University Of Utah Press: 82 books
Hiking the Wasatch
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Few places offer the hiking opportunities available right here in the Wasatch. Hundreds of miles of trails and three Wilderness Areas are within a few minutes’ drive of Salt Lake City. John Veranth has hiked all these trails and has written a comprehensive guidebook with hiking suggestions arranged...
Sherman Alexie
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time...
Purple Hummingbird
A Biography of Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell and her husband, William Campbell, found themselves forced to move to the Mojave Desert in 1924, its dry climate proving to be the best for William’s frail lungs burned by mustard gas in World War I. They camped at Twentynine Palm Oasis in what is now Joshua Tree...
Orrin Porter Rockwell
Man of God Son of Thunder
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The legend of the Destroying Angel of Mormondom was well established by the time of his death, of natural causes, in 1878. Travelers sang ballads about him as they gathered around their campfires at night. Mothers used his name to frighten children into obedience. He was accused of literally hundreds...
Five Old Men of Yellowstone
The Rise of Interpretation in the First National
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Yellowstone has undergone a number of transitions in the 140 years since its national park designation in 1872. The period from the late 1930s through the early 1970s marked one of the most significant as the Park Service shifted focus from public recreation to interpretation and education. The vast...
Thank You Fossil Fuels and Good Night
The 21st Century's Energy Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Everything is subject to a lifecycle. In the field of energy, the obvious question is, “Where are we in the lifecycle of fossil fuels?” Competitive technology for sourcing renewable energy, marketplace readiness, and pressures from climate change all signal that the fossil fuel era is coming to...
Saving Wyoming's Hoback
The Grassroots Movement that Stopped Natural Gas Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Winner of the Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Humanities
In late 2012, more than one hundred people gathered to hear a long-awaited announcement: the Trust for Public Land had succeeded in preventing natural gas development in the remote Hoback Basin of Wyoming. This landmark agreement—purchasing...
Men at Work
Rediscovering Depression-era Stories from the Federal Writers’ Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
As part of Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided relief jobs to millions of Americans. One facet of the WPA was the hiring of men and women to document the history and folklore of America so as to capture the “soul” of the nation. While researching...
by Mark Jay Brewin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize
South Jersey farmland, flooded and made an island. Through landscapes and captivating visuals we begin Mark Jay Brewin’s debut collection of poems. Scrap Iron quickly and fluidly moves from this isolated plot of land—the poet’s childhood home—to...
What That Pig Said to Jesus
On the Uneasy Permanence of Immigrant Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Philip Garrison says his book of essays is “in praise of mixed feelings,” particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. His neighborhood is the Columbia Plateau, one of many North American nodes of immigration. Following a meandering, though purposeful...
Seven Summers
A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Seven Summers is the story of a naturalist-turned-professor who flees city life each summer with her pets and power tools to pursue her lifelong dream—building a cabin in the Wyoming woods. With little money and even less experience, she learns that creating a sanctuary on her mountain meadow requires...
Tracks in the Amazon
The Day-to-Day Life of the Workers on the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
When construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad began in 1867, Bolivia had lost its war with Chile, causing it to become landlocked and unable to ship its minerals and other products from the Pacific Coast. Since Bolivia needed to find a way to move products from the Atlantic Coast, the government...
by Leonard Engel
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
New Essays on Clint Eastwood is a companion to Engel’s previous book, Clint Eastwood, Actor and Director: New Perspectives. It includes discussion of some of Eastwood’s most recent films as well as his earliest work, and deepens our overall appreciation of his artistry and his growth as an ever...
Immigrants in the Far West
Historical Identities and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an important...