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1) On Zion's mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American landscape

Author

Farmer, Jared

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Pub. Date

2008

Language

English

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Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no "Indian" legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it -- once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. On Zion's Mount tells the story of this curious shift. It is a quintessentially American story about the fraught process of making oneself "native" in a strange land. But it is also a...

2) Westward expansion: a history of the American frontier

Author

Billington, Ray Allen

Language

English

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When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi...

3) Hole-in-the Rock: an epic in the colonization of the great American West

Author

Miller, David E

Publisher

University of Utah Press

Pub. Date

1966

Language

English

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First published in 1962, David E. Miller's award-winning work on the Hole-in-the-Rock episode was arguably his greatest achievement as a historian. One of the great set-pieces of Mormon history, the San Juan Mission had become clouded by myth and hagiography when Miller first became attracted to its study in the 1950s, and few reliable sources were at that time available. Not content with exhausting archival material, Miller contacted all locatable...

4) Index to the 1850, 1860 & 1870 censuses of Utah: heads of households

Publisher

Genealogical Pub

Pub. Date

c1981

Language

English

5) Building the kingdom: a history of Mormons in America

Author

Bushman, Claudia L

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

[2001]

Language

English

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"Mormonism is one of the world's fastest growing religions, doubling its membership every 15 years. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the formal denomination of the Mormon church) is now 10 million strong, with more than half of its membership coming from outside the United States. More than 88 million copies of The Book of Mormon have been printed, and it has been translated into more than 50 languages. Mormons in America tells the...

6) Head west, young mouse: transcontinental railroad traveler

Author

Horender, Philip M

Series

Maximilian P. Mouse time traveler volume 3
Calico chapter books

Publisher

Magic Wagon

Pub. Date

2014.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

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Maximilian finds himself in a wagon traveling west with a prairie dog named Madeline, and witnessing the driving of the "golden spike" and the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869--and incidentally preventing a pair of thieves from making off with a nice couple's wagon and supplies.