Jami Balls The first discoveries of precious metals in the mountains around Salt Lake City appeared in the early 1860s. Colonel Patrick E. Connor of Fort Douglas instigated the search, encouraging his men to prospect with the purpose of bringing non-Mormons into the Utah Territory. The first recorded claim of the Park City Mining District was the Young American lode …
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 …
Facts: Brief History Post
BRIEF HISTORY OF UTAHRon Rood and Linda Thatcher Utah’s thousands of years of prehistory and its centuries of known recorded history are so distinctive and complex that a summary can only hint at the state’s rich heritage. The synopsis offered here follows major themes in Utah history and includes some of the significant dates, events, and individuals. Unique Setting Prehistory …
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 …
Golden Spike National Historic Site
Deborah Blake Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 On 10 May 1869 from Promontory Summit northwest of Ogden, Utah, a single telegraphed word, “done,” signaled to the nation the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Railroad crews of the Union Pacific, 8,000 to 10,000 Irish, German, and Italian immigrants, had pushed west from Omaha, Nebraska. At Promontory they met crews of the …
It Could Be Called Utah’s Fort Knox
Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, March 1995 As one of the West’s great mining states, Utah became known for its silver, copper, and gold production. Bingham Canyon, Park City, Silver Reef, and Mercur are just a few of the historic mining areas, but the Great Salt Lake holds a huge cache of minerals estimated in 1981 to be worth $90 …
Brief History: Bibliography
BRIEF HISTORY OF UTAH Ron Rood and Linda Thatcher Utah’s thousands of years of prehistory and its centuries of known recorded history are so distinctive and complex that a summary can only hint at the state’s rich heritage. The synopsis offered here follows major themes in Utah history and includes some of the significant dates, events, and individuals. Selected Bibliography …