| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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Book Review

Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890–1940. By Richard Ian Kimball. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. x + 217 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Historians of sport and recreation wield a useful tool for exploring not only the history of athletics and popular culture, but of business, politics, race, and gender, and institutions and values linked to them. Richard Ian Kimball's Sports in Zion is a good example. Using church documents, publications, and manuscript sources, Kimball shows that the Mormon Church self-consciously developed a sports ideology and organizations to respond to changes both outside and within the Mormon community.

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