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• catalog abstract "On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers descended into the Salt Lake Valley. Having crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains, they believed that their long search for a permanent home had finally come to an end. The valley was an arid and inhospitable place, but to them it was Zion. Within ten years of their arrival, the Mormons had established nineteen communities, extending all the way to San Diego, California - a remarkable feat of colonization and one of the great successes of the westward movement. Desert Between the Mountains is by no means, however, a story of splendid and stoic isolation. Beginning with an explanation of the Great Basin's unique and enigmatic topography, Michael S. Durham delineates the region as a crucible for a complex and exciting narrative history. Tales of nomadic Indian tribes, Spanish ecclesiastics, intrepid fur-trappers, and adventurous early explorers are thoroughly chronicled. Moreover, Durham depicts the Mormon way of life under a constant strain from its interaction with miners, soldiers, mountain men, the Pony Express, railroad builders, federal officials, and an assortment of other so-called Gentiles. Desert Between the Mountains concludes with the joining of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, an event that marked the end of the pioneer era. This is a dramatic, multifaceted, and definitive study of the Great Basin, demonstrating, for the first time, that it is a region unified in its history as well as its geography - that today includes all of Nevada, most of Utah, and parts of five other surrounding states.".
• catalog contributor b10431811.
• catalog coverage "Great Basin History.".
• catalog created "1997.".
• catalog date "1997".
• catalog date "1997.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-324) and index.".
• catalog description "Moreover, Durham depicts the Mormon way of life under a constant strain from its interaction with miners, soldiers, mountain men, the Pony Express, railroad builders, federal officials, and an assortment of other so-called Gentiles. Desert Between the Mountains concludes with the joining of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah, in 1869, an event that marked the end of the pioneer era. This is a dramatic, multifaceted, and definitive study of the Great Basin, demonstrating, for the first time, that it is a region unified in its history as well as its geography - that today includes all of Nevada, most of Utah, and parts of five other surrounding states.".
• catalog description "On July 24, 1847, a band of Mormon pioneers descended into the Salt Lake Valley. Having crossed the Great Plains and hauled their wagons over the Rocky Mountains, they believed that their long search for a permanent home had finally come to an end. The valley was an arid and inhospitable place, but to them it was Zion.".
• catalog description "Within ten years of their arrival, the Mormons had established nineteen communities, extending all the way to San Diego, California - a remarkable feat of colonization and one of the great successes of the westward movement. Desert Between the Mountains is by no means, however, a story of splendid and stoic isolation. Beginning with an explanation of the Great Basin's unique and enigmatic topography, Michael S. Durham delineates the region as a crucible for a complex and exciting narrative history. Tales of nomadic Indian tribes, Spanish ecclesiastics, intrepid fur-trappers, and adventurous early explorers are thoroughly chronicled.".
• catalog description "pt. 1, First into the Great Basin: -- A "dead" and "rich" land -- Enter the White man -- Westward after beaver -- Through "a country of starvation" -- "West, ever west" -- Fremont: Understanding the Great Basin; -- pt. 2, Land of the Latter-day Saint: -- Saints to the Great Basin -- Brigham Young and early Great Basin days -- Getting settled in the Great Basin -- Polygamy: "Holy seed unto the Lord" -- The Utah War; -- pt. 3, The world intrudes: -- Roads into the Great Basin -- Overland to Utah -- The rush to Washoe -- Getting ready for the railroad -- Great Basin epilogue: "it is done."".
• catalog extent "xiv, 336 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0805041613 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1997".
• catalog issued "1997.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Henry Holt,".
• catalog spatial "Great Basin History.".
• catalog spatial "Great Basin".
• catalog spatial "Great Basin.".
• catalog subject "941.07 21".
• catalog subject "F789 .D87 1997".
• catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life Great Basin.".
• catalog subject "Mormon pioneers Great Basin History.".
• catalog subject "Mormons Great Basin History.".
• catalog subject "Pioneers Great Basin History.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1, First into the Great Basin: -- A "dead" and "rich" land -- Enter the White man -- Westward after beaver -- Through "a country of starvation" -- "West, ever west" -- Fremont: Understanding the Great Basin; -- pt. 2, Land of the Latter-day Saint: -- Saints to the Great Basin -- Brigham Young and early Great Basin days -- Getting settled in the Great Basin -- Polygamy: "Holy seed unto the Lord" -- The Utah War; -- pt. 3, The world intrudes: -- Roads into the Great Basin -- Overland to Utah -- The rush to Washoe -- Getting ready for the railroad -- Great Basin epilogue: "it is done."".
• catalog title "Desert between the mountains : Mormons, miners, padres, mountain men, and the opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869 / Michael S. Durham.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".