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Farmer, Jared

On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape

Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard University Press

2008

"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 itonce they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. On Zions 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 environmenthow they create homelands. Only in Utah did Euro-American settlers conceive of having a homeland in the Native American sensean endemic spiritual geography. They called it Zion. Mormonism, a religion indigenous to the United States, originally embraced Indians as Lamanites, or spiritual kin. On Zions Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indiansand how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Timpanogos with Indian meaning. This same pattern was repeated across the United States. Jared Farmer reveals how settlers and their descendants (the new natives) bestowed Indian place names and recited pseudo-Indian legends about those placescultural acts that still affect the way we think about American Indians and American landscapes." [Publisher's Abstract]

Cultural geography
Native Americans, Mormon views of
Native Americans, 19th century

A "Distinction Between Mormons and Americans" : Mormon Indian Missionaries, Federal Indian Policy, and the Utah War
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
Almon W. Babbitt, Joseph E. Johnson, and the Western Bugle : An LDS Frontier
Newspaper at Kanesville
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Appropriation and Accommodation : The University of Utah and the Utes
"Archives of the Better World": The Nineteenth-Century Historian's Office and Mormonism's Archival Flexibility
Before the Boom: Mormons, Livestock, and Stewardship, 1847-1870
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Camelot's Crucible : The Historiographic Context for Refiner's Fire
Captivity, Adoption, Marriage and Identity : Native American Children in Mormon Homes, 1847-1900
Contemporary Mormon Religiosity and the Legacy of "Gathering"
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Disciplinary Democracy : Mormon Violence and the Construction of the Modern American State
Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Excavating Early Mormon History : The 1878 History Fact-Finding Mission of Apostles Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt
"Except a Friend as a Friend" : Wallace Stegner Among the Mormons
Fashioning a Newer Mormon History
"For the Strength of the Hills": Casting a Concrete Zion
Geography and Mormon Identity
History, Nature, and Mormon Historiography
History, Religious Studies, and Book of Mormon Studies
How the Mormons Became White : Scripture, Sex, Sovereignty
"I... Decided to Join the Body of Saints" : Archibald Gardner and the Building of the Nauvoo Road
In a Rugged Land : Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954
Indian Relations in Utah during the Civil War
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Joseph F. Smith: Reflections on the Man and His Times
Layered Lives : Boston Mormons and the Spatial Contexts of Conversion
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Making Lamanites : Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Media as compromise : a cultural history of Mormonism and new communication technology in twentieth-century America
Mormon Conquest : Whites and Natives in the Intermountain West
Mormonism
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and Race
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormonism in the American Political Domain
Mormons in the United States 1990-2008: Socio-demographic Trends and Regional Differences
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Perspectives on Latter-day Saints Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief
Pioneers in the Attic : Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
Post New Mormon History : A Manifesto
Race and Gender in Mormonism: 1830-1978
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
"Reasonings Sufficient" : Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the context(s) of early Mormonism
Reclamation, Redemption, and Political Maneuvering in Diné Bikéyah, 1947–1980
Reconstruction and Mormon America
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
"Richard Howard Lecture : Railroading Independence : Pulpit Rock and the Work of Mormon Imagination"
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. No Unhallowed Hand 1846–1893.
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
Taking the Waters : Lost Leisure on Salt Lake City's Beck Street
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Council of Fifty in Western History
"The Lamanites Shall Blossom as the Rose" : The Indian Student Placement Program, Mormon Whiteness, and Indigenous Identity
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Mapmakers of New Zion : A Cartographic History of Mormonism
The Modern Mormon Church
The Mormon Church in Utah
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
The Old Toponymy and the New Topography of Zion: Utah, Photography, and Daniel George's Series God to Go West.
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Powell Expedition : New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey
The Promise and Challenge of Mormon Environmental History
The Prophet and the Reformer : The Letters of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
There is No Mormon Trail of Tears : Roots, Removals, and Reconstructions
The Rest of the Story : Latter-day Saint Relations with Utah's Native Americans
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista : Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961
The Tintic War of 1856 : A Study of Several Conflicts
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
This Was the Place : The Making and Unmaking of Utah
Toward a Greener Faith : A Review of Recent Mormon Environmental Scholarship
"Twice-told Tale" : Telling Two Histories of Mormon-Black Relations During the 2012 Presidential Election
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
Views from Turtle Island : Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Mormon Entanglements
Water is Life, Water is Power: The Confluence of Water, History, and the Public in Utah
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
What We Will Do Now That New Mormon History is Old : A Roundtable
When Wakara Wrote Back : The Creation and Contestation of the “Paper Indian” in Early Mormon Utah
William McCary, Lucy Stanton, and the Performance of Race at Winter Quarters and Beyond
Wonders of Sand and Stone: A History of Utah's National Parks and Monuments
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Across the Continent : A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
Across the Rocky Mountains, From New York to California : with a visit to the celebrated Mormon colony at the Great Salt Lake
Adopted or Indentured, 1850-1870 : Native Children in Mormon Households
A Gift of Faith : Elias Hicks Blackburn Pioneer, Patriarch, and Healer
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
An Enduring Legacy : Daughters of Utah Pioneers
An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
'A Place Prepared' : Joseph, Brigham and the Quest for Promised Refuge in the West
Bayous, Beaches and Breaches : Human Interaction with the Great Salt Lake
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
City of Saints, City of Sinners : The Development of Salt Lake City as a Tourist Attraction 1869-1900
Cultural Conflict : Mormons and Indians in Nebraska
Daniel H. Wells' Narrative
Early Justice in Utah
Early Mormon Documents : Volume I
Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains
Fish and the Famine of 1855-56
Founding Fort Utah : Provo's Native Inhabitants, Early Explorers, and First Year of Settlement
Frontiersman : Abner Blackburn's Narrative
Garland Hurt, the American Friend of the Utahs
Great Salt Lake and Great Salt Lake City : American Curiosities
Heart Throbs of the West
History of Indian Depredations in Utah
History of Provo City
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of Utah
'I Dreamed of Ketching Fish' : The Outdoor Life of Wilford Woodruff
'I Have Eaten Nearly Everything Imaginable' : Pioneer Diet
Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West
Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon : Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith
Jackson County in Early Mormon Descriptions
Journals of Forty-Niners Salt Lake to Los Angeles
Life in the Rocky Mountains : A Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835
Life in Utah; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism
'Molympics'? Journalistic Discourse of Mormons in Relation to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
Mormon Foreknowledge of the West
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-52 : 'And Should We Die'
Mormons, Crickets, and Gulls : A New Look at an Old Story
My Best for the Kingdom : History and Autobiography of John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
Nauvoo : Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nearly Everything Imaginable : The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers
New Jerusalem Abandoned : The Failure to Carry Mormonism to the Delaware
Old Spanish Trail : Santa Fe to Los Angeles
One Man's Meat Is Another Man's Poison : A Revisionist View of the Seagull 'Miracle'
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Our Pioneer Heritage
Overland to California in 1850 : The Journal of Calvin Taylor
Pestiferous Ironclads : The Grasshopper Problem in Pioneer Utah
Refugees Meet : The Mormons and Indians in Iowa
Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley
Saltair
Saltair and the Mormon Church
Saltair, Great Salt Lake's Most Famous Resort
Seeking the 'Remnant' : The Native American during the Joseph Smith Period
Sinners and Saints : A Tour across the States, and Round them, with Three Months among the Mormons
Studies in Mormon History 1830-1997 : An Indexed Bibliography
Teach Them to Till the Soil : An Experiment with Indian Farms, 1850-1862
The First Mormon Mission to the Indians
The Great Salt Lake
The Latter-day Saints' Emigrants' Guide
The Mormon Experience : The Plains as Sinai, the Great Salt Lake as the Dead Sea, and the Great Basin as Desert-cum-Promised Land
The Mormons
The Mormons : A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
The Mormons and the Office of Indian Affairs : The Conflict Over Winter Quarters, 1846-1848
The Mormons : Or Latter-Day Saints
The Mormons, the Indians, and George Washington Bean
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
The Robert S. Bliss Journal
The Sego Lily, Utah's State Flower
The Southwest Expedition of Jedediah Smith : His Personal Account of the Journey to California, 1826-1827
The Trial of Don Pedro Leon Lujan : The Attack Against Indian Slavery and Mexican Traders in Utah
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Walker War : Defense and Conciliation as Strategy
The Zelph Story
Toward a Reconstruction of Mormon and Indian Relations, 1847-1877
Treasures of Pioneer History
Uintah Dream : The Ute Treaty-Spanish Fork, 1865
Utah and the Mormons
Utah Lake : A Safety Net for the Needy
Utah's Black Hawk War
Waccara's Utes : Native American Equestrian Adaptations in the Eastern Great Basin, 1776-1876
Wakara Meets the Mormons, 1848-52 : A Case Study in Native American Accommodation
We'll Find the Place : The Mormon Exodus 1846-1848
Wilford Woodruff's Journal, 1833-1898 : An Index
William Clayton's Journal : A Daily Record of the Journal of the Original Company of 'Mormon' Pioneers from Nauvoo, Illinois, to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake