American Zion : Cliven Bundy, God & public lands in the West

ISBN: 1948814145
ISBN: 9781948814140
Physical Description: 370 pages ; 21 cm print
Edition: First Torrey House Press edition.
Publisher: Salt Lake City, UT : Torrey House Press, [2020]

Summary: "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 teh 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 and often-dangerous mindset which today feeds the militia movement and threatens public lands, wild species, and American heritage."