Adapted from: Carlstrom, Jeffery, and Cynthia Furse. Emigration Canyon: Gateway to Salt Lake City. 2nd, ed. s.p., 2019; “Emigration Canyon: Its historical significance, offbeat aura lend the area plenty of flavor.” July 25, 2006. Deseret News. https://www.deseret.com/2006/7/25/19964952/emigration-canyon-its-historical-significance-offbeat-aura-lend-the-area-plenty-of-flavor#longtime-resident-stan-fishler-chairman-of-the-emigration-canyon-historical-society-relaxes-in-his-woodshop-at-his-home-in-emigration-canyon. Accessed April 27, 2020. As a canyon, Emigration Canyon’s history is ancient, and important to Native Americans, as well early Utah settlers and …
Draper
Adapted from: Sillitoe, Linda. A History of Salt Lake County. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1996; “History.” https://www.draper.ut.us/144/History-of-Draper-City, accessed April 23, 2020. Draper was initially established by Ebenezer and Phebe Brown in 1849, who settled in an area known as South Willow Bend. The Browns raised cattle to sell to immigrants on their way to the California gold …
Cannonville
Adapted from and Vivian Lindford Talbot. A History of Garfield County. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1998. The present town of Cannonville was settled due to the abandonment of the earlier settlement of Clifton. Clifton (Cliff Town), named after the view of nearby cliffs, was settled in 1874 by David O. Littlefield and Orley Dwight Bliss, with other …
Boulder
Adapted from: Linda King Newell and Vivian Lindford Talbot. A History of Garfield County. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1998; “Hell’s Backbone Grill and Farm.” Boulder Utah accessed April 10, 2020. Though currently located along scenic highway twelve, for much of its history, Boulder was one of the most isolated settlements in Utah. Like much of Garfield county, …
Antimony
Adapted from Linda King Newell, and Vivian Lindford Talbot. A History of Garfield County. Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1998. “Antimony, Utah.” Antimony, in Garfield county, is only a few miles away from the Paiute county line, so Antimony’s history is tied closely to both Utah and Garfield county. Like other Utah towns, Antimony went through several different …
Alpine
Adapted from “An overview of Alpine’s History, 1850-1980,” and “10 fun facts about Alpine that you may not know.” Daily Herald. April 26, 2018. The city of Alpine is located in the northeastern portion of Utah county. In 1850, several families, led by William Wordsworth, decided that conditions on the north end of Utah valley were ideal for settlement and …
Chapter 15
Redefining Utah (1950-2010)Latinos at the Kennecott Copper Mine A Meaning For Utah’s Postwar Experience German Heroes Immigrate to Utah Education Expansion High Birthrates and Education Legislative Malapportionment & Rural Domination Political Pandemonium The Civil Rights Movement in Utah Native Americans in Postwar Utah A Black Mormon Family in Postwar Utah The Making of Latino Families in Utah Equal Rights Amendment …
Chapter 6
This is our Place (1847-1920)Native American tribes—Shoshones, Utes, Goshutes, Paiutes, and Navajo (Dine)—experienced staggering changes wrought by the arrival of Mormons and other Euro-Americans in Utah. After initial contact an intense native resistance and conflict as the settlers society vied for scarce natural resources. What followed was a longer period of accommodation as Native American and Euro-American cultures came to …
Chapter 2
First PeoplesNative people used and culturally remade the Utah landscape as “home.” These peoples generally shared physical and cultural characteristics, though between native groups/communities we see some differences in political organization, technology, culture, and lifeways. These peoples and their worldview widely diverged from European explorers and settlers who they first encountered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unfortunately, none of …
St. George
Bart C. Anderson Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 St. George, the county seat of Washington County, is the largest of all the towns founded during the LDS church’s Cotton Mission of 1861. Located in the southwest section of Utah at an elevation of 2,880 feet above sea level, St. George has an average annual temperature of 59.9 degrees with summer temperatures …