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Utah's Ellis Island: The Difficult Americanization" of Carbon County BY P H i L I P
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Carbon County section gong. George Edward Anderson photograph, courtesy Brigham Young University.
1 - i T H N I C DIVERSITY CHARACTERIZES
Carbon County. This variety forms a unique cultural resource around which county residents may identify, cither as descendants of an immigrant group or as individuals coming into daily contact with the ethnic mix. In addition to immigration, railroads, coal mining, and labor—reasons for the immigrant influx— form an intregal part of Carbon County's history and in turn comprise a Mr. Notarianni is a historian with the preservation section, Utah State Historical Society.
