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Latter Day Saints

Here are entered works on adherents of denominations or faith traditions that stem from the church founded in western New York in 1830 by Joseph Smith originally called The Church of Christ, and after 1838 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or persons who associate themselves culturally with those traditions.

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• Latter Day Saints -- Utah
• Latter Day Saints -- West (U.S.)
• Latter Day Saint converts
• Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974
• Clark, Ezra Thompson, 1823-1901
• Gardiner, Frederick
• Hale, Jonathan H. (Jonathan Harriman), 1800-1846
• Lee, John D. (John Doyle), 1812-1877
• Pratt, Louisa Barnes, 1802-1880
• Smart, William H. (William Henry), 1862-1937
• Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
• Tanner, Annie Clark, 1864-1941
• Tanner, Mary J.
• Taylor, John, 1808-1887
• Watt, G. D. (George Darling), 1812-1881
• Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

• Brighamite Mormons
• Church of Christ (Temple Lot) members
• Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) members
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members
• Hedrikites
• Josephite Mormons
• Mormons
• RLDS Mormons
• Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members
• Reorganized Mormons
• Strangite Mormons
• Temple Lot Mormons
• Utah Mormons

• Mormonism: Its Leaders and Designs, by John Hyde
  • page images at MOA
  • HTML at thedigitalvoice.com
• The Story of "Mormonism" and the Philosophy of "Mormonism", by James E. Talmage (Gutenberg text)
• An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, by Howard Stansbury (page images at MOA)
• The Husband in Utah: or, Sights and Scenes Among the Mormons, by Austin N. Ward (page images at MOA)
• New Light on Mormonism (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1885), by Ellen E. Dickinson (HTML at solomonspalding.com)
• Under Our Flag: A Study of National Conditions From the Standpoint of Woman's Home Missionary Work (6th edition; New York et al.: Fleming Revell Co., c1903), by Alice M. Guernsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Life of John Taylor, Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, by B. H. Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Mormon Prophet and His Harem: or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children (fifth edition; Chicago: J. S. Goodman and Co.; Cincinnati: C..F. Vent and Co., 1867), by C. V. Waite (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Bishop Jonathan H. Hale of Nauvoo: His Life and Ministry; Including Brief Biographies of Aroet L. Hale, Alma H. Hale, Rachel Hale Hoagland, Solomon H. Hale (1938), by Heber Q. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mormon Menace: Being the Confession of John Doyle Lee, Danite, An Official Assassin of the Mormon Church Under the Late Brigham Young (New York: Home Protection Pub. Co., c1905), by John D. Lee, contrib. by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text and PDF)

• The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)

• The General Epistle of the Latter Day Saints: Dated, Winter Quarters, Nebraska, December 23, 1847, and Constituting the Earliest Known Example of Printing in the Present State of Nebraska (Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935), by Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), ed. by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Brigham Young (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Angel of the Prairies: A Dream of the Future (Salt Lake City: A. Pratt, 1880), by Parley P. Pratt
  • illustrated HTML at sidneyrigdon.com
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
• Apples of Sodom: A Story of Mormon Life (Cleveland: W. W. Williams, 1883), by Rosetta Luce Gilchrist (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Toils: or, Martyrs of the Latter Days (Chicago: Dixon and Shepard, 1879), by Cornelia Paddock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Queen: A Romance of the Great Salt Lake (New York: G. W. Carleton; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1878), by Marie A. Walsh (HTML at Emory)
• Nadine: A Romance of Two Lives (Nashville: Gospel Advocate Pub. Co., 1897), by Nina E. Ellison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salt Lake: A Novel (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Pierre Benoît, trans. by Florence Llona and Victor Llona
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mormon Prophet (Toronto: W. Gage, 1899), by L. Dougall (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mr. Scraggs (New York: Grafton Press, 1906), by Henry Wallace Phillips, illust. by Martin Justice and N. C. Wyeth
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without illustrations: Gutenberg text

• The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by William A. Wilson, ed. by Jill Terry Rudy and Diane Call (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Story of the Mormons, From the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901, by William Alexander Linn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at thedigitalvoice.com
• The Coming of the Mormons (c1953), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• A Child of the Sea and Life Among the Mormons, by Elizabeth Whitney Williams (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• BYU Studies Quarterly (full serial archives)
• Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (full serial archives)
• Brigham Young University Studies (monograph series, 1925-1937) (full serial archives)
• The Evening and the Morning Star (full serial archives)
• Times and Seasons (partial serial archives)

• Beneath These Red Cliffs: An Ethnohistory of the Utah Paiutes (updated edition; Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Ronald L. Holt (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Variations in Value Orientations (Evanston, IL and Elmsford, NY: Row, Peterson and Co., 1961), by Florence Rockwood Kluckhohn and Fred L. Strodtbeck (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences of Early Utah (c1914), by R. N. Baskin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life in Utah (1870), by J. H. Beadle (page images at MOA)
• Twelve Mormon homes Visited in Succession on a Journey Through Utah to Arizona, by Elizabeth Wood Kane, ed. by Everett L. Cooley (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)
• Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft (Boston: The C. M. Clark publishing Co., 1911), by Frank J. Cannon and Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Under the Prophet in Utah: The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft, by Frank J. Cannon and Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins (Gutenberg text)

• Out of the Black Patch: The Autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, Folk Musician, Artist, and Writer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1999), by Effie Marquess Carmack, ed. by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• A Biography of Ezra Thompson Clark, by Annie Clark Tanner, contrib. by Obert C. Tanner (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• A Mormon Rebel: The Life and Travels of Frederick Gardiner, by Frederick Gardiner, ed. by Hugh Garner (frame-dependent HTML and page images at Utah)

• Bishop Jonathan H. Hale of Nauvoo: His Life and Ministry; Including Brief Biographies of Aroet L. Hale, Alma H. Hale, Rachel Hale Hoagland, Solomon H. Hale (1938), by Heber Q. Hale (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mormon Menace: Being the Confession of John Doyle Lee, Danite, An Official Assassin of the Mormon Church Under the Late Brigham Young (New York: Home Protection Pub. Co., c1905), by John D. Lee, contrib. by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text and PDF)

• The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1998), by Louisa Barnes Pratt, ed. by S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Mormonism's Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by William B. Smart (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Robert Sigfrid Wicks and Fred R. Foister
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, c2001), by Lucy Smith, ed. by Lavina Fielding Anderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Martyrs: A Sketch of the Lives and a Full Account of the Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1882), by Lyman Omer Littlefield (text at archive.org)
• The Founder of Mormonism: A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr. (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1902), by Woodbridge Riley, contrib. by George Trumbull Ladd
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• From Plowboy to Prophet: Being a Short History of Joseph Smith, for Children (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Book Store, 1918), by William A. Morton, illust. by L. A. Ramsey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joseph Smith, the Prophet-Teacher, by B. H. Roberts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mormonism Exposed, Internally and Externally (with selected other anti-Mormon pamphlets and articles from the 1830s and 1840s; this book published 1838), by Origen Bacheler (HTML with commentary at solomonspalding.com)
• No, Ma'am, That's Not History: A Brief Review of Mrs. Brodie's Reluctant Vindication of a Prophet She Seeks to Expose, by Hugh Nibley (HTML at BYU)
• Forty Years in the Mormon Church: Why I Left It!, by R. C. Evans (HTML at solomonspalding.com)

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