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32. Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Two Years after an Excommunicated Kate Kelly Sought a Giant Leap, Mormon Feminists Keep Making Small Steps toward Equity’,” Salt Lake Tribune, July 21, 2016, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4042513&itype=CMSID (accessed October 4, 2016).
33. Jennifer Napier-Pearce, “The Salt Lake Tribune Chooses Madi Barney, Who Pushed for Change at BYU, as Utahn of the Year,” Salt Lake Tribune, January 10, 2017, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4732048&itype=CMSID (accessed August 25, 2017).
34. David Noyce, “Salt Lake Tribune Wins Pulitzer for Campus Rape Coverage, Praises Victims for Sharing Their Stories,” Salt Lake Tribune, April 26, 2017, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=5161643&itype=CMSID (accessed April 10, 2017).
35. Peggy Fletcher Stack, “With Average Age of 80, Mormon Church Has Never Had Older Top Leaders,” Salt Lake Tribune, March 3, 2015, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2245029&itype=CMSID (accessed August 25, 2017).
36. Amy McDonald, “Who Will Be the Next Mormon Prophet? This Infographic Explains,” Salt Lake Tribune, July 27, 2015, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2705341&itype=CMSID (accessed August 25, 2017).
37. Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Mormon Videos Spur Question: Should Aging LDS Apostles Be Able to Retire?” Salt Lake Tribune, October 28, 2016, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4440116&itype=CMSID (accessed January 7, 2017).
38. Wikipedia, s.v. “Black People and the Priesthood (LDS),” last edited September 27, 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_priesthood_(LDS) (accessed October 3, 2017).
39. Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Mormon Gay Policy Is ‘Will of the Lord’ through His Prophet, Senior Apostle Says,” Salt Lake Tribune, February 3, 2016, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=3391057&itype=CMSID (accessed August 25, 2017).
40. “Where Are Our Leaders? A Mormon Catholic Comparison,” Nearing Kolob (blog), http://www.nearingkolob.com/leaders-mormon-catholic-comparison/ (accessed October 3, 2017).
41. Ibid.
42. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics (New York: Vintage, 2013), p. 107.
43. Polly Aird, Jeff Nichols, and Will Bagley, ed., “Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West,” in Kingdom of the West, vol. 8 (Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark, University of Oklahoma Press, 2011), p. 14.
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1. Pat Bagley, in discussion with the author, November 4, 2016.
2. Jennifer Napier-Pearce, in discussion with the author, January 11, 2017.
3. Mamta Badkar, “Buffett Explains Why He Paid $344 Million for 28 Newspapers, and Thinks the Industry Still Has a Future,” Business Insider, March 1, 2013, http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-buying-newspapers-2013-3 (accessed October 4, 2016).
4. Ibid.
5. Joan O'Brien, speech at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City, June 2016. Copy of transcript in author's possession.
6. Kathleen Kingsbury, “Print as a Premium Offering,” Nieman Labs Predictions for Journalism in 2017, December 19, 2016, http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/12/print-as-a-premium-offering/?utm_source=Daily+Lab+email+list&utm_campaign=793f78051b-dailylabemail3&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d68264fd5e-793f78051b-395990497 (accessed December 19, 2016).
7. Jennifer Napier-Pearce, Salt Lake Tribune, November 20, 2016, http://saltlaketribune.ut.newsmemory.com/?token=a6920919b7087bc85e0c8b9e2c35bfe8_5831e397_42e7a4e&selDate=20161120 (accessed November 20, 2016).
8. Marina Gomberg, “Optimistic Tales to Supplement Your Hard News Diet,” Salt Lake Tribune, January 15, 2017, http://saltlaketribune.ut.newsmemory.com/?token=de91326c6750ebf20c8c026690410019_587bbeb6_42e7a4e&selDate=20170115 (accessed January 17, 2017).
9. James E. Shelledy, in conversation with the author, August 25, 2016.
10. Napier-Pearce, in discussion with the author.
11. Terry Orme, in discussion with the author, October 10, 2016.
12. Brian Maffly, “Archeologist Says He's Found True Actual Mountain Meadows Massacre Graves; It's Not on LDS-Owned Land,” Salt Lake Tribune, September 30, 2015, http://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2961537&itype=CMSID (accessed August 25, 2017).
13. Everett Bassett, in discussion with the author, December 19, 2016.
APPENDIX: THREE TRIBUNE ARTICLES IN FULL ABOUT THE EXCAVATION AT THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE SITE
1. Christopher Smith, “Unearthing Mountain Meadows Secrets: Backhoe at a S. Utah Killing Field Rips Open 142-Year-Old Wound,” Salt Lake Tribune, March 124, 2000, http://www.cesnur.org/testi/morm_01.htm (accessed August 23, 2017). Original text courtesy of Will Bagley, 2014. Reprinted with permission © Salt Lake Tribune. Includes slight variations from a previous version.
2. Christopher Smith, “Voices of the Dead,” Salt Lake Tribune, March 13, 2000, http://www.cesnur.org/testi/morm_01.htm (accessed August 23, 2017). Original text courtesy of Will Bagley, 2014. Reprinted with permission © Salt Lake Tribune. Includes slight variations from a previous version.
3. Christopher Smith, “Mountain Meadows Massacre: The Dilemma of Blame,” Salt Lake Tribune, March 12, 2000, http://www.cesnur.org/testi/morm_01.htm (accessed August 23, 2017). Original text courtesy of Will Bagley, 2014. Reprinted with permission © Salt Lake Tribune. Includes slight variations from a previous version.
“Abraham Roll” (papyri), 22, 23. See also Book of Abraham
Adair, George, 77–78
Aden, William, 75
African Americans, becoming fully churched in 1978, 14, 155, 214
air pollution levels in Utah, 211–12
Alden Global Capital (company), 185, 196, 200, 203, 204, 219
antitrust actions against, 187, 192–93, 195, 199
and JOA profit distributions, 12, 181, 183, 191
selling assets to Deseret News, 12, 183, 190
See also MediaNews Group (newspaper company)
Alger, Fanny, 19
Allen, James, 38–39
American Lung Association, 211–12
Andrus, James, 114
Anthon, Charles, and forged “Anthon Document,” 156
anti-Mormons, 63, 64, 96, 107, 209, 239
anti-Mormon press, 28, 93, 102, 119, 126, 133
persecutions of Mormons, 19, 20–21, 28–30, 48, 68
See also non-Mormons (gentiles)
antitrust actions, 187, 191, 192–93, 199, 201
“Argus.” See Wandell, Charles W.
Armstrong, George W., 83
Ashton, Wendell, 142
Assemblies of God, growth of, 213
Associated Press, 129, 161, 170, 187
AT&T (company), 147–49, 169–70, 171, 172, 174
Auerbach brothers, 101
Avard, Sampson, 21
Babbitt, Almon W., 62–63, 67–68
Bagley, Pat, 171, 172, 203, 217
Bagley, Will, 25–26, 43, 50, 65, 198, 208, 216
Blood of the Prophets, 16, 32, 165, 239, 241
on Charles Wandell, 109, 113, 115, 116
on John D. Lee, 48, 49, 121, 123
on Mormon violence, 64, 66
Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 83, 117, 239, 241, 242–43
Baker, Jack, 77
Baker, Shane, 162, 231–32, 233, 234, 235–36, 238, 239
Baker wagon train. See Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857
Bancroft, H. H., 101
Bank of America, 181
baptism of the dead as a Mormon belief, 25
Barefoot to Billionaire (Huntsman), 188
Barney, Madi, 214
Barnum, P. T., 107
Baskin, Robert N., 120
Bassett, Everett, 219–20
Beadle, John H., 116–17
“Beast of the News, The” (editorial, Salt Lake Tribune), 127
Beaverite (Paiute Indian), 119
Beckerle, Mary, 207
Beehive House, 41, 51, 93, 106
Bennett, James Gordon, 102
Bennett, John C., 24, 25, 27
Benson, Ezra Taft, 153, 155
Berkshire Hathaway (company), 217–18
Bernhisel, John, 30, 62, 63
Bigler, David, 164, 239, 242, 243
Bingham Bulletin (newspaper), 131
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, and his Progenitors (Smith), 28
Bishop, Francis Marion, 116
Bishop, William, 121
blood atonement, 31–32, 60–61, 67, 78, 122, 165, 242, 243
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Bagley), 16, 32, 165, 239, 242–43
Boggs, Lilburn, 20, 21, 28, 60
Bones of Contention (Smith, Salt Lake Tribune series on Mountain Meadows Massacre)
“Dilemma of Blame, The,” 164–65, 239–44
“Unearthing Mountain Meadow Secrets: Backhoe at S. Utah Killing Field Rips Open 142-Year-Old Wound,” 161–63, 227–36
“Voices of the Dead,” 163–64, 236–39
Bonneville International Corporation, 185
Book of Abraham, 23
Book of Mormon, 11, 17–18, 22, 47, 51, 63, 156, 213, 216
Lamanites as term for Indians (see Native Americans)
Book of the Dead, 23
“Border Ruffians.” See Hamilton, A. M.; Lockley, Frederick; Perris, Fred T.; Prescott, George F.
Boreman, Jacob, 108, 117, 120, 122
Boston Globe (newspaper), 218
Boston Watchman (newspaper), 126
Brannan, Sam, 40
Brassfield, Newton, 94–95
Brewer, Charles, 88
Bridger, Jim, 40
Brigham Young University (BYU), 178, 210, 214
BYU Idaho, 190, 198
and excavation at Mountain Meadows, 162–63, 166, 229, 231–34, 235, 238–39
poll on Deseret News coverage, 140
rape victims, treatment of, 214
Brocchus, Perry, 63, 85
Brodie, Fawn McKay, 20, 27, 156
Brooks, Juanita, 32, 78, 113–14, 116, 242–44
Brooks, Julius and Fannie, 94
Buchanan, James, 68, 69, 81, 84, 86, 88, 91
Buffett, Warren, 217–18
Bugle (Council Bluffs, IA, newspaper), 67
Bush, George W., 197
Bushman, Richard Lyman, 17, 21, 23, 31, 160
Bylund, Kent, 232
BYU. See Brigham Young University
California Volunteers, 92, 95
Campbell, Allen G., 126
Campbell, Gordon, 176
Campbell, Tena, 176
Camp Douglas, 93, 95
Camp Floyd, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91
Canham, Matt, 205
Cannon, George Q., 99, 108, 111, 126, 128–29
Cannon, John Q., 127–28
Carleton, James H., 88–89, 122, 228, 231
Carricaburu, Lisa, 182
Carter, Mike, 159
Carthage, IL, 28, 29–30, 35, 52
Cedar Fort (later Cedar City) UT, 46, 71, 73, 74, 75, 79, 88, 111, 112, 115, 230, 244
Chaffetz, Jason, 206
Champollion, Jean-François, 22
Chicago Tribune (newspaper), 135, 145
Christensen, Clayton M., 184, 190–91
Christensen, Steven, 158
Christensen and Jensen (law firm), 188–89
Christian Science Monitor (newspaper), 185
Christy, Howard, 43, 59
Chronicle of Philanthropy (journal), 197
Church History Museum, 235
Church of Christ (founded by Joseph Smith), 18
renamed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 20
See also Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 25–26, 27–32
on alcohol consumption, 53, 127, 153, 154–55
church-controlled economic system, 98–101, 102, 104–106
claiming not to participate in politics, 212
and “culture of violence,” 64, 66–68, 95–96
dealings with federal government, 60–70, 81–89, 92, 94–96
in 1850s and 1860s, 90–96
elderly leadership as a challenge, 213–16
fight with federal government, 60–70, 94–96
Utah War of 1857, 81–89, 92
finances of in early 1900s, 132–33
and the forgeries of Mark Hofmann, 155–60
founding of, 16–19, 22–23
future of the church, 208–216
and the “Great Divide,” 11, 16, 102–108, 127, 152, 191, 210
largest landowner in Salt Lake City, 151
in the Midwest, 16–19, 24–26, 27–32
Brigham Young taking charge, 33–36
death of Joseph Smith, 30–31
driven out of various communities, 24
Haun's Mill Massacre in 1838, 20–21, 24
praise from
Charles Dickens, 106
Ulysses S. Grant, 106
rape, handling of, 213
and the “Reformation” period, 66–67, 78, 242
Salt Lake Tribune, relations with, 97–101 (see also Salt Lake Tribune [newspaper])
and the buy-back option, 175–78
and C. C. Goodwin, 125–30
efforts to silence the Tribune, 143, 168, 208–209
and the Huntsman family, 195–207
impact of note on church and John Paton renegotiating JOA, 182–94
MediaNews Group buying Tribune, 168–74
and Thomas Kearns, 131–39
“Tribune Mission” of the church, 143
as a theocracy, 211–12, 242
trip to Utah, 37–42
types of Mormonism, 209–210
use of scapegoating, 55–59, 109–124
See also Deseret News (newspaper); Mountain Meadows Massacre; specific leaders of the Church (i.e., Hinckley, Gordon; Smith, Joseph; Young, Brigham; etc.)
Citizens for Two Voices. See Utah Newspaper Project/Citizens for Two Voices
Civil War (United States), 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 104
Clinton, Hillary, 206
Cobb, Charlotte, 98
Columbia Journalism Review (journal), 176
Community of Christ, 157
Comstock Mine, 91, 127
Connor, Patrick Edward, 92–94, 95
Conway, Nancy, 179, 180, 191
Corinne Reporter (newspaper), 110
Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 240
Cotton Mission, 42
Council of Fifty, 44, 48, 60–61
counterfeiting by Mormons, 34–35. See also Hofmann, Mark William
Cowdery, Oliver, 18
Cradlebaugh, John, 87–88
Crouch, George W., 101
Cumming, Alfred, 82, 85–86, 88, 89, 91
Dabakis, Jim, 189, 198
Dame, William H., 73, 75, 76, 79, 112–13, 115, 117–18, 119, 120, 123, 244
Daniels, William, 31
Danites (Destroying Angels), 21, 27, 61, 67, 83, 93, 95
David W. Evans and Associates (ad agency), 143
Dawson, John, 92
Decker, Rod, 143, 211
Dee, James, 106
Dempsey, Justin, 192–93
Denver, James, 84
Denver Post (newspaper), 147, 179
Department of Justice. See US Department of Justice
Deseret, meaning of, 51
Deseret Management Corporation, 186
Deseret News (newspaper), 92, 94, 104, 108, 111, 125, 127–28, 134, 141, 143, 152, 159, 184–85, 211
antitrust actions against, 187, 192–93, 199
buying Tribune's presses, 183, 186, 189, 190
circulation and costs of, 12–13, 14, 137, 185
efforts to increase circulation, 135–36, 140, 141, 142
first issue of in 1850, 51–52
impact of note on Mormon Church and John Paton renegotiating JOA, 182–94
Jon Huntsman Sr. trying to buy, 203
as
a national paper focused on faith and family audiences, 184
publishing Deseret News National Edition on Sundays, 185
seen as favoring Mormon Church, 11, 104, 126, 140, 142
stories covered
Kearns speech when leaving the Senate, 133
liquor-by-the-drink fight, 154–55
resignation letter of Drummond, 67
supposed reporting on “Praying Circle” for death of President Garfield, 126
on treatment of Indians, 45, 49, 94
on Utah Magazine, 98, 99
veto power over Tribune's sale, 13, 137, 145, 146, 171, 173, 176, 177, 190, 192, 193, 196, 197
wanting to publish in mornings, 140, 141
See also JOA (joint operating agreement) between newspapers
Deseret Territory. See Utah Territory
Destroying Angels. See Danites (Destroying Angels)
DFM. See Digital First Media (company)
Dickens, Charles, 106
Digital First Media (company), 181, 183, 185–86, 190, 191, 205
antitrust actions against, 187, 192–93, 195, 199
See also MediaNews Group (newspaper company)
“Disruption Machine, The” (New Yorker article), 190
dissident Mormons, 11, 15, 16, 25, 28, 51, 61, 136, 139, 143, 191, 209–210, 214
dissident rebellion of 1862, 59, 100
Godbe and Godbeites, 98–101, 102, 103, 111, 125
See also “Great Divide”
Dole, Elizabeth, 202
Douglas, Stephen, 34, 69, 93
Doyle, Major. See Lee, John D.
Drummond, William W., 65, 67
Dunham, Jonathan, 30
Dunlap, Rebecca, 77, 79
Eckels, Delana, 82, 86
Editor and Publisher (journal), 136
Edmunds Act (1882) and Edmunds Tucker Act (1887), 126, 128
education, quality of in Utah, 211
Emery, George W., 106
Ensign (newspaper), 209
Equal Rights Amendment, 14
Evans, Max, 162–63, 164, 229, 233, 235, 238
excommunication, 25, 27, 34, 92, 100, 102, 104, 107, 109, 113–14, 213–14
ex-Mormons.org, 210
“Extermination Order” in Missouri, 20–21
Eyring, Henry B., 197–98, 202
Facebook, 202, 203
Fancher, Burr, 162, 229, 233
Fancher, Christopher “Kit” Carson, 79
Fancher, Scott, 162, 165, 230, 231, 232, 240–41
Fancher-Baker party. See Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857
FARMS. See Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies