It Happened in Utah
Stories of Events and People that Shaped Beehive State History
3rd Edition
Published on 21. December 2018
184 pages
978-1-4930-3627-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the U.S. Army's bloodless "invasion" of Salt Lake City to the humble beginnings of the Sundance Film Festival, It Happened in Utah looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Beehive State.
Read about Jean Baptiste, an exiled grave robber whose mysterious disappearance from a remote island in Great Salt Lake remains unsolved. Relive the life-shattering upheaval suffered by Japanese Americans during their banishment to remote U.S. internment camps during World War II. And discover how two boys on the hunt for a bit of fun killed five people-including themselves-caused untold property damage, and left a large crater in the earth.
Read about Jean Baptiste, an exiled grave robber whose mysterious disappearance from a remote island in Great Salt Lake remains unsolved. Relive the life-shattering upheaval suffered by Japanese Americans during their banishment to remote U.S. internment camps during World War II. And discover how two boys on the hunt for a bit of fun killed five people-including themselves-caused untold property damage, and left a large crater in the earth.
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Tom Wharton retired from full-time work at The Salt Lake Tribune in 2016 after working as an outdoor writer, sports writer, and columnist for over forty-five years. He and his wife, Nancy, live in Taylorsville, Utah.
Gayen Wharton was a native Utahn who was active in environmental education. As an elementary school teacher, she was a national "Project Learning Tree Educator of the Year." She died of ovarian cancer in 2004.
Gayen Wharton was a native Utahn who was active in environmental education. As an elementary school teacher, she was a national "Project Learning Tree Educator of the Year." She died of ovarian cancer in 2004.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1825 A Fur Traders' Fight
- 1827 Mountain Man Jedediah Smith Meets His Match
- 1847 Mormon Pioneers Reach Zion
- 1857 Mountain Meadow Massacre
- 1858 Johnston Marches against the Mormons
- 1860 Howard Egan's Ride for the Pony Express
- 1862 Jean Baptiste Robs Salt Lake's Graves
- 1869 Driving the Golden Spike
- 1869 Long Johns Save John Wesley Powell
- 1876 Arsenal Hill Explodes
- 1878-1882 The Short But Colorful History of Silver Reef
- 1880 Descent throught he Hole-in-the-Rock
- 1892 A Polynesian Pioneer Day in Iosepa
- 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon Wins the Race
- 1896 Jesse Knight Dreams Up the Humbug Mine
- 1897 Butch Cassidy and the Castle Gate Robbery
- 1900 Scofield's Mine Disaster
- 1912 Women of Kanab Make History
- 1915 The Trial of Joe Hill
- 1918 Utah Gets a Bad Case of the Flu
- 1921 Charlie Glass and the Sheep and Cattle War
- 1923 Chief Posey and the Last Indian War
- 1923 The Killing of Utah's Last Grizzly Bear
- 1932 Ab Jenkins Is Fast on the Salt Flats
- 1942 Japanese Held at Topaz Internment Camp
- 1942 Paraskiers Train for War at Alta
- 1969 Dick Wilson Builds the Slickrock Bike Trail
- 1977 TO PRESENT Sundance Film Festival
- 2002 The 2002 Winter Olympics
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors
