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Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West /

"Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, W...

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Autor principal: Walker, David, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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