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The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California condenses Sir Richard Francis Burtons 1860 Overland journey into a keen ethnographic and geographical survey From the Missouri frontier through Salt Lake City to California he records terrain resources stage logistics and the Great Basins political economy His even-toned account of the Latter-day Saints - polygamy governance under Brigham Young ritual settlement - sits beside ske...Seguir leyendo