A richly illustrated memoir of life in Utah during the early to middle parts of the twentieth century. Watercolors and gray-scale drawings combine with narrative descriptions of life in the Beehive State from the first years of statehood on. Stories and images run the gamut from farming practices and mining operations; to rail travel and early automobiles; to architecture and graffiti; to boating on the Great Salt Lake and the visit of Rudolph Valentino to Saltair Resort.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
I REMEMBER THE EARLY YEARS
The Early Years
I Remember My Schooling
A Wild Runaway
The Peddler
The Ice Man
The Junk Buyers
I REMEMBER THE GREAT SALT LAKE
Great Salt Lake Beaches
Salt From the Lake
Boating on the Lake
Portraits left by N.R. Hacken
The Workboat "Ruth"
The Island Calendar
Rudolph Valentino at the Saltair Resort
I REMEMBER TRAVELING BY RAIL
The S.L.G. & W.
Utah's Interurban Railroads
Age of the Trolley
Promontory Summit
I REMEMBER EARLY AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL
The Automobile Era
The Lincoln Highway
Verse by the Side of the Road
I REMEMBER THE AGRICULTURE OF UTAH
Wells
Barns and Farming
Grist Mills
I REMEMBER THE EARTH, THE ORES AND THE MINING TOWNS
They Moved the Earth…
Mines and Mining
Park City
Bingham
The Carbon County Coal Mines
Eureka and the Tintic Mining District
The Dream Mine
Frisco
Silver Reef
Iron City and the Iron Mission
I REMEMBER THE CITIES AND SETTLEMENTS OF UTAH
Old Cove Fort
Ephraim
Grafton
Grantsville
Heber City
Hiawatha
Iosepa
Kanab
Logan
Ogden
Parowan
Pine Valley
Provo
Salt Lake City
St.George
Anonymous buildings: Can you identify the locale?
I REMEMBER ARCHITECTURAL DETAILS
An Age of Cupolas
Weather Vanes
I REMEMBER THE GRAFFITI OF UTAH
Utah Graffiti: The Anasazi
Utah Graffiti: Higher Ed
Kilroy was here...
Your Name in Mud
(see also: "Verse by the Side of the Road")
I REMEMBER THE TREES AND THE BIRDS OF UTAH
Trees of Utah:
The Cedar
The Box Elder
The Chestnut
The Cottonwood
The Poplar
The Willow
The Joshua Tree
Birds of Utah:
The Seagull
The Hawk
The Crow
The Sparrow
The Swallow
The Quail
The Lark
The Blackbird
And Other Miscellaneous Illustrations ...