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On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers descended into the Salt Lake Valley. Having crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains, they believed that their long search for a permanent home had finally come to an end. The valley was an arid and inhospitable place, but to them it was Zion.
Within ten years of their arrival, the Mormons had established nineteen communities, extending all the way to San Diego, California - a remarkable feat of colonization and one of the great successes of the westward movement. Desert Between the Mountains is by no means, however, a story of splendid and stoic isolation. Beginning with an explanation of the Great Basin's unique and enigmatic topography, Michael S. Durham delineates the region as a crucible for a complex and exciting narrative history.
Tales of nomadic Indian tribes, Spanish ecclesiastics, intrepid fur-trappers, and adventurous early explorers are thoroughly chronicled. Moreover, Durham depicts the Mormon way of life under a constant strain from its interaction with miners, soldiers, mountain men, the Pony Express, railroad builders, federal officials, and an assortment of other so-called Gentiles.
Desert Between the Mountains concludes with the joining of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, an event that marked the end of the pioneer era. This is a dramatic, multifaceted, and definitive study of the Great Basin, demonstrating, for the first time, that it is a region unified in its history as well as its geography - that today includes all of Nevada, most of Utah, and parts of five other surrounding states.
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History, Pioneers, Mormon pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, Deserts, Mormons, Great basinPlaces
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Desert Between the Mountains
December 2002, Book Sales
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Desert between the mountains: Mormons, miners, padres, mountain men, and the opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869
1999, University of Oklahoma Press
in English
0806131861 9780806131863
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Desert between the mountains: Mormons, miners, padres, mountain men, and the opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869
1997, Henry Holt
in English
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0805041613 9780805041613
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-324) and index.
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