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Sports in Zion : Mormon recreation, 1890-1940 / Richard Ian Kimball.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kimball, Richard Ian.
- Series:
- Sports and society
- Sport and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latter Day Saints--Recreation--History.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Recreation--Utah--History.
- Recreation.
- Latter Day Saints--Social life and customs.
- History.
- Latter Day Saints--Recreation.
- Utah.
- Physical Description:
- x, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- "Not playing without a purpose" : the construction of a Mormon recreation ideology
- "A strong arm to the church" : recreation building boom
- "For the uplifting and the betterment of the youth of Israel" : athletics, socialization, and the "selling of the word of wisdom"
- "A means of preserving the memory of the Mormon pioneers" : LDS recreation in the great outdoors
- "To make the most of leisure" : recreation responds in a depression decade.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252028570
- OCLC:
- 51305940
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