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Reluctant Immigrants Of Utah The Uncompahgre Utes, James W. Wardle
Reluctant Immigrants Of Utah The Uncompahgre Utes, James W. Wardle
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this thesis is to narrate the history of the Uncompahgre Utes to the time of their removal to Utah territory in 1881. During about three hundred years of Ue-Spanish, Mexican relations, the Uncompahgres were never seriously threatened with subjugation. With the acquisition of the horses and other trade goods from the Spanish, the Uncompahgres developed many traits of the Plains Indians. They ranged over vast areas hunting wild animals, and raiding whites and enemy tribes.
But in less than thirty-three years after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo which placed all of their domain within the …
Electrification Of Utah 1880 To 1915, Boyd L. Dastrup
Electrification Of Utah 1880 To 1915, Boyd L. Dastrup
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Invented in the 1870's, practical electric lighting systems and the electric power industry immediately began to spread. At first electricity was limited to public and domestic lighting. Soon, it was applied to transportation when streetcars and interurbans were electrified. Later, industry, in particular the mining industry, adopted electricity as a source of power, and the profits and efficiency increased significantly.
In Utah electrification began as early as 1880. In that year the state's first electric power company was incorporated in Salt Lake City. Soon, Ogden, Logan, Provo, and other towns began harnessing electricity. Shortly thereafter, electric streetcars began to run …