{"id":287,"date":"2010-10-17T17:19:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T23:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/?p=287"},"modified":"2022-05-13T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T21:03:21","slug":"utah-history-encyclopedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Utah History Encyclopedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah History Encyclopedia was <a href=\"https:\/\/spcoll.li.suu.edu\/eadfiles\/Xe1kcH8BnM5_0W5sJ69V\/ms122NW19941217b.pdf\">published in 1994<\/a> as a joint project of the Utah State Historical Society and the University of Utah Press with funding provided by the Utah Centennial Commission.<\/p>\n<p>It includes more than five hundred entries written by two hundred seventy historians and writers on a variety of subjects, places, individuals, \u00a0and events in Utah history. \u00a0In his letter published on the back of the dust jacket of the volume, \u00a0Governor Leavitt wrote: \u201cUtah is a state rich in history and tradition. In 1896 Utah became the nation\u2019s 45<sup>th<\/sup> state. \u00a0This book, supported by a grant from the Utah Centennial Commission, \u00a0provides fascinating information about Utah\u2019s first 100 years of statehood.<\/p>\n<p>From the Utah War to the Utah Jazz, \u00a0from Philo T. \u00a0Farnsworth to Flaming Gorge, \u00a0this reference work describes the people, places and events that have shaped this state and made it what it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utah History Encyclopedia was published in 1994 as a joint project of the Utah State Historical Society and the University of Utah Press with funding provided by the Utah Centennial Commission. It includes more than five hundred entries written by two hundred seventy historians and writers on a variety of subjects, places, individuals, \u00a0and events in Utah history. \u00a0In his letter published on the back of the dust jacket of the volume, \u00a0Governor Leavitt wrote: \u201cUtah is a state rich in history and tradition. In 1896 Utah became the nation\u2019s 45th state. \u00a0This book, supported by a grant from the Utah Centennial Commission, \u00a0provides fascinating information about Utah\u2019s first 100 years of statehood. From the Utah War to the Utah Jazz, \u00a0from Philo T. \u00a0Farnsworth to Flaming Gorge, \u00a0this reference work describes the people, places and events that have shaped this state and made it what it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-division-of-state-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leavitt.li.suu.edu\/leavitt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}