Though best-known for its Latter-day Saint population, Utah is home to diverse religious communities. Locations explored in this tour are centered in Salt Lake City and Ogden, former railroad hubs and…

Utah is primarily known as the headquarters and cultural hearth of Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. However, some of Utah’s earliest roots center around its established…

Since the nineteenth century, mining has provided significant economic support to the Intermountain West and to the United States overall. Copper supported wars, coal fueled power plants, and silver…

In the second half of the twentieth century, after World War II, American tourism to national parks surged. With the National Park Service’s hundredth anniversary fast-approaching in 1966, the U.S.…