austin e. and alta s. fife are called the founders of research into mormon folklore. this research has been done much more since the couple’s first work on it in the 1930s. although people had looked at the issue a little before, the fifes made the field better, through the fife folklore archive, now at the library at utah state university. their book on mormon folklore, called "saints of sage and saddle", came out in 1956. this book, says someone who studies folklore named jill terry rudy, "remains the most complete book-length treatment of mormon folklore" - which means that it is the best book on mormon folklore that there is.