Mormon wests: The creation and evolution of an American region

Western Places, American Myths: How We Think About the West

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 135-165

  Jackson, Richard H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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