In 1854, Mormon Leader Brigham Young sent Ezra Taft Benson to the Tooele Valley to construct a grist mill to serve the settlements in the area. The mill was constructed …
We found this great slideshow of Utah scenery, set to the Utah State Song titled “UTAH … THIS IS THE PLACE.” Utah State Song UTAH ...
When the Mormons first came to the territory that eventually became Utah, they named it The State of Deseret. This is a reference to the honeybee in T ...
During the mid-1800s, Utah was ravaged by a plaque of crop-devouring crickets. Many families went hungry, but they learned to dig for and eat the soft ...
Located 5 miles north of Kanab, Utah, Moqui Cave is a museum of artifacts, fossils and history, depicting life in southern Utah spanning the centuries. In 1951, Garth and Laura ...
Every state has its share of dumb laws that are still on the books. Here are some real beauties still in effect in Utah. It is illegal to fish from ...
For a land-locked state, it is rather odd that the Utah State Bird is the California Gull (or common sea gull), but there’s a very good reason for it. In ...
The Old West has been romanticized in story and song, movie and book … cowboys, good guys versus bad guys, heading west to make your fortune in gold and so ...
Utah has a unique history when many memorable moments. It was first explored on behalf of Spain by Franciscan friars Escalante and Dominguez in 1776. In 1824 the famous American ...
Around the year 1,000 A.D., Native Americans known as the Fremont, gathered on a hilltop in what is now Fremont Indian State Park and Museum in Central Utah. More than ...
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