{"product_id":"dale-l-morgan-mormon-and-western-histories-in-transition-paperback","title":"Dale L. Morgan: Mormon and Western Histories in Transition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard L. Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This is the first biography of Dale L. Morgan, preeminent Western historian of the fur trade, historic trails, and the Latter Day Saint movement. The book explores how, despite personal struggles, Morgan committed his life to tracking down sources and interpreting the past on the strength of documentary evidence. Connecting Morgan's life with some of the broad cultural changes that shaped his experiences, this book engages with methodological shifts in the historical profession, the mid-twentieth-century collision of interpretations within Latter Day Saint history, and the development of a descriptive, scholarly approach to that history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Morgan's body of work and commitment to serious scholarship signaled the start of new ways of understanding, studying, and retelling history, and he motivated a generation of historians from the 1930s to the 1970s to transform their historical approaches. Sounding board, mentor, and close friend to Nels Anderson, Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Bernard DeVoto, Wallace Stegner, and Leonard Arrington, Dale Morgan is the common factor linking this influential generation of mid-twentieth-century historians of western America. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard L. Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e is a librarian at Southern Utah University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEloquence from a Silent World: A Descriptive Bibliography of the Published Writings of Dale L. Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of Morgan's writing in \u003ci\u003eShoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trails: Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1869\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDale Morgan on the Mormons: Collected Works, 1939-1970\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 536\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765215035680,"sku":"9781647691219","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ea2c6a60447c041d459616eca7494614.webp?v=1780263984","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dale-l-morgan-mormon-and-western-histories-in-transition-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}