The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Exiled Greeks,” pp. 409–35 by Helen Z. Papanikolas Small bird, there where you fly to Ameriki, Tell me, where does my son sleep? When he is sick, who tends him? …Folk song of immigration At the beginning of the century, thousands of young Greeks began coming to Utah to live …
The Peoples of Utah, Imperial Zion: The British Occupation of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Imperial Zion: The British Occupation of Utah,” pp. 61–113 by Frederick S. Buchanan On board the “International” All joyful and lighthearted. Bound Zionward, four hundred Saints, From Liverpool we started. We’re English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh Assembled here together; Resolved to do the will of God, Whate’er the wind and …
The Peoples of Utah, Jews in Zion
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Jews in Zion,” pp. 187–220 by Jack Goodman Except for the pitifully few American Indians occupying remnant of their once pristine homeland, we are a nation peopled solely by the descendants of immigrants. “Americans all, immigrants all,” Franklin Roosevelt once said. Rather than a melting pot, the United States as …
The Peoples of Utah, The Pioneer Chinese of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Pioneer Chinese of Utah,” pp. 251–77 by Don C. Conley The distance from the subtropical rice paddies of China’s southernmost province to the mountainous desert of the Great Basin spans one-third of the earth’s circumference. Along this tumultuous course of Pacific Ocean waves and Sierra Nevada mountain peaks came …
The Peoples of Utah, After Escalante: The Spanish Speaking People of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “After Escalante: The Spanish Speaking People of Utah,” pp. 437–68 by Vicente V. Mayer Poor Mexico! So far from God and so near to the United States. ..Attributed to Porfirio Diaz To the Spanish is owed the distinction of being the first Europeans to explore, map, and describe the area …
The Peoples of Utah, The Continental Inheritance
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Continental Inheritance,” pp. 221–50 by Davis Bitton and Gordon Irving [We are] all the descendants of immigrants. That is, in fact, the quality and the experience all of us have in common; the differences are of degree only in that for some of us the experience is immediate and …
The Peoples of Utah, The Utes, Southern Paiutes, and Gosiutes
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Utes, Southern Paiutes, and Goshiutes,” pp. 27–59″ by Floyd A. O’Neil “….. teach ’em to speak Ute. And don’t let them ever forget how we’re supposed to live, who we are, where we came from.”…Connor Chapoose Confined on reservations, no longer free to range over the mountains and deserts …
The Peoples of Utah, Blacks in Utah History
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Blacks in Utah History: An Unknown Legacy,” pp. 115–40″ by Ronald G. Coleman This essay is gratefully dedicated to Mary Lucille Perkins Bankhead, a descendant of three Black pioneer families and related through marriage to others. She has contributed greatly to this writer’s research and to that of others in …
My Native Land
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “My Native Land,” pp. 11–13″ by Fred Conetah I am standing on a high hill overlooking a vast amount of country and wondering if one of my forefathers stood here and saw the same country as I see now. If so, he saw a completely different kind of country. He …
Growing Up Railroad: Remembering Echo City
Editor’s Note: In an award-winning essay, Robert S. Mikkelsen paints a colorful portrait of life in his hometown, a key refueling railroad stop for locomotives traveling between Ogden, Utah, and Evanston, Wyoming. Born in 1925 and raised as an end-of-the-track townie in Echo, Utah, Mikkelsen highlights the intricate connection that he and his peers felt to the robust engines that …