Believing In Place: A Spiritual Geography Of The Great Basin

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Across the Continent: A Summer’s Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States (Bowles), 132 African Americans, 129, 130 agape, as state of awe, 217 alchemy, 181 America (musical group), 52 American Ground Zero (Gallagher), 202 American Indians. See Native Americans American Perfekt (film), 173 Americanization of Utah, 148 Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest Reserve (Calif.), 141 Anderson, Scott, 150 Angel Moroni, 147 Angell, Truman, 147 Angel’s trumpet. See Jimsonweed animals, role in creation, 44–45 Antichrist, 220 anti-Mormon sentiments, 144, 145 Anywhere But Here (film), 170 Arabia (Nev.), 183 Area 51, 226 Armageddon, and the apocalypse, 185 Armstrong, Louis, 27 Artemisia tridentata. See sagebrush artificial intelligence, 244 Atomic Energy Commission, 194, 200 Aurora, goddess of the dawn, 183 Aurora (Nev.), 183 Austin, Mary, 55 Austin (Nev.), 77, 246 279 Index Baars, Donald, 64 Babylon, 197 “Back Where We Started” (cartoon), 194, 195 Bailey, F. A., 150 Bair, Julene, 219 Bannock (Indians), 79 baptism, 49–50 barbarians, 127 Barber, Julian, 120 Basso, Keith, xx Battle Mountain Mining District (Nev.), 206 Battle Mountain (Nev.), 206, 212 Battle Mountain Range (Nev.), 206 Battle Mountain Shoshone, 206, 214 Battle of Wounded Knee, 111–12 bbooha (“power” in Numu), 44, 115, 232–33. See also pooha Beadle, J. H., 144 Bean, George W., 35 beehive, as symbol for Mormons, 155, 156 Beliefs and Holy Places (Griffith), xx “benches” (terraces), 42, 43 Beowave (Nev.), 80 Bergon, Frank, 203 belief systems, 240 Bible, the, xv, 8, 26, 27, 32, 89, 90, 103, 125, 129, 157, 167, 168, 176, 178, 180, 199, 225 biopsy, 236–37 Black Hawk Indian War, 152 Black Rock Desert (Nev.), 223 Black Rock playa (Nev.), 223, 229 blame, 238–39 Note: Italic page numbers refer to illustrations. Francaviglia/251-290 6/9/03 7:39 PM Page 279 Blankenship, Jerome, 169 Blew, Mary Clearman, 10, 87 Blue Highways (Heat Moon), 85 Bodie (Calif.), 176 Bone Deep in Landscape: Writing, Reading, and Place (Blew), 10, 87 booha. See bbooha Book of Mormon, 5, 130 Boundary Peak (Calif.), 3 Bowen, Marshall, xxi Bower, B. W., 83 Bowles, Samuel, 58, 132–34, 190 breast cancer, 238, 239 breasts (female), and topography, 236, 239 Bringhurst, Newell G., 130 bristlecone pine trees (Pinus aristata), 140, 141 Brooks, Juanita, 136 Brown, John, 140 Brown, Mrs. Hugh, 241, 242 Browne, J. Ross, 76, 90, 91 Burning Man, 221, 222, 223 Burnt Springs Range (Nev.), 40 Burton, Richard, 5, 146, 149 buster-jangle (A-bomb test), 202 Calico (Calif.), 176 California, xvii, xviii, xix, 1, 3, 19, 21, 29, 30, 34, 38, 41, 47, 48, 53–55, 78, 99, 105–6, 107, 117, 173, 174–77, 218, 219, 220, 221, 227, 229 California Desert Protection Act of 1994, 218 California Zephyr (train), 7, 9, 10, 11 cancer, recovery and spirituality, 242 Canticle for Leibowitz, A (Miller), 203 capitalism, 188 Captain Jim, 105 Carpenter, Dan, 8 Carson, Kit, 32 Carson and Colorado Railroad, 94 Carson City (Nev.), 60 Carson Sink (Nev.), xvii Carvalho, Solomon Nunes, 49–50, 71–75, 117 casinos, 166–67, 169 catastrophe, 46 280 | index Cathedral Gorge (Nev.), 72 Catholic churches, 171, 182, 246 Catholics, 167 Cave Rock (Nev.), 34 Cave Valley, 20, 36 caves, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37–38, 59, 139 Central Pacific Railroad, 1, 111 chemotherapy, 237–38, 240, 241, 242, 243–44 Chinese, 92 Chinese religions, 177 Christ, 115 Christian missionaries, 98–99, 115–16 Christian revivalist commune, 230 Christianity, 16, 44, 143, 182, 191, 215, 221, 233 Christians, 108, 168, 233 Chronicles (Bible), 180 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Mormons Church Relief Society (Mormon), 155 City of Zion, 154, 157, 160 Clark, Kennard, Dr., 237 Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain), 41, 91, 148 clergy, 64 Cock Rock (Ore.), 78 Codman, John, 153, 159 Cold War, 189–205, 208, 212, 225, 226 collective ceremonialism, 104 colonialism, 131–32 Colorado, xvii, 229 Columbus Salt Marsh (Nev.), 42 communism, as anti-religious, 188–93; as religion, 189 Comstock Mining District (Nev.), 1, 177, 180 Conzen, Michael, 7 Corrine (Utah), 172 Corwin, Lillie, 115 Cosgrove, Denis, 132 cosmos, 213 Cosmos (von Humboldt), 216–17 Coso Mountains (Calif.), 105–6, 108 Costello, Jimmy, 194 Coyote, 6, 23, 30–31, 46, 51, 68, 79–80, 95–96, 186–87, 239 Coyote Cuesta, 5 Coyote’s penis, 79 Francaviglia/251-290 6/9/03 7:39 PM Page 280 index | 281 Crazy in Alabama (film), 170 creation, 6...