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This guidebook "visitors and other explorers of Utah to use buildings and the larger built environment as a lens to understand the state's history, material culture, settlement, and natural landscape"--Publisher marketing.

Escaping imprisonment in Missouri in 1839, the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith quickly settled with family and followers on the Illinois banks of the Mississippi River. Under Smith's direction, the small village of Commerce soon mushroomed into the boomtown of Nauvoo, home to 12, 000 and more members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Almost from the beginning, the women's movement has been divided into two factions-those wanting full equality with men (Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul) and those seeking legal protections for women's particular needs (Julia Ward Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt). Early Utah leaders such as Relief Society President Emmeline B. Wells walked hand-in-hand with Anthony and other controversial reformers. However, by the 1970s, Mormons had undergone a signific...