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List of Illustrations ix
The Great Basin xi
The eastern Great Basin in the 1850s xii
The southern Wasatch Front in the twentieth century xiii
Introduction 1
Liquid Antecedents
Ute Genesis, Mormon Exodus 19
Brigham Young and the Famine of the Fish-Eaters 54
The Desertification of Zion 105
Making a Mountain: Alpine Play
Rocky Mountain Saints 141
Hiking into Modern Times 175
Sundance and Suburbia 210
Marking a Mountain: Indian Play
Renaming the Land 241
The Rise and Fall of a Lover's Leap 282
Performing a Remembered Past 328
Notes 381
Acknowledgments 441
Index 445
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Steven Racic
reviewed On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape on August 12, 2020
On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Hardcover. This is one of the most interesting books I've read in a long time. Moving back to UT, I've had a keen interest in the local history and geography, and Farmer provided that in spades. I'd call him the Bill Bryson of Utah. The level of extralocal knowledge he spews is astonishing.
On Zion's Mount changed how I think about Mormon-Native American relations, the hydrological oasis that is (or was) the Wasatch Front, place-names, and the collective forgetfulness of Utahns.
4 stars because (a) the last few chapters digress in a long-winded, unnecessary manner (curse of Farmer's encyclopedic knowledge about Indian toponyms and folklore), (b) Farmer's occasional one-sided treatment of non-environmentalists + euro settlers, and (c) the content can be repetitious and, rarely, border on conjecture. Still, highly recommend for those intrigued by the settlement of UT, native relations, and perceptions of the natural landmarks.
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