Native Americans in Post War Utah

Thomas G. Alexander Utah, The Right Place One of the most thorny issues in postwar Utah arose from the abuse of Utah’s Native Americans. The 1950 census shows a population of 4,200 Indians in Utah, up from 2,000 in 1900. Nevertheless, the Utes, who had occupied the largest portion of Utah’s lands, had lost large blocks of preservation land. On …

Native Americans in Utah

David Rich Lewis Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Long before Euro-Americans entered the Great Basin, substantial numbers of people lived within the present boundaries of Utah. Archaeological reconstructions suggest human habitation stretching back some 12,000 years. The earliest known inhabitants were members of what has been termed the Desert Archaic Culture—nomadic hunter-gatherers with developed basketry, flaked-stem stone tools, and implements of …

Utah’s Milkman: The Story of Winder Dairy

Michael Kent “Mike” Winder, Sr. (April 2020) There is a melancholy silence on Winder Lane, as the tree-lined stub of 4400 West, south of 4100 South in West Valley City is known. The milk trucks no longer rumble at odd hours over the lane’s half dozen speedbumps, under the full canopy of honey locust trees. They no longer pass the …

The Peoples of Utah, Selected Bibliography

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY compiled by Phil Notorianni African American Bringhurst, Newell G. “An Ambiguous Decision: The Implementation of Mormon Priesthood Denial for the Black Man — A Reexamination,” UHQ 46 (1975): 45-64. Clark, Michael J. U.S. Army Pioneers: Black Soldiers in Nineteenth-Century Utah. Salt Lake City, 1981. ________. “Improbable Ambassadors: Black Soldiers at Fort Douglas, 1869-99,” UHQ (1978): 282-301. Coleman, Ronald …

The Peoples of Utah, Falcons in Flight: The Yugoslavs

The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Falcons in Flight: The Yugoslavs,” pp. 373–83 by Joseph Stipanovich Oh, rocky Lika,2 your soil is poor and barren, but for every one of your stones you have a gray falcon.3                                                                                 …Traditional Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes began arriving in Utah in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The …

The Peoples of Utah, Scandinavian Saga

The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Scandinavian Saga,” pp. 151–85″ by William Mulder I In the telephone directories, Utah looks decidedly Anglo-Scandinavian. History and the statistics confirm the impression. Utah’s Scandinavians and their descendants, as with most of the state’s other immigrants from northern Europe, are largely the fruit of over a century of Mormon proselyting …

Southern Utah’s Boom and Bust Uranium Industry

Jeffrey D. Nichols History Blazer, December 1996 The history of much of the American West has been marked by boom and bust cycles. Perhaps the most famous example is the California gold rush, which brought tens of thousands of Forty-Niners to the Golden State, a tiny fraction of whom ever struck it rich. Southeastern Utah has experienced a number of …

Utah and Vietnam Conflict

Allan Kent Powell Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 During the 1960s and 1970s, Utah was affected by the Vietnam Conflict in many ways. Utahns served in all branches of the armed forces; many were decorated for valor in combat, were held prisoner in North Vietnam, or came home without limbs and with other permanent injuries. At home, Utahns both supported and …

Utah in the Spanish American War

Richard C. Roberts Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 The Spanish American War, which lasted from March to December in 1898, was a short war; but it was significant in bringing the United States into the world arena as a major power. The United States defeated the Spanish forces in naval and land battles in the Philippine Islands, in Cuba, and in …

Party Politics and Utah Statehood

Stanford J. Layton History Blazer, July 1995 A. D. Richardson, a journalist visiting Denver in 1859, had this to say about the politics of settlement along the western frontier: “Making governments and building towns are the natural employments of the migratory Yankee. He takes to them as instinctively as a young duck to water. Congregate a hundred Americans anywhere beyond …