We All Must Be Crasy

Jennifer L. Lund is an independent historian and museum consultant. She is the former director of the Historic Sites Division of the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is the 2024 winner of the Leroy S. Axland Best Utah History Article Award from the Utah Historical Society. Elizabeth Oberdick Anderson is an independent historian and editor. She is the author of Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins, 1875-1932, recipient of the Mormon History Association's Best First Book Award and the Utah Division of State History Board's Best Documentary Book in Utah History Award.

"We All Must Be Crasy is valuable as presentation of primary documents, made more so by the editors' remarkable analytical and contextual essays. Their expertise and fluency with nineteenth-century sources deliver a rich social history--one that makes a significant contribution to both Latter-day Saint and Utah scholarship."--Jonathan A. Stapley, author of Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Worship "In documenting and contextualizing this stunning and extensive collection of letters, Lund and Anderson have built on a recent effort to expand missionary narratives to include those left behind. Through Sanie Peterson's own words, we gain deep insight into this sassy and forthright nineteenth-century woman's experience. This is an impressive micro-history of one unique woman and her family who can begin to illuminate broader currents within Mormonism."--Janiece Johnson, author of Convicting the Mormons and The Witness of Women