 Dwyer periodically acted as editor to the Utah Historical Quarterly, and produced two noted volumes.In 1943, he edited work on the diary of Albert Tracy, a soldier in Albert Sidney Johnston's troops during the Utah War and in 1946 he edited a volume on Mormon pioneer Lorenzo Dow Young which contained a biography of Young by James Amasa Little, an edited diary of Lorenzo Dow Young and additional information on the pioneer's extensive family.After he became Archbishop, Dwyer became a member of the board of advisors of the Western History Center at the University of Utah.