Tuesday, August 13, 2019

When the Snake River was proposed to be the shrinking Great Salt Lake's lasting salvation

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                         A dried up and exposed portion of the Great Salt Lake bed. THE Great Salt Lake is declining. Between ...
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Brigham Young's ambitious but failed Layton water project of 1857

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                      A section of Weber Basin's water facilities in northeast Layton. TODAY'S Weber Basin Water Conservancy...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

When ‘Good Roads Day’ changed Parleys Canyon; Plus, various BYU and U. of U. tales

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                                            Upper left, the mouth of Parleys Canyon HATE driving over bad and bumpy roads? J...
Monday, July 22, 2019

In 1902, Utah’s 2 oldest pioneers had visited Utah first in 1846; Plus, the State’s lost gold mine

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THE FIRST pioneers to come to Utah and living in the Beehive State in 1902 were NOT any Mormon Pioneers from the vaunted 1847 arriv...
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Back when marathon swimming races flourished in the Great Salt Lake

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“FLOATING like a cork” in the Great Salt Lake was a very popular pastime in Northern Utah, from when the first pioneers arrived unt...
Monday, April 22, 2019

1913: Salt Lake City’s first-ever ‘marathon’ race, only 5 miles and more of an obstacle course

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                                A slice of the crowd at the 2012 Salt Lake City Marathon race. SOME 57 years before the first Des...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

The Mormon Pioneers encountered the first major east wind event in 1848

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            The view out of Farmington Canyon.                                  Photo by Roger Arave HORRIFIC, gusting east canyon w...