The Saints are a Dancing People
You're respectfully invited In early Salt Lake City, the pioneers were quick to move their furniture outside on a cold winter night to make room for a dance. Dancing, after all, was the best...
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Armed, Legged and Winged and Fully Equipped for War
"The destroying angels are abroad", the Deseret News, the local Salt Lake City, Utah, newspaper reported in June of 1877. The destroying angels were grasshoppers (Rocky Mountain Locusts), swarms...
Was Your Ancestor Newsworthy?
My 2nd great grandfather, Charles Denney, started his first job in America at the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hired May 14, 1867 at the age of 17, he worked for a dollar a day, sweeping...