Item Detail
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30341
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English
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Ghosts of Mountain Dell : Transportation and Technological Change in the Wasatch Mountains
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 2018
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86
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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6-23
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What one encounters at Mountain Dell today belies a rich history of habitation and commerce. Although the untrained eye sees no sign of this history, Mountain Dell was once a stop on the Mormon and California Trails and Central Overland Route, the nation's primary east-west mail and stagecoach route. When the transcontinental telegraph and railroad rendered the Central Overland Route obsolete, Mountain Dell morphed into an agricultural village, thriving in relative seclusion until Salt Lake City began taking its drinking water from Parleys Creek. To combat an outbreak of water-borne disease, the city launched a campaign to purify the watershed by buying up or condemning all the farms and homes in Mountain Dell, turning the area into the natural preserve that we know today. This is the story of how forces related to transportation, communications, and water development shaped the birth, growth and eventual demise of a small western community, and how the unfolding of these forces provided a window on many important events in Utah's history. This is also a story of how the last historic remnants of the Mountain Dell community were erased by modern-day water projects and land management policies and how these policies shaped in new ways land that was developed and farmed over a century ago.
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