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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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Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American OutlawCharles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaining biography that goes beyond the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to reveal a more fascinating and complicated man than legend provides.For more than a century the life and death...
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In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954Though photographers Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams were contemporaries and longtime friends, most of their work portrays contrasting subject matter. Lange’s artistic photodocumentation set a new aesthetic standard for social commentary; Adams lit up nature’s wonders with an unfailing eye and preeminent technical skill....
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Ashley Valley (Images of America)By Uintah County Regional History Center Situated within northeastern Utah's mountainous Uinta Basin, the Ashley Valley takes its name from William Ashley, a trapper who passed through the area in 1825. Both beautiful and rugged, the Ashley Valley's landscape required a lot of grit...
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West Valley City (Images of America)By Mike Winder and The West Valley City Historical Society In the fall of 1848, Joseph and Susanna Harker became the first pioneers "Over Jordan" as they crossed to the west side seeking a new home in the valley. Other families soon followed, and...
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The Arches ReaderGeology is the star attraction in many national parks, but Arches National Park reveals erosional wonders like no other place on earth. There’s something thrilling and slightly unsettling about a massive rock with a hole in its middle or a ribbon of stone flung...
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Zion National Park (Images of America)By 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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Bonneville's Women of Land Speed Racing (Images of Modern America)By “LandSpeed” Louise Ann Noeth At Bonneville, record holders must first earn the right to present themselves on the starting line. This requires passing rigorous safety and technical checks for driver, rider, and speed machine. Gender is inconsequential. Through the years, more than 200...
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Bingham Canyon Railroads (Images of America)By 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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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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Troubled Trails: The Meeker Affair and the Expulsion of Utes from ColoradoBy: Robert Silbernagel When U.S. Calvary troops rode onto the Ute Indian Reservation in northwestern Colorado on September 29, 1879, they triggered a chain of events that cost the Utes their homeland. They included a deadly battle at Milk Creek, the killing of all...
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Lee's Ferry: From Mormon Crossing to National ParkBy: P.T. Reilly One of the few places where wheeled vehicles could approach the Colorado River in its long miles through deep canyons and, thus, a critical transportation and communication link, north and south and up and down the river, Lee's Ferry became a...
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Kidnapped From That Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek PolygamistsBy: Martha Sonntag Bradley The story of the government raids on the Short Creek polygamists. Other Information: Published: 1996 Pages: 206
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Salt Lake City, 1890-1930In this collection of vintage-photograph postcards, Gary Topping, Melissa Coy Ferguson, and the Utah State Historical Society explore the city's past from 1890 to 1930. 15 Historic Postcards
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When Hollywood Came To Utah Centennial EditionA special Centennial Edition celebrating 100 years of Hollywood and indigenous filmmaking in the state of Utah.“Mr. D’Arc is a genial guide through terrain that is bumpy both geologically and artistically....The history…is diligently set out in this handsomely mounted trove of statist pride.”—The New...
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Finding Everett Ruess: The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness ExplorerThe definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.“Easily one of...
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St. George (Images of America)By 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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Green River and the Gunnison Valley (Images of America)By Anne Chandler, Annalee Thayn, and the Green River Archives Early Utah pioneers passed through the area that is now Green River and decided that the land would not support a farming community. The Farrer family did not agree with this assessment, however, and...
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