In Another Time Harold Schindler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schindler, Harold, 1929-

Contributor:

This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons., funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint pioneers--Anecdotes.

Latter Day Saint pioneers.

Utah--History--Anecdotes.

Utah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An illustrated collection of historical articles originally published in the Salt Lake Tribune from 1993 to 1996, InAnother Time provides both an entertaining introduction to Utah and a distinguished and popular historian's summary views of the state's peculiar history.Another Time will entertain and inform newcomers seeking an introductory understanding of what has made Utah different, old hands wanting to know more about the rich complexity of the state's past, and anyone who enjoys well-told historical tales.

Contents:

The first Utahns, 11,000 B.P. to A.D. 1776

Mountain men: opening the gate to Western expansion, 1803-1840

The ways west: California-Oregon dream lures scores to Utah and beyond, 1841-1846

Ho! for the Great Salt Lake: Mormons give up livelihoods in a rush for the Promised Land, 1846-1847

Great Salt Lake Valley, "the place": first few years in "Deseret" test pioneers' mettle, 1847-1850

Fort for Davy Crockett

Fremont and Carson leave a mark on a Great Salt Lake island

Gone fishin'

What's in a name? Samuel Hensley not Hansel discovers a cutoff

A war of extermination

Spanish doubloons and Mormon gold

Utah strikes it rich in 1849

Supply and demand in the Old West

Have you seen the elephant?

Firearms: a dangerous necessity in the old west

A handbook for America's pioneers

Pulling toward Zion: Young calls flock to travel to mountain home by handcart, 1850 1856

The Utah War: the hold Mormons had on Utah is broken, 1857 1858

Territory in transition: Army arrives to stay; governors and Pony Express come and go, 1858 1869

Browsing through early newspapers

Frontier medicine

Timely gull on the Great Salt Lake

The great camel experiment

Notes:

"First published in The Salt Lake tribune."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613077950

9781283077958

1283077957

9780874213669

0874213665

OCLC:

699521181

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access