In Another Time: Sketches of Utah History

212 Pages·1998·22.98 MB·English

by  Harold Schindler

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HAROLD SCHINDLER
Utah State University Press
Logan, Utah
1998
Copyright© 1998 Utah State University Press
All rights reserved
Utah State University Press
Logan, Utah 84322-7800
'1 yPography by WoltPack
Cover design by Barbara Yale-Read
Cover painting: Search for the Pass by Howard Terpning
© 1988 The Greenwich Workshop, Inc., Shelton, CT
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schindler, Harold, 1929-
In another time: sketches of Utah history / Harold Schindler.
p.cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-87421-247-2
ISBN 0-87421-242-1 (pbk.)
1. Utah-History-Anecdotes. I. TItle.
F826.6 .S35 1998
979.2-ddc21
98-9028
CIP
Contents
illustrations IX
Preface Xl
Part I 1
Chapters
1. The First Utahns: People of the Desert Culture First
Inhabited the Great Basin, 11,000 B.P. to A.D. 1776 3
2. Mountain Men: Opening the Gate to Western Expansion,
1803-184·0 7
3. The Ways West: California-Oregon Dream Lures Scores to
Utah and Beyond, 1841-1846 11
4. Ho! for the Great Salt Lake: Mormons Give Up Livelihoods
in a Rush for the Promised Land, 1846-1847 18
5. Great Salt Lake Valley, "The Place": First Few Years in
"Deseref' Test Pioneers' Mettle, 1847-1850 27
Sketches
A Fort for Davy Crockett 35
Fremont and Carson Leave a Mark on a Great Salt Lake Island 37
Gone Fishin' 39
What's in a Name? Samuel Hensley-Not Hansel-Discovers a Cutoff 41
A War of Extermination 43
Spanish Doubloons and Mormon Gold 46
Utah Strikes It Rich in 1849 48
Supply and Demand in the Old West 51
Have You Seen the Elephant? 54
Firearms: A Dangerous Necessity in the Old West 55
A Handbook for America's Pioneers 57
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Part II 61
Chapters
6. Pulling toward Zion: Young Calls Flock to Travel to
Mountain Home by Handcart, 1850-1856 63
7. The Utah War: The Hold Mormons Had on Utah Is
Broken, 1857-1858 69
8. Territory in Transition: Army Arrives to Stay, Governors
and Pony Express Come and Go, 1858-1869 78
Sketches
Browsing through Early Newspapers 86
Frontier Medicine 88
7lmely Gull on the Great Salt Lake 90
The Great Camel Experiment 92
More on Firearms in the West 94
The Big Chill: The Winter of 1857-1858 96
Tartar the War Horse 98
Is That You, Pike? 100
Writing a Best Seller 103
Horace Greeley Goes West and Sees Brigham Young 104
A Lengthy Gallows Soliloquy Impedes Swift Justice 110
Mark Twain in Utah 112
Here Lies Joseph Slade 115
Creating Camp Douglas 117
The Disappearance ofJohn Baptiste 120
Artemus Ward and Another "Wilde" Visitor to Utah 123
The Deseret Alphabet 125
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Part III 129
Chapters
9. Brigham Young and Hard limes Ahead: Pioneer Era Fades
as Full Assault on Polygamy Begins, 1869-1877 131
10. War on Polygamy: Federal Vengeance Finally Wears Down
Mormon Doctrine, 1877-1890 137
11. Statehood at Last: Amid Jubilation and Bunting, Utah Is
Dubbed the Forty-Fifth State of the Union, 1890-1897 145
12. A New Century: From Statehood to Host for the 2002
Wmter Olympics 152
Sketches
Brigham Young's Favorite Wile 158
No Love Lost on Lawyers 162
Trolley Song: Clang, Clang, Clang, Whinny 163
A Lynching at Noon 166
Where the Buffalo Roam 169
The Horseless Carriage Comes to Utah 171
"Buffalo Bill" Cody: Ever the Showman 173
Rogues Gallery: A Page from Police History 175
The Oldest Profession's Sordid Past in Utah 178
The Covered Wagon Keeps Rolling 181
Bees Star Hits the Big lime 183
Death in the Uintas 185
The Golden Ag;e of Radio Listening 187
A Token Effort 189
Suggested Additional Reading 191
Index 193
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Illus trations
The Dominguez-Escalante party 1 Lilburn W. Boggs 34
Hogup Cave 4 James Baker 36
Utah Indians in Utah Valley 5 Joseph R. Walker 36
A Ute Indian family 6 Christopher "Kit" Carson 38
Peter Skene Ogden 8 John C. Fremont 38
Etienne Provost 9 Fort Hall 42
John Bidwell 12 Fort Utah on the Provo River 45
Inner view of Fort Hall 13 William Clayton 47
An immigrant wagon train on the Plains 14 Heber C. Kimball 49
Remains of a Donner party wagon 15 Charles C. Rich 49
Donner party monument 16 Fort Hall 52
Emigrant trails across Utah (map) 17 Great Salt Lake City, 1850 53
Carthage Jail 19 Brigham Young, 1850 56
The Mormon exodus from Nauvoo 19 Utah Expedition 61
The Nauvoo Temple 20 Kanosh 64
Mormons driven from Nauvoo 22 Uncle Sam 64
The Nauvoo Temple in ruins 22 Ute Indian mother and child 65
Pioneer odometer 23 Great Salt Lake City, 1853 66
The Mormon trek from Wmter Handcart pioneers 68
Qyarters to Salt Lake City (map) 24 James Buchanan 70
Samuel Brannan 25 George A. Smith 72
Council Bluffs ferry 28 Mountain Meadow massacre 73
Loup Fork ferry 28 JohnD. Lee 74
Cache Cave 29 Lot Smith 75
Elk Horn River ferry 29 Albert Sidney Johnston 76
The Great Salt Lake Valley 30 Thomas L. Kane 77
"This Is the Place" monument 30 Utah Expedition march through
Wild bulls attack the Mormon Battalion 31 Great Salt Lake City 79
First South in Great Salt Lake City 33 Alfred Cumming 80
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