Thomas G. Alexander Utah, the Right Place Condensed by Brittany Nelson The twenties were a period of extreme change, a decade of oxymoronic contradictions. Utahns began the decade disillusioned over the failure of the war to end all wars, but the economy had grown in depressed prosperity. Following the depression of 1919–22, mining and agriculture limped along while manufacturing, construction, …
Change and Creativity
Thomas G. Alexander Utah, the Right Place Condensed by Brittany Nelson After the admission of Nevada to the Union in 1864 and Colorado in 1876, low population and political controversy kept Utah’s neighboring territories from statehood until 1889–90 when North and South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, and Idaho came in. Arizona and New Mexico had to wait until 1912 for …