University Of Utah Press: 82 books
Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life
The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Born in the early 1940s in northern Arizona’s high country desert, Jim Dandy began life imbued with the traditions of the Navajo people. Raised by his father and grandfather—both medicine men—and a grandmother steeped in Navajo practices, he embraced their teachings and followed in their footsteps....
Hope, Heart, and the Humanities
How a Free College Course is Changing Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Hope, Heart, and the Humanities tells the story of how Venture, a free, interdisciplinary college humanities course inspired by the national Clemente Course, has helped open doors to improve the lives of people with low incomes who face barriers to attending college. For over a decade, this course...
A Kennecott Story
Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1887-1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
While copper seems less glamorous than gold, it may be far more important. Copper proved vital to the industrial revolution and indispensable for electrification of America. Kennecott Copper Corporation, at one time the largest producer of copper in the world, thus played a key role in economic and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Nels Anderson’s World War I Diary provides a rare glimpse into the wartime experiences of one of the most well-respected sociologists of the twentieth century, the renowned author of The Hobo (1920) and Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah (1942). Anderson, a keen observer of people, places,...
by Eric T. Freyfogle
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
In this timely work, Eric Freyfogle probes the long-simmering struggles in the American West to address water-related problem. The big challenge is to resolve water shortages and meet high-valued water needs while also improving river ecosystems. These water conflicts, he suggests, have less to...
by Gregory A Prince, Wm Robert Wright
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Ordained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced unparalleled growth—nearly tripling in total membership—and becoming a significant presence throughout...
by John D. Leshy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
In recent times several “creation myths” have gained currency about how the United States government came to own and manage—for broad, mostly protective purposes—nearly one-third of the nation’s land. Controversies such as President Trump’s shrinking the boundaries of Grand Staircase–Escalante...
Gay Rights and the Mormon Church
Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
The Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marriage proponents in Hawaii in 1993. Since then, the church has been a significant player in the ongoing saga of LGBT rights within the United States and at times has carried decisive political clout.
Gregory...
The Turk in America
The Creation of an Enduring Prejudice
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Utah Series in Middle East Studies
In The Turk in America, historian Justin McCarthy seeks to explain the historical basis for American prejudice towards Turks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on fraudulent characterizations of Turks, mostly stemming from...
Gravity Hill
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
“The sound of parenthood is the sigh.” So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the author’s experiences of growing up and struggling with demons; Werner’s shows how old demons sometimes...
by Mark DeVoto
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955) was a historian, critic, editor, professor, political commentator, and conservationist, and above all a writer of comprehensive skill. As a contributor for more than thirty years to Harper’s and other magazines, he was known for his forceful opinions. His essays were...
by Scott Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
“This is not a memoir. Rather, this is a fraternal meditation on the question: ‘Are we friends, my brother?’ The story is uncertain, the characters are in flux, the voices are plural, the photographs are as troubled as the prose. This is not a memoir.”
Thus Scott Abbott introduces...
The Disappearances
A Story of Exploration, Murder, and Mystery in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
In 1935, during the wind-swept years of the Dust Bowl, three people went missing on separate occasions in the rugged canyon country of southeastern Utah, a place “wild, desolate, mysterious.” A thirteen-year old girl, Lucy Garrett, was tricked into heading west with the man who had murdered her...
We Aspired
The Last Innocent Americans
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Imbued with a sense of place, Pete Sinclair climbed mountains and rescued others trying the same. He thrived on the risky business of ascending sheer rock, of moving from one adrenaline-boosting moment to another. In this book he recounts his mountain-climbing and park ranger days from 1959 to 1970,...