Gary Topping
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
127 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Between 1890 and 1930, Salt Lake City experienced some of the most rapid and profound changes of any city in U.S. history. In its pioneer period, from the beginning of white settlement in 1847 to about 1890, the city struggled against outside pressures to maintain its identity as a self-sufficient Mormon utopian community, with its theocratic government, agricultural economy, and polygamous society. But by the turn of the 20th century, Mormonism had...