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Boys in broad-brimmed hats and ill-fitting clothing posed on Corinne's Montana Street for photographer Andrew J. Russell. Courtesy of the Oakland Museum.
of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met at Promontory Summit to drive a golden spike, a group of former officers in the Union Army and some non-Mormon businessmen from Salt Lake City met on the banks of the Bear River near its confluence with the Great Salt Lake and laid out a Gentile town, Corinne, named by one of its founders, Gen. J. A. Williamson, for his fourteen-year-old daughter. T h e town, located on the west bank of Bear River about six miles west of the M o r m o n settlement of Brigham City, expected to capture the freight-transfer business from the new A B O U T SIX W E E K S BEFORE OFFICIALS
Dr. Madsen is professor of history at the University of U t a h . This article derives from research he did for Corinne: The Gentile Capital of Utah published by the U t a h State Historical Society in April 1980.
