Utah Since Statehood
Author : Noble Warrum
Publisher :
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Utah
ISBN :
Author : Noble Warrum
Publisher :
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 20,65 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Utah
ISBN :
Author : Ken Verdoia
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
"In this richly illustrated book, Ken Verdoia and Richard Firmage provide a vivid collage of text and photographs to retell the story of Utah's long and tortuous road toward statehood. With more than 400 photographs - many of them published here for the first time - and a wealth of line drawings and information boxes, Utah: The Struggle for Statehood offers a readily accessible account of the territorial period in Utah. The lively narrative describes the arrival of the first Mormon pioneers, the Utah War, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Civil War era, the arrival of the Pony Express, telegraph, and railroads, the Indian wars, and the hotly contested, pivotal issue of Mormon polygamy. This book gives readers a fascinating record of Utah's efforts to join the Union and serves as a lasting memento for the state's centennial celebrations."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : W. Paul Reeve
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0190226277
Mormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book, W. Paul Reeve explores the ways in which nineteenth century Protestant white America made outsiders out of an inside religious group. Much of what has been written on Mormon otherness centers upon economic, cultural, doctrinal, marital, and political differences that set Mormons apart from mainstream America. Reeve instead looks at how Protestants racialized Mormons, using physical differences in order to define Mormons as non-White to help justify their expulsion from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. He analyzes and contextualizes the rhetoric on Mormons as a race with period discussions of the Native American, African American, Oriental, Turk/Islam, and European immigrant races. He also examines how Mormon male, female, and child bodies were characterized in these racialized debates. For instance, while Mormons argued that polygamy was ordained by God, and so created angelic, celestial, and elevated offspring, their opponents suggested that the children were degenerate and deformed. The Protestant white majority was convinced that Mormonism represented a racial-not merely religious-departure from the mainstream and spent considerable effort attempting to deny Mormon whiteness. Being white brought access to political, social, and economic power, all aspects of citizenship in which outsiders sought to limit or prevent Mormon participation. At least a part of those efforts came through persistent attacks on the collective Mormon body, ways in which outsiders suggested that Mormons were physically different, racially more similar to marginalized groups than they were white. Medical doctors went so far as to suggest that Mormon polygamy was spawning a new race. Mormons responded with aspirations toward whiteness. It was a back and forth struggle between what outsiders imagined and what Mormons believed. Mormons ultimately emerged triumphant, but not unscathed. Mormon leaders moved away from universalistic ideals toward segregated priesthood and temples, policies firmly in place by the early twentieth century. So successful were Mormons at claiming whiteness for themselves that by the time Mormon Mitt Romney sought the White House in 2012, he was labeled "the whitest white man to run for office in recent memory." Ending with reflections on ongoing views of the Mormon body, this groundbreaking book brings together literatures on religion, whiteness studies, and nineteenth century racial history with the history of politics and migration.
Author : Utah Statehood Centennial Commission
Publisher : Utah Wilderness Centennial Commission
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874211948
Author : Noble Warrum
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781010462583
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Church and state
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Author : Gustive Olof Larson
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN :
Manuscript of book prior to publication. Presents the struggle of Utah for statehood, including all aspects and conditions relative to the practic of plural marriage and the issue of the "Woodruff Manifesto."
Author : Allan Kent Powell
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN :
The first complete history of Utah in encyclopedic form, with entries from Anasazi to ZCMI!
Author : John Fielder
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Parks
ISBN : 9780986000461
This book features new John Fielder photographs, as well as then and now images made by Fielder from old postcards and other historical photographs. The photographs decorate a complete written history and guide to the park system. An authoritative history of the mountain parks from their beginnings to the present day, plus a guide to visiting the parks. 50 new John Fielder photographs, 75 historic images, and 25 then-and-now photo pairs of Red Rocks, Lookout Mountain, Genesee, Daniels Park and more.
Author : Benjamin E. Park
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1631494872
Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.