7 The WPA Versus the Utah Church

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Utah in the Twentieth Century 1
6. I Getting to Know the Place
7. 1 The Disappearance of Everett Ruess and the Discovery of Utah’s Red Rock Country 24
8. 2 “The Famous Blue Valley” and a Century of Hopes 45
9. 3 Selling Sleep 65
10. 4 Bernard DeVoto’s Utah 88
11. II Connecting to the Nation Utah and the U.S.A.
12. 5 “Proud to Send Those Parachutes Off ” 123
13. 6 Educating the Mormon Hierarchy 146
14. 7 The WPA Versus the Utah Church 167
15. 8 The Battle over Tariff Reduction 186
16. III Voicing Government
17. 9 Public Opinion, Culture, and Religion in Utah 227
18. 10 Utah’s Denial of the Vote to Reservation Indians, 1956–57 245
19. 11 “We are not seeking trouble and so will just go along quietly just now” 263
20. 12 What Is the Best Way to Govern a City? 285
21. IV Growing Challenges
22. 13 Utah’s Public Schools 318
23. 14 From Cadillac to Chevy 343
24. 15 The Volatile Sagebrush Rebellion 367
25. 16 Utah’s Recent Growth 385
26. Contributors 402
27. Index 405