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

• Autore: Farmer Jared <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.2/24
• Soggetto topico: Ute Indians - History; Latter Day Saints - 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
• 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
• ISBN: 0-674-26334-0; 0-674-04743-5; 0-674-03671-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778161403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ACLS Fellows' publications.