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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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Leonard J. Arrington's Published Works

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Published Papers

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) (126)
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) (14)
The Sagebrush Resurrection: New Deal Expenditures in the Western States, 1933-1939 (1983) (11)
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latterday Saints 1830-1900. (1960) (11)
Building the city of God (1976) (10)
Mormons and their historians (1988) (9)
RELIGION AND PLANNING IN THE FAR WEST: THE FIRST GENERATION OF MORMONS IN UTAH (1958) (7)
The Mormon Tithing House: A Frontier Business Institution (1954) (7)
Beet Sugar in the West : A History of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1891-1966 (1966) (7)
An Economic Interpretation of "The Word of Wisdom" (1959) (7)
Origin of the Welfare Plan of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1964) (7)
Mormonism: Views from Without and Within (1974) (6)
Perpetuation of a Myth: Mormon Danites in Five Western Novels, 1840-90 (1983) (6)
The Deseret Telegraph—A Church-owned Public Utility (1951) (5)
The Mormon Cotton Mission in Southern Utah (1956) (5)
Utah’s Great Drought of 1934 (1986) (5)
ABUNDANCE FROM THE EARTH: The Beginnings of Commercial Mining in Utah (1963) (5)
The Progress of Economics: A History of Economic Thought (1962) (4)
Banking Enterprises in Utah, 1847–1880 (1955) (4)
The life and thought of Orson Pratt (1985) (4)
The Mormon Heritage of Vardis Fisher (1978) (4)
James Gordon Bennett's 1831 Report on “The Mormonites” (1970) (4)
Persons for All Seasons: Women in Mormon History (1980) (4)
THE U.S. ARMY OVERLOOKS SALT LAKE VALLEY: FORT DOUGLAS, 1862-1965 (1965) (4)
ANCHORS AWEIGH IN UTAH: The U.S. Naval Supply Depot at Clearfield, 1942-1962 (1963) (4)
Religion and Economics in Mormon History (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)
SCHOLARLY STUDIES OF MORMONISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (1966) (3)
Oliver Cowdery's Kirtland, Ohio, "Sketch Book" (1972) (3)
UTAH AND THE DEPRESSION OF THE 1890’s (1961) (3)
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1900 (1959) (3)
Historian As Entrepreneur: A Personal Essay (1977) (3)
BLESSED DAMOZELS: WOMEN IN MORMON HISTORY (1971) (3)
The Transcontinental Railroad and Mormon Economic Policy (1951) (3)
Cooperative Community in the North: BRIGHAM CITY UTAH (1965) (3)
They Kept ’Em Rolling: THE TOOELE ARMY DEPOT, 1942-1962 (1963) (2)
Federally-financed industrial plants constructed in Utah during World War II (1969) (2)
Supply Hub of the West: DEFENSE DEPOT OGDEN, 1941-1964 (1964) (2)
Social Economy and the Price System: An Essay in Welfare Economics (1951) (2)
The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879 (1952) (2)
New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington (1987) (2)
The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History (1968) (2)
Mormon Origins in New York: An Introductory Analysis (1969) (2)
Rural Life among Nineteenth-Century Mormons: The Woman’s Experience (1993) (2)
Utah's Small Arms Ammunition Plant during World War II (1965) (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)
Utah’s First Line of Defense: The UTAH NATIONAL GUARD and CAMP W. G. WILLIAMS: 1926-1965 (1965) (1)
TAXABLE INCOME IN UTAH, 1862-1872 (1956) (1)
Mormon Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1987) (1)
Mormonism: From Its New York Beginnings (1980) (1)
The Transcontinental Railroad and the Development of the West (1969) (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)
Reclamation in Three Layers: The Ogden River Project, 1934-1965 (1966) (1)
THE MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS MORMONS IN ANTI-BELLUM FICTION (1970) (1)
THE DESERET AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING SOCIETY IN PIONEER UTAH (1956) (1)
SENTINELS ON THE DESERT: The Dugway Proving Ground (1942-1963) and Deseret Chemical Depot (1942-1955) (1964) (1)
Three short works on Japanese Americans (1978) (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)
UTAH’S COAL ROAD IN THE AGE OF UNREGULATED COMPETITION (1955) (1)
THE FOUNDING OF THE L.D.S. INSTITUTES OF RELIGION (1967) (1)
camp in the sagebrush: CAMP FLOYD, UTAH, 1858 - 1861 (1966) (1)
Planning an Iron Industry for Utah, 1851-1858 (1958) (1)
The Logan Tabernacle and Temple (1973) (1)
From Subsistence to Golden Age: Cache Valley Agriculture, 1859-1900 (1989) (1)
Church Leaders in Liberty Jail (1973) (1)
Rocky Mountain Carpet Baggers: Idaho's Territorial Governors, 1863-1890 (1983) (1)
MORMON FINANCE AND THE UTAH WAR (1952) (1)
"In Honorable Remembrance": Thomas L. Kane's Services to the Mormons (1981) (1)
Coming to Terms with Mormon History: An Interview with Leonard Arrington (1989) (1)
The LDS Hawaiian Colony at Skull Valley, Utah 1889-1917 (1980) (0)
Seven Steps to Greatness (1976) (0)
Union Pacific Country (1972) (0)
Harold F. Silver: Western Inventor, Businessman, and Civic Leader (1992) (0)
Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver: Poet, Teacher, Homemaker (2000) (0)
WILLARD YOUNG: THE PROPHET’S SON AT WEST POINT (1969) (0)
Utah’s Pioneer Beet Sugar Plant: THE LEHI FACTORY of the UTAH SUGAR COMPANY (1966) (0)
Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Legend and a Monumental Crime William Wise (1977) (0)
The Writing of Latter-day Saint History: Problems, Accomplishments and Admonitions (1981) (0)
COIN AND CURRENCY IN EARLY UTAH (1952) (0)
WORLD’S LARGEST MILITARY RESERVE: Wendover Air Force Base, 1941-63 (1963) (0)
Iron Manufacturing in Southern Utah in The Early 1880's: The Iron Manufacturing Company of Utah (1951) (0)
Charles Mackay and His "True and Impartial History" of the Mormons (1968) (0)
The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young Stanley P. Hirshson (1970) (0)
The "First" Irrigation Reservoir in the United States: The Newton, Utah, Project (1971) (0)
The Dynamics of Terror in Orwell's 1984 (1984) (0)
Colorado in the Great Depression James F. Wickens (1982) (0)
Collected Leonard J Arrington Mormon History Lectures (2005) (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)
Building a Commonwealth: The Secular Leadership of Brigham Young (1977) (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)
A Mormon Chronicle: The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876 John D. Lee Robert Glass Cleland Juanita Brooks (1956) (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)
When The Mormon Church Invested in Southern Nevada Gold Mines (2002) (0)
PREFACE (1966) (0)
THE FARM BOY AND THE ANGEL (1970) (0)
Utah's Copper Industry (1987) (0)
THE UTAH MILITARY FRONTIER, 1872-1912: Forts Cameron, Thornburgh, AND Duchesne (1964) (0)
The Mormon Village: A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement Lowry Nelson (1953) (0)
MORMON ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION: A SHEAF OF ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS (1960) (0)
Wilbur S. Shepperson (1973) (0)
Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons@@@The Story of the Latter-Day Saints (1977) (0)
THE PROVO WOOLEN MILLS UTAH’S FIRST LARGE MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENT (1953) (0)
THE CHURCH TODAY (1966) (0)
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 in Utah (1990) (0)
COMPARISON OF INCOME CHANGES IN THE WESTERN STATES, 1929–1960* (1963) (0)
THE INTELLECTUAL TRADITION OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS (1969) (0)
On Writing Latter-day Saint History (1980) (0)
UTAH’S SPECTACULAR MISSILES INDUSTRY: ITS HISTORY AND IMPACT (1962) (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)
N. Eldon Tanner, Man of Integrity (1982) (0)
Universalizing Mormonism: The Mexican Laboratory (1988) (0)
JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH: FAITHFUL HISTORIAN (1972) (0)
The Charles Ilfeld Company: A Study of the Rise and Decline of Mercantile Capitalism in New Mexico (1962) (0)

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