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Utah’s Identity Crisis: Will Crony Capitalism Define Utah’s Future?

February 22, 2021 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

Get the story behind the settlement and development of the Great Basin in this episode of the Utah Stories Show that dives deep into Mormon Pioneer history and the community building efforts of the early pioneers. Find out what they had right, that we have largely forgotten. Why is this relevant today? Utah has now more tech jobs per capita than any other state. Our … [Read more...]

Salt Lake’s Eclectic Past: Salt Lake’s Extensive History of Quarantining Its Residents

February 10, 2021 by Amiee Maxwell Leave a Comment

  When Rachel Quist began researching and writing about Salt Lake City’s history in 2010 as a way to get to know her city, she found that most Salt Lake City historic makers told a particular version of Utah history, often from the point of view of Mormon pioneers or mining tycoons.  “There must be much more interesting history that I don’t know about that does … [Read more...]

How Ogden got its name

December 3, 2020 by Richard Markosian Leave a Comment

A Brief History of the Ogden Valley Prior to the arrival of the Mormon pioneers, the Ogden Valley was recognized by Indians as a special place. Abundant game in the area made the traverse across the mountain pass (now called Trapper’s Loop) a seasonal migration for the nomadic Shoshone Indians, who camped and hunted the abundant beaver, moose, elk, and waterfowl that are … [Read more...]

Thomas Kane Diverts U.S.-Utah Showdown

September 1, 2020 by J Brigham Holladay Leave a Comment

Utah war

One hundred and sixty-two years ago, a small-statured and often sickly thirty-six-year-old Philadelphian lawyer rode through Echo Canyon eastward to find an army and negotiate a peace in a last-ditch, unofficial effort to avert a civil war. He’d already sailed from the east coast of the United States to Panama, where he’d ridden the railroad across the isthmus to the Pacific … [Read more...]

Grafton – A Silver Screen Ghost Town

August 15, 2020 by Mary Beth Skylis Leave a Comment

Covered in dust and aged by tragedy, there’s an old town situated outside of Zion National Park. Now a ghost town, Grafton was repeatedly abandoned by Mormon settlers because of its inhospitable environment. Illness, severe elements, and Indian attacks made the town lethal to most of its inhabitants.  In 1859, five families settled along the Virgin River in what would become … [Read more...]

Fringe Gambling in Utah- New Law Takes Another Swipe at a Persistent Pastime

August 13, 2020 by Brian Fryer Leave a Comment

  Whether in the form of poker games in mining town saloons to less obvious games of chance such as church raffles, gambling has been a secret vice in Utah since before statehood. For nearly as long  state lawmakers and police have been playing a game of Whack-a-Mole in trying to eliminate it.  Utah lawmakers took another whack at “fringe gambling” by passing a … [Read more...]

J. Willard Marriott Library invites Utahns to help preserve history of the pandemic

April 15, 2020 by Pamela Manson Leave a Comment

Did you scour the shelves of countless stores looking for toilet paper this spring? Are you among the millions of laid-off workers who filed for unemployment benefits? Are you social distancing?And what about that 5.7 magnitude earthquake on March 18 and those aftershocks that hit Utah as the coronavirus was spreading? Did you think it was the Big One? Whatever your … [Read more...]

Sugar House Can’t Be Beet

April 9, 2020 by Lynne Olson Leave a Comment

"That is the biggest radish I ever saw!" exclaimed a Sprague Branch Library patron recently. It is just one of many misconceptions about the homely sugar beet, the most recognizable symbol of Sugar House. The four bronze sculptures set in front of the library and at each end of Hidden Hollow look nothing like the red table beets most of us are familiar with. The knobby sugar … [Read more...]

A Blast From the Past: the Explosion that Rocked Salt Lake City

March 10, 2020 by Geanie Roake Leave a Comment

  It was April 5th, 1876 when the sky began to fall. “This is a day that time will not forget," declared a reporter for the Deseret News Weekly. But today, 144 years later, hardly anyone remembers the explosion that rocked Salt Lake City. The blast was so powerful that every building within a 2-mile radius was damaged. Here's how it happened. It was a busy day in … [Read more...]

Sugar House’s Allen Park to Be Developed

February 17, 2020 by Annalisa Holcombe Leave a Comment

Magical Places in Salt Lake City Growing up in a Salt Lake City suburb, I heard older kids speak about places in the city that kept an imaginative young girl convinced that I lived in a magical place where legends were true and remarkable things might happen. Gravity Hill, Gilgal Gardens, and “Hobbitville” were spoken about in reverent tones and with excitement about whether … [Read more...]

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