Life in a Village Society, 1877-1920 BY CHARLES S. PETERSON
Traditional festivities marked the Twenty-fourth of July in St. George. USHS collections.
Apparent to all are its color, the winter relief of its warm climate, and its proud and distinctive heritage. What may be less apparent to those who do not habitually face the past is that 1977 marked the centennial of a divide in Dixie's development quite as clearly as 1976 marked the anniversary of great developments in the nation. Like many benchmark times, 1877 was punctuated by identifying events. On March 23, John D. Lee was exeU T A H ' S DIXIE IS A REMARKABLE COUNTRY.
Dr. Peterson is professor of history at Utah State University. The material in this article was presented as a lecture in February 1977 at St. George as part of a local history lecture series cosponsored by USU and the Utah State Historical Society under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
