The University of Utah Press Fall 2020 catalog

The University of Utah Press FALL/WINTER 2020

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Anthropology/Archaeology 5-6 Biography 2 Mormon History 2 Utah 1-2 Western History 2, 4 New Releases 7-8 Featured Backlist 9-12

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UTAH/ARCHITECTURE

Martha Bradley-Evans

A general-interest guide to Utah’s architectural landmarks and what these buildings tell us about the state, its history, and its people

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December 2020 336 pp., 7 x 10 276 full-color Illustrations, 1 map eBook 978-1-67469-009-0 Paper 978-1-67469-008-3 $36.95

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n Architectural Travel Guide to Utah invites visitors and other explorers of Utah to see the state’s history, material culture, settlement, and natural landscape through the lens of its buildings. With more than 600 buildings as examples, this guide takes readers through Utah’s cities and rural villages, exploring neighborhoods and other built landscapes. An adobe house from the 1860s speaks volumes about the transmission of ideas, respectability, the places of origin of Utah’s white settlers, and their use of place-specific materials. The Utah State Capitol reflects the Neoclassicism preferred for statehouses throughout the nation, but its site overlooking a canyon to the east, the Great Salt Lake to the northwest, and the long view south down State Street—one of the longest streets in America—set it apart and make it very much of its place. From the most common vernacular cabin to the modern architecture of Abravanel Symphony Hall and the Salt Lake Arts Center, this guide uses the diversity of Utah’s architecture to showcase the diversity of its people, their visions for the good life, and the particular responses of their built environment to the unique geography of this beautiful state. Includes 276 images, many in color.

Martha Bradley-Evans is a professor in the College of Architecture + Planning at the University of Utah, as well as the senior associate vice president of Academic Affairs and dean of Undergraduate Studies. She is the past vice- chair of the Utah State Board of History, a former chair of the Utah Heritage Foundation, a fellow of the Utah State Historical Society, and a recipient of the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence. Her books include Kidnapped from that Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists and Plural Wife: The Autobiography of Mabel Finlayson Allred, among others.

A Modest Homestead

Life in Small Adobe Homes in Salt Lake City

Laurie J. Bryant eBook 978-1-60781-526-6 Paper 978-1-60781-525-9 $24.95 The Avenues of Salt Lake City Cevan LeSieur, Philip F. Notarianni, and Karl T. Haglund eBook 978-1-60781-997-4 Paper 978-1-60781-181-7 $19.95

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An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah

UTAH HISTORY / MORMON HISTORY

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Frank J. Cannon Saint, Senator, Scoundrel Val Holley

The first biography to examine Frank J. Cannon’s critical role in early Utah history

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September 2020 336 pp., 6 x 9 25 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-014-4 Cloth 978-1-64769-012-0 $60.00s Paper 978-1-64769-013-7 $29.95

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tah’s path to statehood was the most tortuous in U.S. history, due in no small part to the Mormon practice of polygamy. Frank J. Cannon, newspaperman, Congressional delegate, and senator, guided Utah toward becoming the forty-fifth state in the Union in 1896. But when he lost favor with the LDS Church, his contributions fell into obscurity.

In the 1880s, Congress dealt with the intransigence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over polygamy by enacting punitive new laws. Mormon lobbyists who pleaded for relief in Washington came home empty-handed before Cannon finally broke the logjam. He persuaded President Grover Cleveland to appoint judges who would deal mercifully with convicted polygamists and dissuaded Congress from disenfranchising all members by pledging that the church would abandon polygamy.

But when Utah elected Mormon apostle Reed Smoot to the U.S. Senate in 1903, Cannon condemned what he called the reneging of LDS Church pledges to stay out of politics. He wrote scathing denunciations of Smoot and Mormon president Joseph F. Smith, co-authored the exposé Under the Prophet in Utah, and spearheaded the National Reform Association’s anti-Mormon crusade. Utah’s subsequent displeasure with Cannon ensured that his critical role in its statehood would be buried by omission.

Val Holley is an independent historian living in New York City. His 25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden’s Rowdiest Road won the Utah Book Award in Nonfiction.

25th Street Confidential

Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road

Val Holley eBook 978-1-60781-270-8 Hardcover 978-1-60781-268-5 $39.95 Paper 978-1-60781-269-2 $24.95 David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism Gregory M. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright eBook 978-1-60781-396-5 Hardcover 978-0-87480-822-3 $29.95

“Holley gives full information, warts and all, about Cannon’s early life—including that Cannon was frequently drunk, was an adulterer, and fathered a son out of wedlock. He also provides information on the role Cannon played in the transition of Utah from territory to state and is clear about Cannon’s role in the silver movement and his eventual break with the Republican Party. We have needed a full-scale biography of Frank J. Cannon for some time.”

—Thomas G. Alexander, author of Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith

“Val Holley’s long-anticipated biography of Frank J. Cannon, one of the most controversial men ever to be born in Utah, is worth the wait.

Cannon’s role in ending the political warfare over polygamy is what made him matter in Utah’s history. His scandalous conduct—and how he got away with it—is what makes him interesting.”

—Will Bagley, historian and author of Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

MEMOIR/CREATIVE NONFICTION

A Memoir of Two Illnesses Joanne Jacobson

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hen Joanne Jacobson’s writing about her mother’s respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis with a rare blood disorder, she found her perspective profoundly altered. Every Last Breath follows these two chronic illnesses as they grow unexpectedly intertwined. Rejecting a fixed, retrospective point of view and the forward-moving trajectory of conventional memoir, Jacobson brings the reader to the emotionally raw present—where potentially fatal illness and “end of life” both remain, emphatically, life. As chronic illness blurs the distinction between illness and wellness, she discovers how a lifetime of relapse and remission can invite transformation. Written at the fluid, unsettling boundary between prose and poetry, these essays offer a narrative diagnosis of ongoing revision.

November 2020 96 pp., 5 x 7 eBook 978-1-64769-003-8 Paper 978-1-64769-001-4 $17.95

Joanne Jacobson is the author of Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams (1992) and Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (2007). Her critical essays and memoirs have appeared in such publications as Bellevue Literary Review, New England Review, Fourth Genre, and The Nation and her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

“Both memoir and biography, this book tells the interrelated stories of two Jewish-American women, mother and daughter, as their failing bodies confront them with their mortality. Jacobson’s work is heartwrenching without being maudlin. The respective illnesses are keenly observed. Family relationships are sweet and brutal. The body, the human body in its exquisite frailty, recurs as an object of reflection.”

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—Scott Abbott, author of Immortal for Quite Some Time

“Every Last Breath is a beautiful and brave exploration of the ephemerality of the body, the breath, and the world. It makes a valuable contribution to the literature of grief and the growing body of work that is focused on the intersection between body and belief.”

—Jennifer Sinor, author of Ordinary Trauma and Letters Like the Day

Ordinary Trauma A Memoir

Jennifer Sinor eBook 978-1-60781-538-9 Paper 978-01-60781-537-2 $19.95 Immortal for Quite Some Time Scott Abbott eBook 978-1-60781-515-0 Paper 978-1-60781-514-3 $24.95

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Every Last Breath

WESTERN HISTORY

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New from B O X E L D E R B O O K S

Richard Kern’s Far West Sketches A Visual History of the 1853 Gunnison Expedition Robert Shlaer

Details the Gunnison expedition of 1853 using sketches by the expedition’s topographer alongside modern photographs by the author

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November 2020 114 pp., 11 x 81/2 389 Illustrations eBook 978-1-67469-018-2 Hardcover 978-1-67469-019-9 $70.00s Paper 978-1-67469-0175 $44.95

n 1853 Richard Hovendon Kern was hired as topographer and artist for a government-sponsored reconnaissance led by Captain John Williams Gunnison.

Kern sketched landscape panoramas as the group made its way from St. Louis toward San Francisco.

When the expedition reached Sevier Lake, Utah, however, it was attacked by a band of Indians. Seven men, including Kern and Gunnison, were killed and Kern’s drawings were stolen. The sketches were soon recovered and eventually carried to Washington, D.C. Robert Shlaer came across them many years later at the Newberry Library in Chicago and was inspired to locate the views depicted in the drawings and to photograph them, as nearly as was possible, from the same spot where Kern stood when he sketched them.

Richard Kern’s Far West Sketches juxtaposes Kern’s drawings with Shlaer's photographs, presenting 389 illustrations in geographic sequence from east to west, as well as a detailed narrative of the expedition. An associated website will include maps, drawings, and photographs so that they can be enlarged, compared, and studied in detail, providing an immersive experience of this important and ill-fated expedition.

Robert Shlaer worked as a professional daguerreotypist for twenty years. His book Sights Once Seen: Daguerreotyping Frémont’s Last Expedition through the Rockies became a traveling exhibition of the same name and received the Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award from the Historical Society of New Mexico.

B OX E L D E R B O O K S Boxelder Books is a new imprint of the University of Utah Press. Books published under this imprint will have a regional focus and appeal to readers with broad general interests in topics related to western North America.

Subject matter of these titles will range across disciplines.

“The correct attribution, identification, sequencing, and site location of the original sketches are significant accomplishments in themselves and Shlaer’s photographs are works of fine—even phenomenal—documentary art.”

—Ben W. Huseman, cartographic archivist, University of Texas Arlington Special Collections

“Shlaer’s work provides historians access to a body of sketches previously unknown. It represents a significant contribution to the history of exploration in the West and highlights one of the expeditions that has not received much attention.”

—Ephriam D. Dickson III, deputy chief, Field Museums Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History

ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY/WOMEN’S STUDIES

A Century of Change for Women in Great Basin and American Archaeology

Edited by Suzanne Eskenazi and Nicole M. Herzog

The first volume to explore the personal and professional lives of women working across a broad range of professional archaeological careers

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October 2020 224 pp., 6 x 9 30 Illustrations eBook 978-1-64769-005-2 Hardcover 978-1-64769-004-5 $60.00s

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panning more than one hundred years of women’s careers and lives, this collection illuminates what it was and is to be a female archaeologist. These personal accounts of researchers, ethnographers, and field archaeologists in the private, public, and academic sectors highlight the unique role women have played in the development of American and Great Basin archaeology.

Written by women trained or working in the Great Basin, these accounts reflect the broader landscape of American archaeology, offering a glimpse into a larger narrative about making one’s way in a historically male field. By sharing their stories, the authors highlight the positive aspects of the field, recognize the challenges that still exist, and encourage conversations about inclusion, diversity, and the future of archaeology in the Great Basin and beyond. Their authentic and intimate narratives inspire us to look at challenges not as roadblocks, but as opportunities for lifelong growth and success.

Suzanne Eskenazi is an archaeologist and principal investigator at SWCA Environmental Consultants in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Nicole M. Herzog is a professor of archaeology and behavioral ecology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Denver, Colorado.

“This is a significant work in the history of the science of archaeology.

The book will be useful for women considering archaeology as a career choice. I know of no other book that is similar to this one.”

—Barbara Voorhies, research professor and professor emerita, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara

Isabel T. Kelly's Southern Paiute Ethnographic Field Notes, 1932-1934 Las Vegas

UUAP #130 Edited by Catherine S. Fowler and Darla Garey-Sage eBook 978-1-60781-503-7 Paper 978-1-60781-502-0 $50.00s Purple Hummingbird

A Biography of Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell

Claude N. Warren and Joan S. Schneider eBook 978-1-60781-519-8 Paper 978-1-60781-518-1$19.95

“Any archaeologist involved in field science will find kinship with the authors in this volume. General readers will find this interesting as well. The world needs to know more about strong women and why they were successful.”

—Mary Lou Larson, professor of archaeology, University of Wyoming

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With Grit and Determination

Hunters of the Mid-Holocene Forest

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Old Cordilleran Cultural Sites at Granite Falls, Washington James C. Chatters, Jason B. Cooper, and Philippe D. LeTourneau

University of Utah Anthropological Papers #134

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his volume examines an almost purely lithic record known in the Puget Sound region as the Olcott Complex. Only loosely described off and on since the early 1960s by a series of researchers, none of whom used the same analytical approach, the Olcott record has never been systematically analyzed until now.

As a result, this book fills in enormous gaps in our knowledge regarding the age, mode of subsistence, and adaptive strategy of the Olcott Complex.

Chatters and colleagues describe the intensive excavation of three Olcott sites that were threatened by highway construction. The book concludes by pulling those findings together to place the Olcott Complex into its proper place in regional prehistory.

An exemplary model of how to conduct archaeological research, the volume demonstrates how important research issues can be addressed in a cultural resource management context.

Extensive appendices available online.

2020 240 pp., 8 1/2 x 11 68 Illustrations, 12 maps eBook 978-1-64769-007-6 Paper 978-1-64769-006-9 $55.00s

James C. Chatters is an archaeologist and paleontologist perhaps best known for his work on Naia of Hoyo Negro and Kennewick Man, both of which were presented on PBS’s NOVA. He is author of Ancient Encounters and coeditor of Macroevolution in Human Prehistory.

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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS

Jason B. Cooper is an archaeologist and cultural resources lead with the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Philippe D. LeTourneau is an archaeologist with the King County Historic Preservation Program in Washington and an affiliate curator at the University of Washington Burke Museum.

The Prehistory of Morro Bay Central California’s Overlooked Estuary Terry L. Jones, Deborah A. Jones, William R. Hildebrandt, Kacey Hadick, and Patricia Mikkelsen

Foragers on America's Western Edge The Archaeology of California's Pecho Coast

Terry L. Jones and Brian F. Codding eBook 978-1-60781-644-7 Hardcover 978-1-60781-643-0 $50.00s The Prehistory of Morro Bay

Central California's Overlooked Estuary

UUAP #132 Edited by Terry L. Jones, Deborah A. Jones, William Hildebrandt, Kacey Hadick, and Patricia Mikkelsen eBook 978-1-60781-707-9 Paper 978-1-60781-706-2 $45.00s

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“Careful, complete, and thoughtful. This work describes sound analytic approaches that should be informative to others and provides new information on a long-standing controversy in western Washington archaeology.”

—Tom Connolly, archaeological research director, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History and State Museum of Anthropology

“Theoretically and methodologically sophisticated, this study sets a new standard for interdisciplinary research in an archaeological data recovery program with its unique combination of archaeology, geosciences, and paleoecology. It opens a range of new questions requiring similarly advanced research and will impact regional syntheses of the long-term prehistoric record.”

—Anna Marie Prentiss, Regents Professor of Anthropology, University of Montana, and author of The Last House at Bridge River

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This is the Plate Utah Food Traditions

Edited by Carol A. Edison, Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeill

450 pp., 8.5 x 9.5 eBook 978-1-60781-741-3 Paper 978-1-60781-740-6 $34.95

Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity Edited by Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid Joseph Smith, the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and of the broader Latter-day Saint movement, produced several volumes of scripture between 1829, when he translated the Book of Mormon, and 1844, when he was murdered. The Book of Mormon, published in 1830, is well known. Less read and studied are the texts that Smith translated after the Book of Mormon, texts that he presented as the writings of ancient Old World and New World prophets.

This collaborative volume is the first to study Joseph Smith’s translation projects in their entirety. In this carefully curated collection, experts contribute cutting-edge research and incisive analysis. Scrupulous examination of the production and content of Smith’s translations opens new avenues for understanding the foundations of Mormonism, provides insight on aspects of early American religious culture, and helps conceptualize the production and transmission of sacred texts.

440 pp., 7 x 10 eBook 978-1-60781-739-0 Paper 978-1-60781-738-3 $45.00s Hardcover 978-1-60781-743-7 $70.00s

NEW RELEASES

The first book-length treatment of Utah’s distinctive food heritage, this volume contains work by more than sixty subject-matter experts, including scholars, community members, journalists, bloggers, photographers, and food producers. It features recipes and photographs of food and beverages. Utah’s food history is traced from precontact Native American times through the arrival of multinational Mormon pioneers, miners, farmers, and other immigrants to today’s moment of foodie creativity, craft beers, and fast-casual restaurant-chain development. Contributors also explore the historical and cultural background for scores of food-related tools, techniques, dishes, traditions, festivals, and distinctive ingredients from the state’s religious, regional, and ethnic communities as well as Utah-based companies. In a state much influenced by Latter-day Saint history and culture, iconic items like Jell-O salads, funeral potatoes, fry sauce, and the distinctive Utah scone have emerged as self-conscious signals of an ecumenical Utah identity. Scholarly but lively and accessible, this book will appeal to both the general reader and the academic folklorist.

Producing Ancient Scripture

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To the Corner of the Province

The 1780 Ugarte-Rocha Sonoran Reconnaissance and Implications for Environmental and Cultural Change

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Edited by Deni J. Seymour and Oscar S. Rodríguez In April 1780, Military Governor Ugarte and Chief Engineer Rocha were sent on a reconnaissance mission through the northwestern frontier of New Spain, land that today is northern Sonora and southeastern Arizona. Seeking information on the advisability of placing a presidio at the junction of the San Pedro and Gila Rivers, Ugarte and Rocha described the landscape in unprecedented detail. Their accounts provide valuable baseline information on environment and culture that allows for analysis of changes at a critical moment in borderland history. To the Corner of the Province provides not just translations of their orders, summary reports, journal, and map, but commentary informed by a variety of sources. Seymour’s more than thirty years’ experience working in this part of the Southwest adds depth and perspective to the narrative.

288 pp., 7 x 10 eBook 978-1-60781-621-8 Hardcover 978-1-60781-620-1 $40.00s

Early Farming and Warfare in Northwest Mexico Robert J. Hard and John R. Roney This volume presents the multiyear archaeological investigations of Cerro Juanaqueña and related sites in northwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. These remarkable terraced hilltop settlements represent a series of watershed developments, including substantial dependence on agriculture and early experiments with village living, fortified settlements, collective labor, and communal architecture.

Part of a larger, regional development, they parallel changes in northern Sonora and southern Arizona. The emergence of large fortified agricultural villages at 1300 BC—before the use of ceramics—was an unexpected discovery that changed how archaeologists view early agriculture in this region. Through comparisons with a global cross-cultural probe of hilltop sites and a detailed examination of the features and artifacts of Cerro Juanaqueña, Hard and Roney argue that these cerros de trincheras sites are the earliest fortified defensive sites in the region. Readers with interests in ancient agriculture, warfare, village formation, and material culture will find this to be a foundational volume.

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Wonders of Sand and Stone

John Hance

A History of Utah’s National Parks and Monuments

The Life, Lies, and Legend of Grand Canyon’s Greatest Storyteller

Frederick H. Swanson

Shane Murphy

Charles Eggert

From Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah’s five national parks and eight national monuments are home to some of America’s most amazing scenic treasures, created over long expanses of geologic time. In Wonders of Sand and Stone, Frederick H. Swanson traces the recent human story behind the creation of these places as part of a protected mini-empire of public lands. Drawing on extensive historical research, Swanson presents little-known accounts of people who saw in these sculptured landscapes something worth protecting. Readers are introduced to the region’s early explorers, scientists, artists, and travelers as well as the local residents and tourism promoters who worked with the National Park Service to build the system of parks and monuments we know today, when Utah’s national parks and monuments face multiple challenges from increased human use and from development outside their borders.

A legend in his own lifetime, John Hance (1837–1919) was synonymous with early Grand Canyon tourism. Between the late 1880s and early 1900s, to say “John Hance” was to say “Grand Canyon.” Hance was well known to travelers and visiting dignitaries alike, men such as William “Buffalo Bill” Cody and Theodore Roosevelt, the president who affectionately referred to him as “the greatest liar on earth.” In this book, Shane Murphy chronicles Hance’s childhood in Tennessee and Missouri, his service in the Confederacy during the Civil War, his time in Union prisons as a POW, and his later adventures with the Hickok brothers crossing the plains. Settling in Arizona’s fruitful Verde Valley, Hance farmed and filled military contracts before taking up residence as Grand Canyon’s first permanent Euro-American settler, trail builder, guide, and renowned storyteller. Murphy investigated assessors’ rolls, rare mercantile ledgers, and mining claims to create a full and compelling narrative of a man who was once an icon of the American West and should be remembered as the founding father of Grand Canyon tourism.

In 1955 photographer Charles Eggert and renowned river guide Don Hatch set off down the Green River with six others to duplicate the 1870s journey of John Wesley Powell. With dams soon to be built at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon, they planned to film the voyage and be the last to travel these waters before the landscape changed forever. Eggert’s film A Canyon Voyage debuted successfully after the trip, but his written narrative of the river, its landscape, its people, and the adventures of the crew was never published. This book finally brings Eggert’s writings out of the archives and into the public eye. Color and blackand-white illustrations further enliven the text. An engaging read, this is an important piece of river history that also shines light on Eggert’s tremendous influence as a conservation cinematographer

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A Filmmaker’s Journey Down the Green and Colorado Rivers

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The Last Canyon Voyage

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Troubadour on the Road to Gold William B. Lorton’s 1849 Journal to California

Edited by LeRoy Johnson and Jean Johnson Foreword by Richard L. Saunders

Watchman on the Tower

Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right Matthew L. Harris

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During the California Gold Rush, many of the miners and merchants who hoped to strike it rich in California left behind letters and journals that provide valuable insights into one of the great migrations in American history. Of all the journals and diaries left behind, William B. Lorton’s is perhaps the most informative and complete.

Although known to historians for decades, Lorton’s journal has never been published. Lorton’s work is revealing and entertaining. It captures glimpses of a growing Salt Lake City, the hardships of Death Valley, and the extraordinary and mundane aspects of daily life on the road to gold. With resilience and a droll sense of humor, Lorton shares accounts of life-threatening stampedes, dangerous hailstorms, mysteriously moving rocks, and slithering sidewinders. The inclusion of images, maps, and the editors’ detailed notes make this a volume that will entertain and inform.

Ezra Taft Benson is perhaps the most controversial apostle-president in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

For nearly fifty years he delivered impassioned sermons in Utah and elsewhere, mixing religion with ultraconservative right-wing political views and conspiracy theories. His teachings inspired Mormon extremists to stockpile weapons, predict the end of the world, and commit acts of violence against their government. The First Presidency rebuked him, his fellow apostles wanted him disciplined, and grassroots Mormons called for his removal from the Quorum of the Twelve. Yet Benson was beloved by millions of Latter-day Saints. Using previously restricted documents from archives across the United States, Matthew L. Harris breaks new ground as the first to evaluate why Benson embraced a radical form of conservatism, and how under his leadership Mormons became the most reliable supporters of the Republican Party of any religious group in America.

Joseph Smith

History, Methods, and Memory Ronald O. Barney The study of Joseph Smith and his writings have been shaped by the polemical atmosphere that surrounds Smith’s claims to divine authorship. Smith’s own History of Joseph Smith (edited and revised at the beginning of the twentieth century by B. H. Roberts) created an enduring image that influenced Mormon theology, doctrine, and polity for generations. With new historical documents now available, however, a reappraisal of Smith and the origins of Mormonism is necessary. Ronald O. Barney, a former editor of the Joseph Smith Papers, applies new interpretations to Smith in history and memory, re-examining both his writings and contemporary accounts of him. The book explores the best methodologies for appraising the historical record, including a review of Smith’s world and its contextual background, an analysis of his foundational experiences, and a characterization of Smith as a man and prophet.

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Dutton’s Dirty Diggers Misplacing Ogden, Bertha P. Dutton and the Senior Utah Girl Scout Archaeological Camps in the American Southwest, 1947-1957

Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations

The Commissioners of Indian Affairs

Catherine S. Fowler

Pepper Glass

David H. DeJong

Catherine Fowler chronicles a significant yet little-known program for Girl Scouts in post–WWII America. At a time when women were just beginning to enter fields traditionally dominated by men, these two-week camping caravans and archaeological excavations introduced teenage girls not only to the rich cultural and scientific heritage of the American Southwest but to new career possibilities. Dr. Bertha Dutton, curator at the Museum of New Mexico, served as trip leader.

This book details the history of the program, sharing trip itineraries and selected memories from the nearly three hundred girls who attended the camps. It also serves as a mini-biography and tribute to Bertha Dutton, who, through her knowledge, teaching, and strong persona, provided a role model for these young women, many of whom later pursued careers in anthropology and related fields.

How do we draw the lines between “good” and “bad” neighborhoods?

How do we know ghettos? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems. Using Ogden, Utah, as a case study, Pepper Glass argues that urban reputations are moral frontiers that uphold and create divides between who is a good and respectable—or a bad and vilified—member of a community. Ogden, a working-class city with a history of racial and immigrant diversity, has long held a reputation among Utahns as a “sin city” in the middle of an entrenched religious culture. Glass blends ethnographic research with historical accounts, census reports, and other secondary sources to provide insight into Ogden’s reputation, past and present.

Although federal Indian policies are largely determined by Congress and the executive branch, it is the commissioner and assistant secretary of Indian Affairs who must implement them. Over the past two centuries, the overarching goals of federal Indian policy have been the social and political integration and assimilation of Native Americans and the extinguishment of aboriginal title to Indian lands.

Indian Affairs commissioners have and continue to hold an enormous power to dictate how these policies affect the fate of Indians and their lands, a power that David H. DeJong shows has been used and misused in different ways through the years.

By examining the work of the Indian affairs commissioners and their assistant secretaries, DeJong gives new insight into how federal Indian policy has evolved and been shaped by the social, political, and cultural winds of the day.

288 pp., 6 x 9 eBook 978-1-60781-752-9 Hardcover 978-1-60781-759-8 $60.00s

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The United States Indian Service and the Making of Federal Indian Policy, 1824 to 2017

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Household Economy at Wall Ridge A Fourteenth-Century Central Plains Farmstead in the Missouri Valley

Nivaclé Grammar Lyle Campbell, Luis Díaz, and Fernando Ángel

This book tells the story of a Native American household that occupied a lodge on the eastern Plains border during the early 1300s ad. Contributors use cutting-edge methods and the site’s unparalleled archaeological record to shed light on the daily technological, subsistence, and dietary aspects of the occupants’ lives.

This work represents the first comprehensive study of a prehistoric Central Plains household in over half a century. The research covers archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, dating, ceramics, lithics, bone and shell tools, diet, climate, ecology, and more. Many of these items have never been reported from Central Plains sites. The book firmly sets the site’s occupancy at ad 1305, with a margin of error of only a few years. This result, based on high-precision dating methods, exceeds in accuracy all previously dated Plains lodges and provides a temporal backdrop for evaluating household activities.

This book offers an extensive description of Nivaclé, an indigenous language spoken in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina and Paraguay. Nivaclé’s phonology, morphology, and syntax are complex; the language has no tenses marked on verbs, essentially no prepositions, and a sizable number of lexical suffixes whose content is so concrete they would be expected to be independent words in most other languages. Nivaclé has a unique speech sound, /k͡ l/, known nowhere else. In some locations where it is spoken, multilingual conversations are the norm.

These and other rare traits make Nivaclé an especially fascinating language for linguists, with many implications for language typology and linguistic theory. The book is based on dozens of audio and video recordings of narratives and on hundreds of hours of elicitation and analysis with native speakers.

Scholars—whether in anthropology, folklore, geography, history, or language—will find value in the narratives included here and in the insights into Nivaclé life and culture found throughout the book.

288 pp., 8.5 x 11 eBook 978-1-60781-774-1 Hardcover 978-1-60781-773-4 $70.00s

288 pp., 8.5 x 11 eBook 978-1-60781-776-5 Hardcover 978-1-60781-775-8 $95.00s

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Culture of Da’wa

Preaching in the Modern World Edited by Itzchak Weismann and Jamil Malik This book provides the first in-depth, wide-scope treatment of da’wa. A term difficult to translate, da’wa covers a semantic field ranging from the call or invitation to Islam, to religious preaching and proselytizing, to the mission and message of Islam. Historically da’wa has been directed outward to nonbelievers, but in modern times it has turned increasingly inward to straying Muslims. While the media and many scholars have focused on extremism and militant groups that have raised the banner of jihad, this volume argues that da’wa, not jihad, forms the backbone of modern Islamic politics and religiosity, and that the study of da’wa is essential for understanding contemporary Islamic politics as well as jihadist activity. These essays analyze the major discourses of da’wa, their embodiment in the major Islamic movements of the twentieth century, and their transformation into new forms of activism through the media, the state, and jihadi groups—including al-Qaeda and ISIS—in the twenty-first century.

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