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Other authors / contributors: | Smart, William B. (William Buckwalter), 1922-2018.
Smart, Donna Toland, 1923-
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ISBN: | 9780874213546 0874213541 0585164339 9780585164335 0874212820 9780874212822 0874212812 9780874212815
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-261) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle. By 1849, the new Mormon settlement at Great Salt Lake City was taking on an air of permanence as companies of Latter-day Saints continued to arrive. Brigham Young and other leaders nee.
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Other form: | Print version: Over the Rim. Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, ©1999 0874212820
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