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On Zion's mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape / Jared Farmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Farmer, Jared, 1974-
- Series:
- ACLS Fellows' publications.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ute Indians--History.
- Ute Indians.
- Latter Day Saints--History.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Utah.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Landscape assessment--United States.
- Landscape assessment.
- Indians in popular culture--United States.
- Indians in popular culture.
- Timpanogos, Mount (Utah)--History.
- Timpanogos, Mount (Utah).
- Utah Lake (Utah)--History.
- Utah Lake (Utah).
- Utah--History.
- Utah.
- Great Basin--Description and travel.
- Great Basin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (472 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On Zion's Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians-and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Mt. Timpanogos with "Indian" meaning.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-439) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674263345
- 0674263340
- 9780674047433
- 0674047435
- 9780674036710
- 0674036719
- OCLC:
- 503446192
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