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Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896

6 reviews
David Bigler

Utah State University Press, 1998

Balanced and clear account of Theocratic Kingdom
I agreed with the previous reviewers in saying that this is one of the best books regarding the theocratic state that the Mormons tried to create during their early territorial years. The book does a wonderful job contrasting the theocratic values of the Mormon's ideal world to the republican ideology of the United States at that time. The key figure of this book proves to be the theocratic ...

The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer (Life Writings ...

3 reviews
S. George Ellsworth

Utah State University Press, 1998

Wonderfully informative, interesting reading
This book follows a strong woman through a fascinating life filled with trials, tribulations, joys and surprises. It gives a view into the pioneer life from a, most of the time, single mother's perspective. Louisa Barnes Pratt is a testament to her faith in God and her will to follow her convictions and beliefs at any cost. I would recommend this book to anybody interested in history and women's ...

John Doyle Lee: Zealot, Pioneer Builder, Scapegoat

7 reviews
Juanita Brooks

Utah State University Press, 1992

A Reminder that Every Tale has Two Sides...
I am pleased to be the first reviewer of this book who is not a decendent of John D. Lee, yet I, too, must give the book highest marks. While it is history, and a biography, it is as captivating as any novel, and a treat for the immagination as well as the rational mind. Full marks for the late Ms. Brooks in her ability to weave together the elements that make the man, her insight mostly ...

Army Of Israel

4 reviews
David Bigler

Utah State University Press, 2000

A superb effort
David Bigler and Will Bagley are two of the nation's leading experts on the history of the Rocky Mountain Mormons. They have combined to present an extremely readable history of the Mormon Battalion - an army unit that traversed thousands of difficult miles and never fired a shot in anger. Extremely well researched, ARMY OF ISRAEL is must reading for those interested in the many facets of 19th ...

Always a Cowboy: Judge Wilson McCarthy and the Rescue of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad

2 reviews
Will Bagley

Utah State University Press, 2008

How the Judge save the rio Grande
A great book on the man who saved the D&RGW at the time of the Great Depression. Also gives considerable insight on the banking and economic situation of the times. A good read on how various pieces fit into the railroad and economic pictures.

Quicksand And Cactus

3 reviews
Juanita Brooks

Utah State University Press, 1992

Enjoyable history, engaging style
I purchased this book as I was driving through the Mormon country of Dixie in southwest Utah to try to get a better understanding of Mormonism. We had just toured Pipe Springs National Monument, a fort constructed by Mormons used to house polygamous families. For non-Mormons, polygamy and Mormonism is fascinating and nearly as exotic as bedouin nomads in Morrocoo. Quicksand and Cactus is a ...

Unfortunate Emigrants

4 reviews
Kristin Johnson

Utah State University Press, 1996

Johnson's done the difficult work for us! Thanks.
Editor Kristen Johnson has done an excellent job of pulling together many difficult-to-obtain source documents that are pertinent to the Donner Party. She enhances the reader's understanding by presenting detailed biographical information about each document's author, combined with copious footnotes, all of which are extremely helpful and unbiased. The tremendous amount of research required ...

Necessary Light: Poems (May Swenson Poetry Award Series)

3 reviews
Patricia Fargnoli

Utah State University Press, 1999

Poetry to save your life . . .
This collection of poetry does what truly great poetry should do -- it touches so truly and so deeply upon the human condition -- the joy and the suffering of it -- that the personal voice of the poet becomes, as Galway Kinnell once wrote, just another voice of a creature on the planet speaking. Whether speaking of difficult or joyous times, the loss of love or its fond remembrance, the naming ...

All That Divides Us: Poems (Swenson Poetry Award)

2 reviews
Elinor Benedict

Utah State University Press, 2000

Hope & Caring & Sharing
This book is the winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award for 2000. While not a narrative poem, the story of the author's aunt that married a "Chinaman" and left her family only to return when she was dying, is as close as one can get. The poems tell of the author's need for connections and a sense of family and humanity that are inspiring and eternal. The bridge over all that divides us is, after ...

Poets On Place

7 reviews
W. T. Pfefferle

Utah State University Press, 2005

Places of the Heart: Poets on Place
A friend put this book in my hands as I worked on preparing a talk on the influence of place in my own poetry. I found "Poets on Place" so invaluable that I typed many pages of detailed notes to ruminate on. It's an attractive work replete with compementary elements to the main dish of the interviews. Here we have an on-going mystery story: what will Pfefferle and his wife Beth make of thier ...

The Beautiful Lesson of the I (Swenson Poetry Award)

2 reviews
Frances Brent, Rachel Hadas

Utah State University Press, 2005

The most beautiful poetry of 2005
Frances Brent is a worthy recipient of the 2005 May Swenson Award. Her poems, small, craftful, and beautiful, like a delicate piece of origami, make it a pleasure to read and take in her poems. My favorite is The Melon: "There once was a man who had to see everything to remember: The melon grained and dented moon covered in netting..." It reminds of a beautiful, dreamy, mysterious scene of a ...

Journey Of Navajo Oshley: An Autobiography and Life History

2 reviews
Robert Mcpherson

Utah State University Press, 2000

A rich contribution to Native American biography & history.
Filled with poignant statements and detailed descriptions of day-to-day life, The Journey Of Navajo Oshley covers the life story of a respected Navajo man of the San Juan River Basin area in southeastern Utah from 1879 to 1988. The style is simple, immediate and vivid. Many details are carefully explained in footnotes, such as the significance of the Navajo's reaction to livestock ...

Children S Folklore

2 reviews
Brian Sutton-Smith

Utah State University Press, 1999

Fascinating Study of Children's Folklore
This volume consists of articles on children's folklore. The book provides various ways of studying the games, songs, rhymes, and other forms of folk culture that children express. It is an excellent resource for learning to understand ways that children's culture leads insight into the worldview of children. I also am impressed with the ways that the study of children's culture leads one to ...

Dynamics Of Folklore

2 reviews
Barre Toelken

Utah State University Press, 1996

Curious about folklore? Then read this book!
Unfortunately, I think the somewhat quaint words "folk" and "lore" in "folklore" throw people off and make them dimiss folklore studies as a trivial or insignificant field of scholarship. "Folklore" just doesn't have the imposing sound of similar fields like anthropology and sociology. Admittedly, before reading Toelken's book, if I thought of the word "folk lore" I probably would have pictured ...

Coyote Steals Fire: A Shoshone Tale

2 reviews
Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation

Utah State University Press, 2005

Ordering Coyote
Not sure why Amazon says 4 to 6 weeks for shipping; maybe it's an error they will correct in time. In any case, one could order this book directly from the publisher and it would ship within 48 hours. 800-621-2736.

Cemeteries Gravemarkers

2 reviews
Richard Meyer

Utah State University Press, 1992

Cemeteries Reveal Stories About our Cultural Heritage
Cemeteries and Gravemarkers is the leading book on interpreting culture from cemeteries. The edited volume includes research by geographers, art historians, historians, folklorists, and anthropologists on various aspects of cemeteries and their gravestones in the United States. The volume encompasses the diversity of approaches to cemetery research from various disciplines, focusing on the ...

Anonimo Mexicano

2 reviews

Utah State University Press, 2005

annotated translation of Mexican Native American creation and history myth
Not written until about 1600, after the Spanish conquest of Mexico by the defeat of the Aztecs, this text in the Nahuatl language of the Tlaxcalteca people covering a large part of Mexico north of the Aztec lands in central Mexico has the style and content of an ancient tribal document, like Middle East creation myths. The Tlaxcalteca allied with Cortes to help conquer the Aztecs, their longtime ...

The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West (Folklife of the West, Vol. 2) (Folklife of the ...

2 reviews
Barre Toelken

Utah State University Press, 2003

Beautifully Written Inquiry into American Indian Culture
Toelken's book is an excellent study of the culture of America's first peoples. It is an eloquent discussion of how to learn about American Indian history and culture by looking at the everyday activities, traditional arts, folklife, and rituals that are shared with the public. Toelken's work challenges stereotypical and inaccurrate perceptions about Indians; more importantly, he shows ways to ...

Disaster At The Colorado

2 reviews
Charles Baley

Utah State University Press, 2002

Major contribution to a little known historical event
This book is beginning to attract quite a bit of attention from historians, history buffs, and general readers alike. While there are a multitude of books recounting the history of the California, Santa Fe, Mormon and other historic trails, surprisingly little has been done on a little known Trail that originated in Ft. Smith, Ark., traversed southern Oklahoma, crossed the northern tip of Texas ...

Creatures Of Habitat

2 reviews
Mark Hengesbaugh

Utah State University Press, 2001

Openly discusses what is happening to this wildlife
Creatures Of Habitat: The Changing Nature Of Wildlife And Wild Places In Utah And The Intermountain West is an illustrated, exhaustively detailed account of the extremely fascinating animals and plants to be found in the Utah and the intermountain west, ranging from the shorebird that eats brine shrimp and flies nonstop each year from the Great Salt Lake to central Argentina, to the rare mustard ...

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