Table of Contents

Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Utah in the Twentieth Century 1

I Getting to Know the Place: Image and Experience 11

1 The Disappearance of Everett Ruess and the Discovery of Utah's Red Rock Country Stephen C. Sturgeon 24

2 "The Famous Blue Valley" and a Century of Hopes Kristen Rogers-Iversen 45

3 Selling Sleep: The Rise and Fall of Utah's Historic Motels Susan Sessions Rugh 65

4 Bernard DeVoto's Utah David Rich Lewis 88

II Connecting to the Nation: Utah and the U.S.A. 109

5 "Proud to Send Those Parachutes Off": Central Utah's Rosies during World War II Amanda Midgley Borneman 123

6 Educating the Mormon Hierarchy: The Grassroots Opposition to the MX in Utah Jacob W. Olmstead 146

7 The WPA Versus the Utah Church Joseph F. Darowski 167

8 The Battle over Tariff Reduction: The Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, Senator Reed Smoot, and the 1913 Underwood Act Matthew C. Godfrey 186

III Voicing Government: Politics and Participation 207

9 Public Opinion, Culture, and Religion in Utah Wayne K. Hinton Stephen Roberds 227

10 Utah's Denial of the Vote to Reservation Indians, 1956-57 Brian Q. Cannon 245

11 "We are not seeking trouble and so will just go along quietly just now": The IWW's 1913 Free-Speech Fight in Salt Lake City John S. McCormick John R. Sillito 263

12 What Is the Best Way to Govern a City? Jessie L. Embry 285

IV Growing Challenges: People and Resources 305

13 Utah's Public Schools: Problems, Controversies, and Achievements, 1945-2000 James B. Allen 318

14 From Cadillac to Chevy: Environmental Concern, Compromise, and the Central Utah Project Completion Act Adam Eastman 343

15 TheVolatile Sagebrush Rebellion Jedediah S. Rogers 367

16 Utah's Recent Growth: The St. George/Washington County Example Douglas D. Alder 385

Contributors 402

Index 405