Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, Number 1, 1977

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The Making of Saints: The Mormon Town as a Setting for the Study of Cultural Change BY DEAN L. MAY

Aerial panorama of Ogden shows an evolved Utah townscape. Utah Historical Society collections, U. S. Forest Service photograph.

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I 4 ATE IN 1852 M O R M O N apostles Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards traveled to the remote frontier settlement of Cedar City, Utah, to check on the progress of missionaries who for a year had been attempting with little success to develop an iron industry in response to a call from BrigDr. May is senior research historian, Historical Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.


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