
The Proper Edge Of The Sky: High Plateau Country Of Utah
Edward Geary’s collection of writings on the High Plateau country of central and southern Utah, a combination guidebook, travel narrative, personal essays, and natural, social, and literary history, encompasses each of those forms with a sweep as broad as the landscape it describes.It traces the progress of travelers to the region, including the historic Dominguez-Escalante party in 1776, and trap...
Paperback: 286 pages
Publisher: University of Utah Press (March 12, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0874804094
ISBN-13: 978-0874804096
Product Dimensions: 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 1307777
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ers and explorers such as Jedediah Smith, John C. Freemont, and Kit Carson. Scandinavian and English descendants of the early Mormon pioneers, sent to settle Manti and surrounding areas by Brigham Young in 1849, populate many of the pages and dominate the agrarian villages described by the author. The book also describes the multiethnic society of French Basque, Greeks, Slavs, Italians, Chinese, Welsh, and Finnish laborers and coal miners that developed in the region.Geary writes of all these people with affection and a deep sense of place, of belonging to a distinctive landscape and its history. It is a book that will bring a rush of understanding to those who have lived in the High Plateaus and greater depth of appreciation to visitors.
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