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Show 16 • Slasher and Crasher and The Village The tickets for the peformance were total receipts, 16.75."1 25 Lawer ; • the From early beginnings at Nauvoo, the theatrical of Utah pioneers had developed, leading to eventual establishment of a unique but uniform system for sponsoring dramatics in practically every community settled by the Mormons in the West. , tastes In Utah, the theatre flourished extravagantly during final years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth century, with the greatest American companies playing engagements in the Salt Lake Theater and amateur and stock company players performing in every sizable community in the region. the Colonization of Castle valley The vast hinterland east of the Wasatch Mountain central Utah was one of the few remaining frontiers in America by the year 1875. Twenty years earlier coloniza tion had been attempted at Moab on the Grand River. Forty men from Manti on the west slope of the Wasatch Range had penetrated the wilderness to the Moab site in the spring of 1855 with intentions to build a settlement. But, before autumn, an Indian attack destroyed the fruits of their sum mer's labor and they retreated to their Manti homes in dis range in couragement. interest by 1875, Changing conditions created a revival of Castle Valley region in colonization of the vast and a number of communities were established. of the region.--Castle Valley is that por central Utah located between the Wasatch Plateau on the west, the Book Cliff range on the north and the great San Rafael desert on the southeast. A vast area of 9432 square miles was officially designated as the County of On that date George B. Emery, Emery on February 12, 1880. Governor of the Territory of Utah, approved an act creating the county bearing his name including the present counties of Emery, Carbon, and Grand. In 1892 the southeastern corner of this area was as Grand County, and in 1894 designated Carbon County was created in the north, thus reducing Emery County to an area of 4453 square miles. Most of the habitable area of Emery and Carbon Counties are included in Castle Geography tion of east Valley. 1Mitchell, qQ. cit., p. 11. |
