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Author Taniguchi, Nancy J. (Nancy Jacobus), 1948-

Title Castle Valley, America : hard land, hard-won home / Nancy J. Taniguchi.

Imprint Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2004.
Publication Info. ©2004

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This is American history told through the stories of an atypical, for Utah, region. Castle Valley is roughly conterminous with two counties, Carbon and Emery, which together formed a rural, industrial enclave in a mostly desert environment behind the mountain range that borders Utah's principal corridor of settlement. In Castle Valley, coal mining and the railroad attracted diverse, multiethnic communities and a fair share of historic characters, from Butch Cassidy, who stole its largest payroll, to Mother Jones, who helped organize its workers against its mining companies. Among the last major segments of the state to be settled, it was also a generally poor region that stretched the capabilities of people to scratch a living from a harsh landscape. The people of Castle Valley experienced complex, unusual combinations of both social cohesion and conflict, but they struggled through poverty, labor disputes, major mining disasters, and other challenges to build communities whose stories reflected the historical course of the nation as a whole. In order to convey her subject's both unique and representative qualities, Nancy Taniguchi has written an epic history that is not just local history, but American history written locally. Nancy J. Taniguchi, who lived for thirteen years in Castle Valley and was previously on the faculty of the College of Eastern Utah in Price, is professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus. She is the author of numerous published articles in mining, legal, women's, western, and Utah history and of one book, Necessary Fraud: Progressive Reform and Utah Coal.
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Contents Castle Valley Corridor -- Passing Through, 1776-1869 -- The Significance of the Frontier, 1870-1882 -- The Railroad and the Raids, 1882-1890 -- Cowboys and Industry, 1890-1899 -- New people, new ways -- Industrial Revolution, 1899-1905 -- Moving in Together, 1905-1909 -- Facing Off, 1910-1919 -- Roller Coaster, 1920-1929 -- Crisis And Community -- Depression, 1930-1941 -- America's Arsenal, 1941-1960 -- The Preservation Instinct, 1960-1980 -- Energy Crisis, 1980-2004.
Language English.
Subject Castle Valley (Emery County, Utah) -- History.
Castle Valley (Emery County, Utah) -- Biography.
Carbon County (Utah) -- History.
Carbon County (Utah) -- Biography.
Emery County (Utah) -- History.
Emery County (Utah) -- Biography.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Utah -- Carbon County https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRBmKXgHkfQrgy4YXWrY
Utah -- Castle Valley (Emery County)
Utah -- Emery County https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRqjPPXfXDTjhdm3Dyqp
Genre/Form Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Taniguchi, Nancy J. (Nancy Jacobus), 1948- Castle Valley, America. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2004 0874215897 0874215900 (DLC) 2004011982 (OCoLC)55644849
ISBN 0874215307 (electronic bk.)
9780874215304 (electronic bk.)
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9781283267328
9786613267320
6613267325
0874215897 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780874215892 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0874215900 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874215908 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0874215897
9780874215892
Standard No. 9780874215892
AU@ 000051353844
AU@ 000062326378
GBVCP 1008649260
UKMGB 020143706

 
    
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