Forgotten Tales Of Utah

Author : Andy Weeks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467137308
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Utah written by Andy Weeks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters ranging from Mormon pioneers to Butch Cassidy all helped give the Beehive State color and tenacity. Uncover the state's hidden gems with stories like the first group of Latter-day Saints who arrived in the Salt Lake Valley days before Brigham Young proclaimed it as "the right place." Meet an ancient prophet believed to have walked the arid landscape, offering his blessing on several sites long before the pioneers arrived. Learn why a former lawyer was buried without a proper headstone. Discover the state's quirky side with the strange goings-on at an obscure ranch and the alleged monsters once believed to haunt some of Utah's lakes. Author Andy Weeks offers this quirky and informative collection of little-known tales about the forty-fifth state.

Author : Andy Weeks
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852460
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Idaho written by Andy Weeks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idaho was the forty-third state admitted to the Union, but it just might lead the nation in strange stories and offbeat legends. Author and Idaho resident Andy Weeks fills this collection of tales with stories ranging from compelling and heartfelt to outlandish and bizarre. Discover the boxcar that carried the alleged body of John Wilkes Booth through Idaho. Uncover the identity of Lady Bluebeard, the unassuming Twin Falls housewife who allegedly murdered four husbands. Find out how cars ended up at the bottom of Lake Coeur d'Alene. Learn the grisly story of Gobo Fango, a black Mormon sheepherder whose late 1800s bloody dispute with a cattleman on the open range proved fatal. These tales and many others bring to light Idaho's unruly past in fascinating detail.

Author : Edward L. Underwood
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423728X
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Arkansas written by Edward L. Underwood and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey through Arkansas' forgotten past and find the colorful characters, unusual stories and strange occurrences left out of conventional history books. Authors Edward and Karen Underwood weave fact and fun in this offbeat, gripping and little-known history of the Natural State. Discover the Tantrabobus monster rumored to lurk in the hills of the Ozarks, meet the imposters who faked the state's first history museum and learn the story behind Arkansas' lost amusement park, Dogpatch, USA. Truth really is stranger than fiction in Arkansas, and this one-of-a-kind state has the stories to prove it

Author : Linda Dunning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733510714
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utah Territory Tales written by Linda Dunning and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of these stories have been heard partially many times before, although rarely has the whole story been told. Some of the stories have never been told, while researchers have found more and more new information over the years. These are the stories of the hidden heroes and heroines of Utah. Conflicted and kept uncover, many of these people never did figure out where the light and shadows were in their own lives. So I present them through many viewpoints and in their known and unknown facets, shedding light where darkness kept them silent for so long.--Cover page [4].

Author : Stephanie Waters
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423986X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Colorado written by Stephanie Waters and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wild characters, diverse cultures, spooky myths and slippery sales schemes color Colorado's past. In a place where shameless showdowns and dusty shootouts over money, drink and women were once standard procedure, storytelling around campfires became an integral part of a rich heritage. From the jackalope and vampires to Indian curses and snake oil salesmen, the Centennial State has it all. Weirder still are the strange but true stories like that of the first body buried in La Junta's Fairview Cemetery, a man who landed there for refusing alcohol to a kid, and that of the hotel in Telluride that once offered a promotion that included funeral costs with your stay. While history may have neglected these silly, seedy and salacious stories, author Stephanie Waters has rediscovered Colorado's best forgotten tales.

Author : Ellen Dornan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238340
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of New Mexico written by Ellen Dornan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico, a place defined by a history of grand conflicts, conquistadores, Pueblo warriors, and nuclear scientists, will celebrate its state centennial in 2012. What better time for a collection of forgotten tales that recounts the adventures and exploits of priests, soldiers, witches, and politicians, who carved out a living in the harsh frontier. Ellen will introduce the reader to a cross-dressing Buffalo Soldier, a French trailblazer who opened a road from Santa Fe to Texas, an American spy who became a Mexican general, a Mexican raised by the Navajo who helped round up the Din for removal, and a governor whose head was removed and used as a football. Spanning from the 17th century to World War II, these stories are drawn from Native oral histories as well as the state's written records, and provide a sampling of New Mexico's colorful past.

Author : Stephen B. Shaffer
Publisher : Cedar Fort
ISBN 13 : 9781555178932
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of the Dust written by Stephen B. Shaffer and published by Cedar Fort. This book was released on 2005 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dawn House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trail to Poverty Flat written by Dawn House and published by . This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dawn House purchased a teetering cabin in southern Utah, she didn't have it torn down for scrap but began to examine the layers of its wallpaper, encrusted with paste and the yellow of time. She found an extraordinary story within: of pioneer misfortune, lost loves, struggles against nature, ordinary homesteading, and the formation of modern Utah. House weaves together a story of discovery of that previously unknown history to produce a tale that literally speaks out of the old weather-weary boards she came to prize.

Author : Mary Collins Barile
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238235
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Missouri written by Mary Collins Barile and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth, after all, still remains stranger and more engaging than most legends. And Missouri, of course, leads every other place in truth. Hop aboard Long's dragon boat or take advantage of 1846 wind wagon technology to plunge into the forgotten tales of this fascinating place. Hobnob cautiously with Stagger Lee, Mike Fink and Calamity Jane and view the chamber pot war from a safe distance. Trade witticisms with Alphonse Wetmore and Mark Twain, the frontier folk who keep us civilized today. If you keep company with storyteller Mary Collins Barile, you'll even catch a glimpse of the Mississippi River running backward from an earthquake that was all Missouri's fault.

Author : Eileen Hallet Stone
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439656215
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Tales of Utah written by Eileen Hallet Stone and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the rugged beauty and refined splendor of this vast state emerges a remarkable volume of personal recollections, narrative histories and astonishing stories. Explore the fortitude and cultural diversity behind the development of Utah through "Big Bill" Haywood, vilified by the New York Times as "the most feared figure in America." Experience compelling accounts of women bruised on the front lines of suffrage battles, enthralling stories of Chinese "paper sons and daughters" and heroic endeavors of Northern Ute firefighters. Celebrate downtown's "Wall Street of the West," the off-road cyclist known as the "Bedouin of the Desert" and Utah's love affair with sweets. Culled from her popular Salt Lake Tribune "Living History" column, award-winning author Eileen Hallet Stone uncovers captivating tales of ordinary people and their extraordinary contributions that shaped Utah history.