No Nazis in Park City
Especially prior to the outbreak of World War II, fascists and Nazi sympathizers were an unfortunately prominent…
Ethnicity
Drunkenness and Moralizing in Early Park City
Alcohol was a famous component of daily life in the old American West, and the West’s miners…
Cousin Jack: Cornish Workers in Park City
Cornwall lies at the southwestern tip of Great Britain. Though it’s administered as a county of England…
Mentions of Mexicans in Park City
Over the years, Park City has had many people of Spanish descent make their home here –…
Vigilante Justice: “Necktie Socials” in Utah
The term “lynching” arises from the American Revolution, when Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter, held irregular courts…
More than Peanuts and Crackerjacks
In their book accompanying the Smithsonian traveling exhibit ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues /…
From A Mayflower Miner’s Perspective, part 1
This history is written from the perspective of a figurative miner at the Mayflower Mine, based on…
“Mike is gone.” – A Sad Tale for St. Patrick’s Day
If the history of Park City is any indication, the luck of the Irish is not evenly…
Diplomats on Horseback
In 1881, White River Utes from western Colorado rose up against encroachment by hostile white settlers. The…
A Face Not Your Own
Last week, we discussed minstrelsy in Park City and established how its use of blackface makeup and…
Burnt Cork Fanatics
While actors using blackface and racialized stereotypes dates back to at least the Middle Ages, the advent…
A Look At Park City’s Hispanic and Latino Migration
The presence of Hispanic people in Utah dates back to the early 1500s when the area was…
Black Jack Murphy: Why the Nickname?
The Park City Museum recently hosted a lecture on a series of murders in Park City, the…
Too Close to Home: Keetley’s Japanese Relocation Farm
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt uprooted the lives of 110,000…
Toasting to Breaking a Leg…and the Luck o’ the Irish
In this photo from 1899, these amateur actors, including Irishman Jim Burns (far right), raised their glasses…
Taking Flight with Their Little Red Wagon
In celebration of “the power of imagination on wheels,” the last Wednesday of March each year is…
The Erasure of a Community
The 1880s were a watershed decade for Chinese residents of the United States. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion…
Working to Secure a Better Life
Howard Coleman came to Utah in search of a better life. As a black man and son…
Not “PC” in PC: A Curious Local Geographic Name
The official renaming of Negro Bill Canyon near Moab last year received plenty of publicity. Far less…
Park City’s Early Chinese Residents
Railway spanning the North American continent met in Promontory, Utah on May 10th, 1869. While the Transcontinental…
Summit County Inhabitants Before the Silver Rush
Before Park City was mining country, the area attracted humans to hunt wild game and fish. While…
Demonstrating Dignity and Strength in the Face of Adversity
Thank you for joining us for the second part of this article about the Japanese-American community located…
Unwelcome in Their Adopted and Often Native Country
George Takei, of Star Trek and social media fame, has increased public awareness of the internment of…