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Born	April 13, 1942 Delta, Utah
Occupation	Historian
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Parent(s)	Edwin Anderson Lyman, Louise Hansen Lyman
Relatives	Amasa Lyman (great great-grandfather)

Edward Leo Lyman is a distinguished scholar of western transportation and community history, specializing in Mormon politics and migrations. He is the author of several books and more than twenty journal articles. He taught at the Victor Valley College where he is Emeritus Professor of History and was an adjunct professor at other California Universities. He currently lives in Utah.

Biography

Early life

Edward Leo Lyman was born in Delta, Utah in 1942. He attended the College of Southern Utah (CSU) and in May of 1966 received a Bachelor's Degree in History from Brigham Young University (BYU). He received a Master of Science Degree in History from the University of Utah in June of 1967. In 1969, he moved to Riverside CA to teach at North High School. While there, he pursued a a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside which he received in 1981.

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Academic Career

Lyman taught at Victor Valley College where he is Emeritus Professor of History. He was also a visiting professor at California State University at San Bernardino and California Polytechnic University.

Published works

• "The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood" Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Riverside, 1981.

• "The Demise of the San Bernardino Mormon Community, 1851-1857". Southern California Quarterly. 65 (4). Historical Society of Southern California. 1983.

• Political Deliverance: The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood. University of Illinois Press. 1986. ISBN 0252012399. Dr. Lyman is rewriting this book, including the addition of four new chapters taking the Utah struggles for statehood back to 1849, where the first version started in 1887.

• "Statehood, Political Allegiance, and Utah's First U.S. Senate Seats: Prizes for the National Parties And Local Factions". Utah Historical Quarterly. 63 (4): 341–356. Fall 1995.

• San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community. Signature Books. 1996. ISBN 1560850671.

• A History of Millard County (Utah Centennial Series}. Utah Historical Society. 1999. ISBN 0913738387. Published with Linda Newell.

• "The Arrowhead Trails Highway: The Beginnings of Utah's Other Route to the Pacific Coast". Utah Historical Quarterly. 67 (3). Summer 1999. {{cite journal}}: Text "pages 242-264" ignored (help)

• "The Arduous Road: Salt Lake to Los Angeles, the Most Difficult Wagon road in American History"

Book written with Larry Reese as photographer. Privately printed in Victorville in 2001. ISBN: 0970952503

• The Overland Journey from Utah to California: Wagon Travel from the City of Saints to the City of Angels. Reno: University of Nevada Press. 2004. ISBN 0-87417-501-1.

• "Caught in Between: Jacob Hamblin and the Southern Paiutes During the Black Hawk-Navajo Wars of the Late 1860's"

Utah Historical Quarterly (UHQ), Volume 75, Number 1 (Winter 2007) Pages 22-43

• "Amasa Mason Lyman: Mormon Apostle and Apostate, a Study in Dedication"

Book published in 2009 by University of Utah Press ISBN-10: 0874809401, ISBN-13: 978-0874809404

• "Southern Paiute Relations With Their Early Dixie Mormon Neighbors"

27th Annual Juanita Brooks Lecture.

Awards

2011 - Mormon History Association Best Documentary Editing/Bibliography

See also

Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement