From our early days, the real estate business has been a contact sport around these parts. In…
Launched in 1928, the Park City Consolidated Mine (Park Con) was a significant ore producer through the…
When near the Ecker Hill Middle School, look for the flag flying on a nearby peak. That’s…
During the years of national Prohibition (1920 to 1933), the entrepreneurial spirit to make spirits gripped Park…
In Park City, Edward Payson (E.P.) Ferry is known for successful investments in local mines and an…
The next time you ride the Jordanelle Gondola at Deer Valley Resort, take a quick look to…
Twenty-three ski instructors – eight of them female – formed the inaugural department when Deer Valley Resort…
The Park City Museum is advertising its annual Glenwood Cemetery event, taking place Oct. 7, as “Scandals…
Anyone who has recreated in Thaynes Canyon knows it is an active, well-traveled place. Turns out that’s…
The term “lynching” arises from the American Revolution, when Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter, held irregular courts…
Images of lands traversed and things encountered have long been important findings of explorations. The Lewis and…
In 2005, Park City historian Gary Kimball published a seminal work: “Death & Dying in Old Park…
If the history of Park City is any indication, the luck of the Irish is not evenly…
In 1881, White River Utes from western Colorado rose up against encroachment by hostile white settlers. The…
In May 1869, John Wesley Powell and his crew began a 13-week, approximately 1,000-mile exploration of the…
In Mark Twain’s “Roughing It,” the former Virginia City news reporter sheds light on the journalistic integrity…
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt uprooted the lives of 110,000…
Somewhere about the 35-foot level of the Flagstaff Mine, and moments after he called his friends above…
“Terrible disaster has visited our camp leaving death and sorrow in its wake and casting a gloom…that…