Resources

For Further Reading

Alexander, Thomas. Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1996.

Armitage, Shelley. John Held, Jr., Illustrator of the Jazz Age. Syracuse (New York): Syracuse University Press, 1987.

Ashby, LeRoy. With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Barton, Rebekah. "Dancing During the Progressive Era: Trotting, Hugging, and Hopping in Utah." Master’s Thesis, University of Utah, 2006.

Gadd, John D. C. “Saltair, Great Salt Lake’s Most Famous Resort,” Utah Historical Quarterly 36:3 (Summer 1968), 8-31. Accessed 3/1/2020. Available at https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume36_1968_number3.

Hafen, Thomas K. “City of Sinners: The Development of Salt Lake City as a Tourist Attraction, 1869-1900,” Western Historical Quarterly 28: 3 (Autumn 1997), 343-377. Accessed 8/17/2009. Available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/971025.

McCormick, Nancy D. and John S. McCormick. Saltair. Salt Lake City: Bonneville Books, University of Utah Press, 1985.

Nichols, Jeffrey D. Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power: Salt Lake City, 1847-1918. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Papanikolas, Helen Z. “Bootlegging in Zion: Making and Selling the ‘Good Stuff’,” Utah Historical Quarterly 53, no. 3 (Summer 1985), 268-91. Accessed 3/1/2020. Available at: https://issuu.com/utah10/docs/uhq_volume53_1985_number3.

Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Peterson, Paul H. “An Historical Analysis of the Word of Wisdom,” Master’s Thesis, Brigham Young University, 1972.

Shaffer, Marguerite S. “‘See America First’: Re-Envisioning Nation and Region through Western Tourism.” Pacific Historical Review 65: 4 (November 1996), 559-581. Accessed 1/14/2020. Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/3640296

Shoemaker, S. Todd. “Saltair and the Mormon Church, 1893-1906.” Master's Thesis, University of Utah, 1983.

Stegner, Wallace. “The World’s Strangest Sea.” Holiday Magazine, May (circa 1957), 76-77, 176-177. Accessed 3/1/2019. Available at https://www.americanheritage.com/xanadu-salt-flats

Topping, Gary, ed. Great Salt Lake: An Anthology. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2002.

Vance, Del. Beer in the Beehive: A History of Brewing in Utah. Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press, 2006.

Other Resources

Great Salt Lake Institute, https://westminstercollege.edu/campus-life/centers-and-institutes/great-salt-lake-institute

The Circus (Parts 1 and 2), The American Experience documentary series, Season 30, Episodes 7 and 8. WGBH and PBS. Visit https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/circus/#film_description.

Burnt Corks and Cakewalks: The Toxic Legacy of Blackface in American History." Backstory podcast episode #0272. Visit https://www.backstoryradio.org/shows/burnt-corks-cakewalks.

Additional Primary Sources

A Widow’s Tale: The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney. Transcribed and edited by Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton. Logan (Utah): Utah State University Press, 2003, p. 554. 

Deseret News 

Salt Lake Herald-Republican

The Salt Lake Tribune

Strauss, H. A. “Confidential Report on the Saltair Beach Company,” 1 December 1915. Mss A 1587, Utah State Historical Society.

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