To Make True Latter-day Saints: Mormon Recreation in the Progressive Era

Description

Historians have used a variety of touchstones to describe the Mormon experience-polygamy, communal associations, and corporatization among others-but none has provided a long-term, large-scale, interpretation of Mormon leisure and recreation. Focusing on the period of 1890 to 1940, Richard Ian Kimball describes the most significant changes that occurred in Latter-day Saint recreation practices and ideology.