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Author:

Farmer, Jared, 1974-

Title:

On Zion's mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape / Jared Farmer.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

455 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Timpanogos, Mount (Utah)--History.
Utah Lake (Utah)--History.
Ute Indians--History.
Mormons--History.
Frontier and pioneer life--Utah.
Utah--History.
Great Basin--Description and travel.
Landscape assessment--United States.
Indians in popular culture--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-439) and index.

Contents:

pt. 1. Liquid antecedents -- Ute genesis, Mormon exodus -- Brigham Young and the famine of the Fish-Eaters -- The desertification of Zion -- pt. 2. Making a mountain : alpine play -- Rocky Mountain Saints -- Hiking into modern times -- Sundance and suburbia -- pt. 3. Marking a mountain : Indian play -- Renaming the land -- The rise and fall of a lover's leap -- Performing a remembered past.

ISBN:

0674027671 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674027671 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007034611

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

AGPE046 -- Drake Public Library (Centerville)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)