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Wildest Lives of the Frontier: America Through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous WesternersBy and about the greatest celebrities of frontier America, these are the stories of their adventures told in their own words through excerpts from autobiographies, articles they wrote, newspaper interviews, private journals, intimate letters, and court testimony.Read these personal accounts as told by Daniel...
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Three Years Among ComanchesThis is a detailed account of Lee's captivity among the Comanches in the 1850's and his escape through the mountains back to white civilization. The story is full of encounters with alligators, snakes, and panthers, as well as hostile Comanches. Lee saw his fellow...
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The Awkward State Of UtahThe 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 UtahAn 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 RoadGenerations 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 HistoryIn 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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Draper (Images of America)By Katherine L Weinstein Businessman George Whetman, who managed automobile dealerships in Draper, Utah, between 1931 and 1960, predicted that one day the town would become "the Beverly Hills of the state." His prediction was remarkably accurate. Draper has been ranked as one of...
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Tooele Valley Railroad (Images of America)Shortly after the International Smelter offered economic salvation to Tooele's struggling desert community, the Tooele Valley Railroad became the town artery. Though originally built in 1908 to connect the smelter to the Union Pacific and Western Pacific lines west of town, the railroad became...
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Fort Douglas (Images of America)On October 26, 1862, Col. Edward P. Connor and the 3rd California Volunteers set up Camp Douglas for the purpose of protecting the overland mail and telegraph routes between Nevada and Wyoming. This began a long history of a U.S. military presence in the...
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Treasure Mtn Home: Park City RevisitedIllustrated with black & white photographs. This entertaining volume tells the history of Park City, Utah from its first days as a frontier mining camp to its present status as one of America's premier winter-sports havens. Between these two incarnations the famed "treasure chest...
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Tales of the Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Frontier SpiritEdited By: Lamar Underwood The mountain men were the trappers of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the years following Lewis and Clark's Expedition of 1804-1806. With their bold journeys peaking during the period of 1830-1840, they were the first white men to enter...
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Roadside History of Idaho“Roadside History of Idaho” by Betty Derig offers an engaging exploration of Idaho’s rich and varied past. The book is structured around the state’s highways, guiding readers through historical sites and events as they travel. It covers the early history of Native American tribes,...
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Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and OthersBy: W.B. (Bat) Masterson A legendary lawman, buffalo hunter, Indian fighter, and newspaper columnist, Bat Masterson served as sheriff of Ford County, Kansas, ruled Dodge City, and became an eyewitness to the heyday of the Old West's most notorious outlaws. His thrilling collection of...
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Hunt for the SkinwalkerThe author of the controversial bestseller Brain Trust brings his scientific expertise to the chilling true story of unexplained phenomena on Utah's Skinwalker Ranch -- and challenges us with a new vision of reality.For more than fifty years, the bizarre events at a remote Utah ranch...
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Haunted UtahIncludes The Phantom Hitchhiker of American Fork Ogden's elegant haunted hotel Activity at Salt Lake City's This Is the Place Heritage Park Ghost children at Mercur Cemetery The White Lady of Spring Canyon Bizarre creatures, including Sasquatch, Utah Lake's Black-Eyed Monster, and the Moon...
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The Intersection of Framework Geology and Mineral Potential Assessment in the Gold Hill Mining District (SS-175)By: Stephanie E. Mills The Gold Hill Mining District, located in western Tooele County, is one of Utah’s oldest and most diverse mining districts. It is the largest past-producer of tungsten and arsenic in Utah, and a notable past-producer of lead, copper, gold, silver,...
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Flaming Gorge Dam (Images of America)By Uintah County Regional History Center As early as 1915, the Flaming Gorge Canyon, named by early explorer Wesley Powell, was considered for a reservoir and dam site. For years, the Upper Colorado River Storage Committee fought for a dam on several sites along...
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Ogden (Images of America)By John Sillito and Sarah Langsdon In 1845, Miles Goodyear founded a settlement at Fort Buenaventura, located near the confluence of the Weber and Ogden Rivers. The area was renamed Ogden in 1851 by Mormon Church president Brigham Young after Peter Skene Ogden, a...
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Utah Reflections: Stories From the Wasatch FrontPerhaps no other area of Utah reflects the state's expansive diversity as clearly as the Wasatch Front. Utah Reflections: Stories from the Wasatch Front" captures the heritage and identity of this self-defining part of the state. These personal stories are grounded in the mountains,...
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Detour Utah : Mysteries, Legends and Peculiar PlacesBy Lynn Arave and Ray Boren Blessed with a magnificent landscape, Utah also abounds with secrets and peculiarities. Most are unaware that the Beehive State has its own rocky Noah's Ark or a hidden hoodoo Chinatown. Many have never seen a peak reminiscent of...
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