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The Weber River drains north and west out of the rugged Uinta Mountains through scenic northern Utah canyons to the Great Salt Lake. Along its tributaries and shores are dozens of small communities and the city of Ogden. Although a small river by some standards, not much more than a hundred miles long and delivering an annual average of a half million acre feet of water, the Weber, like other similar streams in the arid West, has played an extremely important role in the ecology and history of the region. Crossing diverse ecological zones, the Weber supports biological variety in an area of environmental extremes. Native Americans and Anglo transients and settlers were drawn to it and passed along its banks. Meeting ground and site of conflict between hunters and traders from competing nations, arduous trail for migrating settlers, and route for the transcontinental railroad, the Weber watershed was the setting for many chapters in the history of the West. . Authors Sadler and Roberts focus on how the Weber contributed to the settlement and development of a sizable portion of the Wasatch Front. Early Mormon settlers in Utah quickly turned to irrigation to sustain their farms on the

Author

Richard W. Sadler and Richard C. Roberts

Publisher

Logan: Utah State University Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874211641

Subjects

Economics, Management, History