Michael O'Reilly

Mysteries and Legends of Utah

True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained

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Produktbeschreibung

From Jedediah Smith's final moments to persistent rumors of bigfoot, from the rise of an unlikely uranium magnate to the mysterious end of Butch Cassidy, this selection of twelve stories from Utah's past explores some of the Beehive State's most compelling mysteries and debunks some of its most famous myths.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780762749300
• ISBN-10: 076274930X
• Artikelnr.: 25693237

Autorenporträt

By Michael O'Reilly

Inhaltsangabe

(1) Introduction (2) Jedediah Smith: Tough Trapper, Shrewd Businessman,
Explorer Extraordinaire (3) The Lost Rhoades Gold Mine, and the Secret of
Carre Shinob (4) The Mormon Handcart Disaster of 1856 (5) Tragedy at
Mountain Meadows (6) The Castle Gate Robbery and the Fate of Butch Cassidy
(7) The Great Utah Manhunt of 1913 (8) The Faithful John Koyle and His
Infamous “Relief Mine” (9) The Legend of the Josephine de Martinique(10)
Charlie Steen and the Moab Uranium Boom (11) The Ghosts of Heritage Park
(12) Bigfoot in the Beehive state? (13) UFOs and Aliens in Utah (14) Author
Biography