Utah, the right place
By: Thomas G. Alexander ; Richard W. Sadler, general editor ; Susan A. Whetstone, photographic editor ; Jay M. Haymond, project director .
Contributors: Utah State Historical Society.
Edition: 2nd rev. and updated ed.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Salt Lake City, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Utah -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-472) and index.
"A Utah statehood centennial project of the Utah State Historical Society."
Table of contents: title: The land; title: Utah's earliest peoples; title: Explorers, entrepreneurs, and emigrants; title: Building a new kingdom; title: Conflict and culture, 1847-1857; title: Confrontation and compromise, 1857-1869; title: Mining, cooperation, and challenge, 1870-1879; title: Change and creativity in the age of Woodruff, 1880-1896; title: Progressive Utah : economics and society, 1896-1917; title: Progressive Utah : politics and culture, 1896-1917; title: The Great War and the little Depression, 1917-1930; title: Hard times and a tough people, 1930-1941; title: World War II and the transformation of Utah, 1935-1945; title: An American colony, 1945-1969; title: An American commonwealth, 1970-2003; title: Reflections on Utah's kingdom, colony, and commonwealth.