Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes

by W. Paul Reeve

When Mormon ranchers and Anglo-American miners moved into centuries-old Southern Paiute space during the last half of the nineteenth century, a clash of cultures quickly ensued. W. Paul Reeve explores the dynamic nature of that clash as each group attempted to create sacred space on the southern rim of the Great Basin according to three very different world views.

With a promising discovery of silver at stake, the United States Congress...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252031261
• ISBN13: 9780252031267
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 6.3"