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Article: William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart, eds. Over the Rim--The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-1850.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. 1999. vii-ix + 270 pp. $37.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
THIS BOOK is another reminder of the importance of participation and direct observation in personal journals in providing information and inspiration for those migrants with the utopian spirit who seek to settle a place to build a community based on their idea of a better life.
In this case, that place was the region south of Salt Lake City, where today some 25 towns are part of what was envisioned as the expansion of the Mormon Empire in the Great Basin toward Southern California and a possible sea outlet in the mid-nineteenth century. The perils and ...