Way We Were: Who came before us, part 2

Way We Were: Who came before us, part 2

The following is the second in a three-part series about indigenous people in the Park City area for the Park City Museum.While there has been substantial evidence of Paleoindians, Archaic peoples, and Freemont culture in the region, recent evidence suggests that the Shoshone people, sometimes referred to as Numic, arrived in northern Utah, including Summit County, 500-700 years ago. In addition, there were three other major groups: the Goshutes…

The Way We Were

April 30, 1925 Gold seekers have been arriving on every boat during the past few days and are impatiently awaiting the opening of navigation on the Stikine River when they will leave for the new diggings in the Cassiar. The first fleet of boats will leave Wrangell for Telegraph Creek, B.C., as soon after the first of May as river conditions permit. Every year in the past there have been a few...