Item Detail
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25989
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2
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35
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English
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Crossroads of the West
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2015
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41
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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156-173
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The Joseph Smith era of LDS history can be divided into familiar periods that are nominally geographical: New England, New York, Kirtland, Missouri, Nauvoo. Nonetheless, few scholars would regard early Mormon history as essentially eastern or midwestern. Regionalism isn't a key concept, and probably for good reason. Historical studies of early Mormonism tend to be prosopographical. In such works, the concept of place doesn't matter as much as social networks across space. Many historians have shown how early Mormonism (and early anti-Mormonism) spilled out from an Atlantic and American confluence of ideas.
However, once Brigham Young comes into the picture, western narratives of pioneering and its aftermath take center stage. Mormon history becomes more or less Utah history and vice versa. From a long-range point of view, the conflation of Mormons and the American West has not been good for historiography. It has distorted Utah history, making it less diverse than it rightfully should be. [From the article]
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Camp Floyd and the Mormons : The Utah War
Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism : Correspondence and a New History
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Handcarts to Zion : The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860
History of the Saints : the Great Mormon Exodus and the Establishment of Zion
Mapping Mormonism : An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History
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Nearly Everything Imaginable : The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers
On the Mormon Frontier : The Diary of Hosea Stout [1844-1861]
Peace Initiative : Using the Mormons to Rethink Culture and Ethnicity in American History
Plain but Wholesome : Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Seeking an Inheritance : Mormon Mobility, Urbanity, and Community
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young
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The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
The Mormon Reformation
The Mormon Village : A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
This is the Place : Utah
Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History
Utah History Encyclopedia
Villages on Wheels : A Social History of the Gathering to Zion
Wilford Woodruff, Intellectual Progress, and the Growth of an Amateur Scientific and Technological Tradition in Early Territorial Utah
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