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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 (Paperback)
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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 (Paperback)
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When the first company of Mormon settlers arrived in the Great Salt
Lake Valley in July 1847, it was immediately apparent that thier
survival depended upon 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 physcial 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 faxcinating 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 canyones
that open onto the modern Wasatch Front.
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