Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names by Van Cott, John
Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names by Van Cott, John

Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names

Poverty Flat. Bearskin Gulch. Drunken Hollow. Soberville. Hogup Mountain. Lousy Jim Creek. Hey Hoe Canyon. Snake John...
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Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names by Van Cott, John

Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names

$45.18
Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names by Van Cott, John

Utah Place Names: A Comprehensive Guide to the Origins of Geographic Names

$45.18
Author: John Van Cott
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Poverty Flat. Bearskin Gulch. Drunken Hollow. Soberville. Hogup Mountain. Lousy Jim Creek. Hey Hoe Canyon. Snake John Reef. Sob Rapids. Nipple Butte. Tooele. Laverskin. Skutumpah. All Utah toponyms, or place names. Where are they? What is their history? Their importance? Are they, or where they populated? Do they exist today? And always, The name. how did they get it? Who provided it? When? What does it mean? Is Centerville in the center, and of what? Was Notom named for a rejected suitor?John W. Van Cott has spend the better part of a lifetime searching out the answers to these questions. Now the fruits of his labor are recorded in this, the most extensive compilation of Utah place names ever published. Almost five thousand toponyms are listed alphabetically, marking the passage of peoples and cultures from earliest times. Specialists will appreciate the geographical precision of Section, Township, Range, and altitude. Generalists will recognize counties and relationships to know features. All will delight in the rich lore, often a mixture of myth and history, of the place and its name. Scholars will find useful the inclusion of synonyms, nicknames, previous names, all cross-referenced, and all tied to a bibliography of over five hundred entries.The author concluded his work of over forty years with the observation that he hardly touched the surface of Utah's place names, numbered at over twenty-two thousand by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Author: John Van Cott
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 01/16/1991
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.04w x 1.21d
ISBN: 9780874803457

About the Author
John W. Van Cott is former supervisor of General Botany Laboratories in the botany and Range Science Department at Brigham Young University. During World War II he was the Lieutenant of Police on the Manhattan Project at Hanford Richland, Washington and has worked for both the U.S. Forest Service and the now non-existent U.S. Grazing Service. He was a charter member of the Utah State Committee on Geographic Names, and Founding President of the Utah Place Names Society.


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