---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 17
number: 1
published: 1913-11
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Cover, Masthead, and Contents," *Improvement Era* 17, no. 1 (November 1913): 3–96.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1701unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1701unse
start_page: 3
end_page: 96
curator_note: Cover and masthead retained. Editorial contents are split at source-native headings. Advertising leaves and unnumbered front/back matter are intentionally omitted. The temporary leaf-to-printed-folio ledger and source audit are retained outside the repository.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1701unse
  publication_year: 1913
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*, vol. 17, no. 1 (November 1913).

## Editorial contents

- Belated Emigrants of 1856, 3.
- A Question of Conversion, 16.
- Voice of the Intangible: The First Echoes, 32.
- Courage, 44.
- Discoveries on the Colorado: The Agriculture of the Cliff Dwellers, 48.
- The Dead Gods, 56.
- From the Far North, 58.
- Priesthood Quorums' Table: Report of the General Priesthood Committee, 60.
- The Gull Monument, 65.
- Early Thanksgiving Days, 74.
- Editors' Table: Tobacco, Drink, and Infamous Fashions, 77.
- Mutual Work: M. I. A. Day Stake Finals, 90.
- Passing Events, 92.