| West Valley City Contributor(s): Winder, Mayor Mike (Author), The West Valley City Historical Society (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0738595411 ISBN-13: 9780738595412 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| Dewey: 979.2 |
| LCCN: 2012934603 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.5" W x 9.1" (0.65 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Salt Lake City-Ogden, Utah - Geographic Orientation - Utah |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the fall of 1848, Joseph and Susanna Harker became the first pioneers Over Jordan as they crossed to the west side seeking a new home in the valley. Other families soon followed, and by the 1880s, canals brought irrigation water, allowing farming settlements to spread out toward the Oquirrh Mountains. The agrarian communities of Hunter, Granger, Redwood, and Chesterfield began to take shape. The decades after World War II saw enormous growth, new neighborhoods, and the Valley Fair Mall. When the area finally incorporated as West Valley City in 1980, it was immediately one of Utah s largest cities. The city has seen remarkable progress in its first three decades, including being a venue city for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and emerging as Utah s most ethnically diverse city." |
Contributor Bio(s): Winder, Mayor Mike: - Mayor Mike Winder s enthusiasm for his city shows with the broad variety of photographs he has gathered to illustrate the first-ever pictorial history of Utah s second largest city. Mayor Winder, also a member of the Utah Board of State History and author of nine published books, has carefully gone through city and state archives, family collections, and newspaper archive negatives to bring together these rarely seen images. |