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By Michael L. Olsen, Chris Nicholl, Sydne Dean, Dennis Daily, Tim Blevins

Firm & Innovation within the Pikes height zone” used to be the topic of the seventh Annual Pikes height neighborhood historical past Symposium. This ebook comprises the learn provided on the symposium, in addition to a few supplemental assets that round-out a dialogue of the varied recommendations of the area. advancements in invention, trade, technology, flight, tourism, crafts, arts, performing, therapeutic and group development are explored within the chapters of this e-book. each concept, try, failure and accomplishment was once based on desires and the anticipation of success.

By Jeanette Foster

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By William L. Fox

The presentation of artwork, animals, and intercourse in Las Vegas, and the way the construction of spectacle blurs the road among paintings and company. Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds via its collective skill to fantasize our inner most wants, which in a shopper society suggest big wealth and the excesses of delight and intake that flatter it. during this context, Fox examines how Las Vegas’s tradition of spectacle has obscured the bounds among excessive paintings and leisure extravaganza, nature and fable, for-profit and nonprofit corporations. His purview levels from on line casino artwork galleries--including Steve Wynn’s inner most assortment and a department of the famed Guggenheim Museum, --to the dismally underfunded Las Vegas paintings Museum; from staggering on line casino animal collections like these of magicians Siegfried and Roy and Mandalay Bay’s Shark Reef show to the city’s desultory efforts to create a potential public zoo; from the environmental and mental impression of lavish water monitors within the arid barren region to the inventive ambiguities intrinsic to Las Vegas’s floating international of showgirls, lapdancers, and ballet divas. That Las Vegas represents one of many world’s most magnificent screens of personal fabric wealth in all its varieties, whereas whilst offering miserly investment for neighborhood public facilities like museums and zoos, isn't any twist of fate, Fox keeps. neither is it unintended that the city’s most vital collections of artwork and unique fauna are offered within the context of on line casino leisure, a part of the ceremonial dinner of sensation and pleasure that seduces hundreds of thousands of tourists every year. as a substitute, this phenomenon exhibits how our insatiable sleek urge for food for extravagance and spectacle has reduced the facility of unembellished nature and the humanities to coach and encourage us, and demonstrates the way in which our society privileges inner most gain over public reliable. on condition that Las Vegas has been proven persistently to be the harbinger of nationwide cultural traits, Fox’s statement could provide prescient perception into the way forward for the humanities in the USA, in addition to new knowing of the function that public associations like museums and zoos play in our lives.

By Boyd Cothran

On October three, 1873, the U.S. military hanged 4 Modoc headmen at Oregon's fortress Klamath. The condemned had supposedly murdered the single U.S. military normal to die throughout the Indian wars of the 19th century. Their much-anticipated execution marked the top of the Modoc struggle of 1872–73. yet as Boyd Cothran demonstrates, the conflict's shut marked the start of a brand new fight over the reminiscence of the conflict. analyzing representations of the Modoc conflict within the context of speedily increasing cultural and advertisement marketplaces, Cothran exhibits how settlers created and bought narratives of the clash that blamed the Modocs. those tales portrayed Indigenous humans because the instigators of violence and white americans as blameless sufferers.

Cothran examines the construction and flow of those narratives, from sensationalized released histories and staged lectures that includes Modoc survivors of the struggle to commemorations and promotional efforts to promote newly opened Indian lands to settlers. As Cothran argues, those narratives of yank innocence justified not just violence opposed to Indians within the payment of the West but in addition the wider strategy of U.S. territorial and imperial expansion.

By Jeanette Foster

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By Karl Samson

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By Mark Ellwood

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By Hal Marcovitz

By Edward Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, S. George Ellsworth

Caroline Crosby's existence took a wandering direction among her 1834 marriage to Jonathan Crosby and conversion to the child Mormon Church and her departure for her ultimate domestic, Utah, on New Year's Day, 1858. within the intervening years, she lived in lots of locations yet by no means lengthy adequate to set company roots. Her adherence to a frontier faith at the circulation stored her relocating, even after the church started to cool down in Utah. regardless of the impermanence of her scenario, even perhaps due to it, Caroline Crosby left a remarkably wealthy list of her existence and travels, thereby telling us not just a lot approximately herself and her relations but in addition approximately instances and areas of which her documentary list presents a nearly exceptional view. A impressive point of her memoirs and journals is what they communicate of the nature in their writer, who, regardless of the numerous demanding situations of transience and poverty she confronted, appears to be like to have remained curious, committed, observant, and cheerful.From Caroline's domestic in Canada, she and Jonathan Crosby first went to the headquarters of Joseph Smith's new church in Kirtland, Ohio. She recounts, in a memoir, the early struggles of his fans there. because the church moved west, the Crosbys did besides, yet as grew to become attribute, they didn't movement instantly with the most physique to the heart of the faith. For awhile they settled in Indiana, ultimately achieving the hot Mormon heart of Nauvoo in 1842. Fleeing Nauvoo with the final of the Mormons in 1846, they spent years in Iowa and set out for Utah in 1848, the account of which trip is the 1st of Caroline Crosby's brilliant path journals. The Crosbys have been in a position to leisure in Salt Lake urban for only years sooner than Brigham younger despatched them on a church challenge to the Society and Austral Islands within the South Pacific. She recorded, intimately, their overland shuttle to San Francisco after which by way of sea to French Polynesia and their carrier at the islands. In overdue 1852 the Crosbys back to California, starting what's the most traditionally major a part of her writings, her diaries of existence. First, in instantly publish Gold Rush San Francisco and, moment, within the new Mormon village of San Bernardino in southern California. there isn't any related checklist by means of a lady of 1850s existence in those transforming into groups. The Crosbys answered in 1857 to Brigham Young's demand church individuals to collect in Utah and back deserted a brand new domestic, this the nicest one that they had equipped, one of many most interesting homes in San Bernardino. Such unquestioning loyalty used to be a attribute Caroline and Jonathan displayed many times.