The script for the man portraying Brigham Young in the Historic St. George live tours in St. George, Utah includes this song verse.
"Oh what a desert place this was when first the Mormons found it..."

Brighams Song

Max Perry Mueller, professor of religious studies and author, joined me in this sweeping interview to discuss his new book, Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West, published by Basic Books.

Our discussion covers some of the thematic sweeps and details of Mueller’s incredibly well-written and rich history of the American West and one of its central, oft-forgotten, and overlooked founders, Wakara—intersecting with indigenous ecological knowledge and management systems, settler-colonialism, and Mormonism.

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395 / Wakara’s America / Max Perry Mueller

voice talent, former radio announcer,  singer ( in many styles, voices, languages), actor, writer

A podcast about transitions, death, the ruptures of life in between.

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