St. George ConferenceMay 26-29, 2011

“From Cotton to Cosmopolitan: Local, National, and Global Transformations in Mormon History”

Tanner LectureGeorge A. Miles

William Robertson Coe CuratorBeinecke Rare Book and

Manuscript LibraryYale University

Special Guests & Plenary Speakers

Friday Morning PlenaryW. Paul Reeve

Associate Professor of HistoryUniversity of Utah

Friday Luncheon SpeakerElder Bruce C. Hafen

St. George LDS Temple President

Film Preview and DiscussionPhil Tuckett

Assistant Professor of FilmDixie State College

Saturday Luncheon SpeakerSusan S. Rugh

Professor of HistoryBrigham Young University

Presidential BanquetWilliam P. MacKinnon

MHA President, 2010-11

Sunday DevotionalPresident Michael T. Benson

Southern Utah University

Douglas D. AlderDixie State College President, 1986-93

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ToursPre-Conference

Tour 1: Las Vegas and the Mormon CorridorTour 2: St. George LIVE Tour 3: Tour of Art Galleries

Post-Conference

Tour 1: Southern Utah & Northern ArizonaTour 2: Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition

The Latest in Mormon History Scholarship

St. George 2009Courtesy St. George Tourism

St. George Temple through Vineyards in 1917Courtesy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints, Church History Library

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St. George is located in southwest Utah, 303 miles south of Salt Lake City and 119 miles northeast of Las Vegas. It boasts a population of more than 80,000 and is one the fastest growing cities in the United States. Founded in 1861 as a Mormon cotton mission, St. George is celebrating its sesquicentennial in 2011.

Dixie Center1835 Convention Center Drive

St. George, UT 84790800-748-5011 (toll free)www.dixiecenter.com

DIRECTIONS

Take I-15 to St. George, Bluff Street (Exit 6).

From Salt Lake City: turn left on Bluff at stoplight, turn right at second stoplight onto Convention Center Drive for two blocks. The Convention Center is located on the left.

From Las Vegas: turn right on Bluff. At the next stoplight turn right onto Conven-tion Center Drive, drive for two blocks. The Convention Center is on the left.

See list of conference hotelsand rates on page 7

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President’s Greeting Transformation! Welcome to a conference for which that word will be the key to understanding what you will see and hear with us. The canyonlands and river systems for which the St. George area is the portal are themselves a gorgeous reminder of the geological changes that have shaped our conference site over millions of years. A bit more recently, the City of St. George, our host, stands as a welcoming civic record of how the Mormon footprint first appeared here 150 years ago – at the very time that the United States, Utah Territory, and the Latter-day Saints stood on the brink of perhaps their greatest upheavals. Joining us in St. George for the Mormon History Association’s 46th Annual Conference, May 26-29, 2011, promises to provide you not only with a wonderful start to our national celebration of Memorial Day, but a memorable experience through which to learn about this extraordinary area and the flow of events to which it is linked. When from a White House balcony a war-weary President Abraham Lincoln asked a visiting band to strike up “Dixie,” his favorite tune, he probably did not have southern Utah in mind. But 2,000 miles to the west, President Brigham Young surely did. Here is a chance to find out how and why.

What awaits you at MHA’s St. George conference is an unusual, stimulating opportunity to see and learn about a stunning series of transformations. It is a story that is both stark and richly colorful, just like our conference site and the region that surrounds it. Welcome to an opportunity to take part in: pre- and post-conference tours to canyons, rivers, deserts, pioneer towns, and golf courses that draw visitors from throughout the world; plenary session speakers as diverse as an emeritus General Authority of the LDS Church to the keeper of some of the great documents of Mormon history to one of the leading chroniclers of the American vacation experience; conference papers that break new ground on subjects ranging from Utah and the Civil War to the changing face of polygamy in the West to the Mountain Meadows Massacre; and a sneak preview of an exciting new film-in-progress on the life of St. George’s Juanita Brooks, a historian and MHA member who did as much as perhaps any chronicler of that latter subject to change it. But for me, the best part of St. George is not the past, fascinating as it is, but rather what lies just ahead for us – a celebratory gathering in southern Utah’s “Dixie” region with some of the warmest, most welcoming people I know. I refer, of course, to the members of the Mormon History Association. I urge you to be part of this group for MHA-St. George. For good reason, it will be a landmark, if not transformational, event in your study of the Mormon experience as well as in your enjoyment of a scenic land that attracts the world.

Cordially,

William P. MacKinnonMHA President 2010-11

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MHA Officers 2010 - 11President:

William P. MacKinnonIndependent Historian

Santa Barbara, CA

President-Elect:Richard L. Jensen

Joseph Smith PapersLDS Church History Department

Salt Lake City, UT

Past President:Ronald E. Romig

Site DirectorKirtland Temple Historic Center

Kirtland, OH

Executive Director:Patricia Lyn Scott

Business Manager:Marilyn S. Barney

Board Members:

Noel A. Carmack (2011)Art Department

College of Eastern UtahPrice, UT

J. Spencer Fluhman (2011)

Assistant Professor of ChurchHistory & Doctrine

Brigham Young UniversityProvo, UT

Jenny Reeder (2011)Doctoral Candidate

George Mason UniversityFairfax, VA

Andrea Radke-Moss (2012)Assistant Professor

Brigham Young University-IdahoRexburg, ID

Curtis Atkisson (2012)Retired CEO

Salt Lake City, UT

Grant Underwood (2013)Professor of History

Brigham Young UniversityProvo, UT

Barbara Walden (2013)Community of Christ Historic

Sites FoundationLexington, KY

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Mormon History Association

The Mormon History Association (MHA) was founded under the leadership of noted historian Leonard J. Arrington in December 1965 at the American Historical Association (AHA) meeting in San Francisco. MHA was organized to promote understanding, scholarly research, and publica-tion in the field of Mormon history. For the first seven years, until 1972, it operated as an affiliate of the American Historical Association. In 1972 it became an independent organization with its own annual conferences and publications. The Journal of Mormon History, the official publica-tion of the association, began publication in 1974.

Organization MHA is governed by its members who elect a president, president-elect, and board members. The term of the executive officers is for one year, and the six board members serve for three years. The executive director, business manager, and editor of the Journal of Mormon History are ap-pointed by the board.

Mission Statement The Mormon History Association is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the study and understanding of all aspects of Mormon history. We welcome all who are interested in the Mormon past, irrespective of religious affiliation, academic training, or world location. We promote our goals through scholarly research, conferences, awards, and publications.

Vision Statement The Mormon History Association seeks to be the preeminent worldwide catalyst for encour-aging the scholarly study and appreciation of the Mormon past.

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Conference InformationRegistration form is located in center section

Mormon History Association 10 West 100 South, Suite 610 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 801-521-6565 888-642-3678 801-521-8686 (fax) mha_slc@msn.com www.mhahome.org Patricia Lyn Scott Executive Director

Marilyn S. Barney Business Manager

Conference Location: Dixie Center 1835 Convention Center Drive St. George, UT 84790 Conference Dates Thursday, May 26, 2011, through Sunday, May 29, 2011

Conference Registration ScheduleDistribution of name badges, conference programs, and on-site registration will take place during the following hours in the Dixie Center’s north lobby: Wednesday 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Thursday 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Friday 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

MHA MembershipMembership in the Mormon History Association is not required to attend the conference, but those who wish to join are encouraged to do so. Membership can be included with your registration.

Name Badges It is required that all attendees wear their name badges at all times during the conference. This is nec-essary to prevent people coming into the conference without registering. If you misplace or forget your badge, please obtain a replacement at the registration desk before attempt-ing to attend any event or entering the exhibit hall. There will be people available to remind you of this policy.

Pre-registrationConference pre-registration deadline is

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Registration must be received, with full payment, in the MHA office by the above date in order to receive the pre-registration discounted price.

Pre-registration prices for the conference: MHA members $110 Non-MHA members $150 Students $50 Single day $80

Registration after April 30 MHA members $135 Non-MHA members $175 Students $75 Single day $105

All conference attendees, including presenters and program and tour participants, are required to register. Please pre-register for all tours and meals, as space is limited. Pre-registration receipts will be emailed or mailed to each reg-istrant, but name badges and event tickets are to be picked up at the conference registration table.

Cancellation Policy

In the event a person finds it necessary to cancel his/her registration, MHA will refund the full registration for all activities, less a handling charge of $30 per person, until April 30, 2011. After that date, no refunds will be made. The paid registration fees will then be recog-nized as a donation and a receipt will be issued.

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Hotel Room Reservations MHA has negotiated a rate of $89 (single/double/triple/quadruple) per night at six St. George hotels. All hotels are located within three miles of the Dixie Center. The hotels are the following: Best Western Abbey Inn (888-222-3946, www.bwab-beyinn.com); Clarion Suites (formerly the Comfort Suites) (800-245-8602, stgeorgecomfortsuites.com); Fairfield Inn by Marriott (888-236-2427, www.marriott.com/travel/hotels/sgufi-fairfield-in-st-george); Hilton Garden Inn (877-STAY-HGI, www.stgeorge.hgi.com); LaQuinta Inn & Suites (888-788-2457, www.laqstgeorge.com); and the Lexington Hotel and Conference Center (formerly the Holiday Inn) (800-457-9800, www.lexing-tonhotels.com). The MHA website provides the addresses and descriptions of all hotels including a map showing their locations. This rate is good for up to three days before and three days after the conference. This rate is only guaranteed until April 24, 2011. Make certain you say MHA!

Transportation

Transportation from Salt Lake City:The following three bus/shuttle companies provide daily service between Salt Lake City and St. George: Aztec Shuttle Service (435-656-9040, www.aztec-shuttle.com), St. George Shuttle (435-628-8320, www.stgeorgeshuttle.com), and Utah Trailways, (800-876-5825, www.utahtrailways.com). Costs range from $90-$100 for a round-trip ticket. Airports:

St. George Municipal Airport (SGU) The new St. George Municipal Airport was dedicated on January 13, 2011. It is located five miles southeast of St. George (620 South Airport Rd.) and is easily reached by I-15 (Exit 2). Delta Airlines (delta.com) offers four weekday flights and three weekend flights from Salt Lake City. In March, United Airlines (united.com) will begin a direct six-day-a-week flight (not Saturday) from Los Angeles. For more informa-tion see: www.flysgu.com.

Airport Transportation Most conference hotels offer free airport shuttles.

Rental Cars: Alamo (800-327-9633, www.alamo.com), AVIS (435-627-2002, www.avis.com), Budget (435-652-8542/435-673-6825, www.budget.com),

Enterprise (435-634-1556, www.enterprise.com), and Hertz (435-652-9941, www.hertz.com). Taxi Services: There are two St. George Taxi com-panies. They are: AAA Quality Cab (435-656-5222) and Taxi USA (435-656-1500).

McCarran International Airport (LAS) The Las Vegas McCarran International Airport is located 129 miles from St. George (a 1-1/2 to 2 hour drive).

Rental Cars: Ten rental car companies are avail-able at the airport’s car rental facility. (See: www.mccarran.com/03-carrentals.aspx).

Shuttle Services: There are three shuttle companies offering daily service between the McCarran Interna-tional Airport and St. George. The shuttles are the fol-lowing: Canyon Country Shuttle (435-272-4495, www.canyonshuttle.com), St. George Shuttle (435-628-8320, www.stgeorgeshuttle.com), and St. George Express (435-652-1100, www.stgeorgeexpress.com). Costs average $30 for a one-way ticket and $50 for a round trip. Reservations are requirred. Parking: The Dixie Center provides free parking for confer-ence attendees.

Exhibitors: Exhibits and displays will be located in the exhibit area located in the Dixie Center. Exhibitors can set up any time between noon and 5 p.m. on Thursday after-noon. Exhibit hours are: Friday 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Exhibitor and advertisers pay a fee to MHA for the space they occupy. We encourage all conference attendees to patronize and support them. They are sup-porting MHA.

Emergency Procedures: MHA seeks to be prepared properly in the event of any emergency that may arise during the conference. We recognize that there are inherent risks involved in holding a large conference of 500 to 600 people. While it is difficult to eliminate all risks and contingencies, we seek to minimize them. MHA and the conference center have established an emergency management plan. Information on its details will be available at the registration desk upon request. In part, this plan calls for each attendee to voluntarily provide at registration an “emergency contact” and other related information. We will maintain this information if the situation arises for its use.

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Special

The St. George Tabernacle at 18 South Main Street is the site of MHA’s opening session, “Celebrating St. George’s Musical Heritage” (7:00 - 8:00 p.m.). The 150-voice St. George Heri-tage Choir, directed by Floyd Rigby and accompanied by Nancy Allred, will perform a selection of sacred music. This noted choir has toured nationally and internationally from China to the Czech Republic. The concert will be followed with excerpts from the musical reader’s theater production, “Tony Ivins He No Cheat,” created by Nonnie Sorenson and performed by Robert Proffit.

The opening reception will follow the concert outside on the Town Square adjacent to the Tabernacle. Dessert will be served.

OPENING CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

THURSDAY ON THE SQUARE (MAY 26)

St. George’s history and culture are highlighted in Thurs-day’s activities. Events are centered in St. George’s historic downtown on Main Street. They begin with two tours - St. George LIVE -- five historic sites with Jacob Hamblin, Or-son Pratt, Erastus Snow, Judge John Menzies Macfarlane, and Brigham Young present through reenactors and a tour of sev-eral art galleries. Both begin at the Pioneer Center for the Arts (200 North Main Street) just north of the Post Office at 1:00 p.m. and are repeated at 3:00 p.m. (see page 12 for details). Also, since fifty historic buildings are located downtown ,maps will be available for attendees to create their own walk-ing tour. Free public parking is available downtown, and shut-tles will also be available at the Dixie Center for those needing transportation.

MHA’s third Research Fair will be held in the Washington County Library, 88 West 100 South, on the south side of Town Square, from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. University, state, and church li-brarians, archivists, and curators will be available to discuss their Mormon history collections, spotlight their records of the Colo-rado Plateau region, and demonstrate internet access to their on-line registers and digital collections. Exhibitors will include: Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University; LDS Church His-tory Library; Dixie State College; Mountain West Digital Library; Southern Utah University; Utah State University; Utah Valley Uni-versity; Washington County Library; and Weber State University.

Nine area restaurants are available for dinner before evening events.

Town Square lookingtoward the Washington County Library

Historic St. George Tabernacleand Sculpture

Brigham Young’s HomeCourtesy St. George Tourism

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Events . . . Friday,

May 27, 2011

Newcomers’ BreakfastFriday, May 27, 2011 6:30 a.m. -7:30 a.m.

We welcome all first-time conference attendees and invite you to a special breakfast with MHA officers. There is no charge, but we ask you to please register for this activity.

Luncheon SpeakerFriday, May 27, 201111:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

“Pools of Living Water: No Longer a Thirsty Land?”

Elder Bruce C. Hafen

St. George LDS Temple Presidentand Emeritus LDS General Authority

Awards BanquetFriday, May 27, 2011

7:15 to 9:00 p.m.

The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of MHA’s annual books, ar-ticles, and other awards.

Plenary Session Friday, May 27, 2011 8:00-9:00 a.m.

“From Cotton to Cosmopolitan: Local, National, and Global

Transformations in Utah’s Dixie”

W. Paul ReeveAssociate History Professor

University of Utah

Student ReceptionFriday, May 27, 2011

9:15 - 10:00 p.m.MHA cordially invites all students and younger scholars to join us for refreshments and networking among Mormon history stu-dents. This is a great opportunity to meet other students from around the country/world, learn about the benefits and challeng-es of working on Mormon history, discuss online networking, and learn more about what MHA has for you and how you can contribute to the study of Mormon history. Food and prizes will be provided.

President Hafen was born and raised in St. George and believes its settlers blessed their posterity by conquering much opposi-tion that profoundly shaped their character. This presentation shares some of those founding-era stories and introduces the region’s more recent transition into a high-growth retirement community. He notes that the early settlers came to an isolated, desert region in part to get away from the world, and asks “Is the world now coming to them?”

Dr. Reeve was raised in nearby Hur-ricane and explores the conference theme by showing ways in which lo-cal, national, and international forces have constantly shaped and reshaped Mormon communities in southwest-ern Utah. He sees in Utah’s Dixie a microcosm of broader trends in Mor-monism as a whole.

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Presidential BanquetSaturday, May 28, 2011

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Conducting: Richard L. Jensen

MHA President-Elect

Presidential Address:“‘Not as a Stranger’: A Presbyterian

Afoot in the Mormon Past”

William P. MacKinnonMHA President, 2010-11

Closing Reception9:00 -10:00 p.m.

There will be a reception with dessert following the banquet. All are invited to attend.

Mormon Women’s History Breakfast

Saturday, May 28, 2011 6:30 - 7:45 a.m.

This breakfast provides an opportunity to connect with women and men interested in the field of Mormon women’s history. The breakfast will include a short program with updates on research, projects, and publications. It is sponsored by the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team.

Membership Luncheon SpeakerSaturday, May 28, 2011

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

“From Peculiar People to Big Love: Mormonism and the Making of Utah as a Tourist Mecca”

Susan S. RughProfessor of History

Brigham Young UniversityProvo, UT

Tanner LectureSaturday, May 28, 2011

10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

George A. MilesWilliam Robertson Coe Curator

Yale Collection of Western AmericanaBeinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Yale University George A. Miles

Saturday,May 28, 2011

“Mormon History and the History of Mormonism: One and the Same? A Librarian’s Perspective”

George A. Miles has served as the William Robertson Coe Curator since 1981. He earned his graduate history degrees from Yale University (1975 and 1977) and has taught classes on the history of the American West in Yale’s Graduate School with John Farragher and Alan Trachtenberg, and Jay Gitlin at the Yale College. He has authored numerous essays on the sources of the history of the American West. He is responsible for creating more than twenty exhibits at Yale University and for developing a series of symposia with Yale faculty on the history of the American West. He has edited and written a number of publications including James Swan, Cha-tic of the Northwest Coast (New Haven: Beinecke Library, 2003).

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“Small-Town Mormon Settlers with Big-Time Educational Aspirations: A Legacy

of Sacrifice Still Impacting Us Today”

Michael T. Benson, President, Southern Utah University

Cedar City, UT

“The New Mormon History:By Study and By Faith”

Douglas D. AlderDixie State College President, 1986-93

St. George, UT

SPECIAL FILM PREVIEW AND DISCUSSION

Friday, May 27, 20115:15 -6:30 p.m.

Juanita Brooks, Quicksand and Cactus:A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier

Juanita Brooks

Phil TuckettAssistant Professor of Film

Dixie State College

Juanita Brooks was a writer, historian, wife, mother, and MHA member who au-thored the first balanced book on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. She was born and raised in Bunkerville, Nevada, and lived most of her life in St. George. She is the subject of filmmaker Phil Tuckett’s current project. This preview presentation will screen com-pleted film segments, update and discuss the project, and anwer questions. Tuckett has been at Dixie State College, his alma mater, since 2007 and is the director of Dixie’s Digi-tal Film Product Track. He had previously been with NFL Films, first as a producer and director (1969-86) and finally as vice president of special projects (1986-2007). Brooks was a luncheon speaker at the 1976 MHA conference in St. George.

DEVOTIONALSunday, May 29, 2011

8:30-9:30 a.m.

St. George Tabernacle 18 South Main Street

St. George, UT

“By Study and by Faith: Southern Utah, Higher Education, and Mormon History”

Opened in 1875, the historic St. George Tabernacle has hosted thousands of religious services and public events. On Sunday, it is the site of the closing devotional. Speakers will address the importance of faith and education in the founding, growth, and development of southern Utah. Music will be provided by organist Geoffrey Myers.

Michael T. BensonDouglas D. Alder

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Conference ToursPre-Conference Tours

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Three pre-conference tours are planned for Thursday. Free downtown public parking is available for those driving to the Pioneer Center for the Arts and to the St. George Tabernacle. Shuttles will be available for those needing transportation.

Tour 1 - “Las Vegas and the Mormon Corridor”8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

This is a full-day bus tour of Mormon settlements, historic trails, and sites in southern Nevada led by Michael N. Landon, an archivist at the LDS Church History Library. This tour highlights significant locations along the Spanish Trail, the Warm Springs campsite of the 1849 Mormon gold missionaries, and the Mormon communities along the “Mormon Corridor.” In Las Vegas, attendees will visit the Old Mormon Fort, now a Nevada State Park, as well as the Clark County Heritage Museum in Henderson. Tour registration includes bus transportation, a box lunch, all entrance fees, and gratuities. Since weather can be warm in southern Nevada in May, attendees are encouraged to bring a hat and sunglasses. Tour is limited to one bus.Tour departs from the Dixie Center.

Tour 2-“Historic St. George LIVE”1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (repeated)

This two-hour bus tour begins at the Pioneer Center for the Arts. Through the skill of reenactors, Jacob Hamblin will welcome visitors at the original adobe house in the courtyard. Entering the Pioneer Opera House, visitors will meet Orson Pratt who has the odometer he designed on the 1847 trek to the Salt Lake Valley and is eager to describe his role in founding St. George. A bus will take the group to the St. George Tabernacle to join Erastus Snow, then to the Old Courthouse, where a trial is in progress with Judge John Menzies Macfarlane presiding. The last stop is Brigham Young’s Home to meet with St. George’s most famous winter resident and tour his home.

Pre-registration is required. Tour costs include bus transportation, guide fees, and gratuities.

Tour 3 -“Tour of Art Galleries” 1:00 - 1:30 p.m.3:00 - 3:30 p.m. (repeated)

This walking tour begins at the St. George Museum of Art at the Pioneer Center for the Arts. Tour participants will have a half-hour guided tour of the Museum and then will stroll down Main Street for two blocks, visiting six art gal-leries in various historic buildings. The tour ends at the St. George Tabernacle and Town Square. Pre-registration is not required. While there is a $3 entrance fee to the Mu-seum, the balance of the tour is free.

The Pioneer Center for the Arts is lo-cated at 200 North Main Street across from the St. George Post Office.

Old Mormon FortCourtesy Old Mormon Fort State Park Brigham Young’s home in St. George, 1950s

Courtesy Arthur K. Haven Collection, Sherratt Library Special Collections,

Southern Utah University

The St. George Museum of Artat the Pioneer Center for the Arts

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Tour 1:

“‘We Call It ‘Canyon Country’:History and Scenery of Southern Utah and

Northern Arizona”

May 29-31, 2011Departs: Sunday, St. George Tabernacle, 10:00 a.m.Returns: Tuesday, 4:30 p.m.

This three-day, two-night bus tour has it all: geology and scenery at the Grand Canyon and Zion national parks, plus three diverse national monuments, a variety of cultural history, and nineteenth- and-twentieth century Mormon history sites. In three days and only 450 miles, attendees will visit Pipe Springs National Monument (with its mixed Paiute and Mormon history), the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, House Rock Valley (that borders the Vermillion Cliffs), Lee’s Ferry, and Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell, Page, AZ, Kanab, UT, Maynard Dixon’s Mt. Carmel home, Zion National Park, and various pioneer communities, each with a unique history. The tour will travel along the Honeymoon Trail, see film locations made famous by movies from the 1920s to the present, and observe the wildlife that has made the Kaibab Forest famous.

The tour will be led by historians Todd Compton, John A. Peterson, and Janet Burton Seegmiller. Tour registration includes bus transportation, all meals, entrance fees, two nights lodging in Kanab, all guide fees, and gratuities. Tour is limited to one bus.

Post-Conference ToursMay 29-31, 2011

Tour 2:

“The Incredible Passage: The Hole-in-the- Rock Expedition and More”

May 29-30, 2011Departs: Sunday, St. George Tabernacle, 10:00 a.m.Returns: Monday, 5:00 p.m.

This two-day, one-night tour will spotlight the remark-able 1879-80 Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition to settle what is now Bluff, Utah. This rugged trek has been called one of the most difficult colonization efforts in the United States. Attendees will visit Parowan’s Rock Church (the mission’s departure point), Panguitch, Bryce Canyon, and Escalante. Hear the tales of those remarkable pio-neers; travel the “All American Highway” (Highway 12) to Boulder (one of the most remote areas in the conti-nental U.S.) and visit the Anasazi State Park, and return through Salina and Richfield with a visit to Cove Fort. While restrictions prevent traversing the trail south of Escalante, attendees will hear the stories from historian Jerry Roundy and see the rugged countryside. Tour guide Karin Barker of the Glen Canyon Natural History Association will share her knowledge of the area’s ar-chaeology, geology, and local history. Tour registration includes bus transportation, all meals, entrance fees, one night’s lodging in Escalante, all guide fees, and gratuities. Tour is limited to one bus.

1963 Reenactment of the Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition.Courtesy Hole -in-the-Rock Foundation

End of Bright Angel Trail at North Rim of the Grand Canyon

Courtesy Utah Parks Company CollectionSherratt Library Special Collections, Southern Utah University

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Aird, Polly 16Alder, Douglas D. 21, 24Alexander, Thomas G. 21Alford, Kenneth L. 16Anderson, Christian K. 16Anderson, Elizabeth O. 17Barlow, Philip L. 22Barrus, Clair 18 Bartholomew, Clinton 18Bashore, Melvin L. 16Bench, Curt 18Bennett, Richard E. 18Bennion, Lowell “Ben” 22Bennion, Michael K. 22Bennion, Shawn E. 23Benson, Michael T. 24Blythe, Christine Elyse 23Blythe, Christopher 24Bowman, Matthew 23Bradford, Janet B. 23Bradley, Don 23Briggs, Robert H. 21Bringhurst, Newell G. 16Brown, Barbara Jones 21Brown, Samuel 23Cannon, Kenneth L., II 21Chapman, Brittany 18Christofferson, Gregory P. 17Clayton, Lisa 17Compton, Todd 16Crandell, Jill N. 23Daynes, Kathryn M. 22dos Reis, Luís Alves 18Driggs, Ken 16Ellis, Catherine H. 22Ellsworth, Brant 18Embry, Jessie L. 17Esplin, Scott C. 21Farnes, Sherilyn 22Fifield, Bryce 23Fleming, Stephen J. 16Foster, Craig L. 16Foster, Lawrence 23Freeman, Erik J. 18Freeman, Robert 16Green, Deidre 23

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CONFERENCE PRESENTERS

Hafen, Bruce C. 17Hafen, Lyman 17Hales, Brian C. 23Hammond, John J 17Harper, Steven 22Hartley, William G. 22Haws, J. B. 23Henson, Kevin R. 22Holbrook, Kate 21Hutchison-Jones, Cristine 23Jensen, Marlin K. 17Jensen, Robin Scott 17Jessop, Joseph Lyman 21Johnson, Janiece 16Johnson, Liane 22King, Brian D. 17King, Farina 17Kuehne, Raymond M. 17Lamb, Connie 21Lambson, Val Eugene 22Landon, Michael N. 18Lindell, Jennifer 22Lyman, Edward Leo 22MacKinnon, William P. 24Mackley, Jennifer Ann 18McLachlan, James M. 22McPherson, Robert 17Metcalf, Brandon J. 18Metcalf, Whitney 22Miles, George A. 22Millet, Sandra 17Mott, Elizabeth J. 17Moyar, Rachel Ann Belk 18Mueller, Max Perry 18Neilson, Reid L. 17Olsen, Steven L. 23Oppedisano, Callie 17Osborne, Rachel M. 22Palmer, Arvin 22Paulos, Michael Harold 21Perego, Ugo Alessandro 21Peterson, John A. 18Phelan, Ben 17Plewe, Brandon S. 23Pollock, Gayle 17Probert, Josh 16

Pulido, Elisa 17Pulsipher, J. David 24Reed, Michael G. 18Reeder, Jennifer 16Reeve, W. Paul 15 Reeves, Brian D. 16Rogers, Eric Paul 21Rolapp, Anna 17Rugh, Susan S. 22Russell, Robin 23Rutherford, Taunalyn 17Schaefer, Mitchell 22Schow, Sarah 21Seegmiller, Janet Burton 17Shamo, Michael Lyle 18Shipps, Jan 22Snow, Diane M. 23Snow, Donald R. 23Söderborg, Joseph 18Stuart, Joseph R. 16Sybrowsky, Paul K. 17Tait, Lisa Olsen 18Taylor, Sheila 23Taysom, Stephen C. 24Thurston, Morris A. 16Tobler, Ryan 16Tomlinson, Terry L. 16 Turley, Richard E., Jr. 17, 21Tuckett, Phil 21Turnbow, Diana 23Turner, D. L. 22Underwood, Grant 16Utt, Emily 18Van Huss, Jami J. 24Ventilla, Andrea 16Waite, Nathan N. 22Watkins, Jordan Tuttle 21Watson, Marianne T. 21Wilson, Lynne Hilton 16Winslow, Brady 22Woodbury, Kim 23Woodger, Mary Jane 18Woods, Fred E. 24Young, Kristi A. 23Young, Margaret Blair 23

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Preliminary Program(Subject to Change)

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Board Meeting 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration Dixie Center - North Foyer

Thursday, May 26, 2011 7:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 1: “Las Vegas and the Mormon Corridor” 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 2: “Historic St. George LIVE” (repeated 3:00- 5:00 p.m.)

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 3: “Tour of Art Galleries” (repeated 3:30 -3:30 p.m.)

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pre- Conference Tour 2: “Historic St. George LIVE”

3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Pre-Conference Tour 3: “Tour of Art Galleries”

3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Research Fair – Washington County Library - Community Room A/B 88 West 100 South St. George, UT

Free public parking is available in downtown St. George. Shuttles from the Dixie Center will be available for those needing downtown transportation starting at 12:30 p.m. Please register to determine the need for transportation. 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Opening Plenary Session – St. George Tabernacle

“Celebrating St. George’s Musical Heritage” 18 South Main Street St. George, UT 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Opening Reception - St. George Town Square (adjacent to Tabernacle) Dessert will be served. Friday, May 27, 2011 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 a.m. Newcomers’ Breakfast 7:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Exhibitor Displays

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Plenary Session

“From Cotton to Cosmopolitan: Local, National, and Global Transformations in Utah’s Dixie” W. Paul Reeve, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Exhibitors will include the following institutions: Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University; LDS Church History Library; Dixie State College; Mountain West Digital Library; Southern Utah University; Utah State University; Utah Valley Uni-versity; Washington County Library; and Weber State University.

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9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Concurrent Session I

1A. The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Public Perceptions of Mormonism “Yearning for Notoriety: Questionable and False Claimants to America’s Worst Emigrant Massacre” Melvin L. Bashore, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT

“What Lurked Behind Polygamy: Popular Constructions of Mormonism and the Mountain Meadows Massacre” Janiece Johnson, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

“John D. Lee’s Execution and the Near Death of Missionary Work” Brian D. Reeves, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT

1B. The FLDS and the Outside World “Media Malfeasance? Misrepresentations of the FLDS” Craig L. Foster, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT

“The April 2008 YFZ Texas Raid: Its Impact on the FLDS Community and Other Fundamentalist Mormons” Newell G. Bringhurst, Visalia, CA

“The 1944 Polygamy Raids and the Supreme Court Decisions That Followed” Ken Driggs, Atlanta, GA

1C. Biographies of Cotton Mission Settlers “Edson Barney: ‘The Oldest Member in the Church’” Morris A. Thurston, Villa Park, CA

“‘Once I Lived in Cottonwood’: George A. Hicks and the Cotton Mission” Polly Aird, Seattle, WA

“The Great Colonizer and the Missionary-Explorer: The Relationship of Brigham Young and Jacob Hamblin” Todd Compton, Cupertino, CA

1D. Early Mormon Theology “Was Joseph Smith’s Pneumatology a Product of His Environment?” Lynne Hilton Wilson, Stanford Institute, Stanford, CA

“Transformations in Mormon Soteriology: A Historical Overview” Grant Underwood, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“‘The Welfare of Our Souls’: The Smiths’ Folk Rites and the False Dichotomy between Religion and Magic” Stephen J. Fleming, University of California, Santa Barbara

1E. Latter-day Saints and the Civil War “Mormons and the American Civil War Press” Kenneth L. Alford, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Civil War Saints: Latter-day Saints Serving in the Civil War” Robert Freeman, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“A Closer Look at the Utah Cavalry in the Civil War” Joseph R. Stuart, Sandy, UT

1F. Living Mormonism: Lived Religion in Latter-day Saint History “The Influence of Elite Design on Temple Worship in the 1890s” Josh Probert, University of Delaware, Newark

“From Nauvoo’s Red Brick Store to the Western Settlements: The Usable Past of Relief Society Halls and Granaries as Material Culture and Memory” Jennifer Reeder, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

“Lived Religion for the Dead: Early Baptism by Proxy and LDS Experience” Ryan Tobler, University of Chicago Divinity School

1G. Latter-day Saints and Higher Education “Laying the Foundation of the Institute of Religion Movement: The Educational Career and Contributions of J. Wyley Sessions, the Director of the First LDS Institute of Religion” Terry L.Tomlinson, University of California, Riverside

“Academic Apostles” Christian K. Anderson, University of South Carolina, Columbia “Micro Levels of LDS Women’s Education, 1875-1896” Andrea Ventilla, University of Pécs, Hungary

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11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Luncheon / Plenary Session “Pools of Living Water: No Longer a Thirsty Land?” Bruce C. Hafen, President of the St. George LDS Temple; General Authority Emeritus, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Session II 2A. Introducing the Church History Department’s Integrated Catalog and Joseph Smith Papers Website Chair: Richard E. Turley Jr. Elder Marlin K. Jensen Elder Paul K. Sybrowsky Reid L. Neilson Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT

2B. From Isolated Outpost to Recreation Destination: The Transformation of Southern Utah’s National Parks and Nearby Communities “The Mormon Story behind Zion National Park” Lyman Hafen, Zion Natural History Association, Springdale, UT

“The Mormon Story behind Bryce Canyon National Park” Gayle Pollock, Bryce Canyon Natural History Association, Bryce, UT “The Utah Parks Company: A Story of National Parks Communities” Janet Burton Seegmiller, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT

2C. American Indians in LDS Homes and at Brigham Young University “Indian Placement Host Families: A Cultural Exchange” Jessie L. Embry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Standing for Monster Slayer, Praying to Jesus: Traditional Navajo Teachings, the LDS Placement Program, and Syncretism” Robert McPherson, College of Eastern Utah, Price

“Miss Indian BYU: American Indian Experiences at Brigham Young University” Farina King, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2D. Performing Utah: Transforming Representations of Contemporary Mormonism “Shakespeare and the Invention of the Mormon” Sandra Millet, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Performing the Archival Landscape: ‘That Which Will Not Go Away’ in Julie Jensen’s ‘Two Headed: A Tale of History’” Callie Oppedisano, Draper, UT

“Choreographies of Communities, Constitutions, and California: Performing the Proposition 8 Protests” Ben Phelan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

2E. Mormons and Politics “President or Politician?: Anthony W. Ivins” Elizabeth Oberdick Anderson, Casper, WY

“Potential Mormon Espionage in East Germany? Henry Burkhardt’s Stasi File” Raymond M. Kuehne, St. George, UT

“From Rural Mormon Town to National Stage: William H. King’s Journey” Brian D. King, Madison, WI

2F. New Perspectives on Early Mormon History “Re-examining the Adams/Quincy May 1844 Visit to Nauvoo” John J Hammond, Kent State University, Kent, OH

“The Psychological Effect of Childhood Medical Trauma on Joseph Smith: Narcissistic Personality Disorder or Post-Traumatic Growth?” Gregory P. Christofferson, Lockhart, TX

“Publishing, Printing, and Preserving: New Insights into the Book of Commandments” Robin Scott Jensen, Joseph Smith Papers, Salt Lake City, UT

2G. Mormon Women Reflect on Their Lives: Voices from the Silent Majority A readers’ theater based on the Claremont Oral History Project Chair: Taunalyn Rutherford, Claremont Graduate University, CA Elizabeth J. Mott Elisa Pulido Lisa Clayton Anna Rolapp

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3:30-5:00 p.m. Concurrent Session III 3A. Wilford Woodruff and the Transformation in Mormon Temple Consciousness “Wilford Woodruff: Pivotal Prophet” Jennifer Ann Mackley, Seattle, WA

“‘Which Is the Wisest Course?’ The Transformation in Mormon Temple Consciousness, 1877-1893” Richard E. Bennett, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

3B. The Story behind the Stone: Historic Buildings in Southern Utah “A City, with Spires, Towers, and Steeples” Michael Lyle Shamo, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

“‘A Shrine to the Whole Church’: The Story of the St. George Tabernacle” Michael N. Landon, LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, UT

“Using Architecture as a Research Source: The Jacob Hamblin Home, Brigham Young Winter Home, and Southern Utah Religious Spaces” Emily Utt, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT

3C. Writing and Reading Southern Utah History James G. Bleak and the Annals of the Southern Mission” Brandon J. Metcalf, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT

“Reading and Collecting Juanita Brooks” Curt Bench, Salt Lake City, UT

3D. Mormon Esoterica “Cipher in the Kirtland Snow: The Royal Arch Cipher and Joseph Smith’s Conception of Ancient Languages” Clinton Bartholomew, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“The Mormon Endowment and the ‘Christianization of Freemasonry’” Michael G. Reed, Sacramento, CA

“Oliver Cowdery’s Rod of Nature” Clair Barrus, Draper, UY

3E. Transitions and Transformations: Leaders and Publications of the Young Women’s Program “Susa Young Gates, Ellen Jakeman, and Abraham Cannon: The Young Woman’s Journal between Two Economies” Lisa Olsen Tait, American Fork, UT

“‘The Most Forbidding Journey a Merry Picnic’: Ruth May Fox and the Travels of Young Women Officers, 1898-1937” Brittany Chapman, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT

“‘What Were Wine and Cigars to a Girl like This’: Women’s Moral Authority in the Young Woman’s Journal” Rachel Ann Belk Moyar, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “The Innovations, Inspirations, and Implementations of Ardeth Greene Kapp on the Young Women’s Organization” Mary Jane Woodger, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

3F. International Mormon History “Zion in Afrika: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Mission to South Africa in the Early 1970s” Max Perry Mueller, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

“From Évora to Sintra: The LDS Church in Portugal” Luís Alves dos Reis, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal)

“The Evacuation Crisis of 1914: LDS Missionaries in Europe on the Eve of War” Joseph Söderborg, Salt Lake City, UT

3G. Mormons and the U.S. Military in the Nineteenth Century “Saints and Soldiers: Mormon Soldier Motivation for Enlisting in the Civil War” Brant Ellsworth, Penn State University, University Park

“A Mormon Revolution: Mission President Louis Bertrand’s Predictions of America’s Downfall” Erik J. Freeman, Utah Valley University, Orem

“The Last Bastion: Pipe Springs and Its Place in Brigham Young’s ‘Great Game’” John A. Peterson, Kaysville, UT

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May 26 – 29, 2011Thursday-Sunday

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5:15-6:30 p.m. Plenary Session - Film Preview and Discussion Juanita Brooks, Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier Phil Tuckett, Assistant Professor of Film, Dixie State College, St. George, UT 7:15-9:00 p.m. Awards Banquet

9:15-10:00 p.m. Student Reception

Saturday, May 28, 2011 6:30 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. Mormon Women’s History Initiative Breakfast 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Registration 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Exhibitor Displays

8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Concurrent Session IV 4A. Aftermath of Mountain Meadows: Transformations in Landscape, Presence, and Interpretation “‘Poisoned Springs’? Scientific Testing of the More Recent Anthrax Theory” Ugo Alessandro Perego, Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT

“Mountain Meadows Monuments and the ‘Marvelous Flood’ of 1862” Barbara Jones Brown, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

“From Isolation to National Spotlight: The Powell Survey in Southern Utah and Northern Arizona” Richard E. Turley Jr., LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT

4B. The History of Higher Education in Southern Utah “A Century of Dixie State College of Utah” Douglas D. Alder, Dixie State College, St. George, UT

“Selling a Soul to Save a School: The 1933 Transfer of Dixie College as Indicator of Social Transformation” Scott C. Esplin, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Edward Hunter Snow and the Founding of Southern Utah University (1897) and the Founding and Operation of Dixie College (1907-1932)” Thomas G. Alexander, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

4C. Allred/Jensen Group Fundamentalism “Prelude to Polygamy: The Early Life of Rulon C. Allred” Eric Paul Rogers, Hamilton, MT

“Beyond Stereotypes: Understanding Diversity within the Allred/Jensen Fundamentalist Group” Joseph Lyman Jessop, St. Anthony, ID

“Descendants of Early Mormon Polygamists among Contemporary Fundamentalists” Marianne T. Watson, Lehi, UT

4D. Cartoonists and Muckrakers: Selected Media Images of Mormonism at the Turn of the Century “The Making of an Anti-Mormon: J. H. Beadle in Utah Territory” Robert H. Briggs, Fullerton, CA

“‘Horrib[le] Caricature[s]’ and ‘Hideous . . . Cartoons’: Political Cartooning and the Reed Smoot Hearings” Michael Harold Paulos, San Antonio, TX “The ‘Magazine Crusade’ against the Mormon Church, 1910-11” Kenneth L. Cannon II, Salt Lake City, UT

4E. Symbols and Signs in Mormon Women’s History “Table Tableaux: A Look at Mormon Meals” Kate Holbrook, Boston University

“Symbols of the LDS Relief Society” Connie Lamb, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Raising the Bar…Or the Hemline: Student Activism, Feminism, and the Dress Code at BYU in the 1970s” Sarah Schow, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

4F. Mormons and Non-Mormons in the West “Mormons and the West in the American Mind” Jordan Tuttle Watkins, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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“Miners and Mormons: Cooperation and Conflict in Utah Mining Towns, 1880-1900” Rachel M. Osborne, University of Utah, Salt Lake City “‘Surely This Is God’s First Temple’: Aesthetics and Land Use in Nineteenth-Century Zion Canyon” Nathan N. Waite, LDS Church History Library, Salt Lake City, UT 4G. Native Americans and Latter-day Saints in the Nineteenth Century “Successful Sentinels: Southern Paiutes and Jacob Hamblin Oppose Navajo Raiders, 1866-70” Edward Leo Lyman, Leeds, UT

“‘Only One Man Would I Marry’: Native American Agency in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Families” Michael K. Bennion, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

“Lamanites or Savages? Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century Mormon Press” Jennifer Lindell, San Diego State University, CA

10:00-11:30 a.m. Tanner Lecture (Plenary Session) “Mormon History and the History of Mormonism: One and the Same? A Librarian’s Perspective” George A. Miles, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT 12:00-1:30 p.m. Membership Luncheon “From Peculiar People to Big Love: Mormonism and the Making of Utah as a Tourist Mecca” Susan S. Rugh, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

2:00-3:30 p.m. Concurrent Session V 5A. New Perspectives on Early Mormon History from the Edward Partridge Papers Chair: Steven Harper, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT Brady Winslow Whitney Metcalf Sherilyn Farnes Mitchell Schaefer

5B. St. George: Starting Point for Settlement in Arizona “Rediscovering and Refining an Understanding of Regional Arizona History: A Focus on Taylor, Arizona, and Other Communities in Northeastern Arizona” Arvin Palmer, Taylor, AZ

“Utah’s Diaspora as Recorded by Roberta Flake Clayton” Catherine H. Ellis, Oracle, AZ

“‘I Never Met a Man I Couldn’t Take’: Criminal Justice, Progressive Reform, and the Expansion of LDS Influence in Arizona as Experienced by Lorenzo Wright” D. L. Turner, Mesa, AZ

5C. Possible Explanations for St. George’s High Proportion of Polygamous Families, 1861-80 “The Demographic Limits of Polygyny” Val Eugene Lambson, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“Mapping and Interpreting St. George’s Prevalence of Polygamy” Lowell “Ben” Bennion, Salt Lake City, UT

“Problem of Prevalence: A Portrait of St. George Plural Wives” Kathryn M. Daynes, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

5D. Transformations in the Twentieth-Century LDS Intellectual Community “William H. Chamberlin’s Personalism and the 1911 Modernism Controversy at BYU” James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University, Collowhee, NC

“More Important than Evolution: W. H. Chamberlin, BYU, and the Nature of Scripture” Philip L. Barlow, Utah State University, Logan

“The Creation of a Mormon Intellectual Community after World War II” Jan Shipps, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis and Liane Johnson, Bloomington, IN

5E. Pioneer Trails “Trails in the Sand, Trails on the Screen: Using Google Earth to Trace a Restoration Migration” Kevin R. Henson, Midland, MI

“‘A Road of Great Value to Our Country’: The Mormon Battalion, Wagons, and Cooke’s Wagon Road” William G. Hartley, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

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“Arise and Let Us Go Up to Zion: The Untold Story of Disabled Mormon Pioneers and the Trek West” Bryce Fifield and Christine Elyse Blythe, Utah State University, Logan

5F. Mormons in Popular Media “Saving the Mormons: Victims and Villains in Popular American Westerns, 1890-1920” Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Boston University

“Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns: Photographing Stability and Change in the Post-War American West” Diana Turnbow, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“From The Godmakers to The Myth Maker: Simultaneous—and Lasting—Challenges to Mormonism’s Reputation in the 1980s” J. B. Haws, Hooper, UT

5G. New Perspectives on Mormon History “The Mormon Philosophy of History: Toward a Greater Critical Self-Consciousness” Steven L. Olsen, LDS Church History Department, Salt Lake City, UT

“Ethnicity and the Mormon Cultural Renaissance” Shawn E. Bennion, Claremont Graduate University, CA

“Re-Discovering the Geography of Mormon History: The New Atlas of LDS History” Brandon S. Plewe, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

4:00-5:30 p.m. Concurrent Session VI 6A. I Am Jane An abbreviated performance of the award-winning play about Jane Manning James Margaret Blair Young, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

6B. Early Mormon Polygamy “‘Angel with a Drawn Sword’: Kirtland Roots of Nauvoo Polygamy” Don Bradley, Utah State University, Logan

“Two Mormon Enigmas: Emma Hale Smith and Polygamy, An Update” Brian C. Hales, Layton, UT

“The Albatross: The Complex and Changing Challenges that Polygamy Posed to Mormon Institutional Development during the Nineteenth Century” Lawrence Foster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta

6C. Views of Southern Utah: Latter-day Saint Music, Folklore, and Identity “Music Beginnings in the St. George Area: Modeling for Cultural Development in Other Early Mormon Settlements?” Janet B. Bradford, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

“William A. Wilson, Mormons, and the West: A Look at Folklore in Southern Utah” Kristi A. Young, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

6D. Women and Families in Southern Utah “‘Determined to Make a Success of It’: Ann Cannon Woodbury and Dixie’s Silkworm Industry” Kim Woodbury, Bountiful, UT

“‘It Was Awful in Its Majesty’: Mary Ann Freeze’s 1892 Mission to the San Juan Stake” Robin Russell, Salt Lake City, UT

“Erastus Snow’s Life and Families from Their Personal Letters” Donald R. Snow and Diane M. Snow, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

6E. Who Do They Say that He Is? Mormon Theologies of Christ, the Trinity, and the Lord’s Supper “Christ’s Incarnation in Mormonism: A Theological and Contextual Treatment” Sheila Taylor, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

“‘To The Souls of All Those Who Partake’: A Communal Interpretation of the Mormon Lord’s Supper, 1830-2000” Matthew Bowman, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

“The Early Mormon Imitation of Christ” Samuel Brown, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City

“Doing the Works of Sarah: Erastus Snow on Women” Deidre Green, Claremont Graduate University, CA

6F. Immigration and Assimilation “Garden Grove, Iowa: The Economics of a Mormon Way Station, 1846-52” Jill N. Crandell, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

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“Gathering and Scattering: A Look at the Assimilation of LDS Converts Arriving at Salt Lake City in the Nineteenth Century” Fred E. Woods, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT “The Trajectories of Conversion: Documenting the Vernacular Architecture of Mormon Converts” Jami J. Van Huss, Wellsville, UT

6G. Transformations in Mormon Narrative and Ritual “Rites of Affliction in Mormon History: The Case of Mormon Exorcisms” Stephen C. Taysom, Cleveland State University, OH

“Ambivalent Admiration: The People of Ammon in Latter-day Saint Curriculum” J. David Pulsipher, Brigham Young University–Idaho, Rexburg

“Satan’s Stronghold in Preston, England: A Case Study in Early Mormon Narratives of Diabolism” Christopher J. Blythe, Florida State University, Tallahassee

5:15-6:30 p.m. Book Exhibitors and Book Signings

7:00-9:00 p.m. Presidential Banquet Presidential Address: “‘Not as a Stranger’: A Presbyterian Afoot in the Mormon Past” William P. MacKinnon, 2010-11 MHA President Sunday, May 29, 2011

8:30-9:30 a.m. Devotional at the St. George Tabernacle

“Small-Town Mormon Settlers with Big-Time Educational Aspirations: A Legacy of Sacrifice Still Impacting Us Today” Michael T. Benson, President, Southern Utah University, Cedar City

“The New Mormon History: By Study and by Faith” Douglas D. Alder, Dixie State College President, 1986-93

10:00 a.m. Post Conference Tours Depart from the Tabernacle

Tour 1: “‘We Call It ‘Canyon Country’: History and Scenery of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona”

Tour 2: “The Incredible Passage: The Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition and More”

Monday, May 30, 2011

5:00 p.m. Tour 2 – Returns to St. George

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

4:30 p.m. Tour 1 – Returns to St. George