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  • Utah Women: Pioneers, Poets and Politicians
    Utah Women: Pioneers, Poets and Politicians
    Representing 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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  • Tooele Valley Railroad (Images of America)
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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...
    $21.99
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  • The Awkward State Of Utah
    The Awkward State Of Utah
    The 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...
    $29.95
    $29.95
  • An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah
    An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah
    An 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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    $36.95
  • The Transcontinental Railroad in Utah
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    The Transcontinental Railroad in Utah
    The 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...
    $23.99
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    Utah Place Names
    By: 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...
    $19.95
    $19.95
  • The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake
    The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake
    For thousands of years, Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents. Once a destination for wellness seekers, the lake’s alarming disappearance is already affecting skiing, tourism, and...
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    $23.95
  • The Mountain Meadows Massacre
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    The Mountain Meadows Massacre
    In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again,...
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  • The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner
    The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner
    A book of timeless importance about the American West and a modern classic by National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Wallace Stegner. “Stegner catches the paradoxical essence of American civilzation.” —ChoiceThe essays, memoirs, letters, and speeches collected in The Sound of Mountain Water encompass memoir, nature conservation,...
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    $19.00
  • Uncle Jesse, The Vision To See The Courage To Do
    Uncle Jesse, The Vision To See The Courage To Do
    Born September  6, 1845, at the western edge of settlements in the United States, Jesse Knight joined his family and thousands of pioneers in a massive migration to settle lands in an expanding America. As a youth, Jesse experienced all the trials, hardships and...
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    $39.95
  • Flaming Gorge Dam (Images of America)
    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)
    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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  • Detour Utah : Mysteries, Legends and Peculiar Places
    Detour Utah : Mysteries, Legends and Peculiar Places
    By 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 Past
    Abandoned Utah: Expeditions of the Past
    Ordinary 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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  • Three Years Among Comanches
    Three Years Among Comanches
    This 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...
    $14.95
    $14.95
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    Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West
    By: 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...
    $14.00
    $14.00
  • Across the Continent: The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew Joseph Russell
    Across the Continent: The Union Pacific Photographs of Andrew Joseph Russell
    The 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...
    $24.95
    $24.95
  • 25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road
    25th Street Confidential: Drama, Decadence, and Dissipation along Ogden's Rowdiest Road
    Generations 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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    $24.95
  • The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
    The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
    In 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...
    $22.00
    $22.00
  • Draper (Images of America)
    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...
    $23.99
    $23.99

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