Format:
Book
Author:
Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.
Title:
Mormon country / by Wallace Stegner.
Publisher, Date:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]
Description:
xviii, 362 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
Where others saw only sage, a salt lake, and a great desert, the Mormons saw their "lovely Deseret," a land of lilacs, honeycombs, poplars, and fruit trees. Unwelcome in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, they migrated to the dry lands between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada to establish Mormon country, a wasteland made green. Like the land the Mormons settled, their habits stood in stark contrast to the frenzied recklessness of the American West. Opposed to the often prodigal individualism of the West, Mormons lived in closely knit--some say ironclad--communities. The story of Mormon country is one of self-sacrifice and labor spent in the search for an ideal in the most forbidding territory of the American West.
Subjects:
Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- History.
Utah -- History.
Notes:
Includes index.
"Introduction to the new Bison Books ed. by Richard W. Etulain."
Web Site:
LCCN:
2003047305
ISBN:
0803293054
9780803293052
Other Number:
51900252
System Availability:
6
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
6
Control Number:
528016
Call Number:
979.2 Stegner
Course Reserves:
0
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5
# System items in:
5