| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape. By Jared Farmer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xvi, 455 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-674-02767-1.)

Like the Book of Genesis, On Zion's Mount is what its author calls a "creation story." However, its focus is limited to one topographic feature in Utah, Mt. Timpanogos: "In the beginning," Jared Farmer observes, "this mount had form without meaning" (p. 1). Farmer shows how the identity of "Timp," as it is affectionately called, evolved. Building on the premise that "great landmarks are storied landmarks," Farmer consulted a geographically wide-ranging literature created over decades by historical geographers, folklorists, historians, and others (p. 4). He also plumbed local primary sources that reveal how Mt. Timpanogos became a landmark. As Farmer astutely puts it, "Mt. Timpanogos is Provo's skyscraper" (p. 7).

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