In Her Own Words: The Life of Park City’s “Silver Queen”
(This first-person style article first ran in August 2019.) I was born in Missouri in 1859 to…
Posts by Author: Sally Elliott
A Look At Ephraim Hanks
The fascinating Ephraim Hanks caught my attention many years ago as I researched the early mining pioneers…
The Coalition Building Remembered
The Park City Museum this year is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the fire that burned the…
A Brief History of The Canyons
People have been skiing in Park City since at least the 1890s. Skiing was a local affair…
John Joseph Daly
Many of Park City’s famous mine owners shared several similarities: a lack of extensive formal education, their…
From One Train Wreck to Another
If you think 2020 is a train wreck, the nascent railroad industry was deluged with train wrecks…
My story: Bridget Welsh Ivers
(The final article in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) From New…
My story: James Ivers
(Tenth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) I’m a lucky sort…
My story: Mary Harney Judge
(Ninth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine). I’m the successful Salt…
My story: John Judge
(Eighth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine). My life was tough…
Eleanor Bennett
More than 30 years ago I got a phone call from Eleanor Bennett. She befriended me because,…
My story: Jennie Judge Kearns
(Seventh in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) What a lucky thing…
My story: Thomas Kearns
(Sixth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) Hard work and a…
Labor Unrest Grows after WWI
Mormons arrived in Utah 21 years prior to ore discovery in Park City and there was inadequate…
My story: Windsor Volney Rice
(Fifth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) I was born in…
My Story: Mary Ferguson Keith
(Fourth in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) Mary Ferguson Keith, 1895,…
Building a Life from the Mine Up: The Life of David Keith
(Third in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) What would you do…
My Story: Susanna Bransford Emery Holmes Delitch Engalitcheff – Utah’s “Silver Queen”
(Second in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) I was born in…
My Story: Albion Emery
(First in an occasional series about founders of the storied Silver King Mine.) I was born in…
North Park Still Central to Park City’s Story
Once considered “North Park” or the outskirts of Park City, the land by the mouth of Thaynes…
Six-thousand Dead Sheep
Does anyone know the Utah legend from 1968 about the thousands of sheep that mysteriously died in…
More Tales of the Barn
Originally homesteaded by the Harrison McLane family in 1886, the farmland on SR 224 that also hosts…
Tales of the Barn
When Park City Municipal bought the McPolin Osguthorpe farm in 1990, I was newly elected to the…
What is a Solid Muldoon?
The name of the Deer Valley ski run “Solid Muldoon” comes from a Park City mining claim…
How More Ski Runs at Treasure Mountains (Now PCMR) Were Named
Last week’s article on Park City ski runs and lifts focused on names inspired by Park City’s…
How Ski Runs at Treasure Mountains (Now PCMR) Were Named
While last week we looked at Deer Valley, this week explores the history of run and lift…
The Names of Deer Valley
In 1982, Edgar Stern opened Deer Valley. He insisted that the area’s history and mining heritage be…