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On Zion's mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape / Jared Farmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (455 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674036710
  • 0674036719
  • 0674047435
  • 9780674047433
  • 0674263340
  • 9780674263345
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On Zion's mount.DDC classification:
  • 979.2/24 22
LOC classification:
  • F832.U8 F37 2008eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
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  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)282481

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-439) and index.

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.

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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 "Indian" meaning.

In English.