by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
Fort Buenaventura 1976 Exhibit BrochureFort Buenaventura was built in 1845 by Miles Goodyear, Utah’s first permanent white citizen, just east of the Weber River on a site located approximately 100 yards northeast of a large sand mound lying almost directly west of the...
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
The Goodyear Horse Drive 1976 Exhibition BrochureConsidered by many to be the longest horse drive in recorded history, in the spring of 1848, Miles Goodyear departed from the current site of San Bernardino, California with 100 horses to sell at Fort Leavenworth for...
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
Harlan-Young Party 1976 Exhibit BrochureIn 1846 the Harlan-Young Party successfully brought 39 wagons through Weber Canyon. A windlass was used to raise the wagons and oxen up a 75-foot cliff. One wagon was smashed and a yoke of oxen killed when the windlass failed....
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
Indian Stalking Elk 1976 Exhibit BrochureShoshone Indians and other tribal groups considered the Ogden Valley in which are situated the current communities of Huntsville, Eden and Liberty to be a hunter’s paradise. Near the artesian springs which supply Ogden’s...
by JRobins | Sep 8, 2023 | Bicentennial Art
John M. Browning’s Gunsmith Shop 1976 Exhibit BrochureFrom this humble shop in the 1880’s, located on the present site of Ogden’s Orpheum Theater, the genius John M. Browning became world renowned as the greatest inventor of guns. 2023 Exhibit GuideJohn M. Browning...
