LEADER 04107nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910779259603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-77839-3 010 $a9786613688781 010 $a0-87421-843-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104287 035 $a(EBL)945024 035 $a(OCoLC)801782052 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000687485 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11396164 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000687485 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10735948 035 $a(PQKB)10729758 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17624 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442887 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10572669 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL368878 035 $a(OCoLC)932313756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL945024 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442887 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104287 100 $a20120130d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBooks, bluster, and bounty$b[electronic resource] $elocal politics in the Intermountain West and Carnegie library building grants, 1898-1920 /$fSusan H. Swetnam 210 $aLogan, Utah $cUtah State University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87421-842-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Culture of the Intermountain West, 1890-1920; 2. The Challenging Process of Applying for a Carnegie Library Building Grant; 3. Boom Towns: Carnegie Libraries and Boosterism; 4. Small Mormon Towns: Carnegie Libraries to Protect Youth; 5. Carnegie Libraries in Religiously Diverse Utah Communities; 6. Women's Role in Bringing Carnegie Libraries to Settled Communities; 7. Oligarchies and Carnegie Libraries in Transitional Towns; 8. Carnegie Libraries in the Service of Personal Power; 9. Contested Libraries; 10. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Susan Swetnam uses case studies of western applications for Carnegie libraries to examine how local support was mustered for cultural institutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century interior West. This is a comparative study involving the entire region between the Rockies and the Cascades/Sierras, including all of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona; western Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado; eastern Oregon and Washington; and small parts of California and New Mexico. The study addresses not just the how of the process of establishing Carnegie libraries but, more importantly, the variable why. Although virtually all citizens and communities in the West who sought Carnegie libraries were after tangible benefits that were only tangentially related to books, what they specifically wanted varied in correlation with the diversity of the communities of the West: "Library proponents in Inland Empire boom towns, for example, touted Carnegie libraries to their fellow citizens as instruments of economic advantage over rival communities; citizens in rural LDS communities promoted Carnegie libraries as a force against the encroaching secular influences they feared threatened their children; a small cadre of Carnegie library proponents in several of Utah's largest cities, in stark contrast, actually promoted the projects to their fellow Gentiles as a corrective to LDS insularity. Economically stable Idaho communities sought Carnegie libraries to reinforce their self-perceived cultural superiority; communities in newly American Arizona sought them to counter perceptions of their towns as 'Hispanic mud villages.' And so on.""--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCarnegie libraries$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory 615 0$aCarnegie libraries$xHistory. 676 $a027.478 686 $aHIS036140$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aSwetnam$b Susan H$01569713 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779259603321 996 $aBooks, bluster, and bounty$93842764 997 $aUNINA