Utah: A People's History

Dean L. May

University of Utah Press, 1987 - History - 210 pages

History belongs to the people, Dean May reminds us, and must ultimately be accessible all. Based on his award-winning television series, Utah: A People's History provides a sweeping view of the state's past. From prehistory to present, May explains Utah as it is today and its promise for the future. The video series upon which this book is based is no longer available for sale.

Contents

• One Man and Desert: 1
• The Great American Desert: 7
• Ceiling of Fremont granary: 15
• Two An Opening to Europe: 21
• Utah homelands of historic Indians: 22
• Southern Paiutes photographed by J K Hillers: 29
• Jacob Steiler map of 1834: 37
• Three White Settlement: 41
• Kirtland Temple: 44
• Sunset on Gunnison Island by Alfred Lambourne: 51
• The Salt Lake Theatre in 1862: 64
• Brigham Young in 1857: 70
• Deseret Store and Tithing Office: 79
• Rich Greek Revival style home: 84
• Wakara by S N Carvalho: 92
• Albert Tracy sketch of Camp Scott: 98
• Present Indian lands in Utah: 107
• Parowan in the early 1850s: 114
• Salt Lake Temple decorated for Statehood Day: 127
• New Pioneers in front of Castle Gate Mine: 134
• Seven The New Pioneers: 135
• Greek funeral in Salt Lake City: 140
• Surveying the site of Clarion: 146
• Bingham Mine 1917: 156
• Eight Progressive Reform in the Beehive State: 157
• Smoot engineers Kearns replacement by Sutherland: 162
• Destination Nowhere by Maynard Dixon: 170
• Nine War Depression and War: 171
• boys building mountain terraces: 178
• Children at Topaz: 184
• Hades Tunnel Central Utah Project: 193

About the author

Dean L. May is a professor of history at the University of Utah. He has published extensively on the social history of the American West, most recently Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Utah: A People's History; Bonneville books
• Author: Dean L. May
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Utah Press, 1987
• ISBN: 0874802849, 9780874802849
• Length: 210 pages
• Subjects: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); History / General; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)