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James B. Allen, Ronald L. Walker, & David J. Whittaker, Studies in Mormon History, 1830-1997: An Indexed Bibliography (University of Illinois Press, 2000), Law Rare BX 8611 .A54 2000

James H. Backman, BYU Education Week Lectures on the History of Mormon Lawyers (1980), https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/faculty_scholarship/371/. 

James H. Backman, The Early Church and the Legal Profession (2004), http://www.jrcls.org/publications/perspectives/backman%20early.lds.attorneys.jan9.04.pdf (covers territorial Utah and James Henry Moyle)

Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992), Law Reserve BX 8605.5 .E62 1992 V.1-5, online at: http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Encyclopedia_of_Mormonism

Galen L. Fletcher, “Seeing the Elephant: 12 Western Legal History Sources,” in Clark Memorandum (Spring/Summer 1998): 43-45; available at: http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=clarkmemorandum

D. Michael Stewart, "The Legal History of Utah," in Allan Kent Powell, editor, Utah History Encyclopedia 322-326 (1994), Law Second Floor Reference BX 8606.5 .U82 1994, online at: http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LEGAL_HISTORY.html; entire volume is online at: http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/

Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer 1993: includes six legal history articles: Carol Cornwall Madsen, "'Sisters at the Bar': Utah Women in Law," pp. 208-232; John R. Alley Jr. "Utah State Supreme Court Justice Samuel R. Thurman," pp. 233-248; J. Allan Crockett, "Rembering A. H. Ellett," pp. 249-257; Roger Roper, "County Courthouses of Utah: A Photographic Essay," pp. 258-268; Regnal W. Garff, "The Emancipation of the Juvenile Court, 1857-65," pp. 269-279; and Don V. Tibbs, "An Affair with a Flag," pp. 280-283, online at: http://utahhistory.sdlhost.com/#/item/000000031000981/view/3

Jessica Van Buren, Research Guide: Utah Judge Memorials and Profiles (Utah State Courts, Rev. Nov. 2012), online at: http://www.utcourts.gov/lawlibrary/docs/judges_website.pdf

Jessica Van Buren, Research Guide: Utah Legal History Articles & Books (Utah State Courts, Rev. Nov. 2012), online at: http://www.utcourts.gov/lawlibrary/docs/legal_history_website.pdf

Marvin E. Wiggins, Mormons and Their Neighbors (2005), online at: http://www.lib.byu.edu/Ancestry/ (index to LDS biographical sketches in published works)

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