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The lady in the ore bucket : a history of settlement and industry in the tri-canyon area of the Wasatch Mountains

Title
The lady in the ore bucket : a history of settlement and industry in the tri-canyon area of the Wasatch Mountains / Charles L. Keller.
Author
Keller, Charles L.
Publication
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Description
xi, 426 pages, 57 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  • "When the first company of Mormon settlers arrived in the Great Salt Lake Valley in July 1847, it was immediately apparent that their survival depended on what resources they found in the mountains surrounding them. The Great Basin soil was baked hard by the sun and yielded to the plow with great difficulty.
  • And as pioneer William Clayton noted, surveying the valley floor, "Timber is evidently lacking." But within a week of arrival, a small dam had been constructed to channel irrigation water to crops, parties had been dispatched to explore the nearby canyons for trees suitable for lumber, and names had been attached to several dozen features of the landscape including peaks, creeks, and canyons.".
  • "These place names, as well as the physical traces and artifacts that persist in three Wasatch canyons - Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood, and Little Cottonwood - tantalize with what they suggest, but do not tell, about the history of settlement and development in the canyons. Charles Keller has extracted a wealth of information to create The Lady in the Ore Bucket, a fascinating history of the lumber, mining, and hydropower industries built from the rich natural resources of the canyons.
  • With more than six dozen photographs and maps, the book is alive with details concerning the personalities, politics, pacts, and peregrinations of local leaders from white settlement in 1847 through the early 1900s. It will delight any reader with an interest in the magnificent canyons that open into the modern Wasatch Front."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-412) and index.
Contents
Introduction: White Men Come to the Wasatch -- 1. Civilization's Pioneer Machine: The Sawmill in Mill Creek and Neffs Canyons -- 2. The Big Cottonwood Lumber Company -- 3. The Lumber Industry in Big Cottonwood Canyon -- 4. The Lumber Industry in Little Cottonwood Canyon -- 5. Mining Comes to the Wasatch -- 6. Alta: A Location Being So Near Heaven -- 7. Alta Disasters -- 8. Mining in Little Cottonwood Canyon -- 9. Mining in Big Cottonwood Canyon -- 10. Recreation: Brighton Leads the Way -- 11. Water Projects in Big Cottonwood Canyon -- 12. Mill Creek Canyon - Names and Places -- 13. Big Cottonwood Canyon - Names and Places -- 14. Little Cottonwood Canyon - Names and Places.
ISBN
0874806771 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
00012732
OCLC
  • ocm45558987
  • SCSB-4146314
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries