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Ensign Peak
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A Gamble in the Desert
Till now, few have known the story of the remarkable but short-lived effort by a band of hardy Latter-day Saints to make a permanent settlement at the Las Vegas springs, a vital water source on the Spanish Trail. During its history, the Vegas has served the needs of Native Americans, Mexican traders, American military explorers, California-bound gold seekers, Mormon colonizers, and for more than a century, residents of the town that bears its name - Las Vegas. The author brings into focus the story of one of those groups, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormons. For a few short years in the 1850s, the great colonizer and church leader Brigham...
Ensign
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Ensign of Nations
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Democracy, Religion, and Commerce
This collection considers the relationship between religion, state, and market. In so doing, it also illustrates that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Though expressed as a simile, with religious freedom functioning like market freedom, “free market religion” has achieved the status of general knowledge about the nature of religion as either good or bad. It legislates good religion as that which operates according to free market principles: it is private, with no formal relationship to government; and personal: a matter of belief and conscience. As naturalized elements of historically contingent and discursively maintained beliefs ab...
The Contributor
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Walking Salt Lake City
A new title in the Walking series, Walking: Salt Lake City is geared to first-time visitors to Salt Lake City--and to local residents. Both will enjoy the history and tales about places they thought they knew, and will be surprised to find walking destinations they may not have considered before. Each tour in the stylish, portable format touches on history, culture, and local architecture, plus insider recommendations on eateries, galleries, and nightlife. With clear maps depicting each walk, parking and public transit info, at-a-glance summaries and Points of Interest appendices, there's no better way to discover a city than on foot with a Walking guide. Walking Salt Lake City is a time-tra...
The Exodus of 1847
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National Historic Trails
"This interpretive publication guides visitors along the Auto Tour Routes for the California, Mormon Pioneer, and Pony Express National Historic Trails across Utah. Site-by-site driving directions are included, and an overview map is located inside the back cover. To make the tour more meaningful, this guide also provides a historical overview of the three trails, shares the thoughts and experiences of emigrants who followed these routes, and discusses how the westward expansion impacted the native peoples of what is now Utah."--Intro.
