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English
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The Wasp in the Beehive : Non-Mormon Presence in 1880s Utah
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State College, Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania State University
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Ph.D. diss.
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"Recent studies have reconsidered the Mormon Culture Region in light of its 1880-1920 transition to American political and economic norms. While these studies emphasize conflicts between the Mormon establishment and the non-Mormon federal government, Mormon/non-Mormon relations within Utah have received little direct attention. Interactions between the two groups were distinctly concentrated in Salt Lake City, Utah's capital and the commercial and cultural center of both populations. Based on religious affiliations recorded in the 1880 federal census of Utah Territory, this study reconstructs and explores the social and economic contexts of non-Mormon presence in Utah's capital city. Using Sanborn maps and city directories, case studies probe the geographical mosaic of Mormon and non-Mormon residence and business activity in Salt Lake City. These patterns of interaction, and their regional ramifications, provide an explicit spatial background for the Mormon Culture Region's ensuing transformation and assimilation." [Author's abstract]