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Environmental Lessons From Our Pioneer Heritage, Terry B. Ball, Jack D. Brotherson
Environmental Lessons From Our Pioneer Heritage, Terry B. Ball, Jack D. Brotherson
BYU Studies Quarterly
The efforts of the pioneers and their posterity to correct their mistakes in agricultural and ranching practices set an example for us today.
We'll Find The Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846-1848 Richard E. Bennett, William G. Hartley
We'll Find The Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846-1848 Richard E. Bennett, William G. Hartley
BYU Studies Quarterly
Richard E. Bennett. We'll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846-1848. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1997. 428 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $19.95.
A Touch Of Refinement: Pioneer Graining, Doris R. Dant
A Touch Of Refinement: Pioneer Graining, Doris R. Dant
BYU Studies Quarterly
Visitors to the Salt Lake Tabernacle are often stunned to learn that the pillars supporting the gallery are not marble but are pine painted to look like marble and that the "oak" benches and organ case are also pine with simulated oak graining. The Tabernacle woodwork and furniture are the most visible reminders of the practice of graining, a technique widely used in Utah Territory's furniture to imitate the look of marble, hardwood, and even leather.