Wasatch Mountains
Northern Utah History
Rural Cache Valley

On the following pages are early photographs and short historical essays featuring a small mountain valley in the American West:
northern Utah's Cache Valley and its rural towns

High Creek Granary, Cove, Utah    A Question of Origins--the valley's antique wood-structured granaries

Red Rock Pass, Idaho   Defining Perserverance--"Poverty Flat" in the 1870s

Nurse Jenny Reeder Bergeson   Epidemics and Disease--surviving without doctors or medicine

Sugar Beets on way to Factory   Sugar Beets!--the rise and fall of an industry

Wells Jackson's beloved heavy horses, Cap and Chief,    Farming Then and Now--the enduring role of the heavy horse

Farmer and Horse in 1940s  The Funny business of horse trading

Restored and relocated Greenville School   Rural Schools--the good old days

Mary Maughan, early Cache Valley Settler   The Lumber Boom in Cache Valley--the destruction and resurrection of a forest

Union Pacific's Pride crossing the Bear River   The Mormons thought they'd got away from it all, until the gold rush

Lewiston Elementary School, 1913   Rural Schools--the early 1900s

Lewiston Opera House, winter 1912   The Night the Opera House Burnt Down--excitement in the valley

Lucia Prada Solis   A Nation of Immigrants--the role of Hispanics in settlement and agriculture

Sleigh full of beet pulp   Snowbound--some tall winter tales


The Galloping Goose  The Tale of an Interurban Railroad in northern Utah

WPA Crew, Newton Drainage project, 1930s  The Depression Years--1929-1940
Mother on the Allis ChalmersA Dry Farm in Idaho

Old Bergeson Home  Shrubs and Flowers -- A very Human Need

View from the Taggart homeWater Water Everywhere -- flooding in northern Utah


Sheep on the root cellarWinter Storage of Vegetables

Harvesting peas with a combineGhost Crops of Cache Valley

BillGoring'sMother&Grandmother1916Life in a Sheep Camp