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National Park Reader Series 12-13 Stegner Lecture Series 14 Distribution Partners 15 New in Paper 16
Featured Backlist 17-20 Essential Backlist 21-24
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Reflections on 70 years of publishing
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irthdays and anniversaries are occasions for reflection. As the University of Utah Press approaches its seventieth anniversary, I’m pleased to take a moment to consider what the press has accomplished in seventy years. I and the other University of Utah Press staff believe in our work and know that it matters. We chose careers in university press publishing for reasons of intellectual curiosity and the love of making books. We share a basic belief that our publications matter, that they add to the scope of human knowledge, engage wider intellectual debates, and explore deeper truths. The Press has promoted this same belief since 1949, when university president A. Ray Olpin established it as part of his post–World War II expansion of the university. Under director Harold W. Bentley, the Press published its first book, New Teeth for Old by Victor H. Sears. This little volume about dentures begins with the worrying exclamation, “So you’re going to lose your teeth!” before advising readers to “be glad you do not have to go around without any teeth at all.” Wise words. The first volume of the twelve-volume Florentine Codex by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, easily among the Press’s most important contributions to scholarship, followed in 1951. Anderson and Dibble’s massive translation project took more than ten years to complete and is respected worldwide as the premiere English translation of Bernardino de Sahagún’s Nahuatl record on the lifeways and traditions of the Aztecs, written between 1540 and 1585. The Florentine Codex has long been available in hardcover and paperback and the Press looks forward to collaborating with a larger Getty Research Institute project to create a digital version. The University of Utah Anthropological Papers (UUAP) also rank among the Press’s earliest publications and continue as our longest-running series. By working with the Marriott Library’s Special Collections Department and the University of Utah’s Anthropology Department, the Press was able to locate all of the long-out-of-print volumes in the UUAP series. That they are in print once again speaks to the importance of the enduring professional partnerships the Press has forged across campus over the last seven decades. Over time, the Press’s publications have changed to reflect shifts in university priorities, the expertise of our acquisitions staff, and the ever-changing scholarly landscape. Anthropology, archaeology, and titles related to Mesoamerica remain important to our mission, which to varying degrees now also includes books in western and Utah history, Mormon studies, Middle East studies, American Indian studies, environmental humanities and history, natural history, nature writing, creative nonfiction, linguistics, folklore studies, and titles of regional interest. In our seventy-year history we’ve published a celebrated list of authors whose books have achieved wide recognition and won numerous awards. I encourage you to visit UofUpress.com to have a look. This catalog demonstrates many of the Press’s current priorities, with two excellent books on Native American autobiography and history leading the way. Please take a moment to browse the titles gathered here. We hope you will see your own interests reflected in the books published by the University of Utah Press. Glenda Cotter, DIRECTOR THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
One Voice Rising The Life of Clifford Duncan
Clifford Duncan with Linda Sillitoe Photographs by George R. Janecek Foreword by Forrest Cuch
A Ute leader reflects on his life and on tribal history
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June 2019, 288 pp., 8.5 x 9 100 Illustrations 978-1-60781-687-4 eBook 978-1-60781-703-1 Hardcover $49.95 978-1-60781-686-7 Paper $29.95
ne Voice Rising is the memoir of a Ute healer, historian, and elder as told to writer Linda Sillitoe. Clifford Duncan (1933–2014) was a tribal official and medicine man, a museum director, a trained lay archaeologist, an artist, a U.S. Army veteran, and a leader in the Native American Church. In this text, Duncan reflects on personal and tribal history during a crucial period in the tribe’s development. His discussions with Sillitoe offer a unique look at individual and societal issues, including the Native American Church, powwows and tribal celebrations, and interactions with the larger world. George Janecek’s intimate photographs of Clifford Duncan and his world expand the impact of Duncan’s words. “Everything was Indian then, when I was a boy. They had to explain to us about the white man’s side. Now everything is in the white man’s world and we teach Indian ways.”—Clifford Duncan (from the book)
Clifford Duncan (1933–2014) was a Ute elder and healer as well as a museum director, archaeologist, artist, U.S. Army veteran, and a leader in the Native American Church. ALSO OF INTEREST
Linda Sillitoe (1948–2010) was a poet, journalist, and author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her books include Friendly Fire: A History of the ACLU in Utah and Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders (coauthored with Allen D. Roberts). George Janecek is a well-known documentary photographer based in Salt Lake City. He has worked for Life and other magazines, and his work has been published in several books.
“The work’s significance is two-fold: the subject is of great current interest and no other work on Ute medicine has been done in the last fifty years. The work is unique for its time and place.”
Being and Becoming Ute The Story of an American Indian People
Sondra G. Jones eBook 978-1-60781-658-4 Hardcover 978-1-60781-666-9 $70.00 Paper 978-1-60781-657-7 $29.95
Confessions of an Iyeska Viola Burnette eBook 978-1-60781-640-9 Paper 978-1-60781-639-3 $24.95
—Floyd O’Neil, formally director emeritus of the American West Center, University of Utah
“Offers important insights into the life of an extraordinary man, a Ute man who was highly regarded by many of his people. This work makes a huge contribution as it is one of very few publications dealing with the actual life experiences of a Ute Indian. And it is a publication that draws as much from the past as from the present times.” —Forrest Cuch, editor of A History of Utah’s American Indians
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AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES/AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR
AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES / MORMON STUDIES
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Essays on American Indian and Mormon History Edited by P. Jane Hafen and Brenden W. Rensink
Places American Indian perspectives at the center of American Indian and Mormon history
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June 2019, 440 pp., 6 x 9 6 Illustrations 978-1-60781-691-1 eBook 978-1-60781-690-4 Hardcover $45.00s
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merican Indians have long played a central role in Mormon history and its narratives. Their roles, however, have often been cast in support of traditional Mormon beliefs and as a reaffirmation of colonial discourses. This collection of essays, many the result of a seminar hosted by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, explores the historical and cultural complexities of this narrative from a decolonizing perspective. Essays cover the historical construction of the “Lamanite,” settler colonialism and the Book of Mormon, and connections between the Seneca leader Handsome Lake and Joseph Smith. Authors also address American Indian Mormon tribal identities, Navajo and Mormon participation at the dedication of Glen Canyon Dam, the impact of Mormon Polynesian missionaries in Diné Bikéyah, the ISPP, and other topics. Prominent American Indian Mormon voices lend their creative work and personal experiences to the book. With the aim of avoiding familiar narrative patterns of settler colonialism, contributors seek to make American Indians the subjects rather than the objects of discussion in relation to Mormons, presenting new ways to explore and reframe these relationships.
P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo) is professor emerita of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is author of Reading Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and editor of Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and the Sun Dance Opera. Brenden W. Rensink is assistant director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands.
Making Lamanites Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947–2000
Matthew Garrett eBook 978-1-60781-495-5 Hardcover 978-1-60781-494-8 $44.00s Paper 978-1-60781-569-3 $29.95
Decolonizing Mormonism Approaching a Postcolonial Zion
Edited by Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks eBook 978-1-60781-609-6 Paper 978-1-60781-608-9 $24.95
“This volume will improve considerably the field of Mormon studies by contributing to its critical and intersectional turn. There has been no comparable book-length work focusing on the experiences of American Indian Mormons from an indigenous perspective. This compilation of essays brings together many voices in a way that builds strength and fosters reflection on shared issues and points of contact.” —Joanna Brooks, author of The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith and coeditor of Decolonizing Mormonism
MORMON STUDIES
Edited by Craig S. Smith
Personal letters provide a nuanced look at the life of the woman who transformed the writing of Utah and Mormon history
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May 2019, 520 pp., 6 x 9 2 Illustrations 978-1-60781-648-5 eBook 978-1-60781-647-8 Hardcover $39.95
he 220 letters selected for this book offer a fresh and intimate encounter with Juanita Brooks, one of the most influential historians of Utah and the Mormons. Born and raised in the small, remote agricultural village of Bunkerville, Nevada, Brooks lived most most of her life in St. George, Utah, rising to prominence following the 1950 publication of her landmark book The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Her unwavering commitment to honest scholarship continues to inspire younger generations laboring to produce excellent objective history. The letters in this volume, written from 1941 to 1978, trace Brooks’s development from fledgling historian to recognized authority. This selection of letters provides a new perspective on her personal and scholarly growth. Richly detailed, chatty, and covering a wide array of subjects, the letters afford an important glimpse into Brooks’s struggles, concerns, and interests. Craig S. Smith is a retired archaeologist living in the Salt Lake Valley. His interests include the archaeology and history of the West. In addition to many archaeological publications, he has contributed to the Utah Historical Quarterly, BYU Studies, Overland Journal, and the Journal of Mormon History.
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“Smith’s book offers us a fresh and more intimate encounter with Juanita Brooks than we get even in Levi Peterson’s superb biography. He has selected about one-fourth of the extant Brooks letters, focusing tightly on her personality and development as a Utah historian, and they read almost like the diary that she never kept. Even though I was the one who processed the Brooks papers at the Utah State Historical Society, I feel like I know her better now than I ever have.” —Gary Topping, author of Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History
Juanita Brooks The Life Story of a Courageous Historian of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Levi S. Peterson eBook 978-0-585-13353-9 Paper 978-1-60781-151-0 $14.95
The Women A Family History
Kerry William Bate eBook 978-1-60781-517-4 Hardcover 978-1-60781-516-7 $39.95
“This book is a portrait of a brilliant, down-to-earth woman whose accomplishments are clearly established. It can easily take its place among others that tell the story of the history of the West, the people who lived it, and those who bring it to life.” —Linda King Newell, coauthor of Conscience and Community: Sterling M. McMurrin, Obert C. Tanner, and Lowell L. Bennion
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The Selected Letters of Juanita Brooks
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Frontier Religion
Mormons and America, 1857–1907 Konden Smith Hansen
Explores encounters between Mormonism and Protestantism on America’s western frontier and the making and meaning of religious liberty and authority in the United States
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June 2019, 392 pp., 6 x 9 12 Illustrations 978-1-60781-689-8 eBook 978-1-60781-688-1 Paper $45.00s
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Danish but Not Lutheran The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920
Julie K. Allen eBook 978-1-60781-546-4 Hardcover 978-1-60781-545-7 $36.00s
Mormonism and the Making of a British Zion Matthew Rasmussen eBook 978-1-60781-488-7 Hardcover 978-1-60781-487-0 $39.95
t the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Mormons were deliberately excluded from one of the main attractions, the Parliament of Religions. Organizers believed that Mormonism, with its connections to polygamy, did not merit a place alongside other world religions being showcased for the similar ways in which they inspired people to follow God. At the same time, however, Americans who had long shown hatred or distrust toward their Mormon neighbors had begun to look at Mormonism in a different light. Underlying this new look at Mormonism was a rapidly developing belief in America’s fading western frontier as a place linked to core American values such as self-reliance, personal freedom, and democratic rule. With a unique history intimately tied to the frontier, Mormonism began to be seen less as something outside America, and more as a faith closely associated with the country’s most important principles. In Frontier Religion Konden Smith Hansen examines the dramatic influence these perceptions of the frontier had on Mormonism and other religions in America. Endeavoring to better understand the sway of the frontier on religion in the United States, this book follows several Mormon-American conflicts, from the Utah War and the antipolygamy crusades to the Reed Smoot hearings. The story of Mormonism’s move toward American acceptability represents a larger story of the nation’s transition toward modernity and religious pluralism. This book challenges old assumptions and provokes further study of the ever changing dialectic between society and faith. Konden Smith Hansen is lecturer of religious studies at the University of Arizona. His work has been published in the Journal of Mormon History, Reading Religion, and Mormons and American Popular Culture.
“Konden Smith Hansen demonstrates not just Mormonism’s interactions with Protestantism, but how both traditions, as well as the relationships between them, were connected to larger trajectories in the history of American religion and the growing secularization of the state. The monograph is a model for future studies that seek to connect Mormon history with larger narratives in American religious history and American history more generally.” —James Bennett, associate provost and associate professor of religious studies, Santa Clara University
BIOGRAPHY/UTAH HISTORY
The Life of Alberta Henry Colleen Whitley
The struggles and triumphs of one of Utah’s prominent civil rights leaders
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July 2019, 392 pp., 6 x 9 12 illustrations 978-1-60781-694-2 eBook 978-1-60781-693-5 Hardcover $34.95
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lberta Henry (1920–2005) was born in a sharecropper’s shack in segregated Louisiana before moving with her family to Kansas where she grew up in a climate of hardship and hostile racial bigotry that forced second-class citizenship on African Americans. Henry endured intolerance by leaning on her faith and her commitment to a cause that she believed God had called her to follow. When she came to Utah in 1949 she thought it would be a brief stay, but she ended up making it her home for more than fifty years. In Utah, Henry committed herself to helping all races, religions, and ethnic groups coexist in appreciation of each other. While Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X led the struggle for civil rights at a national level, Alberta Henry campaigned tirelessly for equality at a local level, talking at school board meetings, before city councils, and in the homes of her neighbors. Henry was a member or officer of more than forty civic organizations and served for twelve years as president of the Salt Lake City branch of the NAACP, where she lobbied for civil rights, education, and justice. The dozens of awards and commendations she received speak to her accomplishments. While much of Henry’s story is told in her own words, Colleen Whitley provides expert and personal context to her speeches, writing, and interviews. The result is an exceptional first-person account of an African American woman leader and her role in the Civil Rights Movement in Utah.
Colleen Whitley has published numerous articles, poems, and reviews, and is author or editor of five books, including Worth Their Salt: Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah and Worth Their Salt, Too: More Notable but Often Unnoted Women of Utah. She retired in 2006 after teaching for twenty years at Brigham Young University.
France Davis An American Story Told
France A. Davis and Nayra Atiya Hardcover 978-0-87480-873-5 Paper 978-1-60781-183-1 $19.95
Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp A Nisei Youth behind a World War II Fence
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey eBook 978-1-60781-345-3 Hardcover 978-1-60781-343-9 $34.95
“Feed My Sheep: The Life of Alberta Henry is a slender book that illuminates the life of an important Utah civil rights activist. The combination of oral history and more traditional biographical-style narrative offers a complex depiction of a strong black woman coming of age during WWII and then moving to Utah to improve her health and find her way in the world. An important, exciting, and necessary story.” —Leslie G. Kelen, executive director of the Center for Documentary Expression and Art and coauthor of Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
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Feed My Sheep
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Catechesis A Postpastoral
Lindsay Lusby Foreword by Kimiko Hahn
Winner of the 2018 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry
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April 2019 64 pp., 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 12 Illustrations, 978-1-60781-698-0 eBook 978-1-60781-697-3 Paper $14.95
girl has two choices: / to be a tree or / to be the forest.” Catechesis combines Grimm fairy tales with horror movies and the Book of Revelation to construct a vision of the dangers and apocalyptic transformations inherent in girlhood. This lyric lore, which includes curious diagrams and collages of the botanical and the anatomical, contains hidden instructions to prepare girls for the hazards ahead. In retelling lore alongside other Grimm-style stories, the poet turns horror classics The Silence of the Lambs and Alien into macabre fairy tales in their own right. Herein lurks violence and decay, but also a wild, overgrown beauty. Mothers and fathers are as much a part of this treacherous landscape as the carnivorous flora and shape-shifting fauna—and their effects are just as devastating. Framing all of this within biblical language and motifs gives these fabulist poems an ominous sense of urgency. Catechesis is a hybrid collection of textual and visual poems that examine belief and obsession. It explores how beauty leads to danger and danger births another kind of beauty, in a cycle of creation and destruction.
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Lindsay Lusby is the author of two previous chapbooks, Blackbird Whitetail Redhand (Porkbelly Press, 2018) and Imago (dancing girl press, 2014), and the winner of the 2015 Fairy Tale Review Poetry Contest. Lusby is assistant director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House at Washington College, where she serves as assistant editor for the Literary House Press and managing editor for Cherry Tree.
Her Mouth as Souvenir Heather June Gibbons eBook 978-1-60781-631-7 Paper 978-1-60781-630-0 $14.95
Bad Summon Philip Schaefer eBook 978-1-60781-553-2 Paper 978-1-60781-554-9 $14.95
“Lusby’s shivery sequence strews a trail of gems through fairy tale’s shadiest, most iconic location—the Forest. We meet our heroine in very unfortunate medias res—under the axe—but which way will fortune tilt? As each lyric spills its elixir, a swarm of dialogue and diagrams, allusions and images cluster like corpse-fauna, rise. Catechesis reminds us that every occult canon, every sweet herbarium is a library of poisons, and invites us to drink deep.” —Joyelle McSweeney, author of The Necropastoral
“Both raw and beautiful in its rendering of terrors, Catechesis reforms moments of gendered violence into moments of transformation, in a dynamic illustration of Adrienne Rich’s feminist tenet that ‘her wounds came from the same source as her power.’ Lusby’s language is like the ‘flint-strike of tooth on light,’ and this book is ’such lungspan,/ such bright palpitation’ from beginning to end.” —Sara Eliza Johnson, author of Bone Map
WESTERN HISTORY
Harold H. Leich Foreword by Roy Webb
Will entice readers with its thrilling descriptions of adventure on the Colorado River
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May 2019, 240 pp., 6 x 9 40 illustrations, 2 maps 978-1-60781-677-5 eBook 978-1-60781-676-8 Paper $19.95
arold H. Leich set out on a westward journey in the summer of 1933. His travel narrative details his river trip down the Yellowstone River and the first descent by boat of the upper Colorado River from Grand Lake, Colorado, through Cataract Canyon, Utah. He was the first to push through this entire upper section, running rapids that had never known a paddle, rebuilding his kayak along the riverbanks, camping rough, and meeting ranchers and railroad workers in these remote regions. Leich’s sudden change of fortune in Cataract Canyon, in the most isolated part of Utah, and his soul searching as he worked his way out of a perilous situation, will speak to anyone who has ventured beyond roads and trails and faced potential tragedy alone. Alone on the Colorado takes readers on the adventure of running rivers and riding the rails, while painting a unique and optimistic portrait of Depression-era America.
Harold H. Leich (1909–1981) grew up in Indiana near the Ohio River, where his love of water and the outdoors began. After his western adventures, he moved to the East, enjoyed a successful career, and raised a family. Roy Webb is a retired archivist for Special Collections at the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library, where the writings and photos of Harold H. Leich are housed. ALSO OF INTEREST
“Leich has a wonderful, lively style of writing that never gets boring. This book fills an important gap in the river running history of the Colorado. His vivid, first-person account is a great contribution to the overall story of people and rivers. His photographs add to the authenticity of the narrative as well.” —James M. Aton, author of John Wesley Powell: His Life and Legacy
“This is not just a river story, though that is the highlight. It also details Depression-era experiences, both urban and rural—Leich’s tales of riding the rails are fascinating. Besides being an adventure story, it is also a literary work.”
Lost Canyons of the Green River The Story before Flaming Gorge Dam
Roy Webb eBook: 978-1-60781-214-2 Paper 978-1-60781-179-4 $17.95
Cass Hite The Life of an Old Prospector
James H. Knipmeyer eBook 978-1-60781-472-6 Hardcover 978-1-60781-471-9 $36.95
—Richard Quartaroli, librarian emeritus, Northern Arizona University, and river runner and historian
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Alone on the Colorado
ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
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Chipped Stone Technological Organization Central Place Foraging and Exchange on the Northern Great Plains Craig M. Johnson
Combines behavioral ecology with a vast array of data to define patterns in how peoples along the Missouri River used stone sources for crafting tools
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March 2019, 296 pp., 8.5 x 11 78 illustrations, 6 maps 978-1-60781-673-7 eBook 978-1-60781-672-0 Hardcover $75.00s
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ver a forty-year period, Craig M. Johnson collected data on chipped stone tools from nearly 200 occupations along the Missouri River in the Dakotas. This book integrates those data with central place foraging theory and exchange models to arrive at broad conclusions supporting archaeological theory. The emphasis is on the last 1,000 years, when the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara farmer-hunters dominated the area, but also looks back some 10,000 years to more nomadic peoples. The long timespan and large number of villages and campsites help define changes through time and over large distances of local and nonlocal tool stone and its manufacture into arrow points, knives, and other tools. Central place foraging theory, through the field processing model, posits that the farther a source material is from the central living area, the more it will be processed before it is transported back, to avoid hauling heavy, nonusable parts on long trips. Johnson’s data support this theory and demonstrate that this model applies not only to nomadic huntergatherers but also to semisedentary farmer-hunters. His results also indicate that toolstone usage creates distinctive spatial patterns along the Missouri River, largely related to village distance from the sources. Craig M. Johnson worked as a professional archaeologist in Minnesota for nearly three decades and has conducted research on the North American Northern Plains since 1975. He is a participating member in the PaleoCultural Research Group.
Works in Stone Contemporary Perspectives on Lithic Analysis
Edited by Michael J. Shott eBook 978-1-60781-383-5 Hardcover 978-1-60781-382-8 $35.00s
From Colonization to Domestication Population, Environment, and the Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America
D. Shane Miller eBook 978-1-60781-617-1 Hardcover 978-1-60781-616-4 $55.00s
“There is no similar study that pulls together flaked stone data from so many sites across such a broad area of the Middle Missouri and spans such a great chunk of time. This work will doubtless serve as a standard reference for archaeologists working on central and northern portions of the Plains.” —Phil Geib, author of Foragers and Farmers of the Northern Kayenta Region
“Johnson’s book is ground breaking. Its great scope and theoretically informed data collection and analysis deserve broad recognition, not only for what they contribute to Plains archaeology but also as a general approach that could be successfully applied elsewhere.” —Mark Mitchell, research director of the Paleocultural Research Group, Colorado
ANTHROPOLOGY/ARCHAEOLOGY
Ancient Art of Utah’s Cliffs and Canyons Kevin T. Jones Photographs by Layne Miller
Showcases Utah’s rock art with essays and photos that illuminate the exquisite artistry behind this ancient art form
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May 2019, 144 pp., 8.5 x 9.5 157 color illustrations, 1 map 978-1-60781-675-1 eBook 978-1-60781-674-4 Paper $19.95
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n western culture, rock art has traditionally been viewed as “primitive” and properly belonging in the purview of anthropologists rather than art scholars and critics. This volume, featuring previously unpublished photographs of Utah’s magnificent rock art by long-time rock art researcher Layne Miller and essays by former Utah state archaeologist Kevin T. Jones, views rock art through a different lens. Miller’s photographs include many rare and relatively unknown panels and represent a lifetime of work by someone intimately familiar with the Colorado Plateau. The photos highlight the astonishing variety of rock art as well as the variability within traditions and time periods. Jones’s essays furnish general information about previous Colorado Plateau cultures and shine a light on rock art as art. The book emphasizes the exquisite artistry of these ancient works and their capacity to reach through the ages to envelop and inspire viewers. Kevin T. Jones is the former state archaeologist of Utah. He is the author of The Shrinking Jungle, an anthropological novel set among the Aché huntergatherers of Paraguay, among whom Jones lived and studied in the early 1980s. Layne Miller is a retired journalist, a lifelong resident of eastern Utah, and a long-time aficionado of the rock art of the region.
“Kevin Jones is a first-rate scientist with impeccable credentials. He’s also a fine and creative writer.” —Stephen Trimble, author of Bargaining for Eden and editor of Red Rock Stories
Talking Stone Rock Art of the Cosos
Paul Goldsmith eBook 978-1-60781-552-5 paper 978-1-60781-557-0 $19.95
Traces of Fremont Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah
Steven R. Simms Photographs by François Gohier Paper 978-1-60781-011-7 $24.95
“In our divisive age the phrase ‘cultural appropriation’ has been used as a wedge to separate people. What Kevin Jones and Layne Miller offer is the opposite: a reaching out across time with empathy, intelligence, and something like love. Follow them as they wedge down through the cultural sediment, and the centuries, to make contact with the humans who once walked the land they walk now. It is a hopeful, and joyful thing to think that we can talk to ghosts, that we can reach through time and join hands with those long gone.” —David Gessner, author of All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West
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Standing on the Walls of Time
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Early Farming and Warfare in Northwest Mexico Robert J. Hard and John R. Roney With contributions by Karen R. Adams, Gayle J. Fritz, J. Kevin Hanselka, Lee Nordt, Kari M. Schmidt, and Bradley J. Vierra
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July 2019, 440 pp., 8.5 x 11 231 illustrations, 23 maps 978-1-60781-679-9 eBook 978-1-60781-678-2 Hardcover $75.00s
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his 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. The authors place their work in a regional and theoretical context, providing detailed analyses of radiocarbon dates, structures, features, and artifacts. Authors Hard and Roney, and their contributors, present innovative analyses of plant and animal remains, ground stone, chipped stone, and landscape evolution. 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. Robert J. Hard is professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio. John R. Roney completed a distinguished career with the Bureau of Land Management and is now an archaeological consultant in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Not so Far from Paquimé Essays on the Archaeology of Chihuahua, Mexico
Edited by Jane Holden Kelley and David A. Phillips Jr. eBook 978-1-60781-573-0 Hardcover 978-1-60781-572-3 $65.00s
The Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Environment of the Marismas Nacionales The Prehistoric Pacific Littoral of Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico
Edited by Michael S. Foster eBook 978-1-60781-562-4 Hardcover 978-1-60781-561-7 $70.00s
“A significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on the early development of agricultural villages in northwest Mexico and the southwest United States. I applaud the authors’ work and appreciate their attention to addressing multiple alternative explanations and creating a comprehensive vision of the early hill settlements in the Casas Grandes Valley.” —James T. Watson, associate curator of bioarchaeology and associate professor of anthropology, University of Arizona
“This volume is based on careful, detailed, and long-term study at one of the most important archaeological sites in northwest Mexico and the southwest United States. It will reinforce a fundamentally new understanding of the emergence of village lifeways and the emergence of farming economies in this area and will have an important and continuing impact on Early Agricultural period studies.” —Paul R. Fish, curator emeritus, Arizona State Museum, and professor emeritus, School of Anthropology, Arizona State University
ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY
University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 131
Edited by Alice M. Baldrica, Patricia A. DeBunch, and Don D. Fowler
An evaluation of CRM in the Great Basin—where it’s been, where it’s going
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ultural Resource Management (CRM) refers to the discovery, evaluation, and preservation of culturally significant sites, focusing on but not limited to archaeological and historical sites of significance. CRM stems from the National Historic Preservation Act, passed in 1966. In 1986, archaeologists reviewed the practice of CRM in the Great Basin. They concluded that it was mainly a system of finding, flagging, and avoiding—a means of keeping sites and artifacts safe. Success was measured by counting the number of sites recorded and acres surveyed. This volume provides an updated review some thirty years later. The product of a 2016 symposium, its measures are the increase in knowledge obtained through CRM projects and the inclusion of tribes, the general public, industry, and others in the discovery and interpretation of Great Basin prehistory and history. Revealing both successes and shortcomings, it considers how CRM can face the challenges of the future. Chapters offer a variety of perspectives, covering highway archaeology, inclusion of Native American tribes, and the legacy of the NHPA, among other topics. Alice M. Baldrica is a retired archaeologist, formerly in charge of review and compliance at the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office. After retiring in 2010, she worked as a consultant preparing memoranda of agreement and programmatic agreements on mining projects in the western United States. Patricia A. DeBunch has worked as a private archaeologist for Idaho and Nevada from 1978 to 1991 and as an archaeologist for the Nevada Department of Transportation until her retirement in 2010. She co-founded of Eetza Research Associates.
Field Seasons Reflections on Career Paths and Research in American Archaeology
Anna Marie Prentiss eBook 978-1-60781-221-0 Paper 978-1-60781-220-3 $25.00
Archaeology’s Footprints in the Modern World Michael Brian Schiffer eBook 978-1-60781-534-1 Paper 978-1-60781-533-4 $26.95
Don D. Fowler is Mamie Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Historic Preservation and Anthropology Emeritus, University of Nevada, Reno, and a past president of the Society for American Archaeology. Contributors: Alice M. Baldrica, Pat Barker, Ginny Bengston, Alyce Branigan, Jim Bunch, William Cannon, Patricia A. DeBunch, Don D. Fowler, Fred P. Frampton, F. Kirk Halford, Richard C. Hanes, Eric Ingbar, Renee Corona Kolvet, Roger Roper, and Diane Teeman
“This book could be used as a supplementary text in both undergraduate- and graduate-level CRM courses. An entire graduatelevel course could be developed around discussing the history and perspectives presented in this volume.” —Lori Hunsaker, archaeologist
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Cultural Resource Management in the Great Basin, 1986–2016
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The Capitol Reef Reader Edited by Stephen Trimble National Park Reader Series Lance Newman and David Stanley, editors
With selections from nearly fifty writers this book is the best introduction to the extraordinary redrock landscape of Capitol Reef.
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eople have left a rich record of their experiences in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park. In The Capitol Reef Reader, award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble collects the best of this writing—160 years worth of words that capture the spirit of the park and its surrounding landscape in personal narratives, philosophical riffs, and historic and scientific records. The volume features nearly fifty writers who have anchored their attention and imagination in Utah’s leastknown national park. The bedrock elders of Colorado Plateau literature are here—Clarence Dutton, Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey—as are generations of writers who love this land, including Ellen Meloy, Craig Childs, Charles Bowden, Renny Russell, Ann Zwinger, Gary Ferguson, and Rose Houk. Their pieces are a pleasure to read and each reveals a facet of Capitol Reef’s story, creating a gem of a volume. Editor Stephen Trimble guides and orients with commentary and context. A visual survey of the park in almost 100 photographs adds another layer to our understanding of this place. No other book captures the essence of Capitol Reef like this one.
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Stephen Trimble began his writing and photography career as a park ranger, including a season at Capitol Reef National Park. His books include Bargaining for Eden, Lasting Light, and The Sagebrush Ocean.
“When it comes to Capitol Reef, Trimble’s breadth of knowledge is surpassed only by his passion for the place, its people, and its grandeur. I can’t imagine a better guide through the geological beauty of the Waterpocket Fold nor through the stories of those who have known—and have sometimes been defeated by—the power of the place.” —Jana Richman, author of Finding Stillness in a Noisy World
Canyon of Dreams Stories from Grand Canyon History
Don Lago Paper 978-0-87480-314-9 $19.95
Ice, Fire, and Nutcrackers A Rocky Mountain Ecology
George Constantz eBook 978-0-87480-363-7 Paper 978-0-87480-362-0 $24.95
“The richness and variety of literature on the greater Capitol Reef region is astonishing, brought together here for the first time. Reading this collection animates the natural and cultural history of greater Capitol Reef. The writings left by the people who have lived in and passed through offer a window into the soul of a place.” —Jedediah Rogers, author of Roads in the Wilderness: Conflict in Canyon Country
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The Glacier Park Reader Edited by David Stanley
2017, 384 pp., 6 x 9, 13 illustrations, 24 color plates eBook 978-1-60781-589-1 Paper 978-1-60781-588-4 $19.95
Edited by James H. Pickering Engagement with place and the events that loom large in Rocky Mountain National Park history are the underlying themes that connect the thirty-three selections that make up this anthology. Representative both in subject and approach, the selections reach back to Arapaho and pioneer times, before the park was established, and move forward to span its entire first century. The voices here are distinctive: among them are Irish sportsman Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, the Fourth Earl of Dunraven; British travel writer Isabella Bird; mountaineer Frederick Chapin; naturalist Enos Mills; iconic ranger Jack Moomaw and his fictional counterpart, Dorr Yeager’s Bob Flame; and contemporary nature writers Anne Zwinger and SueEllen Campbell—to mention a few. 2015, 248 pp., 5.5 x 8.5 eBook 978-1-60781-452-8 Paper 978-1-60781-451-1 $17.95
A Zion Canyon Reader Edited by Nathan N. Waite and Reid L. Neilson Foreword by Lyman Hafen A Zion Canyon Reader is a collection of historical and literary accounts that presents diverse perspectives on Zion Canyon and the surrounding southern Utah region through the eyes of native inhabitants, pioneer settlers, boosters, explorers, artists, park rangers, developers, and spiritual seekers. Among the works included are wellknown historical accounts of exploration by John Wesley Powell, Clarence Dutton, and Everett Ruess. Writings by Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, Juanita Brooks, and others are found in numerous memorable chapters. Here and there the book bears witness to conflicting viewpoints on controversies associated with the national park, especially development vs. preservation and locals vs. outsiders. 2014, 288 pp., 6 x 9, 10 illustrations, 1 map eBook 978-1-60781-348-4 Paper 978-1-60781-347-7 $14.95
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Soon after Glacier National Park was established in 1910, visitors began to arrive, often with pen in hand. They included such well-known authors as mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart, historian Agnes C. Laut, fiction writer Dorothy Johnson, humorist Irvin S. Cobb, poet Vachel Lindsay, and artist Maynard Dixon—all featured in the book. Readers will encounter Blackfeet and Kalispel myths, colorful characters who lived in and around the park in its early days, politically charged descriptions by early explorers such as John Muir and George Bird Grinnell, and full-color reproductions of illustrated letters by cowboy artist and Glacier resident Charles M. Russell.
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These lectures are given annually at the symposium of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment at the S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Debunking Creation Myths about America’s Public Lands John D. Leshy In recent times several “creation myths” have gained currency about how the United States government came to own and manage—for broad, mostly protective purposes—nearly one-third of the nation’s land. In this essay, John D. Leshy debunks the myths that have contributed to the often polarized character of contemporary discussions of public lands. Recounting numerous episodes throughout American history, Leshy demonstrates how public lands have generally served to unify the country, not divide it. Steps to safeguard these lands for all to enjoy have almost always enjoyed wide, deep, bipartisan support. Leshy argues that America’s vast public lands are priceless assets, a huge success story, and a credit to the workings of our national government.
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Water, Community, Managing Climate and the Culture of Risks in Resilient Owning Cities Eric Freyfogle
Lawrence Susskind
In this timely work, Eric Freyfogle probes the longsimmering struggles in the American West to address water-related problems.
MIT professor Lawrence Susskind contends that communities can take action to combat climate change now, through steps that moderate the effects of flooding, heat waves, and drought.
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Past and Future Yellowstones
Finding Our Way in Wonderland Paul Schullery Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within Yellow -stone National Park. 20 pp., 81/2 x 51/2 Paper 978-1-60781-430-6 $7.95
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Islands on the Plains
Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes Edited by Marcel Kornfeld and Alan J. Osborn
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Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated “islands” of varying size and ecology, distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as shallow river valleys and deeply incised canyons. While the notion of islands is not a new one among ecologists, its application in Plains archaeology is. The contributors to this volume seek to illustrate the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of these islands conditioned the behavior and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This is done as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution. Although the emphasis is on ecology, several chapters also address social and ideological islands in the form of sacred sites and special hunting grounds. 352 pp., 7 x 10 eBook 978-1-60781-667-6 Paper 978-0-87480-844-5 $35.00s
Chaco’s Northern Prodigies Salmon, Aztec, and the Ascendancy of the Middle San Juan Region after AD 1100 Edited by Paul F. Reed In the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, the ancient pueblo sites of Aztec and Salmon in the Middle San Juan region rapidly emerged as population and political centers during the closing stages of Chaco’s ascendancy. Some archaeologists have attributed the development of these centers to migration and colonization by people from Chaco Canyon. Others have suggested that the so-called Chacoan “system” was largely the result of emulation of Chacoan characteristics by groups in outlying areas. Research over the last five years in the Middle San Juan suggests that both of these processes were operating. Work by two groups of contributors resulted in this synthetic volume, which interprets thirty-five years of research at Salmon Ruins. Chaco’s Northern Prodigies also puts recent work at Salmon Ruins in the context of Middle San Juan archaeological research. It is a timely synopsis of the archaeology of this region of the Southwest. 456 pp., 7 x 10 Paper 978-1-60781-668-3 $40.00s
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Across the Continent
The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew J. Russell
Being and Becoming Ute
The Story of an American Indian People Sondra G. Jones
Across the Continent is the most detailed study to date of the life and work of the oftenoverlooked but prolific photographer, Andrew J. Russell, who contributed immensely not only to documentation of the railroad but also to the nation’s visualization of the American West and the Civil War. The central focus of the book is the large body of work Russell produced primarily to satisfy the needs of the Union Pacific. Daniel Davis posits that this set of Russell’s photos is best understood not through one or a handful of individual images, but as a photographic archive. Taken as a whole, that archive demonstrates that Russell intended viewers to remember the workers who built the Union Pacific.
Sondra Jones traces the history of the Ute people, emphasizing how they have adapted over four centuries. She details events, conflicts, trade, and social interactions with nonUtes and non-Indians. Topics include the effects of boarding and public school education, colonial wars and commerce with Hispanic and American settlers, modern world wars and other international conflicts, and battles over tribal identity. The book also explores the concerns of the modern Ute world, including social and medical issues, transformed religion, and the fight to perpetuate Ute identity in the twenty-first century. This is the most comprehensive history of the Ute People currently available
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Viola Burnette When Viola Burnette was born on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in the late 1930s, her people, the Lakota, were still striving to make sense of how to live under the impoverished conditions created by imposed land restrictions. Like most Native children at that time, she was forced by federal law to attend boarding school and assimilate into white culture. After a difficult jump into adulthood, Burnette emerged from an abusive marriage and, while raising four children, enrolled in junior college in her thirties and law school in her forties. She went on to become an advocate for women subjected to domestic violence and the first attorney general of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. 2018, 288 pp., 6 x 9, 17 illus. eBook 978-1-60781-640-9 Paper 978-1-60781-639-3 $24.95
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Confessions of an Iyeska
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The Civilian The Crimson Conservation Corps Cowboys The Remarkable Odyssey of the in Utah 1931 Claflin-Emerson Expedition Remembering Nine Years of Achievement, 1933–1942
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Kenneth W. Baldridge In this book, Kenneth Baldridge chronicles the work of the 10,000 men who served at Utah’s 116 CCC camps. With facts and anecdotes drawn from camp newspapers, government files, interviews, letters written by enrollees, and other sources, he situates the CCC within the political climate and details not only the projects but also the day-to-day aspects of camp life. For thirty dollars a month, these young recruits planted trees; built roads, bridges, dams, and trails; fought fires; battled pests and noxious weeds; and erected cabins, campgrounds, amphitheaters, reservoirs, and more. Today the CCC is credited with creating greater public access to and appreciation of the outdoors. 2018, 480 pp., 6 x 9, 49 illus., 6 maps eBook 978-1-60781-652-2 Paper 978-1-60781-651-5 $34.95
Jerry D. Spangler and James M. Aton In 1931 a group from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum accomplished a six-week, four-hundred-mile horseback survey of prehistoric Fremont sites through some of the West’s most rugged terrain. The expedition was successful, but a report on the findings was never completed. This book recounts the remarkable day-to-day adventures of this crew of one professor, five students, and three Utah guides who braved desert elements to reveal vestiges of the Fremont culture in the Tavaputs Plateau and Uinta Basin areas. To better tell this story, authors Spangler and Aton undertook extensive fieldwork to confirm the sites; their recent photographs and those of the original expedition are shared on these pages. 2018, 384 pp., 81/2 x 91/2 eBook 978-1-60781-650-8 Paper 978-1-60781-649-2 $39.95
A Study of Southwestern Archaeology Stephen H. Lekson In this volume, Lekson advocates an entirely new approach—one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves to more historical ways of thinking. Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco Canyon, the book provides a historical analysis of how Southwest archaeology confined itself, how it can break out of those confines, and how it can proceed into the future. Looking past old preconceptions brings a different Chaco Canyon into view: more than an eleventhcentury Pueblo ritual center, Chaco was a political capital with nobles and commoners, a regional economy, and deep connections to Mesoamerica. 2018, 480 pp., 6 x 9, 1 illus., 1 map eBook 978-1-60781-642-3 Paper 978-1-60781-641-6 $34.95
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Reimagining a Place for the Wild Edited by Leslie Miller and Louise Excell with Christopher Smart
2018, 389 pp., 6 x 9, 20 illus. eBook 978-1-60781-662-1 Paper 978-1-60781-661-4 $29.95
Chasing Good Sense
Edward Lueders
Homer McCarty Edited by Coralie M. Beyers
From the Years in the Earthscapes of Utah
The Salt Lake Papers is divided into two sections by location and time. Book One reflects the central geophysical presence of the Great Salt Lake, in view from Leuders’s home and the University of Utah campus where he studied and taught. Researched and composed during the 1980s, it is published here for the first time. Book Two begins with his retirement to the “earthscapes” of the Torrey–Capitol Reef area of southern Utah and contemplates the Colorado River system. Hydrology thus provides both the physical and the metaphysical basis for the author’s reflective insights and for the natural flow of his advancing thought. 2018, 120 pp., 51/2 x 81/2 eBook 978-1-60781-636-2 Paper 978-1-60781-635-5 $14.95
A Boy’s Life on the Frontier
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Reimagining a Place for the Wild contains a diverse collection of personal stories that describe encounters with the remaining wild creatures of the American West, and critical essays that reveal wildlife’s essential place in western landscapes. Contributed by historians, journalists, biologists, ranchers, artists, philosophers, teachers, and conservationists, these narratives expose the complex challenges faced by wild animals and those devoted to understanding them. The writers do more than inform our sensibilities; their narratives examine humanity’s conduct, our capacity for empathy toward other life, and the responsibility to act.
The Salt Lake Papers
In this creative memoir, Homer McCarty adopts the voice of seven-year-old Buck to recollect his own life growing up in rugged southern Utah Territory in the late 1800s. In the spirit of Huck Finn, Buck embarks on adventures and mischief with his loyal friend, Earl. Naïve, eager, and inquisitive, he seeks to make sense of his world. McCarty completed this work in 1948. Had it not been for a series of fortuitous events and the dedication of his granddaughters, including Coralie M. Beyers, these pages would have been lost. Thanks to her efforts, her grandfather’s lively, entertaining book is now available for readers to relish and enjoy. 2018, 288 pp., 51/2 x 81/2 eBook 978-1-60781-656-0 Paper 978-1-60781-655-3 $19.95
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In a Rugged Land Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 James R. Swensen
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In a Rugged Land examines the history and content of these two photographers’ forgotten collaboration, Three Mormon Towns. Looking at Adams’s and Lange’s photographs, extant letters, and personal memoirs, the book provides a window into an important moment in their careers and seeks to understand why a project that once held such promise ended in disillusionment. Swensen’s in-depth research and interpretation helps make sense of what they did and places their efforts alongside others who were also exploring the particular qualities of the Mormon village at that time. 2018, 432 pp., 81/2 x 10 eBook 978-1-60781-629-4 Paper 978-1-60781-628-7 $34.95
The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden Essays on Mormon Environmental History
Edited by Jedediah S. Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey This volume applies the perspectives of environmental history to Mormonism, providing both a scholarly introduction to Mormon environmental history and a spur for historians to consider the role of nature in the Mormon past. Since their beginning, Mormons have interacted with nature in significant ways– whether perceiving it as a place to find God, uncorrupted space in which to build communities to usher in the Second Coming, wildness needing domestication and control, or a world brimming with natural resources to ensure economic well being. The essays in this volume explore how nature has influenced Mormon beliefs and how these beliefs inform Mormons’ encounters with nature. 2019, 312 pp., 6 x 9 eBook 978-1-60781-654-6 Paper 978-1-60781-653-9 $29.95
Gay Rights and the Mormon Church Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences Gregory A. Prince Gregory Prince draws from public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church’s attitudes on homosexuality. Initially those primarily involved only its own members, but with its entry into the Hawaiian political arena and its work against Proposition 8 in California, the church signaled an intent to shape the outcome of the marriage equality battle. In 2015, when the Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, the Mormon Church turned its attention inward, declaring same-sex couples “apostates” and denying their children access to key Mormon rites of passage, including the blessing of infants and the baptism of children. 2019, 416 pp., 7 x 10 eBook 978-1-60781-664-5 Paper 978-1-60781-663-8 $34.95
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Life among the Red Rocks
Junipers and the Web of Being
Kristen Rogers-Iversen 978-1-60781-592-1 (E) 978-1-60781-591-4 Paper $24.95
Desert Water The Future of Utah’s Water Resources
Theodore G. Manno
Edited by Hal Crimmel
Photography by Elaine Miller Bond
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Exploring Robert Smithson’s Earthwork through Time and Place
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Bridging the Distance Common Issues of the Rural West
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Last Chance Byway
Nine Mile Canyon
The History of Nine Mile Canyon
The Archaeological History of an American Treasure
Jerry D. Spangler and Donna Kemp Spangler
Jerry D. Spangler
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The Spiral Jetty Encyclo
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Opening Zion A Scrapbook of the National Park’s First Official Tourists
John Clark and Melissa Clark 978-1-60781-006-3 Paper $15.95
Thank You Fossil Fuels and Good Night The Twenty-First Century’s Energy Transition
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Purple Hummingbird A Biography of Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell
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Saving Wyoming’s Hoback The Grassroots Movement that Stopped Natural Gas Development
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Geology of Parks, Monuments, and Wildlands of Southern Utah
We Aspired
The Hayduke Trail
The Last Innocent Americans
A Guide to the Backcountry Hiking Trail on the Colorado Plateau
Robert Fillmore
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Emmeline B. Wells
A Faded Legacy
The Women
A Frontier Life
An Intimate History
Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women’s Activism, 1872–1959
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Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History
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Kerry William Bate
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David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Conscience and Community
Women and Mormonism
A Mormon Mother
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Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Annie Clark Tanner
Gregory A. Prince and Wm. Robert Wright
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Joseph’s Temples The Dynamic Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism
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The Mapmakers of New Zion
Imagining the Atacama Desert
A Modest Homestead
A Cartographic History of Mormonism
A Five-Hundred-Year Journey of Discovery
Life in Small Adobe Homes in Salt Lake City, 1850–1897
Richard Francaviglia
Richard V. Francaviglia
Laurie J. Bryant
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Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail The Biology of Three American Tragedies
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Foragers on America’s Western Edge
Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Projections
Fire Otherwise
New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archaeology
The Archaeology of California’s Pecho Coast
Native American Rock Art in the Contemporary Landscape
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Zooarchaeology and Field Ecology A Photographic Atlas
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Richard A. Rogers
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The Last House at Bridge River
To the Corner of the Province
Sending the Spirits Home
The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Household in British Columbia during the Fur Trade Period
The 1780 Ugarte-Rocha Sonoran Reconnaissance and Implications for Environmental and Cultural Change
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