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The Mining Camps Speak: A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American WestVendor: Adler (APC Publishing)By: Beth & Bill Sagstetter If you have ever visited ghost town sites and were disappointed because there was nothing left, here is the book you've been waiting for. In these pages you will discover a new way to explore these mysterious sites. The...
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Mountain ManVendor: Treasure Chest BooksBy: Vardis Fisher A novel of male and female in the Early American West. This is a classic in American West literature, a major triumph of historical fiction. Other Information: Published: 1965Pages: 351
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Rails Around Helper (Images of America)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy: 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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Displays of Nature: History, Minerals and Crystals of Utah's Bingham Canyon Copper MineVendor: Displays of NatureBy: Jerry North Written by a 12-year mine geologist, this book gives an overview of both the geologic and mining history of the Bingham Canyon Copper Mine, one of the largest copper mines in the world. Vivid images and descriptions of the many minerals...
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Blood and ThunderVendor: Treasure Chest BooksBy: Hampton Sides In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of "Manifest Destiny", this land grab would lead to a...
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Resources and Geology of Utah's West Desert (UGA-45)Vendor: Utah Geological AssociationEdited By: John B. Comer, Paul C. Inkenbrandt, Kenneth A. Krahulec, and Michael L. Pinnell This publication includes contributions to the understanding of Geology in Utah's West Desert. Here is a table of contents CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF GEOLOGY IN UTAH'S WEST DESERT...
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Zion National Park Historic Postcards (Images of America)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy Tiffany Taylor Step back in time and experience the breathtaking beauty of Zion National Park through the lens of history with the Zion National Park Historic Postcards collection from Images of America. This captivating compilation, published in 2008, offers a unique glimpse into...
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Utah and the Great War: The Beehive State and the World War I ExperienceVendor: Chicago DistributionCopublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts.In time for the centennial of the United States’s entry into World War I, this collection of seventeen essays explores the war experience in...
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The Transcontinental Railroad in UtahVendor: CasemateThe Transcontinental Railroad in Utah shows the impact of the large number of new arrivals on the population and economy of Utah, as well as the impact of the people of Utah on those newly arrived. This fascinating history includes descriptions and photos of...
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Utah Place NamesVendor: Chicago DistributionBy: John W. Van Cott Poverty Flat. Bearskin Gulch. Drunker Hollow. All Utah toponyms, or place names. Where are they? What is their history? Their importance? Do they exist today? John W. Van Cott has spent the better part of a lifetime searching out...
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Roadside History of NevadaVendor: Mountain Press“Roadside History of Nevada” by Richard Moreno leads readers across the not-so-lifeless desert, visiting long-forgotten boom-and-bust mining towns, quirky roadside stops, and the intrigues of the real Las Vegas. With a historian’s nose for detail and a traveler’s sense of fun, Moreno presents a...
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Empire of the Summer MoonVendor: Treasure Chest BooksBy: S.C. Gwynne Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of...
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Behind the Bears EarsVendor: Torrey House PressAward-winning journalist Zak Podmore brings to life the magnificent terrain and complex politics of the Colorado River, its dying reservoirs—and the surprising revelation that the inevitable loss of Lake Powell could be a turning point for more a sustainable future. After decades of...
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The Lost Frontier: Momentous Moments in the Old West You May Have MissedVendor: National BookThis collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West goes beyond the tales everyone knows of the OK Corral and the Dead Man’s Hand to focus on the gunfights, massacres, and daring deeds that are the stars of local historians but not featured...
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The Capitol Reef ReaderVendor: Chicago DistributionFor 12,000 years, people have left a rich record of their experiences in Utah’s Capitol Reef National Park. In The Capitol Reef Reader, award-winning author and photographer Stephen Trimble collects the best of this writing—160 years worth of words that capture the spirit of the park...
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Utah Women: Pioneers, Poets and PoliticiansVendor: Arcadia PublishingRepresenting lawmakers and lawbreakers, artists and adventurers or scholars and activists, the women of Utah defied stereotypes. At the crossroads of the West, they found new challenges and opportunities to forge their own paths. Emma Dean explored the Rocky Mountains with her famous spouse,...
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The Awkward State Of UtahVendor: Chicago DistributionThe half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people. Drawing upon expertise honed...
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An Architectural Travel Guide to UtahVendor: Chicago DistributionAn Architectural Travel Guide to Utah invites visitors and other explorers of Utah to see the state’s history, material culture, settlement, and natural landscape through the lens of its buildings. With more than 600 buildings as examples, this guide takes readers through Utah’s cities and rural villages,...
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25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest RoadVendor: Chicago DistributionGenerations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street’s legends of corruption, menace, and depravity. The rest of Utah has tended to judge Ogden—known in its first century as a “gambling hell” and tenderloin, and in recent years as a degraded skid row—by the...
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The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American HistoryVendor: Treasure Chest BooksIn the tradition of Empire of the Summer Moon, a stunningly vivid historical account of the manhunt for Geronimo and the 25-year Apache struggle for their homeland. They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history, and both sides--the Apaches and the...
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