Item Detail
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29241
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English
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A Sojourn among the Children of Aaron
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2018
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44
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press; Mormon History Association
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95-118
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"In an arid valley near the Utah-Nevada border lies a community that maintains one of the early ideals of Mormonism. Eskdale, a small cluster of houses and trees, is just a few miles to the north of Highway 50, a road once dubbed the "loneliest highway in America" by Life magazine. Eskdale is the largest of a series of settlements established in the mid-twentieth century by the House of Aaron, a revitalization sect that broke off from Mormonism in the 1930s. Over the course of more than eighty years, the House of Aaron has evolved from a sect of Mormonism to incorporate religious traits of Evangelical Christianity, Judaism, and even Hutterite teachings to become a unique fusion of several faith traditions..." [From the text]