Uinta Basin Group Trekked to the 1933 World’s Fair

Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer September 1995 In December 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, eighty-seven Uinta Basin residents made plans to attend the 1933 World’s Fair, Century of Progress, in Chicago. They were Future Farmers of America members from the Toyack Chapter, Central Union High School, Roosevelt, Utah, and their goal was nothing less than the longest …

World War II Claimed the Lives of Four Utah Brothers

Linda Thatcher, Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, September 1995 World War II took the lives of many Utahns, but no family in the state sacrificed more for the Allied cause than Alben and Gunda Borgstrom of Thatcher, Box Elder County. Four of the five sons they sent off to battle died within a six-month period during 1944. “Few families in …