On Zion's mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape / / Jared Farmer
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| Autore: |
Farmer Jared <1974->
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| Titolo: |
On Zion's mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape / / Jared Farmer
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| 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.: | 996247986103316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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ACLS Fellows' publications.