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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957969803321

Autore

Farmer Jared <1974->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780674263345

0674263340

9780674047433

0674047435

9780674036710

0674036719

Edizione

[1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (472 p.)

Disciplina

979.2/24

Soggetti

Ute Indians - History

Latter Day Saints - History

Frontier and pioneer life - Utah

Landscape assessment - United States

Indians in popular culture - United States

Timpanogos, Mount (Utah) History

Utah Lake (Utah) History

Utah History

Great Basin Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.