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.

Articles:

"Pronounced Clean, Comfortable, and Good Looking:" The Passage of Mormon Immigration through the Port of Philadelphia by Fred E. Woods

Walking-on-Water Stories and Other Susquehanna River Folk Tales about Joseph Smith by J. Taylor Hollist

Historic Research Index:

The Philadelphia Pennsylvania Branch: Its Early History and Records by David J. Whitaker

Philadelphia Pennsylvania Branch Membership: 1840-1854 by Maurine Carr Ward

Interviews:

History Is People, Places, Sources, and Stories: An Interview with Milton V. Backman Jr. by Steven C. Harper

Documents:

The Short-Lived Mormon Encounter of Pennsylvania State University’s First President: Six Letters from the Family of Evan Pugh by Stephen J. Fleming

The Impact of Edward Hunter’s Conversion to Mormonism in Chester County, Pennsylvania: Henry M. Vallette’s 1869 Letter by Stephen J. Fleming and David W. Grua

Awards:

The First Annual Junius F. Wells Award Presented to President Gordon B. Hinckley by Derek J. Tangren

Historic Sites:

Icelandic Memorial Dedication by David A. Ashby

The Las Vegas Mormon Fort Sesquicentennial Commemoration by Jonathan W. Bullen

Book Reviews:

The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures reviewed by Spencer J. Fluhman