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Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1998

1 online resource (xii, 199 p.) : ill., maps, ports

ISBN 9780874213669 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0874212421 (pbk.)

ISBN 0874212472

ISBN 9780874212426

"First published in The Salt Lake tribune."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191) and index

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 -- Fremont 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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