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 Mor￾mon Polygamy: A History and Sidney Rigdon: a Portrait of Religious Excess. The Mor￾mon History Association recognized the latter work as "the best biography in the field of Mormon History in 1995" while the John Whitmer Historical Society ac￾corded 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 pub￾lished 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

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Mormon Polyandry in Nauvoo

Articles/Essays – Volume 18, No. 3

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Sarah M. Pratt: The Shaping of an Apostate

Articles/Essays – Volume 19, No. 2

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

Articles/Essays – Volume 21, No. 1

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

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 4

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

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 1

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