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    Narrative Type
    Nonfiction
    Features
    Dust Jacket, Illustrated
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    United States
    ISBN
    9780674027671
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    Publisher
    Harvard University Press
    ISBN-10
    0674027671
    ISBN-13
    9780674027671
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    63457726

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
    Number of Pages
    471 Pages
    Language
    English
    Topic
    United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), United States / 19th Century, General, Ecology, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / General
    Publication Year
    2008
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Nature, Religion, Social Science, History
    Author
    Jared Farmer
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.4 in
    Item Weight
    28.7 Oz
    Item Length
    9.2 in
    Item Width
    6.1 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2007-034611
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Reviews
    On Zion's Mount is an important book for historians of the American West and the nation as a whole. It offers an engaging look at how twentieth-century American popular culture configures, and then reconfigures, place as the stage upon which all history takes place., Just as Mt. Timpanogos is more than a simple landmark, this book is far more than the history of a mountain peak...Farmer weaves together multiple historical narratives to produce a book that is both intellectually rigorous and pleasurably accessible...This work is a study in American and Mormon pioneering and Mormon-Indian relations even as it serves to explicate the intricate relationship among geography, memory, and societal construction in the years following that initial pioneering...He has written a book that will engage historians of multiple fields and will make significant contributions to multiple historiographies., On Zionrs"s Mount is a well-researched, thoughtful exploration of how landscape is produced by societies as a result of certain historical conditions. The book deserves praise for challenging memories that are built on first forgetting., On Zion's Mount is a well-researched, thoughtful exploration of how landscape is produced by societies as a result of certain historical conditions. The book deserves praise for challenging memories that are built on first forgetting., This is not a conventional history of Mormon-Indian relations during the second half of the 19th century. Rather, Farmer offers an intellectual interpretation of the Utah Valley and its most identifiable landmark--Mount Timpanogos, which towers above Provo and Orem. He also explains how white people (mostly Mormons) created pseudo-Indian legends that strengthened white claims while reducing the indigenous Ute attachment to the landscape...[Farmer] compares similar legends throughout the nation and explains how they were created to reflect the prevailing ideologies of the day. As an intellectual and cultural investigation, this book ably weaves diverse fabrics of history and folklore into an understandable whole., This splendid volume is a tour-de-force of historical scholarship that all lovers of Utah history will want to read...Ambitious, imaginative, theoretically sophisticated, and highly engaging, this volume tells the story of the creation of Mount Timpanogos as a cultural landmark and the concomitant fading of Utah Lake and the Lake Utes from most Utahns' historical memory...This book's breadth, wit, eloquence, and creative reinterpretation of local history in light of key developments in American cultural history make it a must-read.
    Dewey Decimal
    979.2/24
    Table Of Content
    ContentsList of Illustrations ixThe Great Basin xiThe eastern Great Basin in the 1850s xiiThe southern Wasatch Front in the twentieth century xiiiIntroduction 1Part I. Liquid Antecedents1. Ute Genesis, Mormon Exodus 002. Brigham Young and the Famine of the Fish-Eaters 003. The Desertification of Zion 000Part II. Making a Mountain: Alpine Play4. Rocky Mountain Saints 0005. Hiking into Modern Times 0006. Sundance and Suburbia 000Part III. Marking a Mountain: Indian Play7. Renaming the Land 0008. The Rise and Fall of a Lover's Leap 0009. Performing a Remembered Past 000Notes 000Acknowledgments 000Index 000
    Synopsis
    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., 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 complex tale of how cultures confer meaning on the environment--how they create homelands. Only in Utah did Euro-American settlers conceive of having a homeland in the Native American sense--an endemic spiritual geography. They called it "Zion." Mormonism, a religion indigenous to the United States, originally embraced Indians as "Lamanites," or spiritual kin. "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 Timpanogos with "Indian" meaning. This same pattern was repeated across the United States. Jared Farmer reveals how settlers and their descendants (the new natives) bestowed "Indian" place names and recited pseudo-Indian legends about those places--cultural acts that still affect the way we think about American Indians and American landscapes., 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 native Indians from their actual landmark, Utah lake. This study looks at this curious shift.
    LC Classification Number
    F832

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