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According to Wikipedia, Leonard James Arrington was an American author, academic and the founder of the Mormon History Association. He is known as the "Dean of Mormon History" and "the Father of Mormon History" because of his many influential contributions to the field. Since 1842, he was the first non-general authority Church Historian for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , from 1972 to 1982, and was director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History from 1982 until 1986.

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The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day Saints (1980) (153)
Great Basin kingdom: an economic history of the Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1900. (1959) (127)
Japanese Americans, from relocation to redress (1986) (69)
The New Deal in the West: A Preliminary Statistical Inquiry (1969) (50)
Brigham Young: American Moses (1985) (24)
History of Idaho (1994) (21)
Building the city of God : community and cooperation among the Mormons (1977) (16)
"The richest hole on earth" : a history of the Bingham Copper Mine (1964) (15)
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latterday Saints 1830-1900. (1960) (11)
The Sagebrush Resurrection: New Deal Expenditures in the Western States, 1933-1939 (1983) (11)
Building the city of God (1976) (9)
Mormons and their historians (1988) (9)
The Mormon Tithing House: A Frontier Business Institution (1954) (7)
An Economic Interpretation of "The Word of Wisdom" (1959) (7)
RELIGION AND PLANNING IN THE FAR WEST: THE FIRST GENERATION OF MORMONS IN UTAH (1958) (7)
Origin of the Welfare Plan of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1964) (7)
Beet Sugar in the West : A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966 (1966) (7)
Perpetuation of a Myth: Mormon Danites in Five Western Novels, 1840-90 (1983) (6)
Mormonism: Views from Without and Within (1974) (6)
Utah’s Great Drought of 1934 (1986) (5)
The Mormon Cotton Mission in Southern Utah (1956) (5)
ABUNDANCE FROM THE EARTH: The Beginnings of Commercial Mining in Utah (1963) (5)
The Deseret Telegraph—A Church-owned Public Utility (1951) (5)
ANCHORS AWEIGH IN UTAH: The U.S. Naval Supply Depot at Clearfield, 1942-1962 (1963) (4)
The life and thought of Orson Pratt (1985) (4)
Persons for All Seasons: Women in Mormon History (1980) (4)
The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher (1978) (4)
The Progress of Economics: A History of Economic Thought (1962) (4)
James Gordon Bennett's 1831 Report on “The Mormonites” (1970) (4)
THE U.S. ARMY OVERLOOKS SALT LAKE VALLEY: FORT DOUGLAS, 1862-1965 (1965) (4)
Banking Enterprises in Utah, 1847–1880 (1955) (4)
BLESSED DAMOZELS: WOMEN IN MORMON HISTORY (1971) (3)
Cooperative Community in the North: BRIGHAM CITY UTAH (1965) (3)
Oliver Cowdery's Kirtland, Ohio, "Sketch Book" (1972) (3)
SCHOLARLY STUDIES OF MORMONISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1966) (3)
Religion and Economics in Mormon History (1961) (3)
The Transcontinental Railroad and Mormon Economic Policy (1951) (3)
UTAH AND THE DEPRESSION OF THE 1890’s (1961) (3)
From Quaker to Latter-Day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley@@@The Business Career of Moses Taylor: Merchant, Finance Capitalist, and Industrialist (1977) (3)
The price of prejudice (1962) (3)
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1900 (1959) (3)
Historian As Entrepreneur: A Personal Essay (1977) (3)
They Kept ’Em Rolling: THE TOOELE ARMY DEPOT, 1942-1962 (1963) (2)
Utah's Small Arms Ammunition Plant during World War II (1965) (2)
THE FOUNDING OF THE L.D.S. INSTITUTES OF RELIGION (1967) (2)
Mormon Origins in New York: An Introductory Analysis (1969) (2)
The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History (1968) (2)
New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington (1987) (2)
Women as a Force in the History of Utah (1970) (2)
UTAH’S Biggest Business: OGDEN AIR MATERIEL AREA At Hill Air Force Base, 1938-1965 (1965) (2)
Supply Hub of the West: DEFENSE DEPOT OGDEN, 1941-1964 (1964) (2)
Federally-financed industrial plants constructed in Utah during World War II (1969) (2)
Social Economy and the Price System: An Essay in Welfare Economics (1951) (2)
Rural Life among Nineteenth-Century Mormons: The Woman’s Experience (1993) (2)
The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879 (1952) (2)
Coming to Terms with Mormon History: An Interview with Leonard Arrington (1989) (1)
From Subsistence to Golden Age: Cache Valley Agriculture, 1859-1900 (1989) (1)
Mormonism: From Its New York Beginnings (1980) (1)
"In Honorable Remembrance": Thomas L. Kane's Services to the Mormons (1981) (1)
UTAH’S COAL ROAD IN THE AGE OF UNREGULATED COMPETITION (1955) (1)
The Logan Tabernacle and Temple (1973) (1)
MORMON FINANCE AND THE UTAH WAR (1952) (1)
Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and a Religious Tradition@@@Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism.@@@Brigham Young: American Moses.@@@Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition. (1986) (1)
THE MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS MORMONS IN ANTI-BELLUM FICTION (1970) (1)
Reclamation in Three Layers: The Ogden River Project, 1934-1965 (1966) (1)
SENTINELS ON THE DESERT: The Dugway Proving Ground (1942-1963) and Deseret Chemical Depot (1942-1955) (1964) (1)
The Transcontinental Railroad and the Development of the West (1969) (1)
THE DESERET AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING SOCIETY IN PIONEER UTAH (1956) (1)
Utah’s First Line of Defense: The UTAH NATIONAL GUARD and CAMP W. G. WILLIAMS: 1926-1965 (1965) (1)
Planning an Iron Industry for Utah, 1851-1858 (1958) (1)
Three short works on Japanese Americans (1978) (1)
Mormon Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1987) (1)
Rocky Mountain Carpet Baggers: Idaho's Territorial Governors, 1863-1890 (1983) (1)
Church Leaders in Liberty Jail (1973) (1)
camp in the sagebrush: CAMP FLOYD, UTAH, 1858 - 1861 (1966) (1)
TAXABLE INCOME IN UTAH, 1862-1872 (1956) (1)
Rebel of the Rockies: The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad . By Robert G. Athearn. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1962. Pp. xv + 395. $10.00. (1963) (1)
When The Mormon Church Invested in Southern Nevada Gold Mines (2002) (0)
The Dynamics of Terror in Orwell's 1984 (1984) (0)
Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader (1992) (0)
THE FARM BOY AND THE ANGEL (1970) (0)
The Mormon Conflict, 1850–1859. By Norman F. Furniss. Yale Historical Publications, Miscellany, Number 72. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960. xii + 311 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $5.00.) (1960) (0)
THE CHURCH TODAY (1966) (0)
Colorado in the Great Depression James F. Wickens (1982) (0)
Wilbur S. Shepperson (1973) (0)
Universalizing Mormonism: The Mexican Laboratory (1988) (0)
The LDS Hawaiian Colony at Skull Valley, Utah 1889-1917 (1980) (0)
The Progress of Economics: A History of Economic Thought. By Warren B. Catlin. (New York: Bookman Associates. 1962. Pp. 788. $8.50.) (1963) (0)
Collected Leonard J Arrington Mormon History Lectures (2005) (0)
THE UTAH MILITARY FRONTIER, 1872-1912: Forts Cameron, Thornburgh, AND Duchesne (1964) (0)
UTAH’S SPECTACULAR MISSILES INDUSTRY: ITS HISTORY AND IMPACT (1962) (0)
Building a Commonwealth: The Secular Leadership of Brigham Young (1977) (0)
THE PROVO WOOLEN MILLS UTAH’S FIRST LARGE MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENT (1953) (0)
MORMON ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION: A SHEAF OF ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS (1960) (0)
Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Legend and a Monumental Crime William Wise (1977) (0)
THE INTELLECTUAL TRADITION OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS (1969) (0)
Utah’s Pioneer Beet Sugar Plant: THE LEHI FACTORY of the UTAH SUGAR COMPANY (1966) (0)
The Charles Ilfeld Company: A Study of the Rise and Decline of Mercantile Capitalism in New Mexico (1962) (0)
The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young Stanley P. Hirshson (1970) (0)
Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons@@@The Story of the Latter-Day Saints (1977) (0)
COIN AND CURRENCY IN EARLY UTAH (1952) (0)
Seven Steps to Greatness (1976) (0)
Union Pacific Country (1972) (0)
Utah's Copper Industry (1987) (0)
N. Eldon Tanner, Man of Integrity (1982) (0)
WORLD’S LARGEST MILITARY RESERVE: Wendover Air Force Base, 1941-63 (1963) (0)
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 in Utah (1990) (0)
Rocky Mountain Carpetbaggers: Idaho's Territorial Governors, 1863–1890. By Ronald H. Limbaugh. (Moscow: University Press of Idaho, 1982. ii + 234 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) (1983) (0)
The "First" Irrigation Reservoir in the United States: The Newton, Utah, Project (1971) (0)
PREFACE (1966) (0)
American Business History. By Louis Galambos. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association, Service Center for Teachers of History, 1967. Pp. 32. $.50 (paperback) (1968) (0)
Charles Mackay and His "True and Impartial History" of the Mormons (1968) (0)
A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 John D. Lee Robert Glass Cleland Juanita Brooks (1956) (0)
The Mormon Village: A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement Lowry Nelson (1953) (0)
WILLARD YOUNG: THE PROPHET’S SON AT WEST POINT (1969) (0)
On Writing Latter-day Saint History (1980) (0)
Iron Manufacturing in Southern Utah in The Early 1880's: The Iron Manufacturing Company of Utah (1951) (0)
COMPARISON OF INCOME CHANGES IN THE WESTERN STATES, 1929–1960* (1963) (0)
The Writing of Latter-day Saint History: Problems, Accomplishments and Admonitions (1981) (0)
JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH: FAITHFUL HISTORIAN (1972) (0)
Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver: Poet, Teacher, Homemaker (2000) (0)

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