History Of Castle Valley
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Author | : Nancy Taniguchi |
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Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This is American history told through the stories of an atypical, for Utah, region. Castle Valley is roughly conterminous with two counties, Carbon and Emery, which together formed a rural, industrial enclave in a mostly desert environment behind the mountain range that borders Utah's principal corridor of settlement. In Castle Valley, coal mining and the railroad attracted diverse, multiethnic communities and a fair share of historic characters, from Butch Cassidy, who stole its largest payroll, to Mother Jones, who helped organize its workers against its mining companies. Among the last major segments of the state to be settled, it was also a generally poor region that stretched the capabilities of people to scratch a living from a harsh landscape. The people of Castle Valley experienced complex, unusual combinations of both social cohesion and conflict, but they struggled through poverty, labor disputes, major mining disasters, and other challenges to build communities whose stories reflected the historical course of the nation as a whole. In order to convey her subject's both unique and representative qualities, Nancy Taniguchi has written an epic history that is not just local history, but American history written locally. Nancy J. Taniguchi, who lived for thirteen years in Castle Valley and was previously on the faculty of the College of Eastern Utah in Price, is professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus. She is the author of numerous published articles in mining, legal, women's, western, and Utah history and of one book, Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal.
Author | : Edward A. Geary |
Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780874804096 |
Edward Geary's collection of writings on the High Plateau country of central and southern Utah, a combination guidebook, travel narrative, personal essays, and natural, social, and literary history, encompasses each of those forms with a sweep as broad as the landscape it describes. It traces the progress of travelers to the region, including the historic Dominguez-Escalante party in 1776, and trappers and explorers such as Jedediah Smith, John C. Freemont, and Kit Carson. Scandinavian and English descendants of the early Mormon pioneers, sent to settle Manti and surrounding areas by Brigham Young in 1849, populate many of the pages and dominate the agrarian villages described by the author. The book also describes the multiethnic society of French Basque, Greeks, Slavs, Italians, Chinese, Welsh, and Finnish laborers and coal miners that developed in the region. Geary writes of all these people with affection and a deep sense of place, of belonging to a distinctive landscape and its history. It is a book that will bring a rush of understanding to those who have lived in the High Plateaus and greater depth of appreciation to visitors.
Author | : United States. Internal Revenue Service |
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Total Pages | : 914 |
Release | : 1991 |
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Total Pages | : 1200 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Total Pages | : 1490 |
Release | : 1987 |
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Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
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Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Utah |
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Author | : Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Emery County Company |
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Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Emery County (Utah) |
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Author | : Geological Survey (U.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Hubert Howe Bancroft |
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Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Utah |
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Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1999 |
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