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English
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The Volatile Sagebrush Rebellion
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Utah in the Twentieth Century
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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367-384
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"Utahns’ icy relationship with the federal government in the nineteenth century thawed considerably after the state’s admission to the Union. Federal investment during the New Deal, World War II, and the cold war enhanced Utahns’ income and prosperity, while federal investment in highways, national parks, and water projects facilitated transportation, recreation, agricultural productivity, and verdant landscaping. Responding to their constituents’ expectations, Utah representatives and senators lobbied assiduously for federal dollars. In the minds of some Utahns, though, the benefi ts of federal subsidies were partly offset by government control and management of more than half of the state’s land. In the following chapter, Jedediah S. Rogers traces Utah’s participation in one of the most signifi cant manifestations of opposition to federal control in the West during the twentieth century : the Sagebrush Rebellion of 1979–81. Drawing upon newspapers pieces, other articles, public-opinion polls, and the manuscript collections of politicians and activists, Rogers argues that the Sagebrush Rebellion reflected serious concerns about the federal/state relationship and galvanized substantial organization and opposition by environmentalists but failed to resolve the underlying concerns." [Author]