Guide to the Valeen T. Avery Papers, 1975-2005

Creator:	Avery, Valeen Tippetts
Title:	Valeen T. Avery Papers
Dates:	1975-2005 ( inclusive )
Quantity:	64 boxes (27 linear feet)
Collection Number:	USU_COLL MSS 316
Summary:	The collection contains subject files, research files, and corresponding file cards, much of which Avery used to write her two books. Other items include materials related to Avery's books, writings, class notes, faculty and student evaluations, conference and lecture material, material related to the Mormon History Association, correspondence, miscellaneous articles and essays, and general office files.
Repository:	Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Manuscript Collection Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-2663 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
Languages:	Material in English

Biographical Note

Valeen Tippetts Avery was born on December 22, 1936 in Great Falls, Montana. After earning her Bachelor of Arts in foreign languages from Rocky Mountain College in 1959, she moved East, working various jobs in New York City, North Carolina, and Germany. Avery returned to the West in 1972 to produce and direct a weekly educational television program at KOAI TV in Flagstaff, Arizona. After six years with KOAI, she returned to school, earning her Master of Arts in history from Northern Arizona University in 1981. Avery went on to get her PhD at NAU in 1983, specializing in American social and intellectual history. NAU promptly hired her in 1984 as an assistant professor and the Director for the Center of Colorado Plateau Studies. She earned tenure and promotion to associate professor in 1990, and gave up her role at the Center of Colorado Plateau Studies two years later. Avery became a full professor in 1998, and worked in that capacity until her retirement in 2005. She was married to Charles C. Avery in 1961, with whom she had four children before their divorce in 1986. In 1996 she married colleague and English professor Bryan Short. Avery died unexpectedly on April 7, 2006, in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Avery was a prolific writer, authoring two books and numerous articles and book reviews. She is perhaps best known for her work on Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, a controversial book she co-authored with Linda Newell, first published in 1984. From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet, a biography of David H. Smith, was published in 1999. Both won the Evans Award for Best Western Biography. She was also a respected leader and teacher, serving as president of the Mormon History Association in 1987 and exciting countless students with her enthusiastic teaching style. In 2001, she was the Homecoming Dedicatee at NAU, chosen by a vote of students, staff and faculty.

Content Description

This collection contains the papers of Valeen T. Avery and spans the period of 1975-2005. It is organized in various broad categories, and individual folders are largely labeled as they were in Avery's original files. The first group of boxes contains subject files, research files, and corresponding file cards, much of which Avery used to write her two books. Other items include: materials related to Avery's books, Avery's writings, class notes, faculty and student evaluations, conference and lecture material, material related to the Mormon History Association, correspondence, miscellaneous articles and essays, and general office files.

Boxes 38-44 are sealed. See Manuscript Curator with any questions.

Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Access :

Boxes 38-44 are sealed. Please see Manuscript Curator with any questions: not available through interlibrary loan.

Restrictions on Use :

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Valeen T. Avery Papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation :

Initial Citation: Valeen T. Avery Papers USU_COLL MSS 316, Box [ ]. Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_COLL MSS 316, USUSCA.

Administrative Information

Arrangement :

Arranged in Avery's original files

Processing Note :

Processed in April of 2007

Acquisition Information :

The materials in this collection were donated to USU Special Collections in 2006 by the children of Valeen T. Avery.

Related Materials :

Mormon enigma : Emma Hale Smith : manuscript COLL MSS 85

Valeen T. Avery Photo Collection P0386

Detailed Description of the Collection

Subject Files – American West/Colorado Plateau, Undated

(4 boxes, 57 folders

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	20th Century Indians	Undated
1	2	Anasazi – Prehistoric Indians	Undated
1	3	Arizona History	Undated
1	4	Arizona Indians	Undated
1	5	Arizona Strip	Undated
1	6	Awatovi	Undated
1	7	Aztecs	Undated
1	8	Aztec Calendar	Undated
1	9	Black Legend	Undated
1	10	CCC Camps – Arizona	Undated
1	11	Chinese in California	Undated
1	12	Platt Cline	Undated
1	13	Coronado	Undated
1	14	Dominguez and Escalante	Undated
1	15	El Tovar	Undated
2	1	Flagstaff, Arizona	Undated
2	2	Fur Traders	Undated
2	3	Geography – Geology	Undated
2	4	Henry Giclas	Undated
2	5	Gold Rush	Undated
2	6	Grand Canyon – Gale Burak Papers (1)	Undated
2	7	Grand Canyon – Gale Burak Papers (2)	Undated
2	8	Hermit of the Superstitions	Undated
2	9	Home of the Truth – Canyonlands	Undated
2	10	Hoover Dam	Undated
2	11	Japanese Camps	Undated
2	12	Eusebio Francisco Kino	Undated
3	1	Lake Powell, Lee's Ferry Area	Undated
3	2	Lee's Ferry	Undated
3	3	Legacy of the Middle Ages in the American West	Undated
3	4	Glen Leonard, Mexican Cession States – Maps	Undated
3	5	Maps	Undated
3	6	Meteor Crater Project – Frank Lloyd Wright	Undated
3	7	Mexican War	Undated
3	8	Montana History	Undated
3	9	Outlaws	Undated
3	10	Alfred Packer	Undated
3	11	Palatkwapi Trail	Undated
3	12	Power Generation	Undated
3	13	Rainbow Bridge	Undated
3	14	Ranching and Cowboys	Undated
3	15	Salt Trail	Undated
3	16	Separation Canyon	Undated
3	17	Skeleton, or Skull Cave by Roosevelt Lake	Undated
3	18	Spanish on the Colorado Plateau	Undated
4	1	Charles H. Spencer	Undated
4	2	Surveys Before Civil War	Undated
4	3	Surveys After Civil War	Undated
4	4	Gretchen and Jimmy Swinnerton	Undated
4	5	Traders and Visitors: Fred Harvey Company	Undated
4	6	Vigilantes – Rodda	Undated
4	7	Walnut Grove Hassayampa	Undated
4	8	Water Use on the Colorado River	Undated
4	9	Winkler-Hall Photos	Undated
4	10	Yuma Prison	Undated
4	11	Zane Grey (1)	Undated
4	12	Zane Grey (2)	Undated

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Subject Files – Mormons, 1831-2000

(2 boxes, 32 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
5	1	Anabaptists and Mormons	Undated
5	2	Bombing	1985 October
5	3	Coconino County	Undated
5	4	Colorado City	1998-2000
5	5	Doctrinal Issues	Undated
5	6	Doug Jackson, Lee's Ferry	Undated
5	7	Dunn, Howlands, and Mormons	Undated
5	8	Fort Moroni	Undated
5	9	Ghost Dance (Mormon Influence)	Undated
5	10	Historians vs. Apostles	Undated
5	11	Hoffman Forgeries and Bombings	Undated
5	12	Johnsons at Lee's Ferry	Undated
5	13	Warren Johnson, Lee's Ferry	Undated
5	14	Alex Joseph Family	Undated
5	15	Kirtland, Ohio	Undated
5	16	Emma Batchelor Lee	Undated
5	17	Letters Written Among DeVoto, Morgan, and Brooks	Undated
6	1	Miscellaneous Information about Mormonism	Undated
6	2	Modern Polygamy	Undated
6	3	Mormon History – Beginning to Kirtland	Undated
6	4	Mormon History	1831-1838
6	5	Mormon History	1839-1844
6	6	Mormons and Indian Relocation	Undated
6	7	Mormons on Colorado Plateau	Undated
6	8	The Mormon Miracle Pageant	Undated
6	9	Mountain Meadows Massacre	Undated
6	10	Passey Family	Undated
6	11	Polygamy	Undated
6	12	Reorganized Church of Latter-Day Saints	Undated
6	13	Signature Rocks, Mormon-Hopi Honeymoon Trail	Undated
6	14	Souvenirs from Nauvoo, Illinois, and Independence, Missouri	Undated
6	15	Women and Mormonism	Undated

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Subject Files – Women, 1800-1970

(4 boxes, 61 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
7	1	Women	1890s
7	2	Women	1920s
7	3	Women	1930s
7	4	Women	1950s
7	5	Women	1960s & 1970s
7	6	Abortion	Undated
7	7	Abigail Adams	Undated
7	8	Women in Advertising	Undated
7	9	Susan B. Anthony	Undated
7	10	Army Wives	Undated
7	11	Eliza Billings	Undated
7	12	Birth Control	Undated
7	13	Blackstone's Law	Undated
7	14	Elizabeth Blackwell	Undated
7	15	Lizzie Borden	Undated
7	16	Anne Bradstreet	Undated
7	17	Brown v. Board of Education	Undated
8	1	Civil War Period	Undated
8	2	Colonial Childbirth	Undated
8	3	Colonial Women	Undated
8	4	"Current Best Chance" (Last Lecture)	Undated
8	5	Amelia Earhart	Undated
8	6	Education	Undated
8	7	The Feminist Movement	Undated
8	8	Betty Friedan	Undated
8	9	"Fun Stuff" about Women	Undated
8	10	Girl Talk	Undated
8	11	Godey's Lady's Book	Undated
8	12	Sarah Hale	Undated
8	13	Human Labor/Human Bondage	Undated
8	14	Anne Hutchinson	Undated
8	15	Introduction to Women's History	Undated
8	16	Women in Mining Camps	Undated
8	17	Minority Women	Undated
8	18	Mormon Polygamy	Undated
9	1	Nashoba-Wright Community	Undated
9	2	Bethenia Owens-Adair	Undated
9	3	Eliza Lucas Pinckney	Undated
9	4	Post-Revolution Community	Undated
9	5	Prostitution	Undated
9	6	Puritans and Sex	Undated
9	7	Reform	1800-1860
9	8	Revolutionary War Period	Undated
9	9	Eleanor Roosevelt	Undated
9	10	Deborah Sampson-Gannett	Undated
9	11	Margaret Sanger	Undated
9	12	"The Second Shift"	Undated
9	13	Seneca Falls	1848
9	14	Shakers and Oneida	Undated
9	15	Elizabeth Cody Stanton	Undated
9	16	Lucy Stone	Undated
10	1	Mary Taylor	Undated
10	2	Voting Rights	Undated
10	3	Mercy Otis Warren	Undated
10	4	Phillis Wheatly	Undated
10	5	Witchcraft	Undated
10	6	Victoria Woodhull	Undated
10	7	Women in the West	Undated
10	8	Women at Work	1860-1920
10	9	Women's Vote – Arizona	Undated
10	10	World War II	Undated

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Research Files (by Subject), 1820-1995

(5 boxes, 60 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
11	1	Val's Yellow Notepads – LDS Archives, First Trip	Undated
11	2	"Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale" by Audentia Smith Anderson	Undated
11	3	John C. Bennett	Undated
11	4	William Clayton	Undated
11	5	Carlin Letters	Undated
11	6	Agnes Smith, Ina Coolbrith, Mary Bailey	Undated
11	7	Oliver Cowdery Letters	Undated
11	8	"An Overview of the Introduction of Eternal Marriage…" by Andrew F. Ehat	Undated
11	9	Forgery and Fraud	Undated
11	10	Garments and Endowments	Undated
11	11	Arvet L. Hale Journal	Undated
11	12	Historical Record, Affidavits	Undated
11	13	Diary of William Huntington	Undated
11	14	Emma Smith's Hymnals	Undated
12	1	Jane Elizabeth James	Undated
12	2	Juvenile Instructor	Undated
12	3	Kane Papers	Undated
12	4	Letter to First Presidency about Emma Smith	1978 September 17
12	5	William Law, Joseph Jackson	Undated
12	6	Sarah Leavitt History	Undated
12	7	Mary Elizabeth Lightner	Undated
12	8	Mormonism and Masonry	Undated
12	9	Eliza R. Snow	Undated
12	10	Journal of Wandle Mace	Undated
12	11	William E. Marks	Undated
12	12	Letters of Massachusetts Mormons, Sarah Scott and Martha Haven	1843-1848
12	13	Mormonism Unvailed by E.D. Howe	Undated
12	14	Mountain Meadows Massacre	Undated
13	1	Nauvoo Buildings – Ken Stobaugh	Undated
13	2	Nauvoo Expositor	Undated
13	3	David Pettigrew	Undated
13	4	Photos	Undated
13	5	Emma's Connection With the Revised Translation of the Bible	Undated
13	6	Joseph Lee Robinson Journal	Undated
13	7	A Record of the Organization and Proceedings of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo	Undated
13	8	Relief Society	Undated
13	9	Porter Rockwell	Undated
13	10	David Smith	Undated
13	11	Jan Shipps on Lucy Mack Smith	Undated
13	12	Brief Life Sketches of Emma	Undated
13	13	Emma Hale Smith – Patriarchal Blessing	Undated
13	14	Vida E. Smith – Biography of Alexander Hale Smith	Undated
14	1	James J. Strang	Undated
14	2	New York Sun Episode	Undated
14	3	Tar and Feathering – John Johnson Home	Undated
14	4	Mercy Rachael Thompson	Undated
14		Godbeite Protest	Undated
14	6	George Whitaker Journal	1820-1846
14	7	Wives of Joseph Smith	Undated
14	8	Times and Seasons	Undated
14	9	Women's Accounts	Undated
14	10	Wilford Woodruff – Tom Alexander Articles	Undated
14	11	Ileen Ann Waspe Thesis	Undated
14	12	Women's Exponent	Undated
14	13	Brigham Young	Undated
14	14	Manuscripts – Emma and Her Sisters – The Religious Life of Women in Kirtland	Undated
15	1	Research Notes, RLDS Archive	1995
15	2	Huntington Library, California	Undated
15	3	Source Materials	Undated
15	4	Research Queries Sent	Undated

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Research Files (by Author), Undated

(3 boxes, 62 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
16	1	Thomas Alexander	Undated
16	2	James B. Allen	Undated
16	3	Leonard J. Arrington	Undated
16	4	Raymond T. Bailey	Undated
16	5	Maureen Ursenbach Beecher	Undated
16	6	Gary J. Bergera	Undated
16	7	Ray Allen Billington	Undated
16	8	Davis Bitton	Undated
16	9	A.R. Blair	Undated
16	10	Alma Blair	Undated
16	11	Madelon Brunson	Undated
16	12	Richard L. Bushman	Undated
16	13	Kate B. Carter	Undated
16	14	Vesta Crawford Notes	Undated
16	15	Vesta Crawford Manuscript	Undated
16	16	George T.M. Davis	Undated
16	17	Reed C. Durham, Jr.	Undated
16	18	Eugene England	Undated
17	1	Ronald K. Esplin	Undated
17	2	Robert Flanders	Undated
17	3	Larry Foster	Undated
17	4	Thomas Geoghean	Undated
17	5	S.H. Goodwin	Undated
17	6	Norma Derry Hiles	Undated
17	7	Marvin S. Hill	Undated
17	8	Richard P. Howard	Undated
17	9	Robert H. Hullinger	Undated
17	10	Stanley S. Ivins	Undated
17	11	Dean C. Jessee	Undated
17	12	Sonia Johnson	Undated
17	13	Roger R. Keller	Undated
17	14	Stanley B. Kimball	Undated
17	15	T. Edgar Lyon	Undated
17	16	Eudocia Baldwin Marsh	Undated
17	17	Robert J. Matthews	Undated
17	18	Lavina Fielding Anderson	Undated
17	19	Cecil McGavin	Undated
17	20	Stirling McMurrin	Undated
17	21	Linda Newell	Undated
18	1	Hugh Nibley	Undated
18	2	Gary Novack and Louis Midgley	Undated
18	3	Dallin Oaks	Undated
18	4	Lee Ann Packer	Undated
18	5	Max H. Parkin	Undated
18	6	Frederick Piercy	Undated
18	7	Richard Poll	Undated
18	8	D. Michael Quinn	Undated
18	9	RLDS Newsletter – Restoration	Undated
18	10	Charles W. Roberts	Undated
18	11	Henry C. Russell	Undated
18	12	Charles A. Shook	Undated
18	13	Alex Shoumatoff	Undated
18	14	Robert Silverberg	Undated
18	15	E. Gary Smith	Undated
18	16	A.D. Sorenson	Undated
18	17	Wayne Stout	Undated
18	18	Jerald and Sandra Tanner	Undated
18	19	Keith and Ann Terry	Undated
18	20	Emma Lou Thane	Undated
18	21	Bruce A. Van Orden	Undated
18	22	Ronald W. Wacker	Undated
18	23	Buddy Youngreen	Undated

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Categorized Research Files, Undated

(6 boxes, 285 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		File #1: Inventory Lists, Chronologies, Collections	Undated
Box	Folder
19	1	BYU Studies Back Issues	Undated
19	2	Chronology File – Emma Hale Smith	Undated
19	3	RLDS Periodicals Holdings List, Library and Archives	Undated
		File #2: Joseph Smith Family	Undated
Box	Folder
19	4	Vesta Crawford – Smith Genealogy	Undated
19	5	Millikin Letters	Undated
19	6	Jerusha Barden Smith	Undated
19	7	Joseph Smith I – Family Reunion	Undated
19	8	Joseph Smith I – Genealogy	Undated
19	9	Joseph Smith II – Bennion Memorial Sermon	Undated
19	10	Joseph Smith II – Brothers	Undated
19	11	Joseph Smith II – Family (general)	Undated
19	12	Joseph Smith II – Sisters	Undated
19	13	Joseph Smith III – Horton Letters	Undated
19	14	Joseph F. Smith – Arrington Article	Undated
19	15	Lucy Mack Smith	Undated
19	16	William Smith	Undated
		File #3: Emma's Family (ancestry)	Undated
Box	Folder
19	17	Amboy Journal	Undated
19	18	Amboy News	Undated
19	19	Amboy Times	Undated
19	20	Ancestry and Posterity	Undated
19	21	Hale Family Ancestry	Undated
19	22	Hale Family Genealogy Charts	Undated
19	23	Hale Family – Vesta Crawford File	Undated
19	24	Hale Family – Place Chronology	Undated
19	25	Land Transactions – Joseph Smith II	Undated
19	26	Lee County, Illinois History	Undated
19	27	Lee County – Pioneer Recollections	Undated
19	28	Lewis Family – Genealogy	Undated
19	29	Emma Smith – Audentia Smith Anderson	Undated
19	30	Emma Hale Smith – Misc. Notes	Undated
19	31	Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania – Blackman's History	Undated
		File #4: Joseph – Birth to Marriage	Undated
Box	Folder
19	32	Cults, Religions – 19th Century	Undated
19	33	Joseph Smith II – George Q. Cannon	Undated
19	34	Joseph Smith II – Physical Description	Undated
19	35	William B. Smith Testimony	Undated
19	36	Spaulding Manuscript – Book of Mormon	Undated
		File #5: Emma – Birth to Marriage	Undated
Box	Folder
19	37	Vesta Crawford – Fay Ollerton Manuscript	Undated
19	38	Saints’ Herald W.W. Blair Letter	Undated
19	39	Emma Hale Smith – Girlhood	Undated
19	40	Emma Hale Smith – Ancestry	Undated
19	41	Emma Hale Smith – Marriage	Undated
19	42	Susquehanna County Centennial History	Undated
		File #6: Harmony to Kirtland	Undated
Box	Folder
20	1	Amboy Newspapers	Undated
20	2	Avery/Newell Misc. Bibliographic Notes	Undated
20	3	Bainbridge, New York, Court Trials	Undated
20	4	Book of Mormon – Original Manuscript	Undated
20	5	Book of Mormon Translation Process – Van Wagoner and Walker	Undated
20	6	Crawford-Ollerton Manuscript	Undated
20	7	Vesta Crawford Manuscript	Undated
20	8	Freemasonry	Undated
20	9	Carter E. Grant – Joseph Smith II, Home in Harmony	Undated
20	10	Martin Harris – Translation of Plates	Undated
20	11	Daniel P. Kidder – Mormonism	Undated
20	12	Joseph Knight – Reminiscence	Undated
20	13	Letters	Undated
20	14	Saints’ Herald	Undated
20	15	Joseph F. Smith – Whitmer Family and Messenger	Undated
20	16	Lucy Mack Smith	Undated
20	17	White Salamander Letter	Undated
		File #7: Kirtland Period	1834, 1888
Box	Folder
20	18	Mrs. Alexander Statement	Undated
20	19	Richard Lloyd Anderson – Article	Undated
20	20	Avery-Newell Manuscript	Undated
20	21	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
20	22	John D. Barber – Statement, Tarring and Feathering	Undated
20	23	Jared Carter – Journal History	Undated
20	24	Vesta Crawford Manuscript	Undated
20	25	Caroline Crosby – Journal	Undated
20	26	Jonathan Crosby – Autobiography	Undated
20	27	Jill Mulvay Derr – Manuscript	Undated
20	28	Doctrine and Covenants (RLDS)	Undated
20	29	Elisha Hurd Groves – Biography	Undated
20	30	Marvin S. Hill – Dissertation	Undated
20	31	Journal History Notes	Undated
20	32	Kirtland, OH – Historic Sites, Maps, Articles	Undated
20	33	Kirtland Temple – Legal Title of Ownership	Undated
20	34	Naked Truths About Mormonism	1888
20	35	Newspaper Accounts – Ohio	1834
20	36	Max H. Parkin – Kirtland Essay and Excerpts	Undated
20	37	Paul H. Peterson Thesis	Undated
20	38	Zerah Pulsipher – Autobiography	Undated
20	39	Richards Family Correspondence	Undated
20	40	Emma Hale Smith – Patriarchal Blessing	Undated
20	41	Mary Fielding Smith – Letters	Undated
20	42	Sidney B. Sperry – Doctrine and Covenants Compendium	Undated
20	43	Nancy Naomi Alexander Tracy – Diary	Undated
20	44	Edward W. Tullidge – Women of Mormondom	Undated
20	45	Newel K. and Elizabeth Ann Whitney	Undated
20	46	Phoebe W. Woodruff – Autobiography	Undated
		File #8: Missouri Period	1838-1838 May
Box	Folder
20	47	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
20	48	Henry William Bigler – Diary	Undated
20	49	A.R. Blair – Haun's Mill Massacre	Undated
20	50	W.W. Blair – Personal Reminiscence	Undated
20	51	Boggs Extermination Order Rescinded	1976
20	52	John Lowe Butler Statement	Undated
20	53	Almira Mack Covey Letters	Undated
20	54	Don Carlos Smith Letters	Undated
20	55	Vesta Crawford – Notes and Manuscript	Undated
20	56	Crooked River Battle – Map, Far West – Plat	Undated
20	57	Ann Davis – Spiritual Reminiscences	Undated
20	58	History of Jackson County	Undated
20	59	Dean Jessee – Liberty Jail	Undated
20	60	Stephen Markham – Journal History	Undated
20	61	Missouri Geography	Undated
20	62	Revelations – Liberty Jail	Undated
20	63	Saints in Missouri	1831-1839
20	64	Hyrum Smith – Daily Record	Undated
20	65	Jeremiah Willey – Journal	Undated
		File #9: Nauvoo to Martyrdom	1839-1844
Box	Folder
21	1	Affidavits, Diaries, Journals, Life Histories	Undated
21	2	Amboy, Illinois	Undated
21	3	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
21	4	Jonah Ball – Letters	Undated
21	5	Howard Coray – Recollections of Joseph Smith	Undated
21	6	Vesta Crawford – Notes and Manuscripts	Undated
21	7	James E. Elliot – Manuscript	Undated
21	8	Endowment	Undated
21	9	Expositor	Undated
21	10	Stanley Snow Ivins, Notebook Extracts	Undated
21	11	Journal History – Notes	Undated
21	12	Heber C. Kimball, to the Pratts	1842 June 17
21	13	Lucy Walker Smith Kimball	Undated
21	14	Lee County – History	Undated
21	15	Letters and Statements	Undated
21	16	William Patterson McIntire – Joseph's "Borrowed" Twins	Undated
21	17	Nauvoo – Maps and General Information	Undated
21	18	Nauvoo Mansion	Undated
21	19	Nauvoo Temple	Undated
21	20	Newspapers	Undated
21	21	Michael W. Purdy – Manuscript	Undated
21	22	Don Carlos Smith – by Eliza R. Snow	Undated
21	23	Emma Hale Smith	Undated
21	24	Emma Hale Smith – "Voice of Innocence"	Undated
21	25	Hyrum Smith – Reminiscences of Jerusha Walker Blanchard, granddaughter	Undated
21	26	Joseph Smith II	Undated
21	27	Maria Jane Johnston Woodward Smith	Undated
21	28	Temple Lot Suit	Undated
21	29	Edward W. Tullidge – Life of Joseph the Prophet	Undated
21	30	Charles Lowell Walker – Joseph Smith II, poisoning	Undated
21	31	Helen Mar Whitney – Plural Marriage	Undated
21	32	Women, Doctrinal Issues	Undated
21	33	Brigham Young	Undated
		File #10: Martyrdom	1844
Box	Folder
21	34	Richard Lloyd Anderson – Prophecies of Martyrdom	Undated
21	35	Avery Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
21	36	Anson Call – Diary	Undated
21	37	Conspiracy at Nauvoo – The Contributor	Undated
21	38	Sarah M. Kimball – Letter to Sister Heywood	Undated
21	39	Sally Randall – Letter	1844
21	40	Emma Hale Smith – Joseph at Carthage	Undated
21	41	Joseph Smith – Letter to Emma	1844 June 27
21	42	Samuel H.B. Smith – Letter to W.R. Hamilton	Undated
21	43	Times and Seasons	1844
21	44	Statements – Martyrdom	Undated
		File #11: Martyrdom to Bidamon	1844-1847
Box	Folder
21	45	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
21	46	Bancroft Library Materials	Undated
21	47	John M. Bernhisel – Letters	Undated
21	48	Lorenzo Brown – Journal	Undated
21	49	Church Properties	after 1844
21	50	Vesta Crawford – Notes	Undated
21	51	Fulton, Illinois – History	Undated
21	52	Benjamin F. Johnson – My Life's Review	Undated
21	53	Jesse Hale – Letter to Emma Hale Smith	Undated
21	54	Legal Documents	Undated
21	55	Nauvoo, Illinois	1844, 1847
21	56	Nauvoo Neighbor	1845 October 29
21	57	Nauvoo War (or Hancock War)	Undated
21	58	Royce Oatman – Oatman Massacre	Undated
21	59	Emma Hale Smith	Undated
21	60	Emma Hale Smith – Newspaper Accounts	Undated
21	61	Emma Hale Smith – Letters, Joseph L. Heywood	Undated
21	62	Emma Hale Smith – Marriage to Bidamon	Undated
21	63	William Smith	Undated
21	64	William Smith – Letters	Undated
21	65	Succession Crisis	1844
21	66	Voree Herald	1846 August
21	67	William Holmes Walker	Undated
		File #12: Marriage to RLDS Organization	1848-1860
Box	Folder
22	1	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
22	2	John M. Bernhisel	Undated
22	3	Lewis C. Bidamon	Undated
22	4	Edmund C. Briggs – A Visit to Nauvoo in 1856	Undated
22	5	Vesta Crawford – Notes	Undated
22	6	Hannah Tapfield King	Undated
22	7	Letters	Undated
22	8	Joseph Smith III	Undated
22	9	Lucy Mack Smith	Undated
22	10	Visitors to Nauvoo	after 1847
22	11	Wilford Woodruff, Dialogue, Lyman Wight	Undated
		File #13: Last Years, Death, Burial	1860-1880
Box	Folder
22	12	Amboy Journal, Amboy Times Articles	Undated
22	13	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
22	14	Vesta Crawford Notes	Undated
22	15	Grandchildren of Emma Hale Smith	Undated
22	16	David Hale	Undated
22	17	William Law to Dr. W. Wyl	Undated
22	18	Emma Hale Smith – Dream Prior to Death	Undated
22	19	Emma Hale Smith – Elect Lady, Saints’ Herald	Undated
22	20	Emma Hale Smith – Last Testimony	Undated
22	21	Emma Hale Smith – Obituary	Undated
22	22	Joseph F. Smith	Undated
22	23	Visitors to Nauvoo	Undated
		File #14: Emma – Misc.	1933
Box	Folder
22	24	Vesta Crawford Notes	Undated
22	25	Susa Young Gates – Descriptions of Emma	Undated
22	26	Emma Hale Smith – Misc.	Undated
22	27	Emma Hale Smith – R.S. Theology Lesson	1933
		File #15: Emma's Children, Birth	1860
Box	Folder
22	28	Vesta Crawford Notes	Undated
22	29	Emma Hale Smith – Children	Undated
22	30	Green-Blue Sheets – Martyrdom	Undated
		File #16: Joseph Smith II	1860-1879, 1905
Box	Folder
22	31	Amboy Times	Undated
22	32	Audentia Smith Anderson – Memoirs of Joseph Smith	Undated
22	33	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
22	34	Alma Blair – Joseph Smith Family Reunion	Undated
22	35	E.C. Briggs, Polygamy	Undated
22	36	Angus M. Cannon – Interview, Joseph III	1905
22	37	Conference – RLDS	1860 April 12
22	38	Vesta Crawford Notes	Undated
22	39	Carolyn Edwards – Women of Liberty Hall	Undated
22	40	Zenos H. Gurley	Undated
22	41	Norma Derry Hiles – "The Smiths:Letters From Home"	Undated
22	42	Robert D. Hutchins – Joseph Smith III	Undated
22	43	Robert D. Hutchins – Thesis Extracts	Undated
22	44	W. Grant McMurray – Joseph Smith III, Succession Question	Undated
22	45	McQuown Collection Notes	Undated
22	46	William D. Russell – Joseph Smith III, Succession Document	Undated
22	47	Alexander H. Smith – Joseph Smith III, RLDS	Undated
22	48	Joseph Smith III – Plural Wives	Undated
22	49	Joseph Smith III – Blessing, Contemporary Accounts	Undated
22	50	Joseph Smith III – Journal Entries	1879
22	51	Joseph Smith III – Letters, Carrie Smith	Undated
22	52	Joseph Smith III – Letters, Emma Bidamon	Undated
22	53	Joseph Smith III – Letters, Emma Knight	Undated
22	54	Joseph Smith III – Letters (general)	Undated
22	55	Joseph Smith III – Letters – William Smith	Undated
22	56	Joseph Smith III – Patriarchal Blessing	Undated
22	57	Joseph Smith III – Plural Marriage	Undated
22	58	Joseph Smith III – Reorganization LDS Church	Undated
22	59	Joseph Smith III – "To the Elect Lady"	Undated
22	60	Joseph Smith III – Tribute to Emma Smith	Undated
22	61	Joseph Smith III – Succession Crisis	Undated
22	62	Joseph Fielding Smith – Origin of RLDS Church	Undated
22	63	William Smith	Undated
		File # 17 Julia Murdock Smith, Dixon Middleton	Undated
Box	Folder
23	1	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
23	2	Audentia Smith Anderson – Notes	Undated
23	3	Julia Murdock – Letters to Emma Hale Smith	Undated
23	4	Joseph Smith III – Letter to E.L. Kelley	Undated
23	5	Julia Murdock – green sheets	Undated
		File #18 Lewis Bidamon	Undated
Box	Folder
23	6	Avery-Newell Bibliographic Notes	Undated
23	7	Valeen T. Avery – Notes, Bidamon	Undated
23	8	Charles E. Bidamon	Undated
23	9	John C. Bidamon	Undated
23	10	Lewis C. Bidamon – Histories and Genealogy	Undated
23	11	Lewis C. Bidamon – Last Will	Undated
23	12	Lewis C. Bidamon – Obituary	Undated
23	13	Bidamon Papers, RLDS Archives	Undated
23	14	W.E. Butler – Letter to L.C. Bidamon	Undated
23	15	Vesta Crawford Notes	Undated
23	16	Histories (general)	Undated
23	17	Huntington Library – Bidamon Collection	Undated
23	18	Letters – Misc.	Undated
23	19	Documents, Pictures	Undated
23	20	Edward A. Luce – Correspondence (VTA)	Undated
23	21	Nathalie Mower – Bidamon Granddaughters	Undated
23	22	Nancy O. Perryman – Indenture	Undated
23	23	Emma Hale Smith – Letters to Lewis C. Bidamon	Undated
23	24	Emma Hale Smith – Statements of Neighbors	Undated
23	25	Joseph Smith III – Letter to Lewis C. Bidamon	Undated
23	26	Almira Swiggart – Letters to Lewis Bidamon	Undated
23	27	Marcia Vogel – Correspondence with VTA	Undated
		File #19 Emma Smith: Letters to Joseph Smith	Undated
Box	Folder
23	28	Emma Smith: Letters to Joseph Smith	Undated
		File #20 Joseph Smith: Letters to Emma Smith	Undated
Box	Folder
23	29	Joseph Smith: Letters to Emma Smith	Undated
		File #21 Court Records and Property	Undated
Box	Folder
23	30	Court Records and Property	Undated
		File #22 Brighamite Church	Undated
Box	Folder
23	31	Audentia Anderson	Undated
23	32	W.W. Blair	Undated
23	33	McQuown Collection Notes	Undated
		File #23 Conversations and Interviews	Undated
Box	Folder
23	34	Conversations and Interviews	Undated

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Legal-size Research Files, 1842

(1 boxes, 14 folders

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
24	1	"Alexander Hale Smith," by Vida E. Smith	1842
24	2	"Emma Hale Smith," by Joseph Smith III	1842
24	3	Susa Young Gates – Relief Society Minutes	1842
24	4	William Law	1842
24	5	Eliza Partridge Journal	1842
24	6	Joseph Smith's Journal History #1	1842
24	7	Joseph Smith's Journal History #2	1842
24	8	Joseph Smith's Journal History #3	1842
24	9	Joseph Smith's Journal History #4	1842
24	10	Temple Lot Suit #1	1842
24	11	Temple Lot Suit #2	1842
24	12	Temple Lot Suit #3	1842
24	13	Temple Lot Suit #4	1842
24	14	Women's Statements vs. Higley, Bennett, Chase, and Smith – Nauvoo	1842

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File Cards, 1842

(4 boxes)

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
25	Series 1&2, A-M	>Undated
26	Series 1&2, M-S
27	Series 1&2, S-Z and Series 3-5
28	File Cards (organized by document type)	Undated

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Mission to Madness, 1999

(2 boxes, 11 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
29	1	Advertisements	Undated
29	2	Copy Editing	Undated
29	3	Evans Award	1999
29	4	Responses	Undated
29	5	Reviews	Undated
29	6	Pictures of David Hyrum Smith and Family	Undated
29	7	University of Illinois Press – Correspondence	Undated
29	8	University of Illinois Press – Insanity and the Sweet Singer	Undated
29	9	Insanity and the Sweet Singer – Readers’ Comments	Undated
30	1	Printer's Proof	Undated
30	2	Manuscript

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Mormon Enigma, 1980, 1994

(2 boxes, 24 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
31	1	Reviews in Church Publications	Undated
31	2	Reviews from Organizations, Meetings	Undated
31	3	Unpublished Reviews	Undated
31	4	"Crank Material"	Undated
31	5	Personal Reactions	Undated
31	6	Professional Reactions	Undated
31	7	Church Reactions	Undated
31	8	Movie Rights	Undated
31	9	Advertisements	Undated
31	10	Related Publications	Undated
31	11	Evans Award	Undated
31	12	Awards	Undated
31	13	Organizations, Interviews, Meetings	Undated
31	14	Paperback, (1)	1994
31	15	Paperback,(2)	1994
32	1	Outline Notes	Undated
32	2	Doubleday Contract	1980
32	3	Doubleday	Undated
32	4	Doubleday Correspondence and Releases	Undated
32	5	Church Controversy	Undated
32	6	Material Concerning LDS Church "Ban"	Undated
32	7	Newspaper and Magazine Reviews	Undated
32	8	Journal Reviews	Undated
32	9	Letters to Editors	Undated

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Receipts and Bank Statements from Writing of Mormon Enigma, Undated

(1 folder)

Container(s)

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Writings by Valeen T. Avery, 2000

(1 box, 26 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
34	1	Book Reviews	Undated
34	2	Sunstone Interview	2000 February
34	3	"Church and State and the Mormon Polygamy Question"	Undated
34	4	"Contested Ground: David Hyrum Smith's Mission to Utah, 1869"	Undated
34	5	"The Elect Lady: Emma Hale Smith"	Undated
34	6	"Emma and Eliza and the Stairs:An Investigation"	Undated
34	7	"Emma in Her Own Words: A Series of Letters from 1837 to 1869"	Undated
34	8	"Emma, Joseph, and the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo"	Undated
34	9	"Emma Smith: An Unknown Sister"	Undated
34	10	"Emma Smith Through Her Writings"	Undated
34	11	"Irreconcilable Differences: David H. Smith's Relationship with the Muse of Mormon History"	Undated
34	12	"Jane Manning James: Black Saint, 1847 Pioneer"	Undated
34	13	"Lewis C. Bidamon: Stepchild of Mormondom"	Undated
34	14	"The Lion and the Lady: Brigham Young and Emma Smith"	Undated
34	15	Chapter 5, "The Nauvoo Experience" in Reinterpreting the Mormon Experience	Undated
34	16	"New Light on the Sun: Emma Smith and the New York Sun Letter"	Undated
34	17	"Scylla, Charybdis, and Achilles’ Heels: Pitfalls in Writing Mormon Biography"	Undated
34	18	"A Strange Way of Getting Married: Mormon Polygamous Wives in Nauvoo, Illinois, 1841-1846"	Undated
34	19	"Survey of the Sweet Singer: David Hyrum Smith, 1844-1904"	Undated
34	20	"Sweet Counsel and Seas of Tribulation: The Religious Life of Women in Kirtland"	Undated
34	21	"Charles H. Spencer and the Most Remarkable Water Project in the United States"	Undated
34	22	Free Running	Undated
34	23	Original Artwork for Free Running	Undated
34	24	Selections in Colorado Plateau History	Undated
34	25	Foreword in Sharlot Hall on the Arizona Strip	Undated
34	26	"Sunset Review for the Center for Colorado Plateau Studies"	Undated

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Class Notes, 1983-2003

(2 boxes, 35 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
35	1	U.S. History since 1865, HIS 292	1986 Fall
35	2	U.S. History since 1865, HIS 292	2003 Spring
35	3	Reconstruction	Undated
35	4	Transformation of the West and South: 1877-1892	Undated
35	5	Machine Age: 1877-1920	Undated
35	6	Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life	Undated
35	7	Guilded Age	Undated
35	8	Intellectual, Cultural Trends	Undated
35	9	Isolation to Empire	Undated
35	10	Progressive Era	Undated
35	11	World War I	Undated
35	12	The Twenties	Undated
35	13	The Depression	Undated
35	14	Foreign Relations in Broken World: 1920-1941	Undated
35	15	World War II (1)	Undated
36	1	World War II (2)	Undated
36	2	Cold War Era: 1945-1991	Undated
36	3	American Society during Post-War Boom: 1945-1970	Undated
36	4	Vietnam and the Third World 1945-1989	Undated
36	5	Eisenhower – 1950s	Undated
36	6	Reform, Conflict, and Civil Rights: 1961-1974	Undated
36	7	Watergate – 1970s	Undated
36	8	Reagan and the Conservative Turn – 1980s	Undated
36	9	Mexican History Notes (1)	Undated
36	10	Mexican History Notes (2)	Undated
37	1	History of the Colorado Plateau	1990 Fall
37	2	Colorado Plateau History – HIS 399, (televised class)	1990 Spring
37	3	Colorado Plateau History – HIS 696	1993 Fall
37	4	Colorado Plateau Bibliography	Undated
37	5	Colorado Plateau Exams	Undated
37	6	History of the Colorado Plateau Lecture Notes	Undated
37	7	History of the Colorado Plateau Syllabi	Undated
37	8	Spanish Borderlands, HIS 694	Undated
37	9	Topics in Popular History: Mormons in the West – HIS 299	1983 Summer
37	10	Women in American History – HIS 295	2005 Spring

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Student Papers & Promotion and Tenure (SEALED: see curator), Undated

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
Boxes 38-44

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MERIT

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
45	1	MERIT	1994-1995
45	2	MERIT (1)	1995-1996
45	3	MERIT (2)	1995-1996
45	4	MERIT (1)	1996-1997
45	5	MERIT (2)	1996-1997
46	1	MERIT	1997-1998
46	2	MERIT (1)	1998-1999
46	3	MERIT (2)	1998-1999
46	4	MERIT	1999-2000
46	5	MERIT	2000-2001
46	6	MERIT	2001-2002
46	7	MERIT (1)	2002-2003
47	1	MERIT (2)	2002-2003
47	2	MERIT	2003-2004
47	3	MERIT	2004-2005

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Student Evaluations, 1982-2005

(1 box, 22 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
48	1	Student Evaluations	1982-1988
48	2	HIS 292-01	Fall 1998
48	3	HIS 295-01	Fall 1998
48	4	HIS 292-05	Spring 1999
48	5	HIS 295-01	Spring 1999
48	6	HIS 695-01	Spring 1999
48	7	HIS 291-01	Fall 1999
48	8	HIS 295-01	Fall 1999
48	9	HIS 292-01	Spring 2000
48	10	HIS 399-04	Spring 2000
48	11	HIS 295-01	Fall 2000
48	12	HIS 399-02	Fall 2000
48	13	HIS 292-02	Spring 2003
48	14	HIS 295-01	Spring 2003
48	15	HIS 498-01	Spring 2003
48	16	HIS 292-01	Fall 2003
48	17	HIS 295-01	Fall 2003
48	18	HIS 292-01	Spring 2004
48	19	HIS 295-01	Spring 2004
48	20	HIS 498c-01	Spring 2004
48	21	HIS 295h	Spring 2005
48	22	HIS 498c	Spring 2005

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Conferences/Lectures, 1979-2002

(3 boxes, 24 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
49	1	Vital Questions in Mormon History	1979-1980
49	2	BYU Women's Conference	1980 January
49	3	Western History Association, Phoenix	1982
49	4	Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City	1984 August
49	5	"Sampling from the Lives of 19th Century Mormon Women" NAU	1985 April
49	6	Project on Religion and American Culture, Indianapolis	1987 October
49	7	Montana Women as Community Builders, Helena, MT	1987 November
49	8	Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture Symposium	1990
49	9	Western Social Science Association	1992 April
49	10	Critchlow Lecture, Weber St. University	1994 November
49	11	Western History Association, Denver	1995
50	1	Western History Association, St. Paul	1997
50	2	Organization of American Historians	1997 April
50	3	Arizona Historical Convention, Wickenburg	1997 April
50	4	Distinguished Lecture Series, Montana State University	1998 April
50	5	Sterling McMurrin Lecture	1998 September
50	6	Western History Association, Portland	1999
50	7	Arizona Historical Convention, Prescott	1999 April
50	8	Western History Association, San Antonio	2000
50	9	John Whitmer Historical Association, Independence, Missouri	2000 September
50	10	Arizona Territorial Justice Forum	2001-2003
50	11	Colorado Plateau Conference, NAU	2001 November
50	12	Grand Canyon History Symposium, Grand Canyon Village	2002 January
51	1	Grand Canyon Symposium Papers	2002 January

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Mormon History Association, 1975-2002

(2 boxes, 19 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
52	1	Mormon History Association	1975-1979
52	2	Mormon History Association	1980-1984
52	3	Mormon History Association	1985-1988
52	4	Journal and Nominating Committee	1984
52	5	Council Meeting	1987 November
52	6	Tanner Lecture, Logan	1988
52	7	Presidential Address	1988
52	8	Program Committee	1988
53	1	Presidency	Undated
53	2	Program, Susan Fales	Undated
53	3	Rexburg	1981
53	4	England	1987
53	5	Logan	1988
53	6	Quincy	1989
53	7	Hawaii	1990
53	8	St. George	1992
53	9	Omaha	1997
53	10	Ogden	1999
53	11	Tuscon	2002

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Correspondence, Undated

(2 boxes, 33 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
54	1	A	Undated
54	2	B	Undated
54	3	BEI Productions	Undated
54	4	C	Undated
54	5	D	Undated
54	6	E	Undated
54	7	F	Undated
54	8	G	Undated
54	9	H	Undated
54	10	J	Undated
54	11	K	Undated
54	12	L	Undated
54	13	M	Undated
54	14	N	Undated
54	15	Linda Newell (1)	Undated
54	16	Linda Newell (2)	Undated
54	17	Linda Newell (3)	Undated
54	18	O	Undated
54	19	P	Undated
54	20	R	Undated
54	21	Joe Romney	Undated
54	22	Bill Russell	Undated
54	23	S	Undated
54	24	Gary Smith	Undated
54	25	Melvin T. Smith	Undated
54	26	T	Undated
54	27	University of Missouri Press	Undated
54	28	W	Undated
54	29	Y	Undated
55	1	Tippetts Family Correspondence (1)	Undated
55	2	Tippetts Family Correspondence (2)	Undated
55	3	Tippetts Family Correspondence (3)	Undated
55	4	Other Linda Newell Correspondence	Undated

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Misc. Newspaper Articles, Undated

(1 box, 3 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
56	1	Articles about Val Avery	Undated
56	2	Articles about the Mormon Church (1)	Undated
56	3	Articles about the Mormon Church (2)	Undated

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Misc. Articles/Essays, Undated

(3 boxes, 59 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
57	1	"The 1845 Torching of Morley's Settlement and Murder of Edmund Durfee"	Undated
57	2	"All That Glitters: The Last Major Search for Gold in Glen Canyon"	Undated
57	3	"The Arizona Champion"	Undated
57	4	"The Beaver Creek Project: Arizona Watershed Research and the Ideology of Intensive Management"	Undated
57	5	"Church History: A Conflict of Faith"	Undated
57	6	"Cultural Resources Management: People and Places of the Old Kaibab"	Undated
57	7	"Dan Hogan and the Orphan Mine"	Undated
57	8	"Dangerous History: Laurel Ulrich and Her Mormon Sisters"	Undated
57	9	"Dartmouth Arminianism and Its Impact on Hyrum Smith and the Smith Family"	Undated
57	10	"Dartmouth's Explorers, Missionaries, Mormons, and Native Americans and Their Contribution to the Settlement of the West"	Undated
57	11	"The Death of the Prophet"	Undated
57	12	"Ecology, Resource Redistribution, and Mormon Settlement in Northeastern Arizona"	Undated
57	13	"Emery Kolb and the Santa Fe Railroad"	Undated
57	14	"An Evolutionary Analysis of the Mormon Religion"	Undated
57	15	"Exiles in Time"	Undated
57	16	"The Fabulous Kingdom of Cibola"	Undated
57	17	"Faith, Mythology, and the Curious Case of the Bye Bye Brodie Book"	Undated
57	18	"Flight 42-50890: An Unsolved Puzzle of the San Francisco Peaks"	Undated
57	19	"From Chug Wagon to Parkway: Arizona's Golden Age of Automobiling"	Undated
57	20	"Gathering the Remnants: Establishing the RLDS Church in Southwestern Iowa"	Undated
57	21	"The Heliograph in Arizona History"	Undated
57	22	"Henry Clay Rogers"	Undated
57	23	"Historic Structure Report: Lee's Ranch Historical Data"	Undated
57	24	"History of Grand Canyon National Park"	Undated
57	25	"A History of the LDS Institute of Religion, Flagstaff, Arizona"	Undated
57	26	"The Impact of the Environment on the Development of Early Mormon Settlements in Northeastern Arizona"	Undated
57	27	"An Intellectual View of Joseph Smith through the Eyes of His Brother, Hyrum Smith"	Undated
57	28	"The Keystone"	Undated
58	1	"The Kolb Brothers of Grand Canyon"	Undated
58	2	"The Last of a Breed: Henry A. Crabb's Filibuster of Sonora, 1857"	Undated
58	3	"Lords of Creation: Patriarchy, The Abrahamic Household of Mormonism"	Undated
58	4	"Military Aircraft Disasters of the San Francisco Peaks of Northern Arizona and Surrounding Areas During World War II"	Undated
58	5	"New Paradigms for Understanding Mormonism and Mormon History"	Undated
58	6	"Obscure Believers: The Mormon Schism of Alpheus Cutler"	Undated
58	7	"On Being a Mormon Historian"	Undated
58	8	"Our Natural Hearthstone: Anti-Polygamy Fiction and the Sentimental Campaign Against Moral Diversity in Antebellum America"	Undated
58	9	"Political Change in the American West, 1852-1984"	Undated
58	10	"Polygamy in Utah and Surrounding Area Since the Manifesto of 1890"	Undated
58	11	"The Psychology of Religious Genius: Joseph Smith and the Origins of New Religious Movements"	Undated
58	12	"Reynolds v. United States: 19th Century Forms of Marriage and the Status of Women"	Undated
58	13	"Separate Trails"	Undated
58	14	"Short Creek – Colorado City on the Arizona Strip"	Undated
58	15	"Short Creek Historical Calendar"	Undated
58	16	"Sinews of Dirt and Stone: Grand Canyon's Backcountry Trails System, an Historic Summary"	Undated
58	17	"South Kaibab National Forest: A Historical Overview"	Undated
59	1	"Southern Utah Tales"	Undated
59	2	"Stanley Sikes"	Undated
59	3	"The Struggles of Charles Jensen: The Homosexual Friend of An Early LDS Poet"	Undated
59	4	"‘That Troublous Period:’ The Bench and Bar of Territorial Utah"	Undated
59	5	"The Surgeon and the Prophet"	Undated
59	6	"Thy Kingdom Come: A Study of Mormon Rhetoric in Arizona Politics, 1986-1989"	Undated
59	7	"Toward an Introduction to a Psychobiography of Joseph Smith"	Undated
59	8	"The Tunnel"	Undated
59	9	"Utah's Negro Pioneers of 1847"	Undated
59	10	"A Weary Traveler: The 1848-1850 Diary of Zina D.H. Young"	Undated
59	11	"Why Do Mormons Continue to Believe and Practice: A Summary Statement of Benefits and Problems"	Undated
59	12	"A Wild Photographic Voyage Through the Grand Canyon"	Undated
59	13	"Wives of Nineteenth Century Mormon Bishops: A Quantitative Analysis"	Undated
59	14	"Writing About the Mormon Prophet's Brother: A Biographer's Reflections"	Undated

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General Office Files, 1979-2004

(5 boxes, 42 folders)

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
60	1	National Endowment for the Humanities (1)	Undated
60	2	National Endowment for the Humanities (2)	Undated
60	3	National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Award Letter	Undated
60	4	National Endowment for the Humanities	1989
60	5	Val's National Endowment for the Humanities Application	Undated
60	6	Interactive Instruction Television – Yuma Training	Undated
60	7	Distinguished Faculty in Residence in Yuma	1996 Spring
60	8	Requests for Book Reviews	Undated
60	9	Bruce H. Hooper	Undated
60	10	Jim Byrkit	Undated
61	1	Curriculum Vitae	Undated
61	2	Sabbatical	1994
61	3	Sabbatical	2000
61	4	NAU Awards and Honors	Undated
61	5	Funding Request for Field Trips	Undated
61	6	Record of Absence Slips	Undated
61	7	CCPS – Director Applications	1984
61	8	Grants	Undated
61	9	IUPUI Distance Education	Undated
61	10	Western Historical Quarterly	Undated
61	11	Flagstaff Westerners	Undated
61	12	Arizona Humanities Council	Undated
61	13	EFNEP Program	Undated
61	14	Arizona Women's Hall of Fame	Undated
61	15	Raymond Educational Foundation	Undated
62	1	Faculty Status Committee	1999-2000
62	2	Faculty Status Committee	2002-2003
62	3	Document of Expectations	2003-2004
62	4	NAU Contracts	Undated
62	5	NAU Master's Program	Undated
62	6	NAU PhD Program	Undated
62	7	Elderhostel	Undated
62	8	Secondary Education Assistant Professor Search	Undated
62	9	Old Dean's Office Documents	Undated
62	10	Phi Kappa Phi	Undated
62	11	NAU History Organization	Undated
63	1	Curtis M. Hinsley (1)	Undated
63	2	Curtis M. Hinsley (2)	Undated
64	1	Val Avery's Calendar	1979
64	2	Val Avery's Calendar	2003-2004
64	3	Tippetts Genealogy – Early Kirtland and New York	Undated
64	4	“Fun Stuff”	Undated

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Subjects

Personal Names :
Avery, Valeen Tippetts--Correspondence.
Smith, David Hyrum
Smith, Emma Hale

Corporate Names :
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History.
Mormon History Association.
Northern Arizona University--Administration.

Geographical Names :
Colorado Plateau--History.
West (U.S.)--History.

Subject Terms :
Mormon Church--History.

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Guide to the Valeen T. Avery Papers,
1975-2005

Overview of the Collection

Biographical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Administrative Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Subjects

Finding aid/Register created by Clint Pumphrey,
©2011

Guide to the Valeen T. Avery Papers, 1975-2005

Overview of the Collection

Biographical Note

Content Description

Use of the Collection

Administrative Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Subjects

Finding aid/Register created by Clint Pumphrey, ©2011

Guide to the Valeen T. Avery Papers,
1975-2005

Finding aid/Register created by Clint Pumphrey,
©2011