About the Author

Harvard S. Heath is former curator of the Utah and American West Archives at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, where he earned his PhD. He is the editor of In the World: The Diaries of Reed Smoot and a contributor to the modern edition of James E. Talmage's 1911 House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern. He was also lead researcher for BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson's four-volume Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years.