GREAT RESOUCES

Fur trade in early Utah -
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/f/FURTRADE.html

1857-58 – The Utah War -
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/u/UTAHWAR.html

1863 The Battle of Bear River in southern Idaho -
http://www.onlineutah.com/bearrivermassacre.shtml
-- Shoshoni version http://www.nwshoshone-nsn.gov/cylture/history/massacre.html
-- U.S. Army version http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/american_indian_wars/3027481.html

1869 Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/sfeature/sf_map.html

1873 the narrow gauged railroad into Cache County; then into Idaho and on to Montana –
http://www.utahrails.net/ogden/ogden-utah-northern.php

1882 James H. Martineau, "The Military History of Cache County."
Tullidge’s Quarterly Magazine Vol. 2 no. 1 (April, 1882): 122-131.

1888 the land grant agricultural college – Utah Agriculture College –
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/u/UTAHSTATEUNIVERSITY.html

Interesting Features:

Mormon Battalion Veterans - brief sketches on veterans

Early School Districts
schools.htm

Dams, Reservoirs and Lakes
a. Newton Dam (1872) & Newton Project Utah (1941-1946) - http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/html/newton.html
b. Hyrum Project Utah (1933-34) - http://www.usbr.gov/dataweb/html/hyrum.html
c. Porcupine Reservoir (1964) - http://www.waterquality.utah.gov/watersheds/lakes/PORCUPIN.pdf
d. Lakes in Cache County - http://www.onlineutah.com/cachecountylakes.shtml

Lake Bonneville -
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/l/LAKEBONNEVILLE.html

Shoreline of Lake Bonneville -
http://www.bonneville-trail.org/geology.htm

Mountain Men Rendezvous Sites -
http://www.mountainsofstone.com/rendezvous_sites.htm

Bear River -
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/b/BEARRIVER.html

Early irrigation practices –
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/i/IRRIGATION.html

Development of dry-farming techniques –
http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010102/01010200frame.html

United Orders -
The United Order in Mendon and Newton with Insights on other Cache County Branches - by Larry D. Christiansen [Word doc with endnotes, new window]
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/u/UNITEDORDER.html

Old Ephraim -
http://library.usu.edu/Specol/ephraim.html

Individuals:

Jim Bridger - http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/b/BRIDGER%2CJAMES.html

Henry Ballard - http://www.thecardonfamilies.org/Histories/Henry%20Ballard.htm

William Hyde’s Journal - Cache County period -
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/People/William_Hyde/Journal/5*.html

John Jenkins - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~archibald/jj-life.htm

Marriner W. Merrill - http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/merrimw1.htm

Peter Maughan - http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/m/MAUGHN%2CPETER.html

Charles W. Nibley - http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/n/NIBLEY%2CCHARLES.html

Oliver C. Ormsby - by Larry D. Christiansen

Simon L. Smith - by Larry D. Christiansen

Hezekiah Thatcher - A Pioneer of Cache Valley Commerce

Moses Thatcher - http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/t/THATCHER%2CMOSES.html
John A. Widtsoe - http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/w/WIDTSOE%2CJOHN.html

Ezra T. Benson - http://etb.bensonfamily.org/histories/etb-alder.htm

William B. Preston - http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/prestwb1.htm

Chief Washakie - http://wyoarchives.state.wy.us/articles/washakie.htm

Chief Bear Hunter - brief biography Cache Valley era