History (Circa 1800-Present)

Trappers, Traders, & Explorers

 

• Trappers, Traders, & Explorers
• Museum of the Mountain Man
• Link to Fort Bridger 
• The Bridger Trail / Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
• John C. Fremont Biography and Expeditions
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
• U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, Early Reports  from the Salt Lake Area, including Capt. Howard Stansbury's report on the Salt Lake Region
• Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton: The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California
• A guide to R.F. Burton on the web, contains a wealth of information and links
• Dominguez-Escalente Expedition

Pioneers

• Pioneers and Cowboys
• Sons of the Utah Pioneers
• Daughters of the Utah Pioneers
• Michigan Technological University Website of an archaeological excavation of a historic potter's workshop in Salt Lake City, the excavation was assisted by the Wasatch-Cache NF Heritage Program
• The Blackhawk War

Homesteading

•  Late Homestead Period Householding At Benmore and Tintic Junction: Comparing Rural and Sub-rural Communities in Tooele and Juab Counties, Utah.

Railroad and Mining

• Mining and Railroads
• The Lady in the Ore Bucket

Logging / Tie Hacking

From the beginnings of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1863 to the early 1900's, thousands of workers toiled in the timber rich mountains of the American West to supply the wooden railroad ties that linked the country together. Those who logged the forests for the railroad were known as 'Tie Hackers', and their ethnic backgrounds were as diverse as the better known men who laid the rails. Today the result of this effort can be seen as a number of unique archaeological sites. Many sites that tell the Tie Hackers' story are located on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Be sure to visit the Historic Tie Hack Cabin located at the Mountain View Ranger District Office.
Parley Pratt Peterson Jr. Journal 1
Parley Pratt Peterson Jr. Journal 2
Suicide Park Cemetery and Dead Horse History

For More Information About Area History

• Division of State History/Utah State Historical Society
• Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office
• Searchable Utah Historic Newspaper Database

Forest History

USFS

• A Brief History of the Combined Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
  A History of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest 1903-1980 [PDF, 312 pages, 14.8 MB]
• A History of the Uinta National Forest
• On Horseback And By Highway: Administrative Facilities of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, 1902-1960 [PDF, 214 pages, 11.27 MB]
• US Forest Service Heritage Program Website
• The Ashley National Forest's Heritage Program 
• The Forest History Society
• National Museum of Forest History

Civilian Conservation Corps

• CCC History Pleasant Grove  [PDF, 21 pages, 75 KB]
• A Brief History of the Civilian Conservation Corps
• The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute: The New Deal Network