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Zion's Last Frontier: LDS Ranchers, Federal Regulators, and the Clash of the New West in Capitol Reef Country, Utah

Zion's Last Frontier: LDS Ranchers, Federal Regulators, and the Clash of the New West in Capitol Reef Country, Utah


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Zion's Last Frontier is a historical ethnography that documents the uniquely Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) ranching community around Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah over the last 150 years.

From the arrival of the first LDS pioneers in the 1870s to fifth- and sixth-generation descendants of those pioneers today, anthropologist Thomas E. Sheridan documents their ongoing struggles with the federal and state agencies that control 96 percent of the land they ranch. Changing policies and management philosophies profoundly impact the ranchers' livelihoods and ways of life. Sheridan explains how the ranchers qualify as "Traditionally Associated People," allowing them access to park lands where some ranchers still drive their cattle on horseback along the few canyons that cut through the Waterpocket Fold as they move their herds from their traditional summer grazing lands to their winter grazing lands.

Pushing beyond binary arguments, Sheridan offers an empathetic look at the lived experiences of rural communities often mischaracterized in debates over public lands and environmentalism. Tensions have been aggravated by a massive increase in the number of tourists that swarm the area in the warmer months and a steady increase in the number of seasonal residents who build second homes there.

Zion's Last Frontier provides an in-depth look at the clash of cultures between the agrarian Old West and the New West of tourism and second-homers that is playing itself out across so many parts of the rural West today.



About the Author :

Thomas E. Sheridan retired from the University of Arizona in 2023 as research anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the Southwest Center and School of Anthropology. He has written or co-edited sixteen books and monographs, including Arizona: A History, Revised Edition and Stitching the West Back Together: Conservation of Working Landscapes.



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"Compelling historical and experience-based information about a very important piece of geography."—D. Dean Bibles, retired BLM state director, Arizona and Oregon/Washington


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780816557608
  • Publisher: University of Arizona Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Arizona Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: LDS Ranchers, Federal Regulators, and the Clash of the New West in Capitol Reef Country, Utah
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0816557608
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 454 gr


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