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English
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"As Sisters In Zion" : Mormon Women and the United Order in Arizona's Little Colorado Colonies
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Journal of Arizona History
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2010
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51
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155-172
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"They came west by wagons and handcarts. On tired and abused feet, they flooded into the Great Basin area, then spread north and south to fill the Rocky Mountain region. Led by simultaneously pragmatic and visionary Brigham Young, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints desired more than just escape from the persecution of Illinois mobs. They desired more than just a peaceful plot of land on which to live as they saw fit. They desired to establish the Kingdom of God on earth--and that would require fundamental social changes beyond mere Sabbath-day worship and proselytizing efforts. A new order of society would have to be implemented. And so, the bedraggled Saints turned their efforts toward establishing the 'order of Heaven.' Commonly referred to as the United Order, it took root, among other places, in four settlements along the Little Colorado river in northern Arizona. Their story provides a window into the role and influence of women in Mormon society. How was life for nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint women different in the United Order than for their sisters in Zion, or for their female counterparts elsewhere in the American West? What impact did Order women have on these hopeful experiments in living?" [From author's introduction]
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Colonization of the Little Colorado : The Joseph City Region
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
John Bushman
John Bushman, Utah-Arizona Pioneer 1843-1926
Little Colorado River Settlements : Brigham City, Joseph City, Obed, and Sunset
Pioneer Women of Arizona
Take Up Your Mission : Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900
The Life and Labors of John Bushman
The Little Colorado Settlements of 1876
Unflinching Courage