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Bezig met laden... Dixie Saints: Laborers in the Field (2017)door Douglas D. Alder
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book contains lightly edited snippets of oral histories from people born in Southwestern Utah around 1900. Those who are familiar with this area will probably find that some of the stories trigger nostalgia (especially if they are descendants of the storytellers). In many ways, it appeared to have been a primitive life and the stories told are rather plain. But it seems that those who survived to tell these tales grew up strong, and it is good to know something of what they went through. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This book primarily consists of thematically linked excerpts from interviews conducted with people born between 1880 and 1910 who grew up in southwestern Utah, the Arizona Strip and the Muddy River region in Nevada. The excerpts are divided into seven topical chapters: family life/childhood/teenage years, school, work, health and sickness, Mormon colonists in Mexico who relocated to the Mohave Desert during the Mexican Revolution, interactions with Native Americans, and service. In his introductory essay the author offers 15 overarching observations based upon the interviews. These furnish a valuable collective portrait of life on the fringes of the Mormon culture area early in the twentieth century - a time period that has been largely overlooked in the social (as opposed to institutional) history of Mormonism. Several of these observations are reinforced by statistical data contained in the appendix. Each chapter concludes with an evaluative section drawing out insights from the interviews. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)979.25History and Geography North America Great Basin and West Coast U.S. Utah Colorado Plateau (Southeastern Utah Counties)LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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