Chinese immigrant laborers built the railroad from California to Utah.

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A group of Russian pioneers sought a place to build their religious colony far from cities and government interference. Where else would they come but Utah?

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The voyage of Hawaiian Islanders to the windswept desert of Skull Valley could only have happened in Utah.

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On September 10, 1911, twelve Jewish families arrived in Gunnison, Utah, to establish a Jewish agricultural community. The group was part of the "Back to Soil" movement, which believed Jews needed to leave the city and live on farms. The Gunnison colony, called Clarion, was one of many established throughout the United States, Canada, and Argentina.

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Imagine you live in 19th century rural Utah. Christmas is coming and your children look forward to a celebration with Santa and gifts. There are no stores, no mail orders. How will you meet their expectations?

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Utah's pivotal 1919 Americanization Act impacted the state's vibrant immigrant population.

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A lot of Americans still dream of the American West as a place of freedom and opportunity. But for workers at the turn of the twentieth century, it was never quite that simple.

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Learn about the infamous labor padrone Leonidis Skliris and why he was known as "Czar of the Greeks" among Murray-Midvale smelters.

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Learn about Ute leader Chipeta  and how her search for peace meant the loss of her home and way of life.  

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Learn about the forced relocation of Ute people from lush central Utah to the remote Uinta Basin. 

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