Traveling Gypsies Brought an Exotic Lifestyle to Rural Utah

W. Paul Reeve History Blazer, February 1995 To most residents of rural Utah in the early 1900s summertime meant hauling hay, digging ditches, irrigating crops, and tending livestock. Other than the usual dances and town parties there was little diversion from the monotony of farm labor—that is until traveling bands of Gypsies began making appearances and causing stirs of excitement. …