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Show ;\' EII'S OF UTAH'S PAST FROi\ l THE Lrtah State Historical Societ~ 300 Rio Grande Salt Lake Cits. I'T 84101 ( 801) 333- 3500 FAX ( 801) 533- 3303 January 1995 Blazer Contents The Nation's First Statewide Clean Town Contest Early Baseball in Utah Had a Monnon- Gentile Twist Woman Suffrage Dominated Politics in Utah The Salt Lake City Street Railroad Strike of 1890 Utah's Own John Gilbert Thrilled Silent Movie Fans The Telephone Comes to Utah The " Impossible" Humcane Canal Took 11 Years to Complete Chief Ouray Hoped to Achieve Peace with White People When the Din of Sheep Shearing Rocked the Desert A Wedding Song Connects Utah with 16th- Century Spain The Scofield Mine Disaster in 1900 Was Utah's Worst 19th- Century Utah Women Spun Yarn and Also Dug Ditches " Uncle Nick" Wilson's Adventures Filled a Book! Dixie Fruit Finds a Market The Pony Express Added a Colorful Chapter in Utah History Convict Labor Helped to Build Utah's Roads The Beginnings of the University of Utah A Boxcar Filled with Dynamite Explodes near the City The 1918- 19 Flu Epidemic Reached Remote Areas of Utah A Utahn, George Sutherland, Served on the U. S. Supreme Court |
