Resting in the Highest Good: the Conscience of a Utah Liberal is a limited biography of Elbert Duncan Thomas, who served as United States Senator from Utah between 1933 and 1951. He was defeated by Wallace F. Bennett in the election of 1950. Elbert Thomas was a civilized man liv…
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The thesis emulates Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg Ohio, in which vignettes of human life give the sense of a community. Mormons constitute a people with characteristics common to clusters of other lives lived and in civilizations around the world. Mormons have had a notorious pa…
This thesis includes the narratives of three Burmese Muslim refugee mothers who made their homes in Logan, Utah, within three years of locating in the United States. Each woman's life is written about in a different style of writing—journalism, ethnography and creative nonfictio…
Sexual seedling establishment in aspen is increasingly recognized as an important natural regeneration pathway for the species in the western U.S. However, information on seedling abundance as well as factors influencing aspen sexual regeneration is limited and frequently anecdo…
Textural and compositional variations in titanite, along with whole-rock geochemistry, provide constraints on the emplacement and cooling histories of two plutons: the Jurassic Notch Peak pluton and the Oligocene Little Cottonwood stock, both in Utah. Titanite textures observed …
Backcountry skiing has continually grown as a recreational activity since alpine skiers began leaving developed ski area boundaries in the late 1930s. Placing individuals in a less managed, sometimes hostile, winter landscape creates a significant management issue for the U.S. F…
The Sego Exchange is a virtual Omeka exhibit exploring the cultural interaction between the Mormon pioneers and the Native Americans of Utah. The exhibition uses the sego lily as an introduction to this exchange but contends that beyond the sego lily, Native Americans in Utah sh…
The Onion Creek Salt Diapir (OCSD) located in the northern Paradox Basin in Utah is a 0.6 km wide × 3.6 km long × 1.6 km tall salt diapir surrounded by variably deformed Paleozoic through Cenozoic strata. The area is a classic area for the study of deformation around salt diapir…
Women seeking to gain greater power and authority within religious faith traditions are often barred from legitimate power. Amy Lyman was able to circumnavigate legitimate power in a patriarchal system and make tremendous changes within her community. This qualitative, document-…
This study examines the early Muslim immigrants' challenges of adaptation to and assimilation into the American mainstream society in the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. It finds that some Muslims in the pre-1965 era accepted the melting pot notion of total assimilation as the America…