On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
By Jared Farmer.
Description
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-America...
ISBN(s)
0674047435, 9780674047433
