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ARTICLES
Building Community by Respecting Linguistic
Diversity: Scandinavian Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Utah
By Lynn Henrichsen, George Bailey, Timothy Wright, John Brumbaugh, Jacob Huckaby, and Ray Lebaron
William Jefferson Hardin: A Grand But Forgotten Park City African American
By Gary Kimball
Zionism in Zion: Salt Lake City’s Hadassah Chapter, 1943-1963
By Rebecca Andersen
Community and Ethnicity: Hispanic Women
in Utah’s Carbon County
By Armando Solórzano, Lisa M. Ralph, and J. Lynn England
IN THIS ISSUE
It is not always easy to recognize pivotal points in the writing of history. But
for the history of Utah, one occurred in 1954 with the publication in the
Utah Historical Quarterly of Helen Zeese Papanikolas’ article,“The Greeks of
Carbon County.” That article expanded the horizon of Utah history to
recognize and to include long ignored but important groups. It was the first of
several other articles published in the Utah Historical Quarterly in the 1950s that
examined aspects of ethnic life in Utah among the Scandinavian, Irish, and
German communities in the state. Subsequent articles in the 1960s and 1970s
considered the Utes, Chinese, Scots, African Americans, Italians, Hispanics, and
the Southern Slavs. A special Summer 1972 issue of the Quarterly was devoted to
Utah’s ethnic minorities. These articles helped lay the groundwork and stimulate
interest for the compilation and publication in 1976 of The Peoples of Utah, as part
of the bicentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence. Edited by
Helen Zeese Papanikolas, the book contains fourteen chapters on various ethnic
groups and nationalities that helped build Utah. In 2001, twenty-five years later,
Stanford Layton compiled a collection of fourteen articles from the Utah
Historical Quarterly in a volume entitled, Being Different: Stories of Utah’s Minorities.
These two important books help us to understand Utah history through the eyes
and experiences of our neighbors and in doing so add depth and richness to our
history. In this first issue for 2010 we continue to probe and examine our ethnic
heritage with four stimulating articles.
From 1850 until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Scandinavian
countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway sent more immigrants to Utah than
any other area of the world. Almost all came as converts to The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints and the story of preserving their language and customs
during the integration process in Utah is the subject of our first article. On one
hand LDS church leaders urged assimilation including learning English so that
Scandinavians could interact with the majority of Saints. On the other hand,
those same leaders tolerated and even supported Scandinavian language church
services, publications, classes, theatrical productions, reunions, and other gatherings.
In this complicated process, community building was the primary objective.
William Jefferson Hardin arrived in Park City in 1883. An African American
born about 1831, Hardin was raised in the Shaker Community of South Union,
Kentucky.After leaving the Shakers, Hardin served in the Union army during the
Civil War and lived in Colorado and Wyoming before moving to Utah. In our
second article, we are offered an insightful perspective on the life of a post-Civil
War African American in the Rocky Mountain West. Hardin faced economic,
political, social, and personal challenges—the latter leading him to end his life in
Park City in 1889.
The word Zion, historically the name for the land of Israel and its capital
Jerusalem, was also adopted by Mormons in the nineteenth century to designate
their new homeland in the Great Basin. It persists today. Banks, stores, businesses,
even a national park carry the name.
Zionism, a term coined in 1891, has as its purpose the establishment of a
Jewish state in the land of Palestine. A Zionist movement was launched at a
congress in Basel, Switzerland, in 1897 and the movement gained momentum
especially in light of the World War II Holocaust. Given Salt Lake City’s long
established Jewish community dating back to the 1860s, it is not surprising that
an organization emerged in Utah embracing Zionism. Our third article recounts
the twenty-year effort of Salt Lake City’s Hadassah women’s organization to
foster the establishment and continuance of the Jewish state of Israel.
Our final article for this issue continues our examination of Utah ethnic
groups as it looks at the experience of Hispanic women in Carbon County in
recent decades. Like Utah Scandinavians during an earlier era, Hispanic women
of Carbon County sought to preserve language and tradition as part of family
heritage and as part of the larger community.
These four articles continue the Utah State Historical Society’s endeavor
launched in the pages of the Utah Historical Quarterly fifty-six years ago.We hope
that the next years will bring the publication of additional articles and books
from Utah’s ethnic communities to help us more fully understand and appreciate
“The Peoples of Utah.”
BOOK REVIEWS
William B. Carter. Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest,
750-1750
Reviewed by Sondra Jones
Douglas C. McChristian. Fort Laramie: Military Bastion of the High Plains
Reviewed by Ben Cater
Richard V. Francaviglia. Over the Range: A History of the Promontory
Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
Reviewed by Richard W. Sadler
Teresa J.Wilkins. Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders
Reviewed by Robert S. McPherson
Jan Mackell. Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains
Reviewed by Jeffrey Nichols
Brian Q. Cannon. Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the
Modern West
Reviewed by Stephen C. Sturgeon
Donna L. Poulton and Vern G. Swanson. Painters of Utah’s Canyons
and Deserts
Reviewed by James R. Swensen
Robert S. McPherson. Comb Ridge and Its People: The Ethnohistory of a Rock
Reviewed by Jared Farmer
Barton H. Barbour. Jedediah Smith: No Ordinary Mountain Man
Reviewed by Gary Topping
Timothy J. LeCain. Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That
Wired America and Scarred the Planet
Reviewed by Nancy Taniguchi