by James W. Ure
Poland Act, 108, 117
Polk, James, 39
polygamy as a Mormon belief, 20, 25, 27–32, 33–36, 39, 61, 64, 66, 92, 97, 98, 104, 213
campaign and laws against, 94–95, 125, 126, 128–29
newspapers calling attention to, 14, 28, 93, 102–103, 106, 125, 126, 128, 129, 133, 166
examples of, 35–36, 47, 48–49, 107, 108, 129
Pond, James, 107
Porter, Karra, 188–90, 191–92, 193, 199, 200, 202
“Potato Saint.” See Smith, George A.
Powell, John Wesley, 116
Pratt, Eleanor McLean, 68, 110
Pratt, Orson, 41, 64, 99
Pratt, Parley, 45–46, 68–69, 70, 72, 83, 110, 242
Prescott, George F. (“Border Ruffian”), 104, 117, 125
Pulitzer Prize, 11, 132, 142, 214
Pulsipher, John, 42
Pyle, George, 180, 203
Quinn, D. Michael, 64
Quorum of Fifty, 61
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 21, 51, 159, 180, 186, 214, 215
Rag Gathering Mission, 52
Recovery from Mormonism (website), 210
Redpath, James, 107
“Reformation” and Mormon Church, 66–67, 78, 242
“Reformed Egyptian,” 18, 22, 156
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Community of Christ
Richards, David, 188–89, 192
Richards, Willard, 30–31, 52
Rigdon, Sidney, 19, 21, 47–48
Robinson, John, 95
Rockwell, Orrin Porter, 21, 28, 82
Rogerson, Josiah, 113
Rolly, Paul, 13, 171, 183, 204
Romney, Mitt, 196
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 133, 134–35
Rosetta Stone, 22
Rossi, Steve, 199
Roughing It (Twain), 53
Rough Stone Rolling. See Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (Bushman)
Rowland, Frank, 67
Sacramento Record (newspaper), 119
“Salamander Letter” (forged document), 157
Saltair (resort on Great Salt Lake), 133
Salt Lake City, UT, 11–15, 65, 110, 129, 132, 185, 187, 194, 207, 210
description of main buildings in, 149–51
dropping “Great” from name, 103 (see also Great Salt Lake City)
liquor-by-the-drink fight, 154
Mormon Church as largest landowner in, 151
need for two newspapers, 148 (see also Deseret News[newspaper]; Salt Lake Tribune[newspaper])
Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, 134
Winter Olympics in Utah, 12, 138
Salt Lake Telegram (newspaper), 134, 135
Salt Lake Temple, 54, 149–50
Salt Lake Tribune (newspaper), 11–12, 13, 15, 80, 89, 102, 126, 133–34, 135, 138–39, 149
acquiring Salt Lake Telegram, 134
advertising in, 125
circulation and costs of, 12–13, 14, 134, 135, 136, 137–38, 140, 141, 142, 154, 185
and digital technology, 179–80, 183, 205, 219
founding of, 97
future of, 217–20
impact of note on Mormon Church and John Paton renegotiating JOA, 182–94
and Kearns family, 144–45 (see also Kearns-Tribune Corporation [K-T])
and the McCarthey family, 144–46, 172, 175, 176–78, 179, 188, 193–94
Mormon city council ejecting reporter covering meetings, 105
sales of, 104, 127, 132, 133, 188, 193, 198, 199
buy-back option, 144, 145–46, 175–78
Deseret News and Mormon Church having veto power over, 13, 137, 145, 146, 171, 173, 176, 177, 190, 192, 193, 196, 197
potential buyers (see Alden Global Capital [company]; AT&T [company]; Digital First Media [company]; Huntsman family; MediaNews Group [newspaper company]; Singleton, Dean; TeleCommunications, Inc. [TCI])
sales of its presses, 183, 186, 189, 190
stories covered
“Beast of the News, The” (editorial), 127
on changing liquor laws, 154–55
endorsements in the 2016 election, 206
Hofmann forgeries and murders, 159
Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, 111, 115, 116, 117, 118, 122, 123 (see also Bones of Contention [Smith, Salt Lake Tribune series on Mountain Meadows Massacre])
publishing dispatch on Mormon agreement to anti-polygamy laws, 129
story on LDS secret videos, 206
use of polygamy stories against Mormon Church, 102–103, 106–107, 126, 128
on Young and family, 105, 123–24
voice against Mormon Church, 14, 104–106
See also JOA (joint operating agreement) between newspapers; specific editors/publishers (i.e., Gallivan, John W.; Shelledy, James E. “Jay”; etc.)
Salt Lake Tribune Management Company (SLTMC), 145–46, 147
Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company (SLTPC), 175
San Francisco Bulletin (newspaper), 122
Sawyer, Oscar G., 101, 102, 103
scapegoating
dissident rebellion of 1862, 59
Mormon version of Mountain Meadows Massacre, 59, 79–80, 83, 84, 89, 104, 109–124
Willie-Martin handcart party disaster, 55–59
Schindler, Harold, 127–28
Sessions, Gene, 163, 164, 165, 230, 238, 241, 244
Seventh-day Adventists, growth of, 213
Seventy (Area, Presidency of the, and Quorums of the), 197, 215
Shaeffer, Michael, 108
Sharp, Thomas, 28–29
Shaver, Leonidas, 67
Sheets, J. Gary and Kathy, 158
Shelledy, James E. “Jay,” 146, 155, 173, 188, 201, 204
on digitalization at the Tribune, 180, 219
as Tribune editor, 14, 149, 151–52, 179, 180, 194
on the Mountain Meadows Massacre series, 80, 161, 167, 172
Sherman, William T., 95
Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts, 191, 193
Shoshoni Indians, 43, 50, 94
Signal (Warsaw, IL, newspaper), 28–29
Silver King Mine, 131
Singleton, Dean, 147, 171–72, 173–74, 179–81, 196, 197–98, 205
possible author of note on renegotiating JOA, 186
reaction to from McCarthey family, 175–78
See also MediaNews Group (newspaper company)
SLTMC. See Salt Lake Tribune Management Company
SLTPC. See Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company
Smart, William B., 167
Smith, Christopher “Chris,” 161, 162, 163–64, 170, 227, 236, 239
Smith, George A., 46, 66, 69–70, 72, 73, 99, 118, 119
Smith, Hyrum, 21, 25, 29, 30–31, 48, 76
Smith, Joseph, 16–19, 113, 242
beliefs and doctrines
baptism of the dead, 25
polygamy, 24–26, 27–28, 47
prophecy on saving the Constitution, 91
death of, 30–31
Fancher party's possible involvement in death of, 72, 76, 242, 243
founding of Mormon Church, 16–19
and the golden plates, 17–18, 22–23, 213
in the Midwest, 20, 47, 106
Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri (1838), 20–21, 24
Nauvoo, IL, 24–26, 27–32
tarred and feathered in Kirkland, OH, 19
and Native Americans, 43, 44
physical description of, 33–34
running for president, 25
spiritual piety of, 98
“Theodemocracy” called for by, 25
Smith, Joseph, Sr. (father of Joseph Smith), 16
Smith, Joseph F., 99, 133
Smith, Lot, 82, 92
Smith, Lucy Mack (mother of Joseph Smith), 16, 28
Smith, Samuel (brother of Joseph Smith), 33
Smith, William (brother of Joseph Smith), 33
Smoot, Reed, 131, 132, 134
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, 134
Snow, Erastus, 60, 114, 119
Snow, Lorenzo, 131, 133
Snow, Warren S., 67
“spiritual wifery,” 25, 27–28
Stack, Peggy Fletcher, 16, 180, 209, 214, 224, 239
Stegner, Wallace, 58
Steiner, Bob, 146
Stenhouse, Thomas, 92
Stewart, Chris, 206
Stewart, Ted, 170, 176–77, 193, 206
Stewart, William, 77, 78
St. George Spectrum (newspaper), 233
Stokes, George, 123
Sunstone Education Foundation, 210
Supreme Court. See US Supreme Court
Sutherland, George, 133
Tabernacle, 149–50
Tanner, O. C., 243
Tanner, Sandra and Jerald, 209
Taylor, John, 30–31, 66, 86, 125, 127, 129
Taylor, Zachary, 63
TeleCommunications, Inc. (TCI), 138, 143–44, 145–47, 149, 169, 175, 193
temple endowment ceremony, 31–32, 75, 107, 243
Territorial Enterprise (Virginia City, NV, newspaper), 93, 125
“Theodemocracy.” See under Smith, Joseph
Toohy, Dennis J., 103
transcontinental railroad, Young welcoming, 96
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo of 1848, 42
“Tribune Mission” of Mormon Church, 143
Trump, Donald, 197
“Truth and Liberty,” motto of Deseret News, 52
Tryon, Steven, 206
Tullidge, Edward W., 98, 101, 102
Tullidge, John, 98
Turley, Richard E., 159, 209
Turner, John G., 34, 35, 42, 61, 67, 72, 108, 109, 124
Tutsegabit (Paiute leader), 49
Twain, Mark, 18, 53, 125
UDS. See Utah Digital Services
Union Vedette (non-Mormon newspaper), 93, 97
United Order (communalism), 19
University of Utah, 53, 94, 155, 194, 202
forensic anthropology lab, 162, 163, 233, 236
See also Hinckley Institute of Politics; Huntsman Cancer Institute
Urim and Thummim (used to read Book of Mormon), 17–18
US Department of Justice, 188, 189, 192–93, 199
US Supreme Court, 126, 133
Utah Arts Council, 239
Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, 158
Utah Board of State History, 164, 239
Utah Digital Services (UDS), 205
Utah Division of History, 229
Utah Legislature, 131, 153–54, 211, 212
Utah Magazine, 98, 99, 100, 101, 104
Utah Newspaper Project/Citizens for Two Voices, 151, 170, 183, 187, 189, 190, 191, 192, 195, 196, 199
Citizens for Two Voices, 177, 187, 189, 192, 193, 195, 198, 199, 201, 204, 210
Utah Policy (blog), 201
Utah State archeologist, 162
Utah State Supreme Court, 173
Utah Territory (Deseret Territory), 43, 62, 91–92, 106, 116, 128
Brigham Young as governor of, 62
efforts of United States to replace, 69, 82
Brigham Young as superintendent of Indians, 43, 47, 68, 243
fears of federal government incursion into affairs of, 60–70, 94–95
Mexican territory, ceasing to be, 42
Mormons giving suffrage to women in 1870, 106
statehood, wish for, 66, 91, 92
becoming a state in 1896, 130
as a theocracy, 60, 89, 208, 211, 242, 244
Utah War and Mormon defiance of United States, 60–70, 81–89, 92. See also Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857
Utah Weekly. See Mormon Tribune (newspaper)
Ute Indians, 43, 45, 46, 47, 49, 54, 66
Valley Tan (whiskey), 53
Varela, Vicki, 234–35
Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case (Turley), 159
Waddoups, Clark, 191, 192
Wakara (Walker), chief of the Utes, 54
Waldman, Peter, 148
Walker brothers, 101
Wall, James, 169
Wall Street Journal (newspaper), 148, 171, 217
Wandell, Charles W., 109–110, 112, 115, 116
Warsaw Militia, 30–32
Wasatch Front air quality, 211–12
Washington Post (newspaper), 205, 209, 217
Webb, Ann Eliza, 58, 106–107, 108
Webb, Chauncey, 106
Weber State University, 163, 230, 238, 244
Welch, Dominic, 140, 145, 147, 148, 165–67, 168, 172, 173, 175–76, 196
Wells, Daniel, 81, 99, 121
Wells, Joanne Jacobsen, 171
West, Ira, 60–61
Wharton, Major, 67–68
Wife No. 19 (Ann Eliza Young), 108
Wilde, Oscar, 150
Williams, Albina, 92
Williams, Levi, 31
Williams, Tom, 92
Willie-Martin handcart party disaster, 55–59
Willis, John, 78
Willkie, Wendell, 135
Wimmer, Carl, 212
Winners Never Cheat (Huntsman), 188
Winter Olympics in Utah, 12, 138
Winter Quarters in Nebraska, 39, 40, 46, 51, 60
Wirthlin, LeRoy and Mary, 202
Woodruff, Wilford, 99, 129
Woolf, Jim, 152, 159
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 150
Wyden, Ron, 202
Young, Ann Eliza, 58, 106–107, 108
Young, Augusta Adams, 86, 98
Young, Brigham, 32, 58, 92, 105, 151, 228
anti-mining stance of, 53, 90–91, 99–100, 105, 151
on burning copies of book by Lucy Mack Smith, 28
and a church-controlled economic system, 98–101, 102, 104–106
consolidation of power in the 1850s and 1860s, 90–96
criticism of Utah Magazine, 99
death of, 123
fight with federal government, 60–70, 94–96
Utah War of 1857, 81–89, 92
going to Europe to proselytize, 24–25
and handcarts for Mormon immigrants, 55–59
health of, 41, 106, 123
indicted by Springfield, IL, grand jury for counterfeiting, 34–35
involvement in Mountain Meadows Massacre (see Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857; scapegoating)
leading Mormons while Smith in jail, 21
love of theater, 106
marriages of, 35–36, 47
divorce and alimony cases, 106–107, 108
to Emmeline Free with John D. Lee's blessing, 35–36, 48–49
and Morrisite (dissidents) rebellion of 1862, 59, 100
as an outstanding organizer, 38, 53
physical description of, 33–34
and the “Reformation” period, 66–67, 78, 242
relationships
with Almon Babbitt, 62–63
C. C. Goodwin, 125–30
with Garland Hurt, 65–66
John D. Lee sealed to Young in Law of Adoption ceremony, 48 (see also Lee, John D.)
with Parley Pratt, 68
with Patrick Edward Connor, 92–94
with Thomas Kane, 84–85
succeeding Smith as head of church, 31, 33–36
as superintendent of Indian Affairs, 43–44, 47, 68, 243
theocratic rule of Utah Territory, 242
trip to Utah, 37–42
wealth of, 91, 107
Young, Brigham, Jr., 111
Young, John W., 124
ZCMI (Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution), 97–101, 136
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