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That Ugly Gray Metal Called Beryllium
“You notice the first of these as soon as you pick it up; it’s just two-thirds the density of aluminum. At the same time it’s six times stiffer than steel.”
Amaranth and the Fremont
“These plants grow extremely well in cool dry climates such as we find in Millard County.”
A Possible Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Theory?
“The United States is preparing for war. The supposed enemy is a dictator ruling with absolute authority over a nation of religious fundamentalists who think that God will…
C.D. Walcott and Millard County’s Wheeler Shale
“It is impossible to over-estimate the influence and prestige of Walcott: Hintze calls him ‘the father of Cambrian paleontology and stratigraphy in North America.’”……
Early Man in Millard County
“9000 years ago it was the shoreline of Lake Bonneville, a place where ancient man lived, built simple shelters, and harvested the bounty of the surrounding marsh-lands and…
Earthquakes and the Great Basin
“Though harmful and feared, earthquakes are necessary for our earthly existence.“
Etienne Provost
“[. . .] he never knew; he died a year later, oblivious to the fact that a town out West had been given his name.”
Extinction: An Archaeological perspective
“ [. . .] as many as 2,000 species of mammals, birds, and reptiles are beyond recovery and at the verge of extinction right now.“
Great Basin Museum Receives a Major Fossil and Mineral Donation
“Some of the fossils are rare, including some large, beautiful examples of Pennsylvanian age, tree bark, roots, rootlets, leaves and reproductive cones from extinct Lycopod…
Human Trafficking in Human Beings on the Old Spanish Trail
“On January 31, 1852 the Utah territorial legislature passed a law prohibiting the slave trade.”
Millard County’s Banded Gneiss
“Through all this, some 1.75 billion years, they lay, waiting their eventual return to the surface.“
P.E. Connor and Brigham Young meet at Cove Fort
“To say that Colonel Connor and President Young didn’t get along is a significant understatement.”
Sam Gilson and the Gilson Mountains
“Gilson’s goal seems to have been ambitious, to reach to the very top: He was after none other than Brigham Young himself.”
Scipio A. Kenner and Brigham Young
“Apparently the interrogation didn’t go as well as it might, or at least it was not to Young’s satisfaction, for after a short pause he said: ‘Are you a Mormon?’, ‘Well,’…
The Best Preserved Dinosaur You are Ever Likely to See
“I have never been able to look at it without thinking that surely it must have died just recently; maybe last summer […]”
The Cambrian Explosion
“It was an expression of life unlike anything which has occurred before or after, an explosion of sorts, ‘Nature’s Big Bang.’”
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
“Worst of all, some reports indicate that most of the killing was done, execution style, by the Mormon Militia after the emigrants had agreed to accept protection offered…
The Promontory Reinactment
“[…] when Leland Stanford of the Central Pacific stepped forward to drive the last spike, ‘He missed.’”
Utah’s Connection to the Planet Mars
“In January 2004, an alien spacecraft from Earth roared through that thin Martian air and crash-landed on Meridiani Planum.”
“Dinosaur Jim” – Famous Millard County Resident
“The remarkable success which came to Jim resulted in frequent mention in the literature, both scholarly and popular, and appearances in almost every dinosaur documentary…