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English
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"There are Millions of Acres in Our State": Mormon Agrarianism and the Environmental Limits of Expansion
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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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195-214
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This essay discusses the beliefs of Mormons that God had tempered the Great Basin are for their profit and use, and that the agriculture it sustained would always be able to serve the growing population and never diminish. This religious belief that God would always tame the elements for the Mormons led them almost to forget their environmental responsibility and damage the land they lived on.
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'A Little Oasis in the Desert' : Community Building in Hurricane, Utah, 1860-1930
Back to the Soil : The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah and Their World
Between Mountain and Lake : An Urban Mormon Country
Builders of Uintah : A Centennial History of Uintah County 1872-1947
Building Zion : The Material World of Mormon Settlement
Encyclopedic History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Four Classic Mormon Village Studies
Imprint of Agricultural Systems on the Utah Landscape
Mormonism's Last Colonizer : The Life and Times of William H. Smart
Mormon Wests : The Creation and Evolution of an American Region
Religion, Politics, and Sugar : The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921
Reynolds Cahoon and His Stalwart Sons : Utah Pioneers
Saints Observed : Studies of Mormon Village Life, 1850-2005
Taming the Turbulent Sevier : A Story of Mormon Desert Conquest
The Agrarian Values of Mormonism : A Touch of the Mountain Sod
The Chimerical Desert
The Evolving Mormon Landscape of the 20th Century
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Experience : The Plains as Sinai, the Great Salt Lake as the Dead Sea, and the Great Basin as Desert-cum-Promised Land
The Mormon Landscape : Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
The Pioneering Mormon
The Russian Molokans of Park Valley
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Utah People in the Nevada Desert : Homestead and Community on a Twentieth Century Farmers' Frontier
Utah's History