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Harman (Caroline Hemenway) Continuing Education Building (HCEB)

By Rachel Hendrickson, Brigham Young University
The Caroline Hemenway Harman building is on the most northern side of campus. It houses the University Conference Center, as well as offices for BYU’s Continuing Education programs. While the building is off the beaten track, it memorializes a…

Women in Virginia City

By Rachel Hendrickson, Brigham Young University
Historically, prostitution and other unsavory occupations have been connected to the reputations of women in the Wild West. The reputation of women living in Virginia City was no exception. Several sources reported that “there was always a large…

The Territorial Enterprise and "Birth" of Mark Twain and Western Journalism

By Rachel Hendrickson, Brigham Young University
In 1858, W.L. Jernegan and Alfred James published a local newspaper in a former Mormon colony, Mormon Station (later renamed Genoa) in the then Utah Territory. This paper, The Territorial Enterprise, later became the first newspaper in Nevada…

Fort Bridger the Crossroads of the West

By Rachel Hendrickson, Brigham Young University
Located just off I-80, thirty miles from Evanston, Wyoming, lies the historic site of Fort Bridger. Fort Bridger has a long history of being involved with the American fur trade, western overland migration, and military involvement against the…

Making Peace with the Eastern Shoshone

By Rachel Hendrickson, Brigham Young University
By 1862, the relationship between settlers and the Shoshone and Bannock tribes had deteriorated. According to Indian Agent Luther Mann’s report in 1862, “Large numbers of the Shoshones, in conjunction with the Bannocks, who range along the southern…

The Fort Bridger Indian Agency

By Rachel Hendrickson, Brigham Young University
In 1861, the Eastern Shoshone Native American tribes and mixed bands of Shoshone and Bannock tribes were combined into a new agency, the Fort Bridger Indian Agency. Previously, federal agents supervised these tribes from Salt Lake City, but due to…

Death at Mountain Meadows

By Rachel Hendrickson, Brigham Young University
The mid-1850s relationship between Latter-day Saints (or Mormons) and the United States government, who felt that they were growing too powerful, was tense. In response to the growing power of the leaders of the LDS Church in Utah, the federal…
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