Promoting Railroads and Statehood: John W. Young BY CHARLES L. KELLER John W. Young. Utah State Historical Society collections. U T A H TERRITORY TRAVELED a long, cobblestone road in its quest for statehood. Sometimes the road meandered, but in retrospect its goal was predestined and all deviations served some useful, if not obvious, purpose. Similarly, each cobblestone represented an individual, a group of indiMr. Keller is an engineer wiLh Univac in Salt Lake City. This article was originally submitted as an entry for the 1973 Golden Spike Award in Transportation History.
Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, Number 3, 1977
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