Mormon Historical Studies Spring 2005 $15.00

Mormon Historical Studies
Volume 6, Number 1
Spring 2005

This issue of Mormon Historical Studies contains an article about the passage of LDS immigrants through Philadelphia, records of the early history of the Philadelphia branch, and an interview with historian Milton V. Backman, Jr.

Also included in this issue are accounts of the Icelandic Memorial Dedication in Spanish Fork Utah, the Las Vegas Mormon Fort sesquicentennial celebration, the Junius F. Wells Award presentation to President Gordon B. Hinckley, and and a review of The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures by J. Spencer Fluhman.

• Introduction & Contents
• Editor's Letter
• “Pronounced Clean, Comfortable, and Good Looking:” The Passage of Mormon Immigrants through the Port of Philadelphia
• Walking-on-Water Stories and Other Susquehanna River Folk Tales about Joseph Smith
• The Philadelphia Pennsylvania Branch: Its Early History and Records
• Philadelphia Pennsylvania Branch Membership: 1840–1854
• History Is People, Places, Sources, and Stories: An Interview with Milton V. Backman Jr.
• The Short-Lived Mormon Encounter of Pennsylvania State University’s First President: Six Letters from the Family of Evan Pugh
• The First Annual Junius F. Wells Award Presented to President Gordon B. Hinckley
• Icelandic Memorial Dedication
• The Las Vegas Mormon Fort Sesquicentennial Commemoration
• Book Review
• Name Index