Ogden's "Horrible Tragedy": The Lynching of George Segal BY LARRY R. GERLACH
Elizabeth Gudgell was shot outside the Gem Restaurant in the middle of this block. Photograph from Ogden Union Station collection.
Pi. s EVIDENCED BY T H E ENORMOUS POPULARITY of Marlboro Country, the American West continues to excite the imaginations of modern Americans. T o many people the term American West immediately calls forth a series of mental images associated with the heroic frontier — cowboys and Indians, farmers and trappers, wagon trains and mining camps. Less well appreciated is the ignoble dimension of the West as suggested by the term back country — a land of gamblers, prostitutes, thieves, killers, and a host of other social misfits trying to keep a step Dr. Gerlach is professor of history at the University of Utah. This paper was originally presented at the September 1978 Annual Meeting of the Utah State Historical Society in Ogden. The author is currently preparing a study of Utah lynchings for publication.
