Bibliography

If you know of books about Uintah County or the people that once called it home, please email the information to the coordinator.

A History of Uintah County "Scratching the Surface"
Doris K. Burton
pub. Utah State Historical Society 1996
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
$23.00 includes shipping

Settlements of Uintah County "Digging Deeper"
Doris K. Burton
pub. Uintah County Library 1998
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
$34.95 includes shipping

Vernal Express (Newspaper) indexed 1891-1947
Copies available through the Uintah County Library Regional Center
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
email: info@uintah.lib.ut.us

"Builders of Uintah"
Compiled by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers 2nd ed.1976
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal
Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
$25.00 The Index for this book can be purchased separately for $5.00

"From Tabernacle to Temple: the Story of the Vernal Utah Temple"
Kathleen Irving with John Barton
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
$20.00 plus shipping

"The Outlaw Trail Journal"
Published twice yearly
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal
Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
A membership to the Outlaw Trail Association costs $18.00 per year. As a member you will receive two issues of the journal and two newsletters per year. Non-members can purchase current and past issues from $3 to $6.50, plus postage.

"Queen Ann Bassett alias Etta PLace" Doris K. Burton
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal
Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
Cost $3.00

"Tales From Indian Country"
Authentic Stories and Legends from the Great Uintah Basin
George E. Stewart Jr.
pub. 1997
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$19.95 plus shipping

Or write to:
MaryEllen Stewart Gardner
P.O. Box 900983
Sandy, UT 84090

Uintah County's Historical Sites and Homes
Uintah County Historic Preservation Commission
compiled by Doris Burton and William Jolley
pub 1989
Available from the Uintah County Library Regional Center
155 E. Main St. Vernal
Main Phone: (435) 789-0091
Vol 1 $4.00 plus shipping, Vol 2 $3.50 plus shipping

"Buckskin Entrepreneur"
Antoine Robidoux and the Fur Trade of the Uintah Basin 1824-1844
John D. Barton
pub. 1996 Oakfield Publishing Co.
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$9.95 plus shipping

"100 Years in Brown's Park & Diamond Mountain"
Dick DeJournette
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$34.95 plus shipping

"William H. Ashley - Biography"
Richard Clokey
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$14.95 plus shipping

"Tales from the High Country"
A collection of stories about Uintah County
Uintah County Histoical Society
Labyrinth Publishing 1980
Currently out of print

"The Last Trapper: An American Saga"
Family stories including The Goodrich, Taggart and Slaugh families
by Erma Armstrong, Tanglewood Hill Press 1996
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$19.95 plus shipping

"Faded Footprints - The Lost Rhoades Mines"
"And Other Hidden Treasures of the Uintahs"
by George A. Thompson, Dream Garden Press 1991
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$19.95 plus shipping (2nd edition)

"Uintah Railway:The Gilsonite Route"
by Henry E. Bender Jr.
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$39.95 plus shipping

"Uintah Railway Pictorial"
by Rodger Polley
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$50.00 plus shipping

"Indian Summers:A Memoir of Fort Duchesne,1925-1935"
by Virginia Carlson Parker
Paperback, Agreka Books 1998
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$17.00 plus shipping

"Gold of Carre Shinob"
The Final Chapter of the Lost Rhoades Mines, Seven Lost Cities, Montezuma's Treasure
by Kerry Boren
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$19.95 plus shipping

"Of Men and Gold"
History and Evidence of Spanish Gold Mines in the West
by Stephen Sheffer
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$21.95 plus shipping

"Treasures of the Ancients"
Recent discoveries of Ancient Writings in North America
by Stephen Sheffer
Available through Bitter Creek Books
672 W. Vernal, Utah 84078 phone 435-789-4742
$13.98 plus shipping

 

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Last Updated: 03.06.2018