Americans love their entertainment. But how far would you travel for a bit of fun? Here's why a music club on Ogden's 25th Street became a place worth traveling to.
Migration and travel have shaped Utah. And Utah has shaped the way we migrate and travel. Literally. Over time, travel routes through Utah have tended to stay the same.
Any parent who has ever lost a youngster in a crowd can imagine Park City resident Bridget Donohue's panic when she couldn't find her thirteen-year-old son, Bobby. Believing he had gone to nearby Heber in the fall of 1898, Bridget must have been very surprised when she learned that Bobby had actually travelled all the way to the Philippine Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. In fact, when Bobby Donohue returned the following year, he wore a military uniform, and was the youngest unofficial veteran of the Spanish-American War.
One of the goals of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition was to find a northern route to the Spanish missions in Monterey, California from the Spanish colonial stronghold of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Led by two Franciscan friars named Silvestre Velez de Escalante and Francisco Dominguez, the expedition never reached California, but instead, turned back to Santa Fe, forded the mighty Colorado River, and thus created one of Utah's most popular historic sites, The Crossing of the Fathers.
On September 10, 1911, twelve Jewish families arrived in Gunnison, Utah, to establish a Jewish agricultural community. The group was part of the "Back to Soil" movement, which believed Jews needed to leave the city and live on farms. The Gunnison colony, called Clarion, was one of many established throughout the United States, Canada, and Argentina.
The "I" is fading fast on the mountainside above Brigham City, Utah. Winter snows threaten to erase it for good and with it, the memory of one of Utah's more significant stories: The Intermountain Indian School, a federally-run Native American boarding school.
Utah has become home to people of many backgrounds and cultures since the first Mormon Pioneers arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in July 1847. What brought these people to Utah?
