History 4130 Spring 2002
MacKay
Introductions/ Utah -- stories of this place
Week 1 |Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 -5
1st
response paper: "How do the stories Stegner tells and those you've
collected help you gain an understanding of Utah's History?"
1st draft due: January 28; final draft due: February 4
Week 1 What are they saying about us?
readings: contemporary news about Utah--outside of Utah
Olympics: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2002/news/2001/10/29/saltlake_scene/index.html
review of book Mormon America: http://www.irr.org/mit/Mormon-America-review.html
excerpt from the Newsweek article: http://www.lds-mormon.com/9-01newsweek.shtml
Week 2 Mormon Country
readings: pgs. 3-83
projects: a) oral reports on Stegner and his contemporaries
b) visit a local town (Brigham City, Bountiful, Farmington, etc.) in which the Mormon landscape elements are still visible--record your observations. http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/1mormon.htm
biographies of Stegner and his contemporaries:
Wallace Stegner: http://www.wvu.edu/~journal2/west/docs/link_stegner.htm
Dale L. Morgan: http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/mss/ms509/509.html
Charles Kelly: http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/p100/p100.html
Juanita Brooks: http://www.utahhistorytogo.org/jbrooks.html
Dean Brimhall: http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/p114/p114.html
Bernard DeVoto: http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0899.html
Fawn McKay Brodie: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/b/BRODIE,FAWN.html
http://www.weberpl.lib.ut.us/roughdraft/RDspring00/fawn_brodie.htm
The Mormon town plan
A discussion of the Plat of Zion with Sterling, Canada as example: http://waltonfeed.com/stirling/history/plat.html
A list of Mormon landscape elements, created by a University of Wisconsin geographer: http://www.uwec.edu/Academic/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/1mormon.htm
Utah Topography
For a map and site descriptions of the Great Basin: http://www.greatbasinweb.com/gbmap2.html
From a map and descriptions of the Colorado Plateau: http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/
The Gathering of Zion
Bert Nelson has created a web site about Tracing Mormon Pioneers from Europe; it includes Charles Dickens' description of Mormons leaving from Liverpool, 1863: http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/pioneer.htm
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/dickens.htm
The Archer Walters journal is excerpted: http://heritage.uen.org/cgi-bin/websql/query.hts?type=3&tid=135
The LDS Church has a web site which includes their presentation of Utah History: The Pioneer Story, http://www.lds.org/media2/library/display/0,6021,184-1-314-1,FF.html
Week 3 : Mormon Country
readings: pgs. 84-235
projects: collect a story of the place you live/are from in Utah, or a story
about your family's pioneer past, or a story you have heard about Utah from the
outside.
This is the Place State Park: http://parks.state.ut.us/parks/www1/this.htm#Imagine
From an Iowa genealogy site, a short biography of Thomas Kane: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapottaw/Kane.htm
A short biography of J.M. Bernhisel: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/b/BERNHISEL,JOHN.html
From the Military Analysis Network, a description of the Utah War: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/utah.htm
From the Utah History Encyclopedia, a short description of the Danites: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/d/DANITES.html
The Deseret Alphabet: http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/deseretalphabet.htm
The Orderville, Utah homepage: http://www.digital-neighbors.com/city/ut/orderville168.htm
Chronology of Gibson and Mormon activities in 19th century Hawaii: http://www.hawaiireserves.com/HRI/History.htm
From the Utah History Encyclopedia, a short description of the Morrisites: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/m/MORRISITES.html
Fife Folklore Archives, USU: http://www.usu.edu/folklo/folk.htm
From D.L. Ashliman, folklorist at University of Pittsburgh, are Three Nephite stories: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/nephites.html
A web archive of Mormon Missionary Folklore: http://php.indiana.edu/~dostlund/mission.htm
LDSWorld.Com has a collection of LDS Hoaxes and urban Legends: http://www.ldsworld.com/gems/ul/
From World Wide Folk Tales a 1992 collection of 3 Nephite stories: http://www.worldandi.com/folktalesdemo/1992/6_Nov/Html/index.htm
J. Golden Kimball stories: http://home.clara.net/wabei/golden.htm
From the Utah History Encyclopedia, a short biography of Jesse Knight: http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/k/KNIGHT,JESSE.html
Re-telling of 1953 raid on Short Creek, NV: http://www.utahhistorytogo.org/hmshort.html
From the Institute for the Study of American Religion, a short description of Polygamy groups, including Short Creek: http://www.americanreligion.org/cultwtch/polygamy.html
1st response paper: "How do the stories Stegner tells and those you've collected help you gain an understanding of Utah's History?"
1st draft due: January 28; final draft due: February 4
A Fife Family History site includes a section on Stories:
http://home.att.net/~fifeweb/stories.htmBy Barre Toelken, a scholarly discussion of western folklore (part of a larger text on the Literary History of the American West, Texas Christian University Pres, 1998) is available at:
http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0029.html
Utah's Pioneer Past
Sons of the Utah Pioneers: http://www.sonsofutahpioneers.org/p7100.htm
reprint of 1942 essay by Dale Morgan on literary treatments of Mormons and Mormonism: http://www.signaturebooks.com/excerpts/tending.htm#ch1
Week 4-5 Mormon Country
no class 21 January
readings: part II
A slide presentation on Jedediah Smith: http://www.geocities.com/cott1388/jedediah.html
From Desert USA, a biography of J. S. Smith: http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/feb/papr/jsmith.html
The Trails West web page includes links to information on the Escalante Trail, the Mormon Trail, etc.:
http://www.over-land.com/trwest.htmlFrom Desert USA, a short description of the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition: http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/sep/papr/escalante.html
The Dominguez-Escalante Trail map from the Utah Atlas: http://pc38.ve.weber.k12.ut.us/Pioneering/Atlas/spanexpl.htm
From the John Wesley Powell Museum, Page, AZ, a short biography of Powell:
http://www.powellmuseum.org/MajorPowell.htmlFrom the Utah State Archives, a brief description of Corinne, Utah: http://www.archives.state.ut.us/referenc/xml/agencies/222.html
Online Utah.Com has a description of Corinne (and many other sites in Utah), including a map: http://www.onlineutah.com/corinne.shtml
A photo of Earl Douglass:
http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/p196/p196.htmlThe Dinosaur National Monument:
http://www.nps.gov/dino/dinos.htmA short biography (with photo) of Daniel Jackling: http://nn.railfan.net/pass/passroster/jackling.html
Photos of Bingham, Utah: http://www3.nau.edu/cline/placenamereferal.cfm?place_note=Bingham%20(Utah)