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Author
Publisher
Utah Humanities Council
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Journey Stories is a traveling exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institution and brought to five communities around Utah from May 2014 to March 2015 by the Utah Humanities Council. Journey Stories explores how migration and transportation built our nation, how it has changed us, and how our mobile world looked to travelers along the way. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our background, everyone has a journey story....
Author
Series
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 1840s, land west of the Missouri River was a new frontier for courage, adventure, freedom and true grit. During this era and the decades that followed, Utah became the focal point for many brave settlers yearning for a new way of life. While Utah's proud Mormon legacy is well documented, there are lesser-known stories that contribute to the state's fascinating history. Join public historian, author and history columnist Eileen Hallet Stone...
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Series
Publisher
Lucent
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the transcontinental railroad, including the construction of the Central Pacific, Union Pacific, and other related railroads which joined the east and west coasts by meeting at Promontory Point, Utah.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, Walker argues, accomplished nothing less than the rise of religion as a category of both the popular and scholarly imagination. As it happened, the burgeoning of railroad-related...
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Series
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty-eight stories that describe the history of the state of Utah including the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point, the Japanese internment camp at Topaz, Utah, and the 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City.
Author
Language
English
Description
Follow two abolitionists who fought one of the most shockingly persistent evils of the world: human trafficking and sexual exploitation of slaves. Told in alternating chapters from perspectives spanning more than a century apart, read the riveting 19th century first-hand account of Harriet Jacobs and the modern-day eyewitness account of Timothy Ballard. Harriet Jacobs was an African-American, born into slavery in North Carolina in 1813. She
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KBYU-TV Eleven Brigham Young University
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"There is something in all of us that relishes the thought of being first. Utahns are no exception. This is the place for extraordinary events, the home of ingenious inventors and audacious adventurers who changed our notion of what's possible. Discover the surprising, intriguing and sometimes poignant stories of just some of Utah's Famous Firsts in KBYU Eleven's latest documentary"--Container.
Author
Series
Nation divided volume 2
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
While serving as a Union spy, Matthew Alexander finds it impossible to remain indifferent toward Millie Atwater, a beautiful young plantation owner who dreams of freeing her slaves. Meanwhile Major Rand Hudson prepares his men for their next encounter with the Confederates and his sister Lizzy focuses her work on the Underground Railroad and spying behind enemy lines.
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