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Post-Manifesto Polygamy : The 1899 to 1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen and Avery Woodruff /

Subjects: “…Polygamy Religious aspects Mormon Church.…”
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Bringing Elizabeth home : a journey of faith and hope / by Smart, Ed

Subjects: “…Mormon children Crimes against Utah Salt Lake City Case studies.…”
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Gravity Hill a memoir / by Werner, Maximilian

Subjects: “…Mormons Utah Salt Lake City History 20th century.…”
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Women In Utah History : Paradigm Or Paradox? /

Table of Contents: “…Polygamous and monogamous Mormon women : a comparison /…”
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The prophecy of Enoch as restoration blueprint / by Givens, Terryl

“…Leonard J. Arrington Mormon history lecture series ;…”
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Christianity & new religious movements : an introduction to the world's newest faiths / by Cooper, Derek, 1978-

Religious intolerance in America a documentary history /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Religious intolerance in colonial America -- Anti-Catholicism -- Anti-Mormonism -- Intolerance toward nineteenth-century religious groups -- Intolerance toward Native American religions -- Anti-semitism -- Intolerance toward "new" religions in the twentieth century -- The Branch Davidians and Waco : the culmination of religious intolerance -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Web resources for combating religious intolerance.…”
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Fictions of U.S. history a theory and four illustrations / by Keller, Frances Richardson, 1917-

Table of Contents: “…Fictions and the missions of history: our fictions, our missions, our selves -- The grandest fiction -- The scramble after the Civil War -- From Mormon polygamy to American monogamy: shifting fictions in the life of a society -- Eleanor Roosevelt: changing fictions in the life of an individual.…”
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Borderline Americans racial division and labor war in the Arizona borderlands / by Benton-Cohen, Katherine

Table of Contents: “…A shared world in Tres Alamos -- Race and conflict in tombstone -- The white man's camp in Bisbee -- "A better man for us" in Warren -- Mormons and Mexicans in the San Pedro River Valley -- Women and men in the Sulphur Springs and San Simon Valleys -- The Bisbee deportation -- One country, two races.…”
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A remarkable curiosity dispatches from a New York City journalist's 1873 railroad trip across the American West / by Cummings, Amos J. (Amos Jay), 1841-1902

Table of Contents: “…Over the Kansas plains -- The earthly paradise -- A Canadian in Colorado -- The Petrified stumps -- The town in the desert -- The fate of a gold seeker -- In the golden gulches -- The story of little Emma -- The seventeenth wife -- The great Utah divorce -- An interesting conversation with Ann Eliza Young -- The prophet's divorce -- The Arizona expedition -- The Mormon pioneers -- The American Dead Sea -- Mutton chops by the million -- The king of the jack rabbits -- The funeral postponed -- Duel with six-shooters.…”
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Women in the American West by Woodworth-Ney, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Finding "her story" in the American West -- Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West -- Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846 -- Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870 -- Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890 -- The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920 -- War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940 -- The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980 -- Late trends and new directions.…”
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The rhetoric of American exceptionalism critical essays /

Table of Contents: “…Karen Walker -- One nation under God: Mormon theology and the American continent / Brett Lunceford -- Re-contextualizing Americanism: The National Association of Manufacturers' Jeremiad for Free Enterprise during the Roosevelt era / Burton St. …”
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West / by Dearinger, Ryan, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…"Bind the Republic together" : canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- Immigrant labor and the American imagination : Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal communities in the Hoosier State -- "Abuse of the labour and lives of men" : Irish construction workers and the violence of progress on the Illinois transportation frontier -- "Hell (and Heaven) on wheels" : Mormons, immigrants, and the reconstruction of American progress and masculinity on the transcontinental railroad -- "The greatest monument of human labor" : Chinese immigrants, the landscape of progress, and the work of building and celebrating the transcontinental railroad -- End-of-track : reflections on the history of immigrant labor and American progress.…”
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Shared Space / by Griffith, James S.

Table of Contents: “…Respect and continuity : the arts of death in a border community -- The Magdalena holy picture : religious folk art in two cultures -- Cascarones : a florescent folk art form in southern Arizona -- El Tiradito and Juan Soldado : two victim intercessors of the western borderlands -- The Black Christ of ÍMuris : a study in cultural fit -- "The Mormon cowboy" : an Arizona cowboy song and its community -- Leonardo Yañez and "El moro de cumpas" : a borderlands horse-race ballad and its composer -- Baroque principles of organization in contemporary Mexican American Arizona.…”
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Sober, strict, and scriptural collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000 /

Table of Contents: “…Scott Clark -- The Republican reformer: John Calvin and the American calvinists, 1830-1910 / Bryan Bademan -- The image of Calvin within Mormonism / Stephen S. Francis -- Shadow on the Alps: John Calvin and English travellers in Geneva / James Rigney -- The French Barber: Calvin as a source of burlesque in Mark Twain / Joe B. …”
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Making the White Man's West : Whiteness and the Creation of the American West / by Pierce, Jason (Jason Eric)

Table of Contents: “…Creating and Defending the White Man's West -- The Politics of Whiteness and Western Expansion -- "Our Climate and Soil is Completely Adapted to their Customs" : Whiteness, Railroad Promotion and the Settlement of the Great Plains -- Unwelcome Saints : Whiteness, Mormons, and the Limits of Success -- Violence in Defense of the White Man's West -- Conclusion: The Limits and Limitations of Whiteness.…”
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Enacting history

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Scott Magelssen -- Present enacting past : the functions of battle reenacting in historical representation / Leigh Clemons -- "This is the place" : performance and the production of space in Mormon cultural memory / Lindsay Adamson Livingston -- Men with their muskets and me in my bare feet : performing history and policing gender at historic Fort Snelling Living History Museum / Amy M. …”
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From pews to polling places faith and politics in the American religious mosaic /

Table of Contents: “…Mockabee -- Dry kindling : a political profile of American Mormons / David E. Campbell and J. Quin Monson -- Liberation to mutual fund : political consequences of differing conceptions of Christ in the African American church / Melissa Harris-Lacewell -- Power in the pews? …”
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The religious history of American women reimagining the past /

Table of Contents: “…Butler - Women's popular literature as theological discourse: a Mormon case study, 1880-1920 / Susanna Morrill - The "new woman" at the "university": gender and American Catholic identity in the Progressive Era / Kathleen Sprows Cummings - Faith, Feminism and history / Ann Braude - "Are you the white sisters or the black sisters?"…”
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Horror after 9/11 world of fear, cinema of terror /

Table of Contents: “…Bush, and the limits of American freedom / Linnie Blake -- "Forever family" values: Twilight and the modern Mormon vampire / Travis Sutton and Harry M. Benshoff -- Assimilation and the queer monster / Sam J. …”
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