http://www.sltrib.com Will Bagley, History Matters Published: 06/30/2002 Edition: Final Section: Utah Page: B2 Brigham Young’s 1847 pioneer company spotted its first buffalo herd on May 1, not far west of today’s Kearney, Neb. This vast assembly of American bison was enough “to astonish a man,” wrote Apostle Wilford Woodruff. “Thousands upon thousands would crowd together. …
Pioneer Map Leads Jefferson Scandal to West
http://www.sltrib.com Will Bagley, History Matters Published: 05/06/2001 Edition: Final Section: Utah Page: B1 At the time, it sounded like a good idea. In 1846, adventurer Lansford W. Hastings wanted to open a wagon road across the Great Basin to straighten out the kink in the California Trail that detoured north to Pocatello to avoid the …
Utah Counties
County Facts *2000 est. population For more information about each of Utah’s counties and a map of counties, visit History for Kids Beaver County Area: 2,586 sq. miles Population: 6,005 County Seat: Beaver Box Elder County Area: 5,614 sq. miles Population: 42,745 County Seat: Brigham City Cache County Area: 1,171 sq. miles Population: 91,391 County Seat: Logan Carbon County Area: …
Unsolved Mysteries in Utah—The Bizarre Case of Grave Robber Jean Baptiste
Yvette D. Ison History Blazer, March 1995 Those who knew and loved young Moroni Clawson were no doubt saddened by his death in January 1862 and may have even witnessed his burial in the city cemetery on the north bench of Salt Lake City. Several days later, however, their private grief turned public. An event had occurred that, according to …
The Hastings Cutoff
Thomas G. Alexander Utah, The Right Place Anxious to attract Americans to northern California, Lansford W. Hastings published his famous Emigrants Guide to Oregon and California in 1845, which touted the Golden State over the Beaver State. At the same time, it is unclear whether Hastings intended to promote the cutoff from Fort Bridger through Salt Lake Valley and westward …
Early Utahns Had Dreams of California
http://www.sltrib.com Will Bagley, History Matters Published: 04/29/2001 Edition: Section: Utah Page: B1 The rise and fall of the Mormon colony at San Bernardino, California, is one of the forgotten epics of Western history. It is an intriguing tale of utopian dreams, frontier conflict and defeated idealism. The story reflects one of the recurring themes …
World War II in Utah
Boeing B-17 construction at Ogden Arsenal, 1943 Roger D. Launius Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Like those in many other western states, Utah’s leaders have long recognized that an important key to prosperity is federal spending in their state. Even so, until the Great Depression of the 1930s Utahns had been largely unsuccessful in securing very much federal investment in the …
Utah’s Rosies in the War
Antonette Chambers Noble Utah Historical Quarterly 59 Spring 1991 “When the big planes (B-24s) came in, they were started through the hangers by first being washed down. People wore hats and long rain coats and used long hoses to reach,” recalled Retha Nielson. “I, with other women, went to see them come in. I got a lump in my throat …
Topaz Relocation Center
Jane Beckwith Utah History Encyclopedia The history of the settlement of western Millard County has been a string of boom and bust cycles, most of them associated with water. Pioneers struggled to tame the tail end of the Sevier River with dams, canals, and reservoirs. By the 1910s the major dams were stable and a boom came as a result …
How Trains Helped Win a War
Richard C. Roberts Beehive History, 8 The good times of the 1920s came to an end in Ogden, as in other parts of the United States, during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Business declined, and many companies and industries even went broke. The railroads suffered along with other businesses. Both freight and passenger traffic declined. Thor Blair, who ran …