-
- Holbrook, Leona. "Dancing as an Aspect of Early Mormon and Utah
Culture," BYU Studies 16 (Autumn 1975):117-38.
- Dancing is specifically mentioned in D&C 136:28.
-
- Olsen, Steven L. "Celebrating Cultural Identity: Pioneer Day in
Nineteenth Century Mormonism," BYU Studies 36 (No.1, 1996-97):159-77.
-
- Walkup, Fairfax Proudfit. "The Sunbonnet Women: Fashions in Utah
Pioneer Costume," Utah Humanities Review 1 (July 1947):201-22.
- See also her Master's thesis, University of Utah, 1948.
- Back to Table of Contents