Table of Contents:

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Rites of Passage: The Gathering as Cultural Credo / Dean L. May

TANNER LECTURE
Prophets in America ca. 1830: Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith / Richard H. Brodhead

ARTICLES
Bertel Thorvaldsen's Christus: A Mormon Icon / Matthew O. Richardson
Begging to Be in the Battle: A Mormon Boy in World War I / Lynne Watkins Jorgensen
New Dimensions of Devotion: Walter Krause / Donald Q. Cannon
Sheriff Jacob B. Backenstos: "Defender of the Saints" / Omer (Greg) W. Whitman and James L. Varner
Missionary Couples in Communist Europe / Kahlile Mehr
Riding on the Eagle's Wings: The Japanese Mission under American Occupation, 1948-52 / Shinji Takagi

REVIEW ESSAY
Telling the Restoration Story: Gerald N. Lund's The Work and the Glory Saga / Richard H. Cracrofi

REVIEWS
Richard E. Turley Jr., editor/producer, Selected Collections from the Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints / Gary James Bergera
DeEtta Demaratus. The Force of a Feather: The Search for a Lost Story of Slavery and Freedom / Henry Wolfinger
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Brigham Young: Images of a Mormon Prophet / Maxine Hanks
Jeffrey Nichols, Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918 / Kathryn M. Daynes

BOOK NOTICES
Shane LeGrande Whelan, More Than One: Plural Marriage, a Sacred Heritage, a Promise for Tomorrow
Paul Edwards, The Angel Acronym: A Mystery Introducing Toom Taggart
Monroe Lee Billington and Roger D. Hardaway, eds., African Americans on the Western Frontier
Dennis B. Home, Called of God by Prophecy: Spiritual Experience, Doctrine, and Testimony from Church Leaders Reveal How God Chooses His Servants
Carole Gates Sorensen, Gates of Hellhole: An Authorized Biography of Thomas Gates, Superintendent-Yuma Territorial Prison, 1886-1888, 1893-1896
Stanford J. Lay ton, ed. Utah's Lawless Fringe: Stories of True Crime