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English
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The Mormon Impact on the Arizona Landscape
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Tuscon, Arizona
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University of Arizona
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Master's thesis
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"The areas of dense Mormon population in Arizona occur in northern and eastern sections of the state. Mormon communities are defined as those wherein forty percent or more of the inhabitants are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. On this basis, five Mormon and three non-Mormon towns are mapped and compared with respect to twenty-one individual visible landscape features. These include aspects of town morphology, residential dwellings, agriculture and business establishments. The essential conclusion is that Mormon and Gentile towns cannot be distinguished in terms of visible landscape characteristics except that the abundance of agricultural features contrasts with the lack in non-Mormon towns. These agricultural features include presence of barns, barnyard animals, and gardens, orchards and cropped land within the settled parts of the town. One factor possibly perpetuating the agricultural nature of Mormon villages may be the proximity of nearby Gentile towns." [Author]