Richard Van Wagoner

RICHARD S. VAN WAGONER, a clinical audiologist, is the owner of Mountain West Hearing Center in Salt Lake City. He is the author, among other books, of Mormon Polygamy: A History and Sidney Rigdon: a Portrait of Religious Excess. The Mormon History Association recognized the latter work as "the best biography in the field of Mormon History in 1995" while the John Whitmer Historical Society accorded it the "Best Book Award." Mr. Van Wagoner is a member of the board of editors of both Signature Books and the Utah Historical Quarterly and has published extensively on Western American and Mormon histor

Joseph Smith: “The Gift of Seeing”

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 2

Dialogue 15.2 (Summer 1982): 48–68
Van Wagoner and Walker focus on the seer stones that Joseph Smith used in the Book of Mormon translation process.

Saints You Can Sink Your Teeth Into: Kindred Saints: The Mormon Immigrant Heritage of Alvin and Kathryn Christensen

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 4

Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 3

Dialogue 18.3 (Fall 1985): 67–83
Van Wagoner defines polyandry as having two or more husbands at the same time. He identifies women who ended up marrying members of the Twelve or Joseph Smith while they were were already married to their own husband

Sarah M. Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 2

Orson Pratt, Jr.: Gifted Son of an Apostle and an Apostate

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 1

The Making of a Mormon Myth: The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 4

The Making of a Mormon Myth: The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 1