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



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Autore: Farmer Jared <1974-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: On Zion's mount [[electronic resource] ] : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape / / Jared Farmer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (472 p.)
Disciplina: 979.2/24
Soggetto topico: Ute Indians - History
Mormons - History
Frontier and pioneer life - Utah
Landscape assessment - United States
Indians in popular culture - United States
Soggetto geografico: Timpanogos, Mount (Utah) History
Utah Lake (Utah) History
Utah History
Great Basin Description and travel
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: On Zion's mount  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-04743-5
0-674-03671-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455110903321
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