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In the late-nineteenth-century Intermountain West, crisis befell members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family members went into hiding, separated from one another by hundreds,…

National Parks were created, in part, to protect land and resources from development and business interests. In the process of creating them, however, American Indians who lived in park areas were…

After evolutionarily originating in the Americas, camels returned to the American West as pack animals in a U.S. military experiment as well as a series of transportation enterprises. These exotic…

Though best-known for its Latter-day Saint population, Utah is home to diverse religious communities. Locations explored in this tour are centered in Salt Lake City and Ogden, former railroad hubs and…

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Intermountain Histories is a free website and mobile app that curates the histories of sites and events around the Intermountain West regions of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Discover the histories of the region’s peoples, places, institutions, events, cultures, and more. Using an interactive GPS-enabled map, you can take virtual or physical walking tours of historic sites. As your personal tour guide, Intermountain Histories provides historical information, photographs and images, documentary videos, audio interviews, oral histories, bibliographic citations, and other resources as you explore.