Melvin J. Bashore

MELVIN J. BASHORE {[email protected]} retired in 2013 after thirtyeight years as a librarian and historic sites curator with the LDS Church Historical Department. He has published Mormon history articles in Kansas History, South Dakota History, Annals of Wyoming, and Libraries & Culture, in addition to all the other usual venues that publish Mormon history. With wide-ranging interests, he is presently working on historical treatises of US drag strips, long-distance bicycle riders, and World War II service football. He lives in West Jordan, Utah.

Letters to the Editor

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 2

No Crusades Thanks for your hard work and dedication. I realize that the current atmosphere of conservatism and orthodoxy can sometimes be frustrating for those of us who need to ask questions for which there…

Yearning for Notoriety: Questionable and False Claimants to America’s Worst Emigrant Massacre

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 1

Benjamin Franklin purportedly offered some counsel for those wanting to be remembered long after they are dead and buried: “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”Sage advice. But for many, if not most people, their writing talents or life events doom them to being remembered on little more than census rolls and tax lists. In the annals of history, most will never be mentioned in so much as a footnote. Even that widely sought-after but short-lived fifteen minutes of fame eludes most people, and only a small circle of friends and family will hold them in remembrance after they die.