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English
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Mapping Deseret: Vernacular Mormon Mapmaking and Spiritual Geography in the American West
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The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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107-130
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This essay focuses on Mormon mapmaking as a way to claim and settle the American West where they were living. It addresses the relationship between the Mormon religion to the land its believers settled, the plentiful manuscript maps included in journals and diaries, as well as the planning out of cities like Salt Lake City. For Mormons, Deseret (previous name of Utah) was a kind of religious homeland, and to map it out and understand it was a way for Mormons to understand themselves as well as God's promises for them.
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Brigham Young, the Man and His Work
Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains
Geography and Mormon Identity
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of Utah, 1847-1869
John Steele : Medicine Man, Magician, Mormon Patriarch
Journal of the Southern Indian Mission : Diary of Thomas D. Brown
"Like the Hajis of Meccah and Jerusalem" : Orientalism and the Mormon Experience
Mormon Country
Mormondom's Deseret Homeland
Mormons, Crickets, and Gulls : A New Look at an Old Story
Over the Range : A History of the Promontory Summit Route
Running the Line : James Henry Martineau's Surveys in Northern Utah, 1860-1882
Search for Sanctuary : Brigham Young and the White Mountain Expedition
The City of Zion in the Mountain West
The Mapmakers of New Zion : A Cartographic History of Mormonism
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Landscape : Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
The State of Deseret