Index

A

Acoma Pueblo, 128, 132

Across America and Asia (1870), 136–37, 181–82, 209–12, 212

Adam-ondi-Ahman, 88

advertising, 187, 188, 189, 217–18, 219, 249, 293–96, 294, 295, 296

Afghanistan, 256, 291–92

African Americans, 19, 75

airlines, 240, 276, 293–94, 295

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp story, 141, 143, 156, 179, 187, 188, 227

Alaska, 296

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 244

al-Qaeda, 256, 301–2

American Arabs, 53–54, 104–5, 265

Apache Indians, 128, 133, 134, 135–37, 139, 140, 145, 149, 256, 272

Arabian Desert, 28, 32–33, 58

Arabian Nights, 27–29, 38, 39, 120, 140–41, 145, 155–56, 179–80, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193–94, 224, 225, 301, 322n28

Arabs, 47, 56, 104–5, 179, 256, 265, 300–303

archaeologists, 241, 303

architecture (Oriental style), 120, 121, 122, 138, 141–42, 143–44, 144, 153, 167, 172, 173, 174–75, 184–85, 190–91, 192, 193–94

Argentine Pampas, 34, 36–37

Arizona, 2–3, 131–32, 134, 135, 136–37, 145–46, 147–48, 209

art and artists, 59–61, 60, 61, 66–67, 67, 114–15, 115, 130–31, 143, 144, 211, 212, 213, 215, 217–19, 219, 252–55, 254, 255, 279–82, 281

Artemisia (genus), 77, 100, 306

Asia Minor, 63, 152

Asian people and culture, 171–73, 207, 211, 257

Austin, Mary, 186–87

Axis of Evil, 301

B

Baghdad, 157, 226

Bamberger, Simon, 122–23

Bangkok, Thailand, 273

Barbary Coast, 26, 158

Barbary Wars, 289

Bath House, Redondo Beach, California, 192

Baum, Lyman Frank, 224–27

Beale, Lieutenant Edward Fitzgerald, 83

Bedouins, 34, 38, 47, 98, 150

Bennett, John C., 90

Berbers, 184

Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr., 98

Bernheimer, brothers Charles and Adolph, 259–60

Bertolucci, Bernardo, 286–87

Bigelow, William Sturgis, 11

bin Laden, Osama, 292, 300–302

Blade Runner (1982 film), 265

Body of Lies (2008 film), 304

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 68

Bonneville, Captain Eulalie de Benjamin Louis, 32

Bordertown (2006 film), 254–56

Boston, 11

Brackenridge, Henry Marie, 25–26

Bridgeman, Frederick Arthur, 59–60, 60

British Isles, 215–16

Browne, J. Ross, 180–81

Bryce Canyon National Park, 123, 124, 125

Buckingham, James S., 19

Buddhism, 11, 269, 277, 283, 285–87

Buel, J. W., 194

Buissonet, Eugene, 112–13

Burlingame Treaty, 202–3

Burton, Sir Richard F., 47–48, 75–77, 92, 99, 105–6, 107, 266–67

Bush, George W., 301–2

C

Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez, 126–27, 190

Caine, Kwai Chang. See Kung Fu

California, 117, 155–75, 176–201, 203, 206, 207, 209–10

camels, 16, 81–85, 83, 146, 231, 246–49, 247, 248, 249

Camelback Mountain, Arizona, 247–48, 248

Camel Rock, New Mexico, 246, 247

Canaan, 184

Canada, 62–63, 279

Cannon, George Q., 101

captivity narratives, 133–34, 139, 318n15

Carbucci, Sergio, 298

Carradine, David, 270–73, 271

Cascade Range, 208–9, 212–14, 277, 282

Casino and Natatorium, Santa Cruz, California, 192

Catholicism, 185, 190

Catlin, George, 30

Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah, 123, 125

Central Pacific Railroad, 159–60, 161, 162, 179–80

Chamberlain, Sam, 130

Chan, Charlie, 259

Chan, Jackie, 273

Chemehuevi Indians, 85

Cher, 240–41

Child, Thomas, 236–37, 237

Chimney Rock, Nebraska, 41, 48

China, 12, 155, 159–60, 288, 293–96, 294, 295, 296, 304–6, 305

China Hat, 205, 206

Chinatown, 164–65, 166–69, 167, 168, 206–7, 257–58, 258, 261–62, 263, 264–266, 275

Chinatown (1974 film), 262–64

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 171

Chinese Massacre of 1871, 172

Chinese people and culture, 155–59, 159, 161–71, 161, 167, 168, 170, 173–75, 174, 175, 202–4, 204, 205–7, 208, 257–260, 261–266, 261, 263

Chloride Murals, Arizona, 252–53, 254, 255

Christian attitudes, 43, 53, 57–58, 149–50, 162–63, 179, 205–7, 235

Church, Frederick, 109

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. See Mormons

City of Rocks, Idaho, 44–45, 45

Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 254–56

Classical Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon, 278–79

Cleopatra’s Needle, 42–45

Coachella Valley, California, 1, 197, 199

Cochise, 149

Colorado, 4, 41–42

Colorado Desert, California, 81, 181, 197

Colorado River, 198, 245

Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago, Illinois, 230, 293

Columbus, Christopher, 3, 316n31

Columbus, New Mexico, 256

Comanche Indians, 36, 37, 133, 139

Conan the Barbarian (1933 short stories, 1954 book, and 1982 film), 245–46

Coolie (Chinese Worker), 159–60, 161

Coolie Hats, 159, 161, 204, 205, 206, 294

Cooper, James Fenimore, 291

Corinne City, Utah, 103

Coronado, Francisco Vázquez de, 127

Corps of Discovery, Lewis and Clark, 15, 203

Cortés, Hernán, 12

cowboys, ix, 52–53, 54–55, 302–3

Cozzens, S. W., 131–32, 137–38, 140–42

Cree Indians, 62–63, 63

Criss Cross (1948 film), 264

Crocker, Charles, 159, 160

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000 film), 297

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 147–48

D

Dakota Territory, 47, 62

Damascus, Syria, 2

date palms, 1, 188, 199, 200, 201, 305

Davis, Jefferson, 81–82, 292

Dawson, J. W., 62–63

Dead Sea, Palestine, 1, 2, 93, 104, 110–12, 113, 198

Death Valley Scotty, 85, 86, 190

Death Valley, California, 83, 163, 164, 178, 190

De Anghiera, Pedro Mártir, 97

DeMille, Cecil B. 237, 241, 303

De Peralta, Juan Suárez, 97

Deseret, 91

deserts, 17, 64–86

Diamond of the Desert, Salt Lake City as the, 104–5

Diné. See Navajo Indians

Disney, Walt, 194

Dobie, J. Frank, 267

Dodge, Grenville, 159–60

Dodge, Richard Irving, 39

Domenech, Emmanuel Henri, 110–13

Domínguez, Francisco Atanasio, 64

Domínguez-Escalante Expedition of 1776, 64–65

Donner Party, 177–78

Doré, Gustave, 114, 115

Driving Cattle into a Corral in the Far West (1875 illustration), 51–53, 54–55

Dromedary Peak, Arizona, 248

Dumont Dunes, Mojave Desert, California, 79

Dutton, Major Clarence E., 143

E

Earl of Dunraven, 39

Egypt, 65–75, 103, 223, 236–42

Egyptomania, 19, 66–71, 227–34, 236–41

Eidel, Jim, 252–53

El Paso, Texas, 143, 144

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 18, 284

Emory, William, 135–36

Enoshima Island, Japan, 211, 212

Escalante, Francisco Silvestre, 64

Estevanico the Moor, 126–27

Estival, Francesc, 251

Ethnogrophers, 147–48, 149, 151

Evil Empire, 301

exceptionalism, 288

Exodus, Jewish, 91

Expulsion from the Garden, The (1728 painting), 176

F

Field, Henry M., 233

Film (Cinema), 223, 224, 226, 231, 234–35, 237, 241, 246, 254–56, 258–59, 262–66, 273, 286–87, 292, 297–303

Film Noir. See Noir

Fook, Yee, 174

Freemasons, 241

Frémont, John Charles, 66–69, 71–73, 85, 87, 91, 135, 227

Friedman, Kinky, 249

Fuller, Margeret, 51

G

Garden of Eden, 50–51, 88–89, 94–95, 176–77, 195–97, 234

gardens, Asian-style, 172–73, 173, 214–15, 260, 273–76, 274, 277–79, 277

Garrigues, Eduardo, 249–251

Genghis Khan, 242, 306

geologists, 57–59, 62–63, 104–5, 136–37, 143, 181–82, 197, 209–12, 214–16, 321n11

Geronimo, 149, 302

Gilgal Garden, Salt Lake City, Utah, 236–37, 237

Gilgamesh epic, 249–250

Gilleland, J. C., 17

Glacier National Park, Montana, 220

Glacier Park Hotel, 220

globalization, 288–307

Gold Mountain (Gum Shan)(California), 156

Gold Rush, California, 155–59, 178, 180

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, 172–73, 173, 239, 273

Gomorrah. See Sodom and Gomorrah

Good Samaritans, 132-33

Good, the Bad, and the Weird, The (2008 film), 299–300

Goss, Helen Rocca, 169

Grand Canyon, 142–43

Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, California, 237–38

Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood, California, 258, 259

Graves, Morris, 279–80, 281

Great American Desert, 31, 32, 95

Great Basin, 66–69, 71–73, 77, 91, 113

Great Northern Railway, 218, 220, 295–96, 296

Great Plains, 28–34, 38–41, 91, 133–34, 266

Great Salt Lake, Utah, 79, 93, 110–11, 112, 114–16, 117, 118

Great Wall of China, 42

Greeley, Horace, 40, 231

Griboedov, Aleksander, 291, 292

Guangdong Province, China, 156

Guangzhou, Canton, China, 156

Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve, Mongolia, 303–4

Gypsies. See Roma

H

Hadji Ali. See Hi Jolly

Hall, Baynard Rush, 29

harem, 59, 106, 109, 231

Harlan, Josiah, 291–92

Harroun, Philip E., 150

Harum Scarum (1965 film), 231

Hawaii, 296

Hells Canyon, Idaho, Chinese Massacre, 203–4

Hewett, Edgar, 191

Hidalgo (2004 film), 300–301, 303

Highbinders, 169, 170

Hi Jolly (Hadji Ali), 81, 248–49

Hi Jolly Monument, 24, 248-49

Hill, James J., 218

Hillerman, Tony, 252

Himalayan Blackberry, Rubus armeniacus, 215–16

Hinduism, 59

Hohokam, 135

Holley, Mary Austin, 51

Hollywood, 258–60

Holy Land, 2, 35, 46, 88–89, 92, 96, 101, 117–18, 235–36

Hood River, Oregon, 214

Hopi Indians, 134, 150

Hopi Snake Dance, 150

Hopper, Dennis, 279

horses, 37, 38–39, 51–52

Houston, Sam, 35–36

Howard, Robert E., 245–46

Howe, Henry, 129

Howett, Catherine, 51

Hrdlička, Aleš, 151

Huntington Chinese Garden, 273–75, 274

Hurlbut, Reverend Jesse Lyman, 152, 152

Hussein, Saddam, 301–2

hydraulic civilizations, 183

I

Idaho, 32, 44–45, 209, 282

imperial nostalgia, 62, 137

Imperial Valley, California, 1, 197–201

Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petraea, and the Holy Land, 69–71, 74

India, 59, 101, 193, 266–67

Indies, 3

Innocents Abroad, The (1869), 3–4, 13, 98, 106

Intermountain West, 64–86, 87–125, 227–37

Iraq, 242, 256, 300-302

irrigation, 93–95, 183–84, 197–98, 235

Irving, Washington, 37, 185

Isaiah, Book of, 92–95, 178

Islam, 90

Israel, 1, 91, 132

Israelites, 96

J

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 185–86, 191

James, George Wharton, 150

Japan, 12, 209–11, 212, 213, 214–15, 259–60, 261, 276

Japanese, 170–71, 172–73, 173, 214–17, 261, 282

Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon, 277–79, 277

Japanese Relocation Camps, 282, 286

Japanese Tea Garden, San Francisco, California, 172–73, 173, 273

Jefferson, Thomas, 203

Jerusalem, 92, 97, 103, 104, 106, 177, 243–44, 264

Jews, Orientalism and, 178

Jordan River, 2, 95–96, 119, 235–36

Joshua trees, 101–2, 102

Joss Houses (Chinese Temples), 174–75, 175

Joss House State Historical Park, California, 174–75, 175

Juárez. See Ciudad Juárez

K

Kashmir, 101

Kathmandu, Nepal, 287

Keeoma, 1896 painting, 59–60, 61, 62, 62

Kim, Ji-woon, 299–300

Knott, Walter, 260–61

Koran, the, 76, 98

Koreatown, 264

Kung Fu (television series), 269–73, 271

Kuroshio Current, 280–81, 285

Kurosowa, Akira, 297

L

La Grande Station, Los Angeles, California, 192

Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, 142, 152, 153

Lake Texcoco, Mexico, 176

Lamanites. See Lost Tribes of Israel

L’Amour, Louis, 266–68

landscape, 1–3, 13–14, 93, 110, 130, 152–54, 211–15, 305–6

Langworthy, Franklin, 42–43, 44–45, 116

Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon, 278

Las Vegas, Nevada, 227–28, 229–33

Leavitt, D. G. W., 177

Le Baron, Alan, 234

Lee, Wang, 297

Leone, Sergio, 297

Little Buddha (1994 film), 286–87

Locke, California, 173–75, 175

locusts, 49

Lodge, George Cabot, 11

Lonesome Gods, The (1983 novel), 267–68

Los Angeles, California, 85, 172, 183, 192, 258–66

Lost in Translation (1998 novel), 304

Lost Tribes of Israel, 15, 97–99, 315n30

Lowell, Percival, 11

Ludlow, Fitz Hugh, 33–34

Lummis, Charles, 184, 185, 189–90

Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, 227–28, 228, 229–31, 233

M

Magnificent Seven, The (1960 film), 267, 297

Management (2008 film), 287

Manifest Destiny, 93, 180

Man Who Would be King, The (1888 short story and 1975 film), 292, 302

Marlboro Man, 249

Marryat, Frederick, 128–29

Martineau, Susan Ellen Johnson, 133–34

Marvellous Country, The (1875 book), 131–32, 137–38, 140, 141, 142

Mathewson, A. J., 113, 114

Mauvaises Terres or Bad Lands of Dacotah (1871 illustration), 57, 58

May, Karl, 137

McLeod, Hugh, 37

Mecca, ix, 13, 82, 104, 106

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005 film), 273

Métis, 62–63

Mexicans, 129–30, 138, 189–90, 254–56

Mexico, 27, 129–30, 143, 147, 176–77, 191, 245, 254–56

Middle East, 6, 39, 109, 139–40, 300–303

Miller, Joaquin, 208–9

minarets, 57, 122, 141, 225

Minidoka Internment Camp, Idaho, 282

mirages, 180

mission style achitecture, 191–92, 193

Moab, Utah, 93

modernity, 34

Mohammed, 37, 82, 90

Mojave Desert, California, 33, 79, 81, 101

monad, 217–18, 219

Mongolia, Mongolians, 52, 81, 151, 162, 303–4

Moorish architecture, 120, 121, 138, 190–91, 192, 322n28

Moors, 126, 128, 184, 185, 189

Mormons, ix, 14–15, 87–125, 235–37

Morocco, 7, 63

mosques, 43, 57, 180

Mount Fuji[ama], Japan, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 306–7

Mount Hood, Oregon, 209, 212, 277

Mount Rainier, Washington, 212, 214, 214, 306–7

Mount Rainier-Mount Fuji Sister Mountain Curriculum, 2010 National Park project, 306–7

Mount Saint Helens, Washington, 212, 213

Muldaur, Maria, 231

museums, 165, 238–40

Muslims, 90, 99, 109, 128, 151

N

Native Americans, 14, 17, 36, 39, 47, 59–63, 63, 97–99, 128–29, 132–33, 134–37, 143–44, 143, 150–51, 153, 154, 267, 271–72, 282, 299, 302, 311n54

Navajo Indians. 14, 149, 252

Nebraska, 41, 47–48, 197

Nevada, 66–81, 83, 84–85, 105, 227–34, 273, 304

New England, 18, 20–21, 89–90

New Mexico, 138, 141–42, 142, 152, 153, 154, 197

Nile River and Valley, Egypt, 44, 46, 49, 65, 67, 191, 198

noir, film and literature, 262–64

Nomads, 26, 53–54, 80–81, 304

North Coast Limited, 218–19, 219

North Dakota, 266

Northern Pacific Railroad, 217–18, 219

Northwest Orient Airlines, 276–77

Northwest Passage, 203, 294, 295

Northwest School, Regional Art Style, 280–82, 281

Nuttall, Thomas, 33

O

oasis (oases), 231–32, 235

Obama, Barack, 302, 304–5, 305

obelisks, 42–45, 46

Occidentalism, 196

Ocean Park, California, 192

odalisques, 59, 60

Olympia, Washington, 214, 214

Oraibi, 148–49, 148

Oregon, 92, 203–9, 212–14, 215–16, 276, 282–86, 287, 306

Organ Mountains, New Mexico, 141, 142, 142

Orient Railway, 145, 320n37

Oriental Limited, 218, 220

Orientalism, 8–9, 10–13, 53, 109, 217, 220, 251–52, 290–91

Orientalism, American, 11–12, 59–62, 109, 220

Orientalization, 15–16, 17, 21, 32–33, 100–101, 209–17, 223–27, 289

Owens Valley, California, 183

Oz, land of, 224–27

P

Pacific Northwest, 202–20, 257, 276–87

Pacific Railroad, 159–62, 179–80

Paiute Indians, 183

Pakistan, 256, 301

Palmer, W. J., 51–53, 54–55

palm trees, native, (Washintonia filifera), 199

Pasadena Grand Opera House, California, 192

Pattie, James Ohio, 32

Pawnee Indians, 47

Pecos and Northwestern Railroad, 146

Peery’s Egyptian Theater, Ogden, Utah, 236, 324n25

Perry Mason (television series), 261

Perry, Admiral, 289

Persia, 291

Phoenix, Arizona, 2, 145–46

Pike, Zebulon, 25

Pima-Maricopa Indians, 132

place names, ix, 12–13, 26–27, 142–43, 205

poetry, 284–85

Point of the Mountain, Utah, 113, 114

Polo, Marco, 78

polygamy, 105–7, 109, 236

Pony Express, 293, 294

pornography, 232, 318n15

Porter, Dixon, 81–83

Portland, Oregon, 204–6, 212, 277–79, 277

Poston, Charles D., 135

Powell, John Wesley, 196–97

Pratt, Orson, 94–95

Presley, Elvis, 231

Preuss, Charles, 72

Promised Land, the, 92, 96, 117, 118, 179

Pueblo architecture, 147, 153, 244

Pueblo Indians, 153

Pumpelly, Raphael, 136–37, 181–82, 197, 209–12, 212, 214–16

Purcell, Roy, 252, 253, 254, 255

Pyramid Lake, Nevada, 22, 66–68, 71–73, 73, 227, 233, 324n18

pyramids, 42, 48, 49, 57, 58, 64–67, 67, 68–73, 73, 75, 81, 227–28, 228, 229–31, 234

R

railroads, 55–56, 116–17, 123, 144–46, 210, 295–96

Ramona (1884 novel), 185–86, 191

ranching, 51–53, 53–55

Randolph, Paschal Beverly, 75

Reagan, Ronald, 301

Redondo Beach, California, 192, 192

Red Pheasant (Cree Indian Chief), 62, 63

Reeves, Keanu, 286–87

Remington, Frederick, 143, 144

Riddell, John Leonard, 137

Ridgway, Robert, 72

Rio Grande, 245,

Rio Grande Western Railroad, 116–17, 118–19

River Jordan. See Jordan River

Riverside, California, 184

Roberts, David, 66, 67

Robida, Albert, 106–9

Robinson, Phil, 80, 100–101

Rocky Mountains, 5, 91

Rogue River, Oregon, 203

Roma (Gypsies), 240–41

romanticism, 25–26, 34–35, 37–38, 290, 291

Rosetta Stone, 236–37, 237

Rosicrucian, 75

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California, 238–39, 239, 240

ruins, 46, 57, 58, 59, 228–29

Runnels, the Honorable John, 50–51

Russell, Charles M., 59–62

Russell, William Howard, 18–19

Russia, 291, 296

S

Sacramento Valley Railroad, 157

sagebrush. See Artemisia

Sahara (2005 film), 302–3

Sahara Desert, 31–32, 33, 59, 63, 181–82, 248, 302–3, 313n18

Said, Edward, 8–9, 217, 251–52, 268

Salsola Kali (tumbleweed), 78, 305–6

Saltair Pavilion and Beach, Utah, 119–20, 121, 122

Salt Cedar (Tamarisk), 78

Salt Lake City and Valley, Utah, 91, 103–6, 116–17, 118

Salton Sea, California, ix, 1

Samarkand, Persian Hotel, Santa Barbara, California, 189

San Antonio, Texas, 137

San Bernardino, California, 193

sand dunes, 78–80, 181

San Diego, California, 191, 197

Sands of Oblivion (2007 film), 241

San Francisco, California, 165, 166–71, 209, 239, 257–58, 261–63, 273, 292

San Gabriel Valley, California, 275

San Joaquin Valley, California, 240

San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, 123

Santa Barbara, California, 181, 189

Santa Cruz and Felton Railway, 162

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 138, 151, 243–44

Santa Fe Railway, 144–45, 149

San Xavier del Bac, Arizona, 138

Sarkisian, Cherilyn, See Cher

Sarmiento, Domingo, 34, 36–37

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 20–21

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 246, 288, 289

Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius), 215

Scott, Harvey Whitefield, 207

Scott, Sir Walter, 105

Scotty’s Castle, 190

Sea of Galilee, 2, 95

Seattle, Washington, 212, 216–17, 257, 286–87

Seeing the Elephant, 157–58

Seven Faces of Dr. Lao, The (1964 film), 268–69

Seven Samurai, The (1954 film), 267

sexual abuse, abduction and, 133–34, 318n15

sexuality, 59–62, 127, 128–30, 180–81, 187, 230–35, 265–66, 318n15

Shanghai, 293

Shanghai Noon (2000 film), 273

Shell Oil Company, 293–94, 294

Shoshone Indians, 128–29

Sierra Nevada, 160–61, 161, 164

Siesta, The (1878 painting), 59–60

Siddhartha, 286–87

Silverado Squatters (1883 story), 182

Sinners and Saints (1883 novel), 100–101

sister cities, 278, 279

Smillie, James David, 130, 131

Smith, George Albert, 94, 96

Smith, Joseph, 87–88, 90–91

Smith, J. Russell, 215–16

Smythe, William E. 176, 197

Snake River Plain, Idaho, 32

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999 film), 286

Snyder, Gary, 283–85

Sodom and Gomorrah, 53, 103, 116, 232–33, 255

Sonoran Desert, Arizona, 33

Soule, John B. L., 40, 231

Southern Pacific Railroad, 145, 198

Southwestern United States, 126–54, 245–56

Spaniards, 3, 12, 34, 36–37, 64–65, 126–28, 137, 138, 249–51

Spanish identity, 185, 189–91

Speer, William, 164

Sphinx, the, 33, 57, 85–86, 86, 188, 223, 228, 233

Spirit Lake, Washington, 213, 283

St. John, Percy B., 29

Stansbury, Howard, 104–5

Starck, Clemens, 285

Stegner, Wallace, 122

Stephens, John Lloyd, 69–71, 74, 105

Stevenson, Matilda Cox, 148–49, 148

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 182

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 18

Streit, Dr. F. W., 104, 104

Sukiaki Western Django, (2008 film), 298–99

swastika, 146–47

Swastika Coal Company, 146

symbols, 217–18, 219, 252–53, 254, 255, 304–5

Syria, 176, 235

T

Tadmor, 137

Taoism, 272, 277

Taos, New Mexico, 272

Tarantino, Quentin, 299

Taylor, Bayard, 184–85

Temple of Osiris, 124, 125

Tepemazalco, Mexico, 176–77

Terranes, 281–82

terrorism, 256, 302

Texas, 37, 126, 137, 143, 144, 152, 245, 304

This Was San Francisco (1956–58 cartoon book), 261–62, 263

Thompson, David, 65–67

Thoreau, Henry David, 18

Three Kings (1999 film), 301–2

time, 57–58

Tobey, Mark, 279, 280

Tokugawa Shogunate, 289

Tokyo, Japan, 289, 293

Tokyotown, 264

Tolf, Albert, 261–62, 263

Tombstone, Arizona, 298

Tong War of 1854, 175

Tonopah, Nevada, 304

tourism, 189, 253–54

Tower of Babel, 113–14, 115

Transcontinental Railroad, 159–62

Treaty of Tien-tsin, 202

Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, 171

tumbleweed, 305–6. See also Salsola

Turco, El, 127

Turks, 81–82, 127, 128

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 292–93

Tutankhamen, King, 228, 237, 255–56

Twain, Mark, 3–4, 13, 80–81, 106

Twitchell, Ralph E., 138

U

Uighurs, 298

Ukraine, 37

Union Pacific Railroad, 123, 159–60

US-Mexican War, 129, 130, 180

Utah, ix, 64, 77, 79, 89–125, 235–36, 237

Utah Lake, Utah, 95, 118

V

Vancouver, British Columbia, 279

Victorian Culture, 59, 70, 149, 165, 166, 180, 182

Vietnam War, 252, 270, 287

Villa, Poncho, 256

Virginia City, Nevada, 84, 165

Virginian, The (1902 novel), 223–24

Voyages Trés Extraordinaires (1885 illustration), 106–7, 108, 109

W

Wakara (Walkara, Walker), 99

Walls of Jericho, 125

War on Terrorism, 300–302

Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003 film), 297–98

Wasatch Range, Utah, 96

Washington, 212–14, 215–17, 257, 279–80, 283, 286–87

Washington Monument, Washington D. C., 43

Watsonville, California, 174–75, 175

Wayne, John, 242, 273

Wayne, Major Henry Constantine, 81–84

Weaverville, California, 174–75, 175

westerns (genre), 223–24, 242, 266–73, 297–300, 304–5

West of Babylon (2002 novel), 249–51

Whipple, Maureen, 101–2

Whistler, Joseph Nelson Garland, 57

Whitman, Walt, 142

Whitney, Horace K., 41

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 290

Wierzbicki, Felix Paul, 155–56

Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 28–29

Winchell, Alexander, 57–58, 58, 59

Wister, Owen, 223–24

Wizard of Oz (1899 novel and 1939 film), 224, 225, 226–27

women, 17, 36, 50–51, 52, 59–60, 60, 61, 62, 106–8, 127, 128–30, 133–34, 135–36, 139, 143, 144, 150, 180–81, 231–33, 235, 245–46, 252–53, 265–66, 299

Wyoming, 224

Y

Yamashiro Restaurant, 260

yellowface, 259

Yokohama, Japan, 216

Yosemite Valley, California, 233

Young, Brigham, 90–91, 99, 123, 142

Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 217

Z

Zion, 97

Zion National Park, Utah, 123–24