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Shelters, Shacks & Shanties & How to Build ThemBy: D.C. Beard Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties presents lively, step-by-step tutelage on building all types of temporary and long-term accommodations from both natural and man-made materials. Originally published in 1914, this practical classic is as essential a guide for today's modern homesteader as it...
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy through the Grand CanyonBy: Edward Dolnick On May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon; to...
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South Temple Street Landmarks: Salt Lake City’s First Historic DistrictFrom the earliest days of settlement, South Temple was Salt Lake's most prestigious street. In 1857, William Staines built the Devereaux House, Salt Lake's first of many mansions. The once-bustling Union Pacific Depot eventually found itself increasingly isolated. Downtown's "gleaming copper landmark" overcame numerous...
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The Spiral Jetty Encyclo: Exploring Robert Smithson's Earthwork through Time and PlaceCopublished with the Tanner Trust Fund, J. Willard Marriott Library.Robert Smithson’s earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), an icon of the Land Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is located on the northern shores of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Smithson built a masterpiece from local...
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The Avenues of Salt Lake CitySalt Lake City’s oldest residential historic district is a neighborhood known as the Avenues. During the late nineteenth century this area was home to many of the most influential citizens of Salt Lake City. Built from 1860 until 1930, it contains a mix of...
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John Wesley Powell: His Life and Legacy“John Wesley Powell: explorer, writer, geologist, anthropologist, land planner, bureaucrat. Which one do we focus on?” This is the question author James M. Aton poses at the beginning of his biography of Powell, though he soon decides that it is impossible to ignore any...
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The Avenues (Images of America)East of Utah's domed state capitol and near downtown Salt Lake City, a residential district sharply climbs the foothills of the Wasatch Range. The neighborhood is known as "The Avenues." Settlement of the oldest portion of the area took place from the 1860s until...
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Salt Lake City Cemetery (Images of America)The Salt Lake City Cemetery was established in September 1847 when George Wallace, who arrived with the first company of Mormon pioneers two months prior, buried his young daughter on a picturesque hillside above the Salt Lake Valley. It has since grown to become...
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Salt Lake City's Historic Architecture (Images of America)Settling in an isolated desert valley, Salt Lake City's Mormon pioneers laid out a city grid and constructed permanent structures to create their version of Zion. They brought with them their architects, builders, tools, and experience gained in the Midwest. Within a decade, the...
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The Story of Clear Lake, UtahThe Story of Clear Lake, Utah By Venetta Bond Kelsey This book tells the story of a little railroad, farming & ranching community situated in the middle of the Black Rock Desert and Pahvant Valley of south central Utah. Clear Lake town was situated...
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Wanted! Wanted Posters of the Old WestBy: Barbara Fifer and Martin Kidston This rare collection of Wanted Posters is from the American West, found in the basement of the Missoula County Courthouse, is a historical treasure. The book's nearly 150 original wanted posters, fugitive notices, and Pinkerton Agency circulars are...
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Undaunted CourageBy: Stephen E. Ambrose In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding...
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The Sterling Legend: The Facts Behind the Lost Dutchman MineBy: Estee Conatser The legend of Jacob Walzer's famed Lost Dutchman Mine has been tantalizing gold seekers since the 1870s. Thousands have ventured into the formidable desert surrounding the Superstition Mountains to solve the riddle that has eluded solving - and many may have...
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Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost TreasuresBy: George A. Thompson Some Dreams Die is the most comprehensive guide to Utah's ghost towns ever assembled. In the course of his research the author visited the sites of over four hundred deserted communities, and probed their unique histories. Some lay within sight...
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Outlaw Tales of Utah: True Stories of Utah's Most Famous Rustlers, Robbers, and BanditsBy: Michael Rutter Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Utah. Meet the Wild Bunch, outlaws who sought refuge between heists hanging out and hiding out in Utah. Butch Cassidy, its leader, once paid a farmer's mortgage and then robbed...
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Discovering the Outlaw Trail: Routes, Hideouts & Stories from the Wild WestOver 90 outlaw adventures with a modern twist combining historic experiences and outdoor activities. Enjoy Wild West trips across Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and South Dakota, plus spurs of the trail in Idaho, New Mexico, Kansas, and Arkansas From scenic campgrounds to wilderness tent...
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Ghost Towns Of The WestGhosts Towns of the West is filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions to find the best ghost towns to linger in the wake of the Old West. Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the...
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The Heart of Everything That IsThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud: “a page-turner with remarkable immediacy…and the narrative sweep of a great Western” (The Boston Globe).Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war,...
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A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian MissionaryWinner of the Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon StudiesFrontiersman, colonizer, missionary to the Indians, and explorer of the American West, Jacob Hamblin has long been one of the most enigmatic figures in Mormon history. In this defining biography, Todd Compton examines and disentangles many...
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Rails Around Helper (Images of America)By: SueAnn Martell and the Western Mining and Railroad Museum In 1880, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad was hard-pressed to find a suitable rail route from Grand Junction to Salt Lake City. With the coal deposits of eastern Utah luring them on, railroad...
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