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English
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Utah Mormons
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon folklore studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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37-42
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Alone among American regional groups, the Mormons have developed much of their folklore from stirring events in American history. Mountain ranges penned in the hillfolk of the southern Appalachians and the Ozarks from the industrial culture, and language walls immured German Pennsylvania, French Louisiana, and Spanish New Mexico, but the Mormons sprang into being on American soil before the astonished gaze of the American public, fought bloodily with their neighbors and the federal government, and trekked dramatically westward across the continent in their search for Zion. [From the text]