"Travelers have often notes that 'something happens' when they approach Utah. They have intuitive feelings. 'It is something about the houses,' they may say. But that 'something' has remained undefined. ...That vast portion of the West called 'Mormon country', and later more specifically the 'Mormon culture region', was studied by way of automobile, on foot, and on horseback. The results of that field work, which covered more than 13,000 actual miles, follow in this study of the Mormon landscape." (From the Introduction) By use of extensive research, interviews, photographs, maps, and charts, the author has made a significant and unique contribution with this book: he has written the first complete study of a physical and mental aspect of this country. Perhaps as important, he has observed the rule that "sight is faculty; seeing an art," and thereby raised geography to an art.