Author : Mark Angus
Release : 1996
Genre : Bicycle touring
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 059/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Salt Lake City Underfoot by : Mark Angus
Download or read book Salt Lake City Underfoot written by Mark Angus. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cathedrals to pioneer gambling halls, Mormon ward houses to gentile saloons, fraternal lodges to brothels, Salt Lake City Underfoot reveals the diverse heritage of one of the most colorful outposts in America's West. The city was a refuge for outlaws, vigilantes, fortune seekers, scare artists, and racketeers, all rubbing shoulders with local polygamist suffragists, mule-skinning prophets, and playboy industrialists -- they were all here. In this collection of self-guided walking and bi-cycling tours adaptable to everyone's interests and pace, one can pick and choose from among the lavish mansions of mining and railroad millionaires along prestigious Brigham Street to the simple immigrant cottages in the Marmalade District; from downtown parks to forgotten pioneer cemeteries; or, one can take in the city's growing nightlife. Mark Angus takes readers beyond the regular tourist sites and provides answers to the paradoxes surrounding this rather enigmatic metropolis.