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Author Bush, Laura L., 1963-

Title Faithful transgressions in the American West [electronic resource] : six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / Laura L. Bush.

Imprint Logan : Utah State University Press, 2004.

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Description xviii, 244 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-236) and index.
Contents Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American prose literature -- Mormon authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.)
Women pioneers -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Mormon women -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women -- West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life.
Women and literature -- West (U.S.)
Autobiography -- Mormon authors.
Autobiography -- Women authors.
West (U.S.) -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 087421551X (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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