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On Zion's mount Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape
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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 "In...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Jared Farmer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (472 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0674036719, 0674027671, 0674047435, 9780674027671, 9780674036710, 9780674047433, 9780674263345, 0674263340
- OCLC
- ocn503446192, on1049659457, on1054877392, ocn979969638
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-439) and index.
- English
- 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