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The West Desert is what Utahns call the basin and range salt desert in the eastern Great Basin. This arid region first caught the attention of photo documentarian and author Craig Denton when voices from it spoke out against turning over large desert valleys to roving MX missiles. Intrigued by the region, its people, and their choices, Denton began documenting who they were, why they were there, and how they lived. Their reasons for living in one of the harshest and driest environments in America are diverse. Different as some of them may be, private as many of them are, these people have the same needs for community all of us have. They must find common ground. Their efforts occur at the intersection of the Old and New West and pose new questions for the future of the American Dream. Denton portrays the regional society and people of the West Desert with insightful profiles of their lives and their world, probing discussion of common concerns, and striking photographs.

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Page i People of the West Desert title People of the West - photo 1
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People of the West Desert
title:People of the West Desert : Finding Common Ground
author:Denton, Craig.
publisher:Utah State University Press
isbn10 | asin:0874212626
print isbn13:9780874212624
ebook isbn13:9780585025940
language:English
subjectCommunity life--Utah, Community life--Nevada, Community life--Utah--Pictorial works, Community life--Nevada--Pictorial works, Desert people--Utah, Desert people--Nevada, Desert people--Utah--Pictorial works, Desert people--Nevada--Pictorial works.
publication date:1999
lcc:HN79.U82W473 1999eb
ddc:307/.09792
subject:Community life--Utah, Community life--Nevada, Community life--Utah--Pictorial works, Community life--Nevada--Pictorial works, Desert people--Utah, Desert people--Nevada, Desert people--Utah--Pictorial works, Desert people--Nevada--Pictorial works.
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The Bishop family Three generations of a family on the Gosiute Reservation in - photo 2
The Bishop family
Three generations of a family on the Gosiute Reservation in Ibapah, UtahMolly McCurdie, son George,
and grandson Kurt Bishop. When Molly died in 1994, the tribe lost a link to its past. McCurdie was the last
Gosiute who knew how to weave willows and work leather into cradleboards for infants and string beads
into symbols from the past. The Gosiutes were among the first of the diverse people of the West Desert.
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People of the West Desert
Finding Common Ground
Craig Denton
Utah State University Press
Logan, Utah 1999
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Copyright 1999 Craig Denton
All rights reserved
Utah State University Press
Logan, Utah 84322-7800
Typography by WolfPack
Publication of this book was supported by a subvention from the George S. and Dolores Dor Eccles Foundation.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Denton, Craig, 1947
People of the West Desert : finding common ground / Craig
Denton.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-87421-262-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 0-87421-263-4 (cloth)
1. Community lifeUtah. 2. Community lifeNevada. 3. Community
lifeUtahPictorial works. 4. Community lifeNevadaPictorial
works. 5. Desert peopleUtah. 6. Desert peopleNevada. 7. Desert
peopleUtahPictorial works. 8. Desert peopleNevadaPictorial
works. I. Title.
HN79.U82W473 1999
307'.09792ddc21
Picture 3Picture 4Picture 5Picture 6Picture 798-58065
Picture 8Picture 9Picture 10Picture 11Picture 12CIP
Page v
To my brothers, Tom and Rob
In spirit and place
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
ix
I The Land
1
1 Etching the Landscape: The Yin and Yang of Water and People
5
II Communities of the West Desert
13
1 Native American Communities: First in Time, Last in Line
15
2 The First Anglo Settlers: Dugouts on the Land
25
3 New Communities: The Second Wave of Pioneers
59
III Community Institutions
89
1 Land Management: Flash Point of the West Desert
91
2 Education: The Soul of the West Desert
107
3 Community Activism
127
4 Community Centering
140
IV Recapitulation
165
1 Creation of Community
167
2 Maintenance of Community
172
3 Extensions of Community
184
4 Threats to Community
190
Selected Bibliography
197
Index
199
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