I am a seventh-generation Mormon and 31 of my ancestors crossed the plains to settle the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. I am seeking to understand the systems at play in my suburban Mountain West upbringing. My interdisciplinary practice draws on personal experience, family archives, and research on the American Frontier and its role in catapulting early settlement claims into systems of unbridled wealth and power that have wide-reaching societal, cultural, familial, and individual implications.