TY  - BOOK
AU  - Quammen,Betsy Gaines
TI  - American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & public lands in the West 
SN  - 9781948814140
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Torrey House Press
KW  - Bundy family.
KW  - Land use
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Public lands
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Environmental conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - What happens when members of an American religion-- one built in the nineteenth century on personal prophecy and land proprietorship-- assert possession over western federal lands? Armed with guns and a certainty that God wants them to go to war, Mormon rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons, and their supporters held off government agencies and law enforcement in Bunkerville, Nevada, in 2014, and Bundy's sons led another standoff in Malheur, Oregon, in 2016. But why? American Zion tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Bundys, the federal government, and the American public and the religious underpinnings of so many land disputes in the West. Historian Betsy Gaines Quammen examines the roots of the Bundys' cowboy confrontations, and how history has shaped an often-dangerous mindset which today feeds the militia movement and threatens public lands, wild species, and American heritage
ER  -