Reid L. Neilson has served as the Assistant Church Historian and Recorder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is an award-winning author and editor of dozens of books on the Latter-day Saints, and coeditor of Pacific Apostle: The 1920-21 Diary of David O. McKay in the Latter-day Saint Island Missions. Scott D. Marianno is an historian in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and coeditor of A Voice in the Wilderness: The 1888–1930 General Conference Sermons of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson.

• Acknowledgments ixPrologue 11 Danish American Emigrant 72 Entrepreneurial Chronicler 293 Historian’s Office Affiliate 504 Itinerant World Traveler 795 Assistant Church Historian 1046 Elder and Emissary 1217 Scandinavian Mission President 1408 Modern Record Keeper 1659 Explorer of Latin America 18310 Public Commemorator 20311 Twilight Church Historian 221Epilogue 240Notes 247Bibliography 293Index 309

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