Only one wing of the Territorial Statehouse was built. Today it is a state park. Yvette D. Ison History Blazer, July 1995 Until 1851 Mormon settlement in Utah was confined mostly to the western slopes of the Wasatch Mountains. When Utah became a territory through the Organic Act of 1850 settlement patterns began to change. Since the new boundaries of …
A Page from Police History / Pictures in ‘Mug’ Books Provide a Who’s Who of Faces from Past
http://www.sltrib.com Hal Schindler Published: 03/27/1994 Category: Features Page: E1 A stack of old Salt Lake City Police Department “mug” books long supposed destroyed have surfaced after nearly thirty years and now are part the department’s historical archives. And while the circumstances surrounding their recovery are sketchy, the records are real and plans are underway for preservation of the documents, according …
Nancy Kelsey, the First White Woman to Cross Utah
Lyndia Carter History Blazer, November 1996 “Where my husband goes I can go. I can better stand the hardships of the journey than the anxieties for an absent husband.” With those words Nancy Kelsey began a journey across country no white woman had ever made. With her baby on her hip, Nancy, who had just turned 18 a few days …
This Is the Place
The Mormon Trail: A Photographic Exhibit Stan Layton After leaving Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1846, the Mormons headed west. They spent the winter of 1846–47 in Winter Quarters near Omaha and at various places in Iowa, resuming their journey in the spring. First to leave Winter Quarters that spring was the advance party under the personal direction of church president Brigham …
Bountiful
Patricia Lyn Scott Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Bountiful is Utah’s second settlement and was named for one of the ancient American cities described in The Book of Mormon. Bountiful was settled not long after Mormon pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Perrigrine Sessions explored the area just three days after his arrival. In September 1847 Sessions gathered his family …
Hole-in-the-Rock Trek Remains an Epic Experience in Pioneering
W. Paul Reeve History Blazer, August 1995 In 1879 when a group of Mormon pioneers began the now famous Hole-in-the-Rock expedition, the San Juan region of southeastern Utah was one of the most isolated parts of the United States. The rough and broken country is characterized by sheer walled cliffs, mesas, hills, washes, slickrock, cedar forests, and sand. Certainly the …
The Lives of Six Pioneer Girls
Becky Bartholomew History Blazer, September 1996 The life stories of six cousins—Clarissa Wilcox, Martha Wilcox, Mabel Wilcox, Luella Hurst, Ida Hurst, and Mary Young—born in three Utah towns between 1863 and 1893 reveal what it was like to be a girl growing up in pioneer Utah. First memories: Martha was only five years old when someone came to the house …
Hilda Anderson Erickson, Working Woman
Becky Bartholomew History Blazer, October 1995 Women’s current struggle to balance home and career may seem new. But long before the turn of the century at least one Utah woman was combining home duties with four outside careers and apparently thriving. Hilda Anderson came to Utah in 1866 from Sweden as a seven-year-old. In Grantsville she learned early to work …
Reverend McLeod and the Building of Independence Hall
Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, March 1996 In 1864 trustees of the American Home Missionary Society decided to expand the Society’s evangelical efforts into the Far West. The Reverend Jonathan Blanchard was sent to survey Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Colorado. He was impressed with the possibility for missionary activity among the Mormons and received strong support for the venture from …
The History of a Pioneer Utah Cottage
Becky Bartholomew History Blazer, January 1996 Sightseers wonder about the histories of old brick and adobe houses scattered across rural Utah. Six blocks west of Main Street in Fountain Green sits a small stucco cottage on 1.05 acres. Local lore says that it was built for a widow on the order of Brigham Young. Whether or not this is true, …