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25406
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English
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Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression
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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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299-321
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Few events serve better than a duress-induced migration to forge a people’s identity and provide a defining historical touchstone for a nation. Through its representation in art and public historical displays, such a trek can galvanize generations if its drudgery is valorized, its most dramatic moments highlighted, and its embarrassing episodes forgotten. At least since the time Moses led the children of Israel to the biblical promised land, groups of individuals in various places at various times have come to see themselves as a distinct people through participation in, or shared remembrance of, a great trek. [From the text]