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Vendor: Chicago DistributionBy: Martha Sonntag Bradley The story of the government raids on the Short Creek polygamists. Other Information: Published: 1996 Pages: 206
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Joanne S. Liu How could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains, where native tribes followed buffalo herds for hundreds of miles and cowboys ran cattle wherever water and...
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Vendor: Chicago DistributionBy: Dan Plazak Coal, silver, gold...there is something about the allure of finding hidden treasure that puts a glint in people's eyes - a glint that is sometimes blinding. An American saying, often attributed to Mark Twain, defines a mine as a hole in...
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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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Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy Kathleen Broeder and Dianne Aldrich St. George was founded in 1861 when over 300 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints pioneer families were called on a mission to settle in a barren desert hundreds of miles from the nearest city. Pioneers grew...
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Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy 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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Geology and Ore Deposits of the Cottonwood-American Fork Area, Utah: Professional Paper 201U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 201, "Geology and Ore Deposits of the Cottonwood-American Fork Area, Utah," by F.C. Calkins, B.S. Butler, and V.C. Heikes, provides an in-depth geological analysis of the region encompassing the historically significant Cottonwood and American Fork mining districts. This comprehensive...
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Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy Tiffan Taylor On July 31, 1909, Pres. William Howard Taft authorized the creation of Mukuntuweap National Monument in southern Utah. Encompassing miles of rugged mountain peaks towering above the Virgin River, the national monument was renamed Zion and designated as a national park...
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Vendor: Arcadia PublishingBy Don Strack Railroads and mining in Bingham Canyon have gone hand in hand since the first railroad was constructed in the canyon in late 1873. Bingham Canyon in the early years was a gold and silver mining camp, and the railroads were small...
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Vendor: Mountain PressThe Bozeman Trail led to the goldfields of Montana for six years in the 1860s before the army abandoned its three forts along the way, yielding to Red Cloud and his warriors. Hailed by A. B. Guthrie Jr. as "among the very best in...
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Vendor: Treasure Chest BooksEthnologist and historian Thomas Sheridan covers all the major topics of Southwest history: cultures, ethnicity, racism, war, water, mining, ranching, and conservation.
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Vendor: National BookOn May 24, 1869, John Wesley Powell and nine crewmen in four wooden rowboats set off down the Green River to map the final blank spot on the American map. Three months later, six ragged men in only two boats emerged from the Grand...
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Vendor: Chicago DistributionBy: Kristin Johnson A selection of rare and hard-to-find early accounts of the 1846 emigrant party that was trapped in the winter snows of the Sierra Nevada, recounting their strenuous and conflict-ridden trail west; their experiences of starvation, death, and cannibalism; and the herculean...
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Vendor: National BookBy: C. W. Guthrie Orphans preferred was the call that went out to the daring of heart when the Pony Express was organized in April 1860. Called The Greatest Enterprise of Modern Times, the endeavor recruited young men willing to risk life and limb...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Francis L. and Roberta B. Fugate Within New Mexico we have experienced a variety of unspoiled beauty and natural wonders equaled in few other areas of similar size. But we cannot tell you about them; they have to be seen. Along the highways...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Marshall Trimble Join Marshal Trimble, state historian, storyteller, and native son, on the highways and back roads of Arizona, where a Grand Canyon's worth of facts and stories add up to a portrait of a state. Along the way meet Fathers Eusebio Kino...
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Vendor: Treasure Chest BooksBy: Chris Enss Desperate to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, thousands of men traveled West to the emerging frontier, where they outnumbered women twelve to one. Only after they arrived did some of them realize how much they missed female companionship. Hearts...
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Vendor: Utah Geological SurveyBy: 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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Vendor: Arcadia PublishingStretching some 160 miles, from Nephi on the south to Grace, Idaho, on the north, their elevations rise to nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. Mount Nebo, at the range’s south end, is a mammoth, triple-peaked monolith at a top elevation of 11,928 feet,...
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Vendor: Mountain PressBy: Stephen W. Hinch The Slickrock Desert is the story of a land unlike any other on earth. Come with author Stephen W. Hinch as he explores the mesas and the canyons of the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest—the Slickrock Desert. Along the...
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