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12
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English
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American Zion: Mormon Culture and the Creation of a National Park
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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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131-151
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"Well-loved Zion National Park (ZNP), established in 1919, is an anomaly in the history of land conservation in southern Utah. Set within a region that has become notorious for burnings in effigy, vandalism, death threats, and armed confrontations over public land issues, Utah's first national park came into being through a largely noncontroversial collaboration between locals and federal players. The reasons behind this united support in developing the park are multifold. Many local Mormons dreamed of economic prospects brought about through tourism and became swept up in the patriotic notion of the national park. Others felt pride in the recognition of beauty within the geological wonderlands that marked their homeland. Federal officials also went above and beyond protocols to invest in the priorities of the local Mormon community in addition to engaging locals in park planning and employment opportunities. Although some locals were affected by federal resource restrictions that came with the new national status (first as national monument, then as national park), even those who lost the ability to use the lands within the park helped transform the region from remote Mormon settlement to a place of leisure, ease, and shared space. In the imagining of and investing in the creation of ZNP, a Mormon sensibility became reflected in relationships with the landscape, as local actors imprinted their own values on the park. ZNP reflected aspects of Mormon homeland, not like the place Joseph Smith founded in Jackson County, Missouri, but as an idea brought with the Latter-day Saints (LDS) into the Great Basin. This park, named Zion, became a space that encompassed Mormon cultural priorities and stood alongside America's romance with 'wild' landscapes."
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A History of Southern Utah and Its National Parks
Brigham Young's Dixie of the Desert : Exploration and Settlement
Brigham Young University : 1000 Views of 100 Years
Getting Along: The Significance of Cooperation in the Development of Zion National Park
Indian Names in Utah Geography
James E. Talmage and the 1895 Deseret Museum Expedition to Southern Utah
Red Rock and Gray Stone : Senator Reed Smoot, The Establishment of Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks, and the Rebuilding of Downtown Washington, D.C.
Roads in the Wilderness : Conflict in canyon country
Southern Paiute : A Portrait
The Mormon Cotton Mission in Southern Utah
The Mormons and the Indians : Conflicting Ecological Systems in the Great Basin
The Zion Tunnel : From Slickrock to Switchback