Mysteries, Hauntings, and More

Chilling cold cases, haunted houses, and strange-but-true tales from America’s past. Ideal for armchair detectives and spooky story lovers

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Selling Sex in Utah
Eileen Hallet Stone
$23.99
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Supernatural Lore of Southern Utah
Darren M. Edwards
$21.99
Cover image for Legends, Lore & True Tales in Mormon Country, isbn: 9781626199392
Legends, Lore & True Tales in Mormon Country
Monte Bona
$21.99
Cover image for Ghosts of Ogden, Brigham City and Logan, isbn: 9781467137850
Ghosts of Ogden, Brigham City and Logan
Jennifer Jones
$21.99
Cover image for Haunted Salt Lake City, isbn: 9781467138246
Haunted Salt Lake City
Kristen Lynne Clay
$23.99
Cover image for Utah Outlaw Patrick Coughlin, isbn: 9781467159869
Utah Outlaw Patrick Coughlin
Brian Craig
$24.99
Eileen Hallet Stone

Selling Sex in Utah

9781467149112

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Uncovering Sin, Scandal and Sensuality

In the late 1840s, the new frontier west of the Missouri River opened its floodgates to opportunity and adventure. In a new land, where men were lonely and women scarce, prostitutes poured in to ply their trade wherever they could—under trees, in wagons or random shanties. Within decades, prostitution expanded into cities and towns. Red light districts, brothels and cribs sprouted like wildflowers. Ogden’s notorious madam Belle London enticed Salt Lake Councilmen to hire her to oversee their one hundred fifty room crib stockade. Park City’s Mother Urban successfully defended her sixteen row houses as “necessities” for thousands of miners. The ballyhooed brothels of Helper stimulated “hunting trips” for Salt Lake men willing to travel for sex. Award-winning author Eileen Hallet Stone combed newspapers, archives and court cases to examine the lives, equity and infamy of Utah prostitution.

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Darren M. Edwards

Supernatural Lore of Southern Utah

9781467150446

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Explore humanity through what haunt us in Supernatural Lore of Southern Utah!


From the fanciful and revelatory to the horrifying and sorrowful, the folklore of Southern Utah hints at a complex history. Whether spiritual or spooky, home-grown legends are a window to understanding local culture. Visit Grafton, Utah’s most haunted ghost town. Explore what haunts Southern Utah University in Cedar City, the St. George Temple and Touquerville’s “murder house.” Learn about skinwalkers and the theft of Native American beliefs. Examine the numerous urban legends surrounding Route 666, “The Devil’s Highway.” Uncover the secrets of the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the curse of Escalante Petrified Forest. Drawing on information from over two hundred interviews, Darren M. Edwards investigates the tales and myths that permeate and persist in communities throughout red rock country.

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Monte Bona

Legends, Lore & True Tales in Mormon Country

9781626199392

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Utah's Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area offers breathtaking natural resources, powerful historical drama and intriguing cultural traditions. This rich legacy is built on old-world values of cooperation, industry, ingenuity and true grit—as well as a miracle or two. From frontier justice and lost treasure to the lasting contributions of a Presbyterian minister and a Jewish settlement, talented regional historians, educators and storytellers bring to life these legends, lore and true tales from the heart of Mormon country.
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Jennifer Jones

Ghosts of Ogden, Brigham City and Logan

9781467137850

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Tales of fascinating pasts and spirited encounters in northern Utah’s spookiest locations from the author and founder of The Dead History.

From Ogden up to Logan, northern Utah claims more than its fair share of restless spirits. The Ben Lomond Hotel was rumored to be the site of a honeymooning bride who tragically drowned in her bathtub, only to have her distraught son consequently commit suicide in the adjoining room. The iconic Union Station still houses passengers in the form of apparitions and disembodied voices. The owner of the Shooting Star Saloon purportedly continues to monkey around with the jukebox and a phantom piano, while Crystal Hot Springs hosts a bevy of spirits, including a crying child, a stabbing victim and multiple pool-related fatalities.

Author Jennifer Jones unearths the stories behind the ghosts that continue to preside over their final destinations.

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Kristen Lynne Clay

Haunted Salt Lake City

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“Haunted mansions, phantom nuns and a poltergeist wedding crasher . . . The book’s pages are filled with accounts of ghostly sightings.” —Deseret News

Uncovering ghost stories in Salt Lake City leads to a spooky mixture of legend, lore and local history.

A young female apparition likes to surprise guests of the McCune Mansion by leaping from a mirror. Believed to be stationed at Fort Douglas, a Civil War vet named Clem still teases female visitors. Staff at the historic Devereaux Mansion, once a major social center, relented in their vain nightly attempts to keep the lights off and let the spirits continue their eternal party. Nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Cross still visit patients in the hospital they established.

The guides of Story Tours’ Salt Lake City Ghost Tour reveal characters who just can’t seem to leave the valley.

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Brian Craig

Utah Outlaw Patrick Coughlin

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Before Butch Cassidy, there was Patrick Coughlin.

 

It began with the theft of some strawberries from a street peddler in Park City, Utah Territory, in 1895. By the time it was over, two lawmen were dead, and Patrick Coughlin was facing a firing squad. The young gunslinger, in a desperate bid to escape the punishment for his initial crime, caused one of the most thrilling manhunts in the state’s history. The outlaw and his sidekick went on a crime spree, escalating from stealing horses to gunfights, all with the posse tailing them, ending in a shootout at a remote cabin. When Patrick Coughlin was finally recaptured and tried, he would become the first prisoner sentenced to death in the state.

Join author and lawyer Brian Craig as he recounts the thrilling story of Patrick Coughlin, Utah’s original desperado.


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