Item Detail
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30658
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English
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"For the Strength of the Hills": Casting a Concrete Zion
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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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237-252
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This essay is about the dichotomy of Mormon veneration for nature and the mountains of Utah, and Mormon extraction of natural resources like granite, sand, and gravel, from these same mountains. Much of the extraction that has taken place since Mormon settlement of Utah has been minimal, but with the introduction of Portland cement to Utah, mining efforts to extract sand and gravel increased so as to make concrete. The essay also addresses successful concrete and extraction businesses throughout the twentieth century, as well as the influence of the railroad on this production.
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'A Banner is Unfurled' : Mormonism's Ensign Peak
A Gauge of the Times : Ensign Peak in the Twentieth Century
A History of Salt Lake County
Beneath Ben Lomond's Peak : A History of Weber County, 1824-1900
Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah : Including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains
History of Highway Development in Utah
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
Utah's Cinderella Minerals : The Nonmetalics
Wilford Woodruff, Fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : History of His Life and Labors As Recorded in His Daily Journals
William Henry Smart : Uinta Basin Pioneer Leader