Jason H. Lindquist
JASON H. LINDQUIST is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at Indiana University's Bloomington campus; his dissertation focuses on the intersection of epistemology and aesthetics in the nineteenth-century travel narrative. This essay began in a research seminar funded by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University in the summer of 1999. The author thanks the institute for its generous funding, the seminar's director, Richard L Bushman, for his enthusiasm and guidance, and his fellow colleagues for their insight and comments. Special thanks go to J. Spencer Fluhman, Danille C. Lindquist, and Dialogues anonymous reviewers for their generous and conscientious readings of this essay's various iterations.