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In another time : sketches of Utah history /

An illustrated collection of historical articles originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune from 1993 to 1996, InAnother Time provides both an entertaining introduction to Utah and a distinguished and popular historian's summary views of the state's peculiar history. Another Time will e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schindler, Harold, 1929-1998
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The first Utahns, 11,000 B.P. to A.D. 1776
  • Mountain men: opening the gate to Western expansion, 1803-1840
  • The ways west: California-Oregon dream lures scores to Utah and beyond, 1841-1846
  • Ho! for the Great Salt Lake: Mormons give up livelihoods in a rush for the Promised Land, 1846-1847
  • Great Salt Lake Valley, "the place": first few years in "Deseret" test pioneers' mettle, 1847-1850
  • Fort for Davy Crockett
  • Frémont and Carson leave a mark on a Great Salt Lake island
  • Gone fishin'
  • What's in a name? Samuel Hensley not Hansel discovers a cutoff
  • A war of extermination
  • Spanish doubloons and Mormon gold
  • Utah strikes it rich in 1849
  • Supply and demand in the Old West
  • Have you seen the elephant?
  • Firearms: a dangerous necessity in the old west
  • A handbook for America's pioneers
  • Pulling toward Zion: Young calls flock to travel to mountain home by handcart, 1850 1856
  • The Utah War: the hold Mormons had on Utah is broken, 1857 1858
  • Territory in transition: Army arrives to stay; governors and Pony Express come and go, 1858 1869
  • Browsing through early newspapers
  • Frontier medicine
  • Timely gull on the Great Salt Lake
  • The great camel experiment.