Being Different: Stories of Utah Minorities

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Ethnic studies can also be full of surprises, pathos, and nostalgia, in Utah as somewhere else. On this anthology, fourteen gifted historians imagine such issues as the collision of white settlers and Shoshones in northern Utah and the initial trouble with Salt Lake City residents when all-black troops were garrisoned at Forts Douglas and Duchesne.

The Mormon immigration was once primarily of Yankee and British stock. Less advertised is the truth that it also included a sizeable collection of Scandinavians who lent a distinctive, Old World flavor to the Sanpete area and by Polynesians who adapted their unique culture to the harsh realities of Skull Valley.

Peoples of other religions and nationalities followed with in a similar fashion colorful, full of life cultural contributions: the Italians and Greeks of Carbon and Emery Counties and the first Mexicans in and around Salt Lake City. There were short-lived colonizing efforts by Jewish settlers in central Utah and Japanese in Wasatch County.

In writing about and memorializing significant events surrounding immigrants’ lives and the day by day perseverance of pioneers of all nationalities, the fourteen contributors to this anthology offer fascinating details and unforgettable stories.

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