Today, there are plenty of articles and books floating around telling Park City’s history. But it wasn’t always that way.

Park City as a community really got going in the 1870s, so it makes sense that thinking of the town’s history didn’t develop much until 25 to 30 years later. The first mention of a telling of the town’s growth as a mining community (that we have found so far) comes from the Salt Lake Mining Review, a newspaper dedicated to mining news from around the state, region and world.

They noted that up until their 1899 article, “no special reference has been made to the section which, for years, has been the pride of every Utah citizen, the mines of which, for a quarter of a century, have eclipsed the record of any other mining camp in the production of mineral wealth, and whi

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