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The Intermountain Indian School, Lewis A. Williams
The Intermountain Indian School, Lewis A. Williams
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The past year and a half I have focused all my artistic effort on the subject of my thesis: The Intermountain Indian School at Brigham City, Utah. My artistic approaches and modes of depiction have varied greatly during this time period. The following describes the progression and purpose of my visual investigation and artistic development.
The Swett Homestead: An Oral History 1909-1970, Eric G. Swedin
The Swett Homestead: An Oral History 1909-1970, Eric G. Swedin
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Making extensive use of oral interviews with the surviving children, this thesis is an biography of Oscar and Emma Swett and their children, who lived on a homestead in Greendale, Utah, (near Flaming Gorge Reservoir) from 1909 to 1970. The family is representative of a group of families who moved to Greendale and engaged in small-scale cattle ranching. The introduction of new technology changed their lifestyles and homestead economics, while simultaneously Greendale evolved from a rural agricultural environment to become part of a National Recreation Area.
Mining The Colorado Plateau: The Story Of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970, Lisa Pitcher Godfrey
Mining The Colorado Plateau: The Story Of Calamity Mesa 1910-1970, Lisa Pitcher Godfrey
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This thesis was written to outline the history of five stone houses, which have survived almost a century of mining activity. The houses are located on a barren mesa, called Calamity, in southwestern Colorado. This work was funded by the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, in order to explore the possibility of designating this site as a National Historic Site.
Men and women lived and worked on this and the surrounding mesas for most of the twentieth century. The lives of the families, the men, women, and children who lived and worked on Calamity Mesa, provided the …
Skirting The Light: Some Poems, Joe Pitkin
Skirting The Light: Some Poems, Joe Pitkin
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
A collection of poems by Joe Pitkin.
Jack Kerouac's Pursuit Of The American West, Dan Fliegel
Jack Kerouac's Pursuit Of The American West, Dan Fliegel
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Called alternately "the father of hip," "King of the Beats," "the daddy of the swinging psychedelic generation," Jack Kerouac was less a thrill-seeking hipster than a serious author whose life and novels speak of our shared need to explore alternatives and renew ourselves, and of our frustration and regret for our movement away from tradition. Kerouac's life and literature can be viewed as an extended quest, an episodic series of explorations for meaning and for a way of life. He continually addressed the modernist question "How shall we live?," seeking answers in what one biographer calls an ongoing "pattern of …
The Dilettante, Heather A. Riley
The Dilettante, Heather A. Riley
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The printing of this book marks the end of a year of deliberating, searching, sifting, procrastinating and finally decision making. These pages include what I consider to be some of the finest work by young artists in Cache Valley. I must admit, I am rather in awe of my contributors. I have always been frustrated by the fact that I seem to have no outlet for my creative urges. Something always seems to get lost between my brain and my pen, So, my "consolation prize" is the opportunity to work with some artists whose talents I respect very much.
By …
Creating Ethnicity In The Hydraulic Village Of The Mormon West, Charles M. Hatch
Creating Ethnicity In The Hydraulic Village Of The Mormon West, Charles M. Hatch
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study has looked behind the mask of nineteenth-century theocracy to see Mormons in the Great Basin creating a democratic society of regionally concentrated kin groups where obligations and rewards for individuals were increasingly determined by age and life cycle position. As generations of young adults acted together in self-interest dispersing their villages on receding frontiers, they forged a balance between competition and cooperation which merged the immediate need of individuals to establish and support families with the collective memory of their Mormon past. In so doing, they created an identity for themselves which was unique in the arid West. …