University of Illinois Press
God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West
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- Todd M Kerstetter
- University of Illinois Press
- Paperback
- 9780252075889
- 8.86 X 6.08 X 0.59 inches
- 0.74 pounds
- History > United States - 19th Century
- English
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Book Description
While many studies of religion in the West have focused on the region's diversity, freedom, and individualism, Todd M. Kerstetter brings together the three most glaring exceptions to those rules to explore the boundaries of tolerance as enforced by society and the U.S. government. In sharp contrast to the mythic image of the West as the Land of the Free, Kerstetter analyzes three tragic episodes that reveal the West as a cultural battleground: the Mormon Utah Expedition and Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, the Lakota Ghost Dancers and the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota in 1890, and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas in 1993.
God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West
Author Bio
Todd M. Kerstetter is a professor in the department of history at TCU. He is the author of Inspiration and Innovation: Religion in the American West and God's Country and Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West.
Research Interests
North American West, 19th and 20th centuries
Environmental history
Gilded Age/Progressive Era
Education
- Ph.D., University of Nebraska (1997)
MA, University of Nebraska (1992)
BA, Duke University (1986)
Source: Texas Christian University
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