This book explores the values and aspirations of settlers in the Far West. It compares rural people who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with differing degrees of success to resist the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but ultimately adopted the individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive values that prevailed in the New West. How did Americans move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth, but as the base of support for future generations? What led to our present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and broader societal well-being? These are questions central to this comparative study of three peoples who pioneered the American frontiers.

Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850–1900 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

History

May, Dean L.

Americas

Cambridge University Press

FIRST EDITION(dated title page)1987 University of Utah Press oversize softcover (trade paperback), Dean L. May (Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900). History belongs to the people, Dean May reminds us, and must ultimately be accessible all. Based on his award-winning television series, Utah: A People's History provides a sweeping view of the state's past. From prehistory to present, May explains Utah as it is today and its promise for the future. - https://uofupress.lib.utah.edu/

Utah A People's History (Bonneville Books)

University of Utah Press

The most common theme in this collection of six essays is adaptation to change. Jan Shipps writes about the acculturation that took place in the 1890s as Mormons moved from living within a mythic world to accepting developments within the larger society. Dean May investigates the implications of the fact that 40 percent of the church decided not to immigrate to the Great Basin and remained in the Midwest and that the ranks of Utah settlers were augmented by foreign converts. Essays by Edward Geary and Eugene England survey self-portrayals of Latter-day Saints in literature. LaMond Tullis looks at the expansion of the church into Latin America. James Allen examines the impact of technological changes on LDS consciousness.

After 150 Years: The Latter-Day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective (Charles Redd Monographs in Western History)

Religion & Spirituality

Shipps, Jan

Christian Books & Bibles

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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