Family History Essays

“Polygamous Family Life and Geographic Isolation: The Poetry of Esther Ann Birch Bennion.” Journal of Mormon History, vol. 48, no. 1, 2022, pp. 65-91.

“The Arid Archipelago: Flow of Water, Flow of People.” Blossom as the Cliffrose: Mormon Legacies and the Beckoning Wild, edited by Karin Anderson and Danielle Beazer Dubrasky, Torrey House Press, 2021, pp. 141-154.

“Ideology of Land Ownership: Homesteading Practice and Frontier Narratives of Glynn Bennion.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 27, no. 1, Winter 2020, pp. 159–178. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isz093

“Filling the Great Basin: Community and Environmental Practice.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 23, no. 2, 2016, 444-467. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv073

“Water Law on the Eve of Statehood: Israel Bennion and a Conflict in Vernon, 1893-1896.” Utah Historical Quarterly, vol. 82, no. 4, 2014, pp. 289-305.

“Mapping Manifest Destiny: The Paintings of Lucile Cannon Bennion.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, vol. 45, no.1, Spring 2012, pp. 26-42.

“My Mother, the Contradiction.” Life Lessons from Mothers of Faith: Inspiring True Stories about Latter Day Moms, edited by Gary W. Toyn, Covenant Communications, 2012, pp. 266-270.

“Bottling Peaches,” Provo Orem Word, vol. 25, Spring 2012, 38-45. http://www.provooremword.org/.

“Water thick as blood.”  High Country News 43:18 (2011): 23. 

“My Father’s Tattered Faith.” Fathers of Faith: Inspiring True Stories About Latter-day Dads. Edited by Gary W. Toyn and Michael K. Winder, Covenant Communications, 2010, pp. 290-293.

“Drought,” Provo Orem Word, March 2010, pp. 38-42.

"Mary Bennion Powell: Polygamy and Silence." Journal of Mormon History, vol. 24, no. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 85-128.

"The Chimerical Desert."  BYU Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, 1992, pp. 27-42.