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Meet Bernard Augustine DeVoto: The Most Famous Ogdenite You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

By Scott L. Greenwell “The chief glory of every people arises from its authors”[*]                                                             ~Samuel Johnson Ask anyone in Ogden about Bernard DeVoto and chances are you’ll meet with a polite shrug and a blank stare. Hardly anyone seems to know who DeVoto is or was. How could his hometown have forgotten the one whom Wallace Stegner considered “Utah’s …

Early River Running Regulations in the Colorado River Basin

By Tom Martin River running in the Colorado River Basin has a very rich tradition of people hunting, prospecting, and recreating with watercraft. The first people to float watercraft on these rivers were Indigenous peoples using dugout canoes, rafts made of bullrushes, and skin-on-frame craft. The Spanish came next, boating up the Colorado from the Sea of Cortez in 1540. …

The Late Prehistoric Millennium

Steven R. Simms Utah State University, Logan Based on: Simms, Steven R. Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau (with original artwork by Eric Carlson and Noel Carmack). New York: Routledge, 2008/2016. It is tempting to attempt to know the last 1,000 years of Native American history by simply extending backwards from Utah’s historically known peoples, the Shoshone, …

Eons of Foragers: The Archaic Period

Steven R. Simms Utah State University, Logan From: Steven R. Simms, Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau (with original artwork by Eric Carlson and Noel Carmack). New York: Routledge, 2008/2016. The Archaic period spans over 250 human generations, over 40 times the duration of Euro-American history in Utah. In the wake of the Paleoindian explorers and colonists, …

The Paleoindian Period

Daron Duke No one knows exactly when the first people arrived in Utah, but they saw a verdant and colorful version of what we know already to be a diverse and visually stunning landscape. They came near the end of a period of Earth’s history referred to by scientists as the Pleistocene, sometimes called the Ice Age for the massive …

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 Coal Industry in Heiner, Utah

By Mark Karpinski, Elizabeth Karpinski, Jonathan Dugmore, Samantha Kirkley, and Garrett Webb By the early 1900’s the United States coal industry housed between 70 and 80 percent of its workforce in company owned housing. Heiner, Utah was one of many coal company towns that emerged in Carbon and Emery counties as Utah rapidly industrialized and urbanized during the late 19th …

An Uncommon Footstep: Dr. Frederic Horatio Simmons in Idaho and Utah

By Steven D. Branting Rare are the individuals whose footprints remain in whatever places they call home during their lifetimes. It is one thing to live somewhere and quite another to leave a legacy there. One such person was Frederic Horatio Simmons, whose eventful life in territorial Idaho and Utah deserves to be remembered. Born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, …

Late Prehistoric Period

Steven R. SimmsEmeritus Professor of AnthropologyUtah State University, Logan Based on:Simms, Steven R. 2008/2016 Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau (with original artwork by Eric Carlson and Noel Carmack). Routledge, New York. It is tempting know the last 1,000 years of Native American history by simply extending backwards from Utah’s historically known peoples, the Shoshone, Ute, Southern Paiute, …