Railroading religion : Mormons, tourists, and the corporate spirit of the West /
"Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, W...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469653228_walker |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Corinnethians and the death knell thesis
- Brigham Young and the railroad connection
- Godbeites and the capital of dissent
- Steamboats and the rise of atrocity tourism
- Patrons and the plays of Mormon culture
- Tourists and the making of an American mainline.