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 …
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 …
U. S. Senators from Utah
Class 1 U. S. Senators belong to the electoral cycle that has recently been contested in 1994, 2000, 2006, and 2012, etc. Frank J. Cannon, Republican Time in Office: January 22, 1896–March 3, 1899 . . Thomas Kearns, Republican Time in Office: January 23, 1901–March 3, 1905 . . George Sutherland, Republican Time in Office: March 4, 1905–March 3, 1917 …
Ethnic Cultures in Utah
African Americans Built Churches Utah’s Early African American Farmers Improbable Ambassadors: Black Soldiers African Americans at Fort Douglas Hotel Served Basques & African Americans Hispanic Folk Practices Early Greek Immigrants Greek Sheepmen The Greek Midwife Magerou Scandinavian Life in Utah South Slav Community in Midvale The Fall of Skliris, “Czar of the Greeks” Mining and the Immigrants Japanese Farmers in …
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 …
Utah’s Influential Citizens of the 20th Century
Maurice Abravanel Florence Ellinwood Allen Fortunato Anselmo Leonard Arrington Norman Bangerter Edwina Booth Reva Beck Bosone John Eugene Broaddus Juanita Brooks John M. Browning Arthur L. Chaffin Edward Wilbur Clyde George Henry Dern Harold Drake, Sr. Marriner Eccles Lantie Jesse Eldred Alf Engen Philo Farnsworth Anne Marie Fox Felt John Dennis Fitzgerald John J. Fitzpatrick Harvey Fletcher Russell G. Frazier …
Utah’s Influential Citizens of the 19th Century
James Bridger Martha H. Cannon David Eccles John C. Fremont Miles Goodyear Jacob Hamblin Hoskannini Albert S. Johnston Thomas Kearns Tabby-To-Kwanah Peter Skene Ogden Chief Ouray Chief Pocatello John Wesley Powell Etienne Provost Jedediah S. Smith Reed Smoot Arthur V. Watkins John Weber Brigham Young