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27 Notes Unless otherwise noted, all folklore texts referenced in this paper are located in the William A. Wilson Folklore Archive housed in L. Tom Perry Special Collections of the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. The texts come from four separate collections. References to the texts begin in each instance with the name of the collector, followed by the date of collection. Following the date, one of the following classifications is given: (1) field collections, indicated by FA1, followed by the number of the collection and specific page numbers, followed by the title of the project; (2) the genre collections, numbered FA2 through 11, followed by a text’s multiple-digit location number; (3) the William A. Wilson Three Nephites Collection, indicated as “Nephite Collection” followed by the number of the text; or (4) the William A. Wilson LDS Missionary Collection, indicated as “Missionary Collection,” followed by the number of the text. 1. William A. Wilson, “‘We Did Everything Together’: Farming Customs of the Mountainwest.” Northwest Folklore 4 (spring–summer 1985): 23–30. 2. Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990), 83. 3. See for example, Ronald W. Walker, “The Persisting Idea of American Treasure Hunting,” BYU Studies 24 (fall 1984): 430–31, 435, 443, 450, 452, and D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987), much of the book and especially 11, 14, 20, 21. 4. Darlo Tate, collector, 1969, Nephite Collection, 381. 5. Jay Healy, collector, n.d., Nephite Collection, 722, 6. Sterling M. McMurrin, Review of Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, by D. Michael Quinn, Utah Historical Quarterly 56 (spring 1988): 200. 7. Hector Lee, The Three Nephites: The Substance and Significance of the Legend in Folklore (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1949). 8. Leonard J. Arringtin, “Myth, Symbol, and Truth,” in Reflections of a Mormon Historian: Leonard J. Arrington on the New Mormon History, ed. Reid L. Neilson and Ronald W. Walker (Norman, Oklahoma: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2006), 133. 9. Eric Foner, “My Life as a Historian,” in Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (New York: Hill and Want, 2002), 10. 10. Brynjulf Alver, “Historical Legends and Historical Truth,” Nordic Folklore: Recent Studies, ed. Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf, in collaboration with Elizabeth Simpson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), 138. 11. David M. Pendergast and Clement W. Meighan, “Folk Traditions as Historical Fact: A Paiute Example,” Journal of American Folklore 72 (April–June 1959):128–33. 12. David D. Buchan, “History and Harlaw,” Journal of the Folklore Institute 5 (1968): 58–67. 13. Alver, 139. 14. Charles William Ryan, collector, 1970, FA7 6.6.2.8.1. 15. Reynol E. Bowman, collector, 1972, FA1 169, “The Invasion of 1970: The Mormon Conspiratorial Mind.” 28 Arrington Mormon History Lecture 16. Franz Boas, Tsimshian Mythology, Thirty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Accompanying Paper (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1916), 393. 17. William A. Wilson, “Folklore as History: Facts amid the Legends,” Utah Historical Quarterly 41 (winter 1973): 48–49. 18. Barre Toelken, The Dynamics of Folklore (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979), 24. 19. See Robert McCarl, Good Fire/Bad Night: A Cultural Sketch of the District of Columbia Fire Fighters as Seen through their Occupational Folklife (Washington, D.C.: District of Columbia Fire Fighters Association, Local 36, 1980). 20. John B. Harris and William A. Wilson, collectors, 1968, Missionary Collection 56. 21. Mary Stewart, collector, 1976, FA2 1.1.3.2.2.1. 22. Gregory Vernon, collector, 1969, FA1 427:53–62, “Missionary Stories,” 23. As told to me during a telephone conversation with Leonard J. Arrington, following Arrington’s lecture, 26 February 1987. 24. From Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and Men, Perennial Library edition (1935; repr., New York: Harper & Row, 1990), 88–89. 25. From tape recorded interview with Woodruff Thompson in Provo, Utah, n.d. Tape in possession of William A. Wilson. 26. For examples, see Richard M. Dorson, American Negro Folktales (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958), 124–71. 27. Terrie Leishman, collector, 1978, Missionary Collection 2241. 28. Douglas Airmet, collector, n.d., Missionary Collection 774. 29. Jane England, collector, 1990, Missionary Collection 3398. 30. S. Robinson, collector, 1992, included in correspondence from William Lightfoot to William A. Wilson. 31. Laura Anderson, collector, 1990, Missionary Collection 3480. 32. Rhonda Jones, collector, 1992, Missionary Collection 3476. 33. Ruth Benedict, Zuni Mythology...

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