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This is the second edition of the first paper I wrote on the possibilities of the original 1830 Book of Mormon having within its pages complexed cipher. In this revised edition look for the section on "The Rod of Iron" and "coal-train"... more
The name White Pocket actually refers to two areas. On the topo map there is a tall butte about 500 feet high that can be seen from miles around. I'll refer to this butte as the White Pocket Monolith or Butte. Conversely, photographers... more
This paper reviews an exhibition by artist Cara Despain which took place at CUAC (Central Utah Art Center) from April 15th to June 5th, 2016.
Se analiza la historia de la United States Company, una compañía minera trasnacional en Norte América, entre 1906 y 1947.
Photos and letters written by Lieutenant R. T. Kowallis and his wife Norma Jensen Kowallis while he was stationed in the Pacific during World War II in 1945. A higher resolution version of this book is available from the author upon... more
Tie Cutting in the Uinta Mountains of Utah left a unique and temporally changing imprint upon the landscape between 1867 and 1939. This paper analyzes some trends in the architectural changes over two distinct periods in the industry's... more
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The prevailing belief among historians is that the settlement of early Utah’s towns and villages was chiefly a result of hiving off from the mother settlement in “Great Salt Lake City, Great Basin, North America.” As it turns out, the... more
Vermilion is both a brilliant red or scarlet pigment, originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar, and the corresponding color. It is commonly used in Hindu culture, primarily by women, and was widely used in the art and decoration... more
This was based on a term paper I for graduate school in 2006. I thought this would be of interest to those interested in topics like church-and-state separation, Utah history, and the history of religion, specifically the LDS Church.
Among the petroglyph figures of faceless men within Horseshoe Canyon in Utah, the Holy Ghost stands seven feet high and dominates the others. It is the only figure that is a rebus, whose details comprise syllabic letters from Old... more
Obituary on American artist Nancy Holt
In 1917, Charles G. Patterson, a Utah attorney, spearheaded the organization of the Intermountain Association of Sugar Beet Growers (IASBG) to serve as an advocate for beet farmers in the Intermountain West. With the advent of the First... more
The Commodity Flow Model is an effective method for predicting the composition of late nineteenth and early twentieth century household assemblages. By utilizing a supply-side economic perspective, observed archaeological patterns are... more
From 1889 to 1917, Pacific Islander (mostly Hawaiian) converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lived, worked, and worshipped at Iosepa, a remote desert settlement in Utah’s Skull Val- ley. An examination of the... more
Webb, Ashley Anderson, and Jay H. Buckley. “Mormon Women Connected Suffrage Directly to Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the Restoration of the Gospel: Reflections from the 1920 Relief Society Magazine.” Journal of Mormon History 46, no. 4... more
Review of Cara Despain's exhibition "From Dust" at Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, Utah, 25 September 2020–27 February 2021 (extended to 1 May 2021).
Webb, Ashley Anderson, and Jay H. Buckley. “Mormon Women Connected Suffrage Directly to Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the Restoration of the Gospel: Reflections from the 1920 Relief Society Magazine.” Journal of Mormon History 46, no. 4... more
Chapter 4 of Borderwaters: Amid the Archipelagic States of America (Duke University Press, 2021)
Epilogue in the collection of essays, The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History, edited by Jedidiah Rogers and Matthew Godfrey
This article shares the history of a 19th-century Polynesian Mormon settlement in Skull Valley, Utah, named Iosepa. It explores how current-day descendants of these faithful pioneers navigate a proud and difficult past.
Jorge Iber's debut, Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, earned the impressive honor of the Mormon History Association's 2001 Best First Book Award. Iber brings the intellectual tools and fresh insights of ethnic studies into the field of Mormon... more
A discussion between Brinley Froelich, Zhandarka Kurti, and Jarrod Shanahan on how criminal justice initiatives are furnishing the ideology behind jail and prison expansion in the America, and anti-prison organising across the country.
Throughout the early twentieth century, Utah's economy was based on two major industries--agriculture and mining. The Mormon Church and the local sugar companies encouraged farmers to raise sugar beets as a cash crop. Utah representatives... more
This paper details the experiences of certain refugees that have come to UT over the last decade or so and discusses their trials, experiences with getting used to their new environment, and what life has been like for them.
Providers of childbirth health care services have been described as having tensions between those who offer holistic birth care in out-of-hospital settings (lay-midwives), and those who provide biomedicalized births at the hospital in... more