Jessie L Embry
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English
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Utah Centennial County History Series history of Wasatch County, Utah. Contents: General Introduction; Introduction; The Land Before Mormon Settlement; Mormon Settlement of Wasatch County, 1859-1888; Community Growth, 1889-1917; War and the Roaring Twenties, 1917-1929; Depression, 1930-1941; World War II; Returning to Normalcy and Depression, 1946-1975; Years of decision and growth, 1975-1995; Conclusion. Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Utah State University Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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The twentieth could easily be Utah's most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reason may be the lack of readily available writing on more recent Utah history. This collection of essays shifts historical focus forward to the twentieth, which began and ended with questions of Utah's fit with the rest of the nation. In between was an extended period of getting acquainted in an uneasy
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