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29548
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English
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The Cities of Zion? Mormon and non-Mormon town plans in the U.S. Mountain West, 1847-1930
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Journal of Historical Geography
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2015
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50
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University of Colorado
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1-13
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This study explores the ‘Mormon Culture Region’ of the U.S. Mountain West by analyzing the town plans of Mormon and non-Mormon settlements in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Distinctive Mormon settlement practices and town designs have long been recognized as both a central process in creating a distinctive cultural region, and a material hallmark of the region's enduring cultural geography. However, Mormon settlements exhibited considerable variation, changed over time, and competed with non-Mormon settlements as Mormon isolation gave way to American westward expansion. Yet most studies of the region's cultural geography have focused on a few early Mormon settlements, rather than using town plans as evidence for tracing the changing contours of settlement during eight decades of town-building. This study, based on original plats for 394 settlements across 45 counties, identifies eight prototypical plans representing Mormon and non-Mormon influence in the region. These plans show that Mormon planning was not uniform, but gradually standardized into two separate town designs as well as many variants. Non-Mormon settlements, in contrast, illustrate the influences of mining and railroad-building across a broader Western frontier. The distribution of these plans during three periods in the region's history reflects the extent of competing Mormon and non-Mormon settlement, as well as the eventual accommodation of Mormon and non-Mormon influences within a broader national frame. The shifting settlement practices recorded in the region's townscapes suggest several avenues for investigating the long-term evolution of Mormon settlements and the transformation of the ‘Mormon Culture Region.’
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