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THURSDAY
May 22, 1997
7:30-9:30
p.m.
Session 1
Opening Plenary Session
7:30
Welcome and Introductions
8:00 Plenary Panel:
Celebrating History: Capitalizing on Its Day in the Sesquicentennial Suns
9:30-10:30
p.m.
Reception
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FRIDAY
May 23,
1997
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Session
2
Constructing Joseph Smith
Chair:
Paper:
Lucy Smith's and Oliver Cowdery's Prophet: Two
Constructions of Joseph Smith
Richard Lyman Bushman
Paper:
Was Joseph Smith a True Believer?
The Functionalist Argument Reconsidered
Ian Melland
Comment:
Session 3
Reposing in and Lieing in Northern Missouri
Chair:
Paper:
That They
Might Rest Where the Ashes of the Latter-day Saints are Reposed:Unearthing
the History
of the Far West, Missouri, Cemetery
Leslie A. Brooks
Paper:
Guymon's Horse Mill in Caldwell County,
Missouri and the Notorious Case ofAaron Lyon
Michael S. Riggs
Comment:
Session 4
Women Crusaders to Deconvert Saints in Utah
Chair:
Paper:
A Battle to Be Won with the
Bible and the School Book: Presbyterian WomenMissionary Teachers in Utah,
1870-
1890.
Jean K. Riess
Paper:
The
Anti-Polygamy Crusaders: Sarah A. Cooke, Jennie A. Frosieth, and
CorneliaPaddock
(role of 3 women in the Ladies Anti-Polygamy Society crusadeand their
contributions to
history)
Patricia Lyn Scott
Session 5
Kanesville and the LDS Iowa Settlements
Chair:
Paper:
Why It's Time to Quit Ignoring Kanesville
Myrtle Hyde
Paper:
Mormon Pioneer History of Harris Grove,
Iowa
Ruth Monahan Daugherty
Comment:
Session 6
LDS Emigrants and Indian
Encounters in the 1850s
Chair:
Paper:
Indian Encounters by the Mormon Emigration in
1856
Don H. Smith
Paper:
Indians along the Mormon Trail: The Tragedy of the 1854 Gattan
Massacre
Curt E. Conklin
Comment:
Session 7
Panel:
MHA in Washington D.C. in 1998: Exploring the Washington D.C.
Connectionswith Mormonism.
Led by 1998 Program Chair Greg
Prince
10:15-11:45 a.m.
Session 8
History and How It's Written
Chair:
Paper:
Triumph of
Professionalism: The Writing of Mormon History Since 1950
Ronald Walker
Paper:
New Sources of an Old Friend: The
Thomas L. Kane Collection at BYU
David J. Whittaker
Comment:
Session 9
Early Mormonism
Chair:
Paper:
The Story of a Testimony: The Missionary Career of
Apostle John Boynton
David Sean Mutillo
Paper:
The Purifying Touch: Joseph Smith's New
Translation and the 1835 Doctrine andCovenants
Susan Staker
Comment:
Session 10
Protestant Responses to Mormonism, 1850- 1910
Chair:
Paper:
From Competitors to Destroying
Angels: The Path of Protestant Reaction toMormonism
Jan Shipps
Paper:
Manning the Barricades: Prominent Protestant Churchmen
Oppose the Latter-day Saints
Martha Taysom
Comment:
Session 11
Mormon Cluster Settlements Around Kanesville
Chair:
Paper:
Macedonia Transplanted -- A History of the Latter-day Saints in
Macedonia,Iowa
John Nealon
Paper:
Cutler's
Camp at the Big Grove on Silver Creek (Iowa), 1847-1853: A Case Studyof Mormon
Along The Missouri
Danny Jorgensen
Comment:
Session 12
Trail Environment: Natural, and
Natural Man
Chair:
Paper:
'We Were Amidst Savages & Wild Beasts for 3 Long, Weary Months':
AnEnvironmental History of the Mormon Trail
M. Guy Bishop
Paper:
Crime and Punishment on the Mormon Trail
Kenneth
W. Godfrey
Comment:
Session
13
A Two-Way Trail
Chair:
Paper:
The Trail Ran East from
Council Bluffs: Mormons Who Gave Up on Brigham
John Hajicek
Paper:
Separate Trails
Lewis M. Weigand
Comment:
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11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Luncheon and Special
Program Honoring Leonard J. Arrington
and His Eightieth
Birthday
1:30-3:00 p.m.
Session 14
Panel:
The
Impact of the Ordination of Women on the RLDS Church and Identity
Moderated
by Lyman Edwards
Session 15
The Roads West
Chair:
Paper:
Roads Less Traveled: Fifteen Other Nebraska Trails and
Varients Used byMormons, 1846-1868
Stanley B. Kimball
Paper:
The Mystery of Mitchell's Annotated 1846 Map: The Mormon
Exodus, TheMexican War, and the Gold Rush
Max Woodward Jamison
Comment:
Session 16
Aspects of Life Among Practicing Mormons in Early Utah
Chair:
Paper:
The Commoner's 'Cup of Tea':
Mormon Pioneers' Responses to the Word ofWisdom, 1847-1877
James Delos
Gardner
Paper:
Family Dynamics and Marriage Patterns
Among Salt Lake City's Second-Echelon Elite
Craig L. Foster
Comment:
Session 17
The LDS Church and Recent International Developments
Chair:
Paper:
Gathering Places: The
Organization of Trans-national Temple Excursions
John C. Thomas
Paper:
Examplary Lives: Armenians and Mormons, 1988-
1996
Kahlile Mehr
Comment:
Session 18
The LDS Perpetual
Emigrating Fund
Chair:
Paper:
Zion's Funnel: The Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company and
MormonMobilization of Resources for the Gathering
Richard L. Jensen
Paper:
The Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company: Economic
Objectives and Outcomes
Alan Scott Carson
Comment:
Session 19
Alternatives to Going West
Chair:
Paper:
The Forgotten Saints: Those Who Remained and Those Who
Returned
Maurine Carr Ward
Paper:
Why
Didn't You Go West, John Smith?
Gregory Smith
Comment
3:15-4:45 p.m.
Session 20
The Mormon Migration in Image
and Art
Chair:
Paper:
Points of Views: Visual Images of the Mormon Gathering
Richard
Neitzel Holapfel
Paper:
Portraits of Early Kanesville and
Council Bluffs: Artist George Simons and HisDrawings
Doris Wanik and Katie
Gregory
Comment:
Session 21
To Stay or To Gather? The
Gathering's Effect on the Southern States Mission
Chair:
Paper:
A Tale of Two Branches:
The Birth, Development, Growth, and Eventual Declineof Two of the Oldest
Mormon
Communities in the South, Kelsey/Enoch,Texas and Darburn/Magee's Creek,
Mississippi
Douglas W. Cahoon
Paper:
Gathering
of Zion in San Luis Valley, Colorado: The Unsung Tale of
MissionaryJames Thompson Lisonbee's Missionary Labors in Northwest Alabamaand
Northeast Georgia, 1876-1877
Garth N. Jones
Comment:
Session 22
Transportation to Zion
Chair:
Paper:
No Small Miracle: The Movement of Domestic Animals
Across the Plains
Audrey M. Godfrey
Paper:
LDS Use of Riverboats for Nauvoo and Upper Missouri River
Destinations
Carl Hugh Jones
Comment:
Session 23
The Mormon Battalion and Mexican
Territory
Chair:
Paper:
The
Mormon Battalion and the Gadsen Purchase
Richard O. Cowan
Paper:
The Mexican Garrison at Tucson, and the Mormon Battalion's
Passage There
Clark Johnson
Comment:
Session 24
Sickness and Medicine on the
Mormon Trail
Chair:
Paper:
Mountain Fever in the 1847 Mormon Pioneer Companies
Jay A.
Aldous
Paper:
Medical Aspects of Western Migration:
With Emphasis on 1847, and a MedicalCritique of Mountain Fever
Dr. John M.
Kissane
Comment:
Session
25
Youth on the Trail
Chair:
Paper:
Did the Youth of Zion Falter?:
Young Mormons, 1845-1850
Violet T. Kimball
Paper:
Pioneer Children on the Mormon Trail
Susan Easton Black
Comment:
5:00-5:45 p.m.
Workshop 1
LDS History and the Internet
Workshop 2
Writing LDS Family
Biography
6:30-8:00 p.m.
Awards
Banquet
8:00-9:00 p.m.
Plenary Session - Speaker to be
Announced
9:15-11:00 p.m.
Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of
Church History
25th Anniversary Open House
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May 24, 1997
8:30-10:40
a.m.
Themed Sessions
Six concurrent sessions or
themed tracks offering three forty-minute paper sessions within each track.
There will
be five-minute break between each session so that people may move from one
track to
another.
Track 1: Theology, Science,
Folklore
Chair:
8:30-9:10
The Environmental Theology of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young:
ThePostmillennial Dimension
Thomas G. Alexander
9:15-
9:55
Orson Pratt: Pioneer Scientist
Donald Q. Cannon
10:00-10:40
Settlement Folk Ideas: Common Views of Nauvoo, Crossing
the Plains, and Utah
Jessie L. Embry and William A. "Bert" Wilson
Comment:
Track 2: The Fall of Nauvoo
Chair:
8:30-9:10
John Cook
Bennett: A Reassessment of His Mormon Involvment
Andrew F. Smith
9:15-9:55
The Murder of Edmund Durfee at Morley's
Settlement
William G. Hartley
10:00-10:40
Pennies on
the Dollar: The Final Disposition of Properties Owned by the SaintsWho
Departed from
Nauvoo
Bob Freeman
Comment:
Track 3: The RLDS Church and Its History
Chair:
8:30-9:10
Zenos Gurley,
Sr.
Clare Vlahos
9:15-9:55
RLDS Beginnings
in Southwestern Iowa
Barbara J. Bernauer
10:00-10:40
The RLDS Omaha Indian Mission and Its Post-World War II
Activity
Lee Pement
Comment:
Track 4: Means of LDS Migration
Chair:
8:30-9:10
The Pull of the Gathering,
the Push of Social Conditions: Religion andEconomics Entwined in
Mid-Nineteenth
Century Scotland
Polly Aird
9:15-9:55
Some Must Push and Some Must Pull: The Story of the Ninth Handcart
Company
Lynda Margaret Durfee
10:00-10:40
The
1868 Mormon Emigration: An End of an Era
Craig S. Smith
Comment:
Track 5: Creating Community Thru
Celebration and Recreation
Chair:
8:30-9:10
Make the Most of Leisure: Mormon Recreation in the
1930s
Richard Ian Kimball
9:15-9:55
The
Cultural Geography of Pioneer Day
Eric Alden Eliason
10:00-
10:40
A Journalist's Personal Reflections Walking in Ancestors'
Footsteps
Ellen Fagg
Comment:
Track 6: Two 1-hour panels
8:30-9:30
Mormon Historiography: A Current Analysis
9:40-10:40
Non-Caucasion LDS Pioneers in the
Pacific
Lance Chase -
Hawaii
Inoke Funaki -
Tonga
Grant Underwood -
New Zealand
11:00 a.m.-
12:00 p.m.
Tanner Lecture -
Dr. Glenda
Riley
12:30-5:30 p.m.
Bus Tour of LDS Historic Sites in Council
Bluffs/Omaha Area
(Box Lunch Provided)
6:00-7:30
p.m.
Presidential Banquet
7:30-8:00 pm
Pitt's Nauvoo
Brass Band Concert
8:00-9:00 p.m.
Presidential
Address
9:00-10:30
Past Presidents
Reception
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May 25, 1997
8:30-
10:15
Religious/Memorial Service at Winter
Quarters
8:30 - Board busses for Winter Quarters Cemetery
9:00-9:45 - Religious/Memorial Service honoring LDS who died crossing
the plains, as well as all LDS and RLDS who died while in the service of their
faith
10:15 - Buses return to hotel
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