Walking Tour of Main Street
2022-07-18 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-15 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-14 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-13 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-12 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-11 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-08 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-07 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Denver) and 7 more dates
Guided Historic Main Street Walking Tour 2022-
Put on your walking shoes and explore Park City’s Historic Main Street! Explore the architecture and stories of Park City’s unique history—from the days as a booming mine town to an emerging ski town. The Park City Museum’s popular Historic Main Street Walking Tours are Monday through Friday at 2 p.m. from June 27th to September 2nd. Meet at the Museum store. Cost is $10 per person. Please call 435-216-9693 to make a reservation as space is limited to fifteen people on each tour this year.
The tour is most appropriate for ages 13 and up. Please arrive 10 minutes early, wear comfortable walking shoes, bring water, and wear sun protection. The tour lasts about one hour and fifteen minutes. If you have general questions about the tour, please contact 435-574-9554.

Historic Glenwood Cemetery Tour on Tuesdays and Thursdays
2022-07-14 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-07-12 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-07-07 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-07-05 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-06-30 10:30 - 11:30, 2022-06-28 10:30 - 11:30 | Glenwood Cemetery, 401 Silver King Drive, Park City, UT, 84060, United States
Park City Museum will be giving tours of the Historic Glenwood Cemetery on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. from June 28th to September 1st. Discover the history of the Cemetery and those residents who are buried there. Please register for a tour at www.parkcityhistory.org. Tours will be $15 per person. Please meet at Glenwood Cemetery by the gate, bring a water bottle, wear sunscreen and comfortable walking shoes. If you have any questions, please contact Diane Knispel education@parkcityhistory.org or call 435-574-9554.

Raising the Daly West Headframe ZOOM Lecture given by Brian Buck, Doug Ogilvy, and Steve Issowits
2022-07-13 17:00 - 18:00
Park City Museum and Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History will present a ZOOM lecture called Raising the Daly West Headframe given by Brian Buck, Doug Ogilvy, and Steve Issowits on Wednesday, July 13th from 5-6 p.m. Please register for the lecture at www.parkcityhistory/events.
The Daly West mine was started by John J. Daly in the early 1890s and grew into one of the most notable mining operations in the U.S. West. It was accessed by a 2,100-foot-deep shaft but eventually was connected underground to multiple other Park City mines. A steel shaft headframe replaced the wood headframe in 1914 and stood over the shaft for over a century until it collapsed into the shaft in May 2015. Since then the Park City community has wondered what will happen the famous headframe. The Park City Municipal Government, Deer Valley Resort, and Empire Pass Master Owners Association cooperated to fix the damaged headframe and raise it up again near the original shaft location. This talk tells the story of raising the Daly West headframe. The talk is a collaborative effort of Brian Buck a local geologist and Doug Ogilvy from the Empire Pass Master Owners Association and Steve Issowits, formerly from Deer Valley Resort.
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Through European Eyes: Imagining the American Frontier West In-Person Lecture Given by Curator Lee Silliman
2022-06-30 17:00 - 18:00
An illustrated lecture entitled “Through European Eyes: Imagining the American Frontier West” will be presented by curator Lee Silliman at Park City Museum Education and Collection Center located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive on June 30th from 5-6 p.m. The public is cordially invited to this event at no charge. Please register for the lecture. Lee Silliman will also be available to talk to guests and explain more about his exhibit Viewed from Afar: European Prints of the American Frontier West, 1759-1908 at the Park City Museum Tozer Gallery located at 528 Main Street from 2-4 p.m. on June 30th.
This presentation will focus upon the British, French, and German perceptions of the Trans-Mississippi West of the nineteenth century. The people of these three nations were eager to learn more about this strange landscape and indigenous people who inhabited it. Silliman’s talk will first discuss the art depicting the West that was created by American and European artists who actually visited the region. From these artworks, derivative imagery—some accurate, some fanciful—flooded the continent’s illustrated newspapers and books. Literature, both European’s travel accounts and western fiction, also played a role in the creation of the western mystique. As communication technology improved by the late nineteenth century, Europeans were becoming acutely aware of events transpiring in the American West soon after they occurred. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show—with “real” cowboys and Indians–toured many European cities over the years and thereby fostered truth and myth about the American West. A bibliography of recommended reading will be available for distribution at the conclusion of the presentation.
Lee Silliman is a retired educator and former part-time museum employee living in Missoula, Montana. Since early childhood he has nurtured a strong interest in the art and history of the frontier American West. His interests have spawned many articles and the editing of five books. He has presented conference lectures, taught workshops, and led four educational group tours. Since 1988 Silliman has assembled and circulated numerous fine art exhibits which have been displayed in more than one hundred venues throughout Montana and ten other states.
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Meet Curator Lee Silliman
2022-06-30 14:00 - 16:00
Lee Silliman will also be available to talk to guests and explain more about his exhibit Viewed from Afar: European Prints of the American Frontier West, 1759-1908 at the Park City Museum Tozer Gallery located at 528 Main Street from 2-4 p.m. on June 30th.

The Raising of the Daly West Headframe
2022-06-30 10:00 - 15:00
The Friends of Ski Mountain Mining History invite you to join us in celebration of this momentous occasion! Thanks to the generosity of Park City Municipal, Deer Valley Resort, and the Empire Pass Master Owner’s Association, the beloved Daly West headframe will be raised on its new pad on June 30th. In order to fund our last two remaining structures, the Thaynes headframe building and the Silver King headframe building, we invite you to contribute $500 and join us at the Montage in Empire Canyon at 10:00 AM for a day of activities and delicious food. The “raising” will commence at 11:00 AM. To secure your spot simply complete your contribution below. Thank you for your continuing support for this critical community project of preserving our mining past for future generations.

Life About Town in Park City's Mining Days Lecture and Book Signing by Dalton Gackle
2022-06-22 17:00 - 18:00
Park City Museum will host a lecture called Life About Town in Park City’s Mining Days and book signing given by Dalton Gackle on Wednesday, June 22 from 5-6 p.m. at the Education and Collections Center Building located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive. Please register for the lecture at www.parkcityhistory.org/events.
Settled after the Civil War, and incorporated in 1884, Park City grew into one of the world’s most prestigious mining camps. Known primarily for its richness in silver, Park City miners also extracted, lead, zinc, gold, and copper from the surrounding hills. As the mines grew, so too did the town, attracting businesspeople, grocers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and more to the area, in addition to miners and prospectors seeking to strike it rich. From mines large (like the Silver King and the Ontario) to small (like the Nelson Queen), Park City’s early history is that of the triumphs and tragedies of mining, the ebbs and flows of the community, and the metals that made it all happen. Dalton’s book covers an overview of this history, and this presentation will look briefly at Park City’s mining days and general life.
Dalton is an historian mostly of popular culture and western history. As the Park City Museum’s Research, Digital Services, and Social Media Coordinator, he manages the Hal Compton Research Library and is responsible for all research requests and appointments, historic photograph orders, our weekly Way We Were articles, oral histories, and the Museum’s social media. He is also an archivist, processing and digitizing the Museum’s manuscript and visual collections to make them available to you.
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The Garlic Mustard Games
2022-06-11 08:00 - 10:00
We are looking for volunteers to help pull Garlic Mustard and other noxious weeds from the historic Glenwood Cemetery. No need to RSVP, please just show up at 8 a.m. and you’ll be provided with the necessary supplies!
We will work on Saturday, June 11 from 8 a.m.-10 a.m. at the Glenwood Cemetery (401 Silver King Drive)
This event is in partnership with Ecology Bridge. Learn more here: https://www.ecologybridge.com/projects/garlic-mustard-games/

Prohibition: Thirteen Awful Years of the Noble Experiment Zoom Lecture given by Garrett Peck
2022-05-04 17:00 - 18:00
Park City Museum will host a Zoom lecture called Prohibition: Thirteen Awful Years of the Noble Experiment given by Garrett Peck on Wednesday, May 4 from 5-6 p.m. Mountain Time.
The “noble experiment” of Prohibition in America began on January 16, 1920, after a century of agitation by the temperance movement to create a dry, sober nation.
What started as a measure during World War I to prevent soldiers from drinking quickly became a constitutional amendment to ban the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol, and the Anti-Saloon League spun beer drinking into treason. Americans supported it with patriotic fervor as part of the war effort, not considering the consequences or how difficult it would be to enforce. An idealistic public soon turned cynical as bootleggers emerged to supply the brisk demand for booze, while organized crime dramatically undermined the noble experiment.
Prohibition lasted less than 14 years before the 21st Amendment repealed it in 1933—marking the end of what literary critique H. L. Mencken called the “Thirteen Awful Years.”
Garrett Peck is an author, historian and tour guide living in Santa Fe who specializes in Prohibition history. His eighth and latest book is A Decade of Disruption: America in the New Millennium. Garrett is currently working on a book about how novelist Willa Cather composed Death Comes for the Archbishop. See www.garrettpeck.com for more information.
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REBRANDING THE WEST’S OLDEST PROFESSION: Two Progressive Madams, Two Progressive Business Models, and an Issue-driven Concept called The Madams Association given by Michael Rutter
2022-04-12 17:00 - 18:00
The Park City Museum will host an in-person lecture called REBRANDING THE WEST’S OLDEST PROFESSION: Two Progressive Madams, Two Progressive Business Models, and an Issue-driven Concept called The Madams Association given by Michael Rutter on Tuesday, April 12th from 5-6 p.m. at the Park City Museum Education and Collections Center building located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive. Please register for the lecture at www.parkcityhistory.org/events.
In the last days of the Old West, Madams Mae Phelps from Colorado and Dora Topham (a.k.a. “Belle London”) from Utah were wealthy “Underworld Queens,” Panderers, and Social Reformers. The free-wheeling days had passed, but with the zeal of revivalists, each proposed new business models fueled by a profit-driven code of ethics, a progressive social consciousness, and a flexible morality that would make interesting case studies in MBA.
Dora Topham was commissioned by the Salt Lake City mayor and city council to organize “The Stockade,” a block of prostitution in the downtown area, not far from the Temple. Mae Phelps, like Dora Topham, championed health care for her ladies and worked with civic leaders. Mae also organized a Madams’ Association.
Michael Rutter is a recipient of the Ben Franklin Book Award for Excellence and the Rocky Mountain Book Publishers’ Award. An “addicted” fly fisherman, his outdoor essays have been published from Yale University to Outdoor Life. He worked with American Experience on “The Wild West Series,” Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He has been a Christa McAuliffe Fellow and an AT&T Scholar. His new book, Colorado Madams, Farcounty Press, will be released mid-2022. Some of Michael’s other books include Upstairs Girls: Prostitution in the American West; Boudoirs to Brothels: The Intimate World of Wild West Women; Myths and Mysteries of the Old West; Wild Bunch Women; Outlaw Tales of Utah; Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the American West; and Utah Off the Beaten Path. He teaches advanced writing at Brigham Young University and lives in Orem, Utah, with his wife, Shari, a Siamese cat, and a large, very spoiled dog, a Turkish Akbash.
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Secrets to Successful Salary Negotiation given by Museum member Bill Humbert
2022-03-30 17:00 - 18:00
Park City Museum will host an in-person lecture called Secrets to Successful Salary Negotiation given by Museum member Bill Humbert on Wednesday, March 30th from 5-6 p.m. at the Park City Museum Education and Collections Center Building located at 2079 Sidewinder Drive. Go to www.parkcityhistory.org/events to register. Dolly’s Bookstore will be at the event selling Bill’s latest book.
Bill Humbert, RecruiterGuy.com, has over 40 years of experience as a Professional Recruiter and 26 years of experience as a Professional Career Coach. During the Covid-19 shutdown, he coached 32 professionals from March 15, 2020 to December 31, 2020 to accept new positions (eleven of these professionals received increases in compensation – 4 of those received over 30% more compensation). His third book, Expect Success! The Science of the Over 50 Career Search, has 18 pages devoted to Successful Salary Negotiation. Bill will present Secrets to Successful Salary Negotiation on March 30. This interactive presentation is particularly important to women who traditionally are paid less than men for the same job (Gender Wage Gap). Who better to coach on Salary Negotiation than RecruiterGuy?
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