On Zion's Mount

Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape

Jared Farmer

  • 2009 Francis Parkman Prize, The Society of American Historians
  • 2009 Award of Merit from The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
  • 2008 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Utah History Book Award
  • 2009 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Honor Book, Denver Public Library

List of Illustrations

The Great Basin

The eastern Great Basin in the 1850s

The southern Wasatch Front in the twentieth century

Introduction

Part I. Liquid Antecedents

1. Ute Genesis, Mormon Exodus

2. Brigham Young and the Famine of the Fish-Eaters

3. The Desertification of Zion

Part II. Making a Mountain: Alpine Play

4. Rocky Mountain Saints

5. Hiking into Modern Times

6. Sundance and Suburbia

Part III. Marking a Mountain: Indian Play

7. Renaming the Land

8. The Rise and Fall of a Lover's Leap

9. Performing a Remembered Past

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: On Zion's Mount
  • A photo of the author

Jared Farmer is Assistant Professor of History at The State University of New York at Stony Brook, and author of Glen Canyon Dammed: Inventing Lake Powell and the Canyon Country.