by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
Encounter at Mountain Green 1976 Exhibit BrochureIn 1825, Peter Skene Ogden and his Hudson Bay Brigade encountered American trappers at Mountain Green in Weber Canyon. The Americans asserted that Ogden was encroaching on American territory and that his trappers were...
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
Evacuation of Ogden 1976 Exhibit BrochureIn the spring of 1858, the residents of Ogden evacuated their city with every intention of destroying all that had been built in a decade of settlement if Johnston’s Army should prove to be another persecutor. 2023 Exhibit...
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
Fort Buenaventura 1976 Exhibit BrochureFort Buenaventura was built in 1845 by Miles Goodyear, Utah’s first permanent white citizen, just east of the Weber River on a site located approximately 100 yards northeast of a large sand mound lying almost directly west of the...
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
The Goodyear Horse Drive 1976 Exhibition BrochureConsidered by many to be the longest horse drive in recorded history, in the spring of 1848, Miles Goodyear departed from the current site of San Bernardino, California with 100 horses to sell at Fort Leavenworth for...
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
Harlan-Young Party 1976 Exhibit BrochureIn 1846 the Harlan-Young Party successfully brought 39 wagons through Weber Canyon. A windlass was used to raise the wagons and oxen up a 75-foot cliff. One wagon was smashed and a yoke of oxen killed when the windlass failed....
