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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
by Amy Irvine
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"Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one."—Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review  Trespass is the story of one womans struggle to gain footing... (read more)

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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
by Sally Denton
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In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been... (read more)

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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier
Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier
by Mary Ann Hafen
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In the summer of 1860, the author of these recollections, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City. The family, converts to Mormonism, had left their comfortable home near Bern, Switzerland,... (read more)

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The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah (Haworth Press Advances in Psychology and Mental Health)
The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah (Haworth Press Advances in Psychology and Mental Health)
by T H Watkins
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As a collection of geological and climatic phenomena, the earth is a scarred, bent, cracked, and agitated wreck of a place. Nowhere is this more evident than in Utah's redrock canyon country, which is among the most spectacular terrain not only in... (read more)

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Utah (North America)
Utah (North America)
by Helen Stortini
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The North America Series captures outstanding views, landscapes, cityscapes and picturesque communities from the every region of the continent and feature 70 photographs by North America's best photographers and captions filled with interesting facts.... (read more)

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Legal History of North America #3: Necessary Fraud: Defective Law, Monopoly, and Utah Coal
Legal History of North America #3: Necessary Fraud: Defective Law, Monopoly, and Utah Coal
by Nancy J Taniguchi
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the State of Utah was the federal choice for what was intended to be a definitive antitrust suit aimed at quelling the power of western railroads over coal lands in the diminishing public domain. The government did not... (read more)

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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 11, 1857
American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 11, 1857
by Sally Denton
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In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been... (read more)

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The Silver Queen: Her Royal Highness Suzanne Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff 1859-1942
The Silver Queen: Her Royal Highness Suzanne Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff 1859-1942
by Judy Dykman
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The life of Utah's own Molly Brown, through carefully researched text and photographs.... (read more)

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Glen Canyon-Lake Powell: The Story Behind the Scenery
Glen Canyon-Lake Powell: The Story Behind the Scenery
by Ronald E Everhart
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The very best in brilliant full-color photography in a large format book, with accurate, readable, interpretive text on the natural scene and the human history of national parks and monuments throughout the country... (read more)

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The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
by Juanita Brooks
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In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event... (read more)

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Utah Trivia
Utah Trivia
by Kent Powell
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Utah Trivia is the who, when, what, where, and how book of the great state of Utah. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful, historic state, Utah Trivia will provide hours of... (read more)

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Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration 1856-1860
Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration 1856-1860
by Leroy R Hafen
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It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of... (read more)

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The Great Salt Lake
The Great Salt Lake
by Dale Lowell Morgan
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After the passage of nearly a half-century, this book remains both one of the most informative and readable general histories of Utah yet written and a tribute to the brilliance of its author, the late Dale Morgan (1914-71). Approached as history... (read more)

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House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre
by Shannon A Novak
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On September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execution: having surrendered their weapons, the victims... (read more)

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Utah Trivia
Utah Trivia
by Allan Kent Powell
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Utah Trivia is the who, when, what, where, and how book of the great state of Utah. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful, historic state, Utah Trivia will provide hours of... (read more)

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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
by Amy Irvine
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Trespass is the story of one womans struggle to gain footing in inhospitable territory. A wilderness activist and apostate Mormon, Amy Irvine sought respite in the desert outback of southern Utahs red-rock country after her fathers suicide, only to find... (read more)

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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land
by Amy Irvine
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"Trespass might as well be Desert Solitaire's literary heir . . . It's hard to imagine a personal history more transporting that this one."—Judith Lewis, Los Angels Times Book Review Trespass is the story of one woman’s struggle to gain footing in... (read more)

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Remarkable Utah Women (More Than Petticoats)
Remarkable Utah Women (More Than Petticoats)
by Christy Karras
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Utah offers a paradox in womens history—a state founded by polygamists who offered women early suffrage and encouraged career education in the nineteenth century. More than Petticoats: Remarkable Utah Women tells the stories of twelve strong and... (read more)

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Utah: A Portrait
Utah: A Portrait
by William Smart
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With his beautiful color photography, John Telford (photography, Brigham Young U.) captures the sweep and majesty of the landscape of Utah. Going beyond the surface grandeur, author William B. Smart (former editor and manager of ) explores in an... (read more)

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Utah canyon country
Utah canyon country
by F A Barnes
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Beauties of the rugged desert. Over 120 color photographs, historical b&w's, 4 full-color maps.... (read more)

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