William G. Hartley

WILLIAM G. HARTLEY is a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History at Brigham Young University.

Robert Leroy Parker on Family History | Lulu Parker Betenson, Butch Cassidy, My Brother, and Larry Pointer, In Search of Butch Cassidy

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 4

What interest can two books about an outlaw have for Dialogue readers? An obvious answer is that Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, was a Mormon boy who went bad, but another is that these…

A Gift From the Hart | Edward L. Hart, Mormon in Motion: The Life and Journals of James H. Hart 1825–1906 in England, France and America

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 1

This fine book is a composite: one-third edited diaries and two-thirds biography. It provides readers, Hart descendants and historians with valuable bits of information about James Hart, LDS missionary work, emigration, St. Louis and Bear…

The Seventies in the 1880s: Revelations and Reorganizing

Articles/Essays – Volume 16, No. 1

“These 76 quorums were all torn to pieces.” That disturbing report card for seventies quorums came from Joseph Young, senior president of all seventies in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in January…