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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: The Promise and Challenge of Mormon Environmental History
History, Nature, and Mormon Historiography
Part I: Theology and Ideology
The “Lion of the Lord” and the Land: Brigham Young’s Environmental Ethic
Lost Memory and Environmentalism: Mormons on the Wasatch Front, 1847–1930
Part II: Perception and Place
The Natural World and the Establishment of Zion, 1831–1833
“We Seldom Find Either Garden, Cow, or Pig”: Encountering Environments in Urban England and the American West
Mapping Deseret: Vernacular Mormon Mapmaking and Spiritual Geography in the American West
American Zion: Mormon Culture and the Creation of a National Park
Part III: Agrarianism and Urbanism
Before the Boom: Mormons, Livestock, and Stewardship, 1847–1870
“The People Cannot Conquer the River”: Mormons and Water in the Arid Southwest, 1865–1938
“There Are Millions of Acres in Our State”: Mormon Agrarianism and the Environmental Limits of Expansion
“The Prophet Said to Plant a Garden”: Spencer W. Kimball and the Transformation of the Mormon Agrarian Tradition
“For the Strength of the Hills”: Casting a Concrete Zion
Epilogue: On the Moral Lessons of Mormon Environmental History
Appendix: Righteous Dominion and Compassion for the Earth
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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