A grassroots movement of Utah citizens helped derail government plans to base the MX Missile System in Utah’s Great Basin.

Those who journeyed to Moab during the uranium mining boom that swept Utah in the 1950s and 1960s changed the tiny town forever. 

The United Order of Orderville, a Utopian living experiment, thrived for a decade in southern Utah.

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.

Historic Copperton is a tiny town that defied the boom-bust cycle typical of mining towns.

The all-American game of baseball helped new immigrants adjust to life in Utah during the early 1900s.

Why would a bunch of young men from New York have spent the summer of 1933 digging ditches in Utah’s Willard Canyon?

A story of the fundraising efforts to help the victims of one of the deadliest mining disasters in American history, the 1900 explosion at Utah’s Winter Quarters Mine.

Every summer, thousands of people flee to the cool waters of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah’s northeast corner.  But few of them would know about the little town of Linwood buried beneath the water’s surface.

Ghost Towns of the old west are generally relics of the mining industry, but Old La Sal in San Juan County is a now-deserted cow town.