Ogden Defeats Salt Lake City in a War of the Wheels

Lyndia Carter History Blazer, December 1996 It had to be one of the greatest rivalries of all time in Utah—the intense competition between Ogden and Salt Lake City during the early years of statehood. The national “Examiner-Journal Yellow Fellow Relay Race” of 1896 showed just how lively the rivalry could become. Promoters for the Hearst newspapers thought a transcontinental bicycle …