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Utah History To Go - Imperial Zion: The British Occupation Of Utah
Another factor contributing to the Irish settlement pattern was their non-Mormon orientation (according to Robert J. Dwyer, most Irish were Catholics), so clearly demonstrated in the make-up of the populations of two adjacent towns in southern Utah, Saint George and Silver Reef. Saint George with its emphasis on agriculture, stability, and "humble domestic virtues" had but one Irish-born resident, a male, in 1880. In contrast, Silver Reef, a "worldly" mining community, the very antithesis of Mormon Saint George, had an Irish-born population of eighty-six males and twenty-five females, 26 percent of the total foreign-born population. 22 ... [Read More]

Utah History To Go - The Paiute Tribe of Utah
This Paiute Indian was photographed in the vicinity of Saint George by John K. Hillers between 1871 and 1875. ...

The first Paiute reservation came into being during this period. Anthony Ivins was mayor of St. George and ran cattle in the "Arizona Strip" country. However, hungry Paiutes were stealing from his livestock operation in the Mt. Trumbull area. When Ivins found them in his way, he utilized federal channels to get himself named a "Special Indian Disbursing Agent," serving from 1891 until 1893, and removed the Shivwits from their homeland in northern Arizona to southern Utah. Through his efforts the first Paiute reservation was established in 1891 on the Santa Clara River west of St. George. 15 This began a new phase in Paiute history, with the Indians now dependent on both Mormon church charity and the federal government's good will. The Paiutes who had originally been residents of the reservation area were either dead or had moved--most to the Moapa reservation in Nevada or to Cedar City. This fact illustrates the devastating effects of white colonization, since the Virgin and Sant ... [Read More]