Argues that rather than an ancient text from the ancestors of living Indigenous people, the Book of Mormon is a nineteenth-century commentary about living Indigenous peoples of America told as if it were coming from the voices of the dead.
Argues that rather than an ancient text from the ancestors of living Indigenous people, the Book of Mormon is a nineteenth-century commentary about living Indigenous peoples of America told as if it were coming from the voices of the dead.
A Celebrated Journey Down the Whitewater Rapids of the Grand Canyon
The Colorado River through the Grand Canyon has a well-deserved reputation for whitewater- the feature that draws many boaters to the raging torrent amidst its spectacular chasms. This guide offers a literary guide down the river, through each rapid.
A Human and Natural History of the Bear River Marsh
Reveals the environmental and historical pressures shaping an essential stretch of land and water in the American West A Reed Shaken with the Wind tells the story of the Bear River Marsh, freshwater and sheltered grasslands on the northeast end of the Great Salt Lake with a complex past. Despite being one of Utah's most renowned hunting and ......
The Nahuatl Sermonary of Fray Bernardino De Sahagun
The first English publication of the earliest surviving Christian sermons from the Americas The Americas' First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of sermons composed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagUn and his Nahua students at the Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, Mexico in ......
The Nahuatl Sermonary of Fray Bernardino De Sahagun
The first English publication of the earliest surviving Christian sermons from the Americas The Americas' First Sermons presents the first English translation and critical study of the complete set of sermons composed by Franciscan friar Bernardino de SahagUn and his Nahua students at the Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco, Mexico in ......
Here is a look at the life and legacy of an irrepressible innovator. Pushing against both social convention and technological boundaries, L.L. Nunn left enduring marks on economic and social history, labor development, and, educational reform. The Saga of Lucien L. Nunn and Deep Springs College is a bold portrayal of this progressive-era ......
Winner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies Winner of the Evans Biography Award, the John Whitmer Historical Society Best Biography Award, and the Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award Frontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic ......
The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880-1930
The history of the railroad conquest of the West is well known, but the impact of western railroads on Native Americans has largely been ignored. Richard Frost examines the profound effects that the coming of trains had on Pueblo Indians in New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley. The arrival of the railroad was a social and cultural tsunami. It destroyed ......
