Identifies 1,935 indigenous, alien, and cultivated species found in the desert and mountain landscape of northern Utah. Includes common and Latin names, recent synonyms, habitat, comments on poisonous
This detailed interpretive guide explains the forces that created Utah's unforgettable scenery, while providing road logs of highways and major backroads through the Grand Staircase of the Colorado Pl
"McCormick and Sillito write about the Utah manifestations of the international Socialist movement, in particular the Socialist Party of America, which reached a peak of political success and influenc
Termination's Legacy describes how the federal policy of termination irrevocably affected the lives of a group of mixed-blood Ute Indians who made their home on the Uintah-Ouray Reservation in Utah. F
On September 11, 1857, some 120 men, women, and children from the Arkansas hills were murdered in the remote desert valley of Mountain Meadows, Utah. This notorious massacre was, in fact, a mass execu
Located off the west coast of the Mexican state of Baja California, Isla Cedros—Island of Fogs—is site to some of the most extensive and remarkable archeological discoveries on the continent. Two site
Utah Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings from hundreds of sites, these two volumes are among the most complete records of Utah rock art available. Volume One covers sites in eastern
Provides the story of how the Utah Construction Company, founded in 1900, became Utah International, a multinational corporation that helped build railroads and dams and became one of the most profita
Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.
Many recreational hikers have stopped along the trail to admire a wildflower only to wonder what, exactly, they are looking at. Wildflowers of the Mountain West is a useful field guide that makes flow
Who was Butch Cassidy? He was born Robert LeRoy Parker in 1866 in Utah. And, as everyone knows, after years of operating with a sometime gang of outlaws known as the Wild Bunch, he and the Sundance Ki
A field guide to the traditional plant knowledge of the Paiute and Shoshone people living in the southern Great Basin and northern Mojave Desert region. Sections cover trees; large shrubs and woody vi
Geary (English, Brigham Young U.) covers the human and a little natural history of the great, largely empty, and spectacular Utah section of the Colorado Plateau. Contains only one inadequate map. A g
The half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping i
Once again cast in the companionable style of journal entries and notes that readers enjoyed in Lueders’s 1977 creative nonfiction classic The Clam Lake Papers, this new investigation into langu
In their project's encore volume, Utah Historical Society volunteers present well-referenced oral histories of 16 Utah women from the 19th century to the present who made a difference. Lacks an index.
This guide to virtually every native and introduced tree species in the intermountain area includes a dichotomous key, detailed b&w drawings for identification, a guide to tree selection, and a fe
George Corning Fraser, who lived in the days before automobile travel became a way of life, was an easterner who loved to vacation on horseback in the American Southwest. No mere tourist, he sought ou
The Rock Art of UtahFrom the Donald Scott CollectionPolly Schaafsma?From the Uinta Mountains through the central canyonlands to the Virgin River, Utah’s abundant prehistoric rock art offers glimpses o
After more than 50 years of plans to dam the Green River, it finally happened in 1963 as part of the Colorado River Storage Project. Today many people enjoy boating and fishing on the resultant Flamin
