On Zion’s Mount
Title | On Zion’s Mount PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Farmer |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 2010-04-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674036719 |
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.
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord?
Title | Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the Lord? PDF eBook |
Author | L. Michael Morales |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2015-12-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830899863 |
How can creatures made from dust become members of God's household "forever"? In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Michael Morales explores the narrative context, literary structure and theology of Leviticus, following its dramatic movement from the tabernacle to the temple—and from the earthly to the heavenly Mount Zion in the New Testament.
A Chosen People, a Promised Land
Title | A Chosen People, a Promised Land PDF eBook |
Author | Hokulani K. Aikau |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0816674612 |
How Native Hawaiians' experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
Trees in Paradise
Title | Trees in Paradise PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Farmer |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2013-10-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0393078027 |
Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.
Towns of Mount Lassen
Title | Towns of Mount Lassen PDF eBook |
Author | William Shelton |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780738547206 |
The imposing and dormant peak of Mount Lassen, the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range, has been held in awe and wonder since well before the California Gold Rush. The Yahi Nation called the volcano Waganupa, meaning the center of the world, and the volcanos peak, named after the Dutch immigrant and prospector Peter Lassen, is the centerpiece of the scenic Lassen Volcanic National Park. Within the guarded perimeters of this parkinducted into the park system under Woodrow Wilson in 1916, hardly a year after the devastation of its most recent eruptionsthere was once a thriving lumber industry, narrow-gauge railroad system, and flume network that sustained a community of lumber camps and the lost town of Lyonsville, all threatened by volcanic destruction and the changing West.
Glen Canyon Dammed
Title | Glen Canyon Dammed PDF eBook |
Author | Jared Farmer |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816518876 |
"Focusing on the saddening, maddening example of Glen Canyon, Jared Farmer traces the history of exploration and development in the Four Corners region, discusses the role of tourism in changing the face of the West, and shows how the "invention" of Lake Powell has served multiple needs. He also seeks to identify the point at which change becomes loss: How do people deal with losing places they love? How are we to remember or restore lost places?"--BOOK JACKET.
A House Full of Females
Title | A House Full of Females PDF eBook |
Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 525 |
Release | 2017-01-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1101947977 |
From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination. A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two dozen nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts left by first-generation Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, the never-before-told story of the earliest days of the women of Mormon "plural marriage," whose right to vote in the state of Utah was given to them by a Mormon-dominated legislature as an outgrowth of polygamy in 1870, fifty years ahead of the vote nationally ratified by Congress, and who became political actors in spite of, or because of, their marital arrangements. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, writing of this small group of Mormon women who've previously been seen as mere names and dates, has brilliantly reconstructed these textured, complex lives to give us a fulsome portrait of who these women were and of their "sex radicalism"--the idea that a woman should choose when and with whom to bear children.