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Draper (Images of America)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy 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)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingShortly 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)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingOn 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 RevisitedVendor: Ken SandersIllustrated 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 SpiritVendor: Books WestEdited 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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Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Luke Short and OthersVendor: Treasure Chest BooksBy: 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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Catholic Utah (Images of America)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy Colleen McDannell In 1776, two Mexican Franciscans trekked into what is now the state of Utah. While they said the rosary and offered litanies to the saints, they did not linger in what was to them unknown territory. It would take almost 100...
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Flaming Gorge Dam (Images of America)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy 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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South Davis (Images of America)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy Royce Allen and Gary Willden South Davis County is bounded by the majestic Wasatch Mountain Range to the east and the Great Salt Lake to the west. Bountiful, Centerville, Farmington, and Kaysville are the major population centers--all originating as early Mormon settlements. Concerned...
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The Utah Gold Rush - The Lost Rhodes Mine and the Hathenbruck LegacyVendor: Cedar Fort Publishing & MediaThe Book With the release of this book, the search for the lost Rhoades Mine is narrowed to a few square miles of real estate due east of Kamas, Utah. This gives promise that the greatest of all gold deposits including remains of Montezuma's...
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Utah Reflections: Stories From the Wasatch FrontVendor: Arcadia PublishingPerhaps 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 PlacesVendor: Arcadia PublishingBy 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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Abandoned Utah: Expeditions of the PastVendor: Arcadia PublishingOrdinary history books often fail to address the obscure or the unexplained, leaving questions buried in annals of yesteryear. Where were Utah's mythical monsters, including Bigfoot, spotted? How did 'Schoolmarm's Bloomers' become a state symbol? What created the Lagoon Amusement Park's 'dark side'? Why...
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Provo (Images of America)Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy Marilyn Brown and Valerie Holladay Provo is one of Utah's oldest historic sites. Still a medium-sized town, it has kept its pristine antique quality, its quaint buildings, and its relaxed atmosphere, which won it the title "Most Stressless City of the Nation" according...
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Great Salt Lake Regional Book of Facts and ExplorationBy: Alan Millard Pictorial wraps. Featuring area history, geology, ecology and culture. Other Information: 2005. First edition.Paperback. 125pp.
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Wildest Lives of the Frontier: America Through the Words of Jesse James, George Armstrong Custer, and Other Famous WesternersVendor: National BookBy 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 ComanchesVendor: National BookThis 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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Across the Continent: The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew Joseph RussellVendor: Chicago DistributionThe central focus in the book is on the large body of work Russell produced primarily to satisfy the needs of the Union Pacific. Daniel Davis posits that this set of Russell’s photos is best understood not through one or a handful of individual...
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Roadside History of IdahoVendor: Mountain Press“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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None Wounded, None Missing, All Dead: The Story of Elizabeth Bacon CusterVendor: National BookBy: Howard Kazanjian and Chris Enss On May 17, 1876, Elizabeth Bacon Custer kissed her husband, George, goodbye and wished him good fortune in his efforts to fulfill the Army's orders to relocate those Native Americans unwilling to move to a reservation. Adorned in...
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