A writer and business owner in Salt Lake City, O'Reilly admits that the stories about The Beehive State are not so different from those found in other states of the western US, but there are some as distinctive as the rock formations, the salty lake, and the unique settlement history. He tells 12, among them the Mormon handcart disaster of 1856, the Castle Gate robbery and the fate of Butch Cassidy, the legend of the Josephine de Martinique, the ghosts of Heritage Park, Bigfoot, and UFOs and aliens. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
From Jedediah Smith’s final moments and persistent rumors of Bigfoot, to the rise of an unlikely uranium magnate and 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.
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.
