BRIEF HISTORY OF UTAH Ron Rood and Linda Thatcher Utah presents an unusually varied landscape with three major physiographic provinces extending into the state. The Rocky Mountain Province takes up a V-shaped section of northeastern Utah and includes the Uinta and Wasatch mountains. The Colorado Plateau Province dominates east central and southeastern Utah from the Uinta Basin south to Canyonlands …
Spanish Doubloons & Mormon Gold / Mormon Coins Supplant the Bartering System
http://www.sltrib.com Hal Schindler Published: 03/26/1995 Category: Features Page: J1 With 10,000 or so Mormons populating the Great Salt Lake Valley and neighboring settlements by summer of 1849 and with more on the road, the need for some sort of hard cash in the economy was acute. The barter system had worked for a while, but as more members of The …
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 …
Camp Floyd
Audrey M. Godfrey Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 On 9 November 1858, amid gun fire and patriotic music, the soldiers of Camp Floyd, Utah Territory, raised the United States flag above their newly completed garrison. Named for Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, the post housed the largest concentration of U. S. troops to that time, in what immediately became the …
Martha Hughes Cannon
John Sillito and Constance LieberUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Martha Maria Hughes Cannon, noted physician and the first female state senator in the United States, was born 1 July 1857 near Llandudno, Wales, the second of three daughters born to Peter and Elizabeth Evans Hughes. The Hughes family, converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, emigrated to the …
Albert Sidney Johnston
Scott NielsonUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Albert Sidney Johnston was born in Washington, Kentucky, on 2 February 1803. He was educated at Transylvania University and then at West Point, where he graduated in 1826. Johnston impressed people with his intelligence and demeanor, and, consequently, he managed to climb the ranks rapidly. He served in the army for many years, and saw …
Thomas Kearns
Miriam B. MurphyUtah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Thomas Kearns was born in 1862 in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada, to Margaret Maher and Thomas Kearns. He moved with his Irish immigrant parents to a farm in Nebraska and there obtained a grammar-school education. The development of mining in the West drew him in 1883 to Park City, Utah, where he worked, prospected, …
Joe Hill
Gibbs M. Smith Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Born in Gavle, Sweden, on 7 October 1879, Joe Hill, also known as Joseph Hillstrom and Joel Hagglund, was an American labor songwriter and martyr who was executed in Salt Lake City on 19 November 1915. He immigrated to the lower east side Bowery section of New York City via Ellis Island in …
Everett Ruess
Gibbs M. Smith Utah History Encyclopedia, 1994 Everett Ruess was born 28 March 1914 in Los Angeles, California. He was an artist and an eloquent proponent of wilderness, who disappeared in 1934 in the Escalante canyon areas of Utah. Ruess traveled on foot, leading a pack burro, in northern Arizona and southern Utah in the early 1930s. He wrote impassioned …