Preface
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/arbon County's history is indeed unique in the state of Utah, but that is not a difference that one perceives growing up in the county. To me there were no questions asked about other counties or how they differed from my home county. Didn't everyone have Catholic, Methodist, Greek Orthodox, Mormon, and several other denominations in their home town? Didn't everyone have friends whose parents or at least grandparents immigrated to the United States? Didn't everyone in Utah have friends who knew another language? My good friend knew Spanish, and when we visited his grandmother, she tadced to him in Spanish, and he answered back in English. That was a normal occurrence in my experience of growing up in Carbon County. Most of the rest of the history I didn't know. I only knew the after-effects; I was there for the accommodation or blending part, not the conflict part. Carbon County's early settlers came from the dominant religious group in Utah, but they settled because of the need for land not as a direct "call" from their religious leaders and definitely not for cooperative reasons. Less than five years later the railroad built a line ix
