Thomas G. Alexander Utah, the Right Place Condensed by Brittany Nelson Utah men, to prove their loyalty to the nation, were particularly active in volunteering for both World War I and World War II. When World War I started, Utah’s citizens responded to the call for men and more than 21,000 were enlisted in the land troops and almost 3,500 …
Strawberry Valley Was Utah’s First Federal Reclamation Project
Jeffrey D. Nichols History Blazer, May 1995 From the earliest years of the nation, American public policy has generally recognized agriculture as the best possible use for land. Thomas Jefferson’s veneration of the independent, virtuous “yeoman farmer” was shared by most of his countrymen. Policies such as the Northwest Ordinances, which established the method for surveying and selling public land, …
Cliffside Dwellings & Stunning Artifacts Show Anasazi Life
W. Paul Reeve History Blazer, April 1995 The elaborate cliff dwellings and terraced apartment houses built of stone, mud, and wood that dot the Four Corners region of southeastern Utah stand as fitting monuments to Utah’s earliest inhabitants. Evidence of hunter-gatherer bands occupying portions of present-day Utah date back to about 9,000 B.C., but the people who comprised this Desert …