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 …
The Broad Ax and The Plain Dealer Kept Utah’s African Americans Informed
Jeffrey D. Nichols Although the 1890 census reported only 588 African Americans living in Utah—a figure that would almost double by 1910—Salt Lake City supported two black newspapers for several years during that time. Julius F. Taylor, born in Virginia but most recently from Fargo, North Dakota, edited and published the Broad Ax, a weekly newspaper, from August 1895 until …