Overland Travelers, Early Visitors, and the Coming of the Railroad

Salt Lake West Side Stories: Post Eightby Brad Westwood Utah was never entirely isolated from the United States, Latin America, and the Pacific World. From the 1800s onward, the Great Basin was a point of intersection where people from many cultures interacted with one another in several ways. One of the most well-known events that drew people west of the …

Discovering Human Remains at Mountain Meadows: a Conversation with Historical Archeologist Everett Bassett

08.24.2020 (Season 2: Episode 1) Click here for the BuzzSprout part one of this episode. Click here for the BuzzSprout part two of this episode. Visit the mentioned BuzzSprout links to access this episodes transcript. The above 19th c. lithograph tells graphically the once prevailing, and deeply disturbing and deceitful historical narrative, that Native Americans primarily perpetrated the Mountain Meadows …