South Slav Settlements in Utah, 1890-1935 BY J O S E P H STIPANOVICH
Midvale smelter, ca. 1906, employed many South Slavs. Note pioneer cemetery in foreground. Utah State Historical Society collections, courtesy of Utah Power & Light.
J. N T H E LATE N I N E T E E N T H century and early twentieth century, Utah experienced a large influx of labor immigration. These labor immigrants were primarily Italians, Greeks, and Slavs from southern and eastern Europe. Collectively they were alien in culture, language, and religion to the natives in Utah, and as individual ethnic groups they were alien to each other. Mr. Stipanovich is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Minnesota.
