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Mormon cultural persistence in the vicinity of Graham County, Arizona, 1879-1977

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ROBERT HOWARD SAYERS

GRAHAM COUNTY, ARIZONA, 1879-1977

Robert Howard Sayers

A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

In the Graduate College

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

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I hereby recommend that this dissertation prepared under my direction by ______Robert Howard Sayers______entitled MORMON CULTURAL PERSISTENCE IN THE VICINITY OF GRAHAM

COUNTY, ARIZONA, 1879-1977______be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement for the Degree of ______Doctor of Philosophy______

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SIGNED; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This dissertation owes its being to the generous assistance of many people• I am indebted first to the members of my dissertation

committee — Dr. Constance Cronin, Chairperson, Dr. Edward H. Spicer,

and Dr. Bernard L. Fontana — for sharing my interest in cultural per

sistence and for helping me to better frame my research design and

problem. All three committee members gave freely of their time in

discussion and helped me through several impasses during the writing

stage.

I am also indebted to members of ray Preliminary Examination

Committee — Dr. Thomas Weaver, Chairman, Dr. Edward H. Spicer,

Dr. Bernard L. Fontana, Dr. Richard A. Thompson, and Dr. Richard N.

Henderson — who critiqued my original research proposal. Dr. Weaver,

then Director of the Bureau of Ethnic Research, was especially helpful

in this regard and sent me off on my first reconnaissance of Arizona's

Upper Gila Valley during the summer of 1976. I was pleased to share

several interesting discussions of my research with Dr. Theodore

Downing (then Associate Director of the BER and now Acting Director)

as well.

Outside The University of Arizona, several other scholars gave

encouragement to my work and should be acknowledged. Two the the pre

eminent students of Mormonism, Dr. John Sorenson (Brigham Young Uni

versity) and Dr. Mark P. Leone