American California was defined by the Gold Rush. That event landed at a very special time, the interregnum between Mexican and American rule. That timing led to profound changes in the settling of the West, the laws applied to land and water, and the growth of America that would determine the winner of the Civil […]
Following the 1847 establishment of a community in the Salt Lake Valley by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church leaders established the University of Deseret. Its Board of Regents was made up of many of the Church’s leading figures and held its meetings in Brigham Young’s offices. Their purpose was to establish […]
Rob Roy Kelly’s published research — including American Wood Type 1828–1900 (1969) — helped fuel a revival of interest in nineteenth-century American printing types. His work continues to be an important starting point for current scholarly inquiry. The University of Texas Press published a monograph David Shields researched, wrote, and designed: The Rob Roy Kelly […]
In this sweeping environmental history of the Mono Lake Basin, Robert B. Marks reveals a larger story of how human actions and natural forces shape the environment. He begins with the region’s Indigenous peoples, followed by the mid-nineteenth-centry arrival Euro-American settles and the dispossession of the Kootzaduka’a people. In the decades that followed, struggles for […]