Martin Harris Bibliography

Anderson, Richard Lloyd. Investigating the Book of Mormon Witnesses, 95–120. Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1981.

Bennett, Richard E. “‘Read This I Pray Thee’: Martin Harris and the Three Wise Men of the East.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 1 (2010): 178–216.

Bennett, Richard E. “‘A Nation Now Extinct,’ American Indian Origin Theories as of 1820: Samuel L. Mitchill, Martin Harris, and the New York Theory.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 2 (2011): 30–51.

Bennett, Richard E. “Martin Harris’s 1828 Visit to Luther Bradish, Charles Anthon, and Samuel Mitchill.” In The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder, 103–115. Edited by Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, and Kerry Hull. Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.

Bennett, Richard E. “‘A Very Particular Friend’: Luther Bradish.” In Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, 63–82. Edited by Lincoln Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges. Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015.

Black, Susan Easton and Larry C. Porter. “‘For the Sum of Three Thousand Dollars’.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 2 (2005): 4–11, 66–67.

Black, Susan Easton and Larry C. Porter. “‘Rest Assured, Martin Harris Will Be Here in Time’.” Journal of the Book of Mormon and Other Restoration Scripture 20, no. 1 (2011): 5–27. Also published in Bountiful Harvest: Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown, 31–71. Edited by Andrew C. Skinner, D. Morgan Davis, and Carl Griffin. Provo, UT: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2011.

Black, Susan Easton and Larry C. Porter. Martin Harris: Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 2018.

Black, Susan Easton and Larry C. Porter. “Martin Harris Comes to Utah, 1870.” BYU Studies Quarterly 57, no. 3 (2018): 143–164.

Bradley, Don. The Lost 116 Pages: Reconstructing the Book of Mormon’s Missing Stories, 3–103. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2019.

Gunnell, Wayne Cutler. “Martin Harris: Witness and Benefactor to the Book of Mormon.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, Provo, June 1955.

Homer, William H., Jr. “‘… Publish it Upon the Mountains’: The Story of Martin Harris, One of the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon.” Improvement Era 58, no. 3 (March 1955): 144–146, 194–195; no. 4 (April 1995): 238–239, 244; no. 5 (May 1955): 310–311, 344–346; no. 6 (June 1955): 387, 462–463; no. 7 (July 1955): 505–507, 524–526.

James, Rhett Stephen. The Man Who Knew: The Early Years—A Play About Martin Harris, 1824–1830. Salt Lake City, UT, 1983.

James, Rhett Stephen. “Harris, Martin.” In Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., 2:574–576. Edited by Daniel H. Ludlow. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1993.

James, Rhett. “The Legacy of Martin Harris: The Printing of the Book of Mormon.” Mormon Heritage Magazine 2, no. 4 (July/August 1995): 14–20.

James, Rhett S. and David H. James. “Martin Harris: The Witness.” Mormon Heritage Magazine 2, no. 4 (July/August 1995): 31–35.

Jensen, Robin Scott. “A Witness in England: Martin Harris and the Strangite Mission.” BYU Studies 44, no. 3 (2005): 79–98.

Marquardt, H. Michael. “Martin Harris: The Kirtland Years, 1831–1870.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35, no. 3 (2002): 1–40.

McBride, Matthew. “The Contributions of Martin Harris.” In Revelations in Context: The Stories Behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants, 1–9. Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2016.

Morris, Larry E. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon, 224–228, 250–252, 271–272, 370–372, 456–457. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Nelson, Mark B. and Steven C. Harper. “The Imprisonment of Martin Harris in 1833.” BYU Studies 45, no. 6 (2006): 113–119.

Romig, Ronald E. Martin Harris’s Kirtland. Independence, MO: John Whitmer Books, 2007.

Shelton, Scott R. “Martin Harris in Cache Valley—Events and Influences.” Master’s thesis, Utah State University, Logan, 1986.

Smith, Robert F., Gordon C. Thomasson, and John W. Welch. “Martin Harris’s Visit with Charles Anthon: Collected Documents on the Anthon Transcript and ‘Shorthand Egyptian’.” FARMS Preliminary Reports, 1990.

Tuckett, Madge Harris and Belle Harris Wilson. The Martin Harris Story: Special Witness to the Book of Mormon. Provo, UT: Maasai, 1983.

Vogel, Dan. “Introduction to Martin Harris Collection.” In Early Mormon Documents, 5 vols., 2:253–259. Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1996–2003.

Walker, Ronald W. “Martin Harris: Mormonism’s Early Convert.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 19, no. 4 (1986): 29–43.

 

Compiled by Neal Rappleye and used with the permission of Book of Mormon Central.