Resources

For more on Utah and statehood, check out the following materials

Articles

• Robert Edwin Albright, “Politics and Public Opinion in the Western Statehood Movement of the 1880’s,” Pacific Historical Review 3, no. 3 (1934): 296-306.
• Thomas G. Alexander, “Utah’s Constitution: A Reflection of the Territorial Experience,” Utah Historical Quarterly 64, no. 3 (1996): 246-263.
• Eric Biber, “The Price of Admission: Causes, Effects and Patterns of Conditions Imposed on States Entering the Union,” The American Journal of Legal History 46, no. 2 (2004): 119-208.
• Leland H. Creer, “The Evolution of Government in Early Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 26, no. 1 (1958):23-44.
• George Ellsworth, “Utah’s Struggle for Statehood,” Utah Historical Quarterly 31, no.1 (1963): 60-69.
• Audrey M. Godfrey. “All Hail! Statehood!,” Utah Historical Quarterly 63, no. 4 (1995) 357-369.
• Kenneth W. Godfrey, “Charles W. Penrose and His Contributions to Utah Statehood,” 64, no. 4 (1996): 356-371.
• John M. Harvigsen, “Utah’s Mammoth Statehood Flag,” Utah Historical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (2011): 250-263.
• Joan Ray Harrow, “Joseph L. Rawlins: Father of Utah Statehood,” Utah Historical Quarterly 44, no. 1 (1976): 59.
• Stanley S. Ivins, “A Constitution for Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly 25 (1957): 95-116.
•  Charles L. Keller, “Promoting Railroads and Statehood: John W. Young, “ Utah Historical Quarterly 45, no. 3 (1977): 289-308.
• Haward R. Lamar, “Statehood for Utah: A Different Path,” Utah Historical Quarterly 39, no. 4 (1971): 307-327.
• Howard R. Lamar, “Tanner Lecture: National Perceptions of Utah’s Statehood,” Journal of Mormon History 23, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 42-65.
• Edward Leo Lyman, “Isaac Trumbo and the Politics of Utah Statehood,” Utah Historical Quarterly 41, no. 2 (1973).
• Edward Leo Lyman, “Mormon Leaders in Politics: The Transition to Statehood in 1896,” Journal of Mormon History 24, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 30-54.
• Edward Leo Lyman, “Statehood, Political Allegiance, and Utah’s First U.S. Senate Seats: Prizes for the National Parties and Local Factions,” Utah Historical Quarterly 63, no. 4 (1995).
• William P. MacKinnon, “‘Like Splitting a Man Up His Backbone’: The Territorial Dismemberment of Utah, 1850-1896,” Utah Historical Quarterly 71, no. 2 (2003): 100-124.
• Carol Cornwall Madsen, “Decade of Detente: The Mormon-Gentile Female Relationship in Nineteenth-Century Utah,” Utah Historical Quarterly 63, no. 4 (1995).
• Chad M. Orton, “‘We Will Admit You as a State’: William H. Hooper, Utah and the Secession Crisis,” Utah Historical Quarterly 80, no. 3 (2012): 208-225.
• Charles W. Penrose, “‘To Get U[tah] in U[nion]’: Diary of a Failed Mission”,  ed. William C. Seifrit, Utah Historical Quarterly 51, no. 4 (1983): 358-381.
• Richard Poll, “The Political Reconstruction of Utah Territory, 1866-1890,” Pacific Historical Review 27, no. 2 (1958): 111-126.
• Richard D. Poll, “A State is Born,” Utah Historical Quarterly 32, no. 1 (1964): 9-31.
• Jean Bickmore White, “The Making of the Convention President: The Political Education of John Henry Smith,” Utah Historical Quarterly 39, no.4 (1971):350-369.
• Jean Bickmore White, “Political Deliverance--At a Price: The Quest for Statehood.” Journal of Mormon History 12 (1985): 135-139.
• Jean Bickmore White, “Prelude to Statehood: Coming Together in the 1890s,” Utah Historical Quarterly 62, no. 4 (1994): 300-315. 
• Jean Bickmore White, “So Bright the Dream: Economic Prosperity and The Utah Constitutional Convention,” Utah Historical Quarterly 63, no. 4 (1995): 320-356.
• Jean Bickmore White, “Woman’s Place in the Constitution: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Utah in 1895,” Utah Historical Quarterly 42, no. 4 (1974): 344-369. 
• Henry J. Wolfinger, “A Reexamination of the Woodruff Manifesto in the Light of Utah Constitutional History,” 39, no. 4 (1971): 328-349.
• Katherine Kitterman, “First to Vote: Commemorating Utah’s Suffragists”
• Tiffany Greene, “The Echo of Equal Suffrage: A Brief History of Utah’s Rural Suffrage Movement, 1889-1896” 
• Rebekah Ryan Clark, “The Fire of Civic Endeavor: Utah Suffrage after Statehood, 1896-1920”
• Miriam B. Murphy, “Women in the Utah Work Force from Statehood to World War II”

Books

• Edward Leo Lyman, Finally Statehood! Utah’s Struggles, 1849-1896 (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2019).
• Edward Leo Lyman, Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986).
• Harold Schindler, “Statehood at Last: Amid Jubilation and Bunting, Utah is Dubbed the Forty-Fifth State of the Union, 1890-1897,” in In Another Time: Sketches of Utah History (Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 1998).

Film

• Ken Verdoia, Utah: The Struggle for Statehood, KUED, DVD, 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5d69iFFVbI&t=15407s