Transcontinental Travelers' Excursions to Salt Lake City and Ogden: A Photographic Essay BY C A R O L Y N R H O D E S - J O N E S
l \ F E W CURIOSITY-SEEKERS CAME to inspect the Mormon settlements in the 1850s and 1860s, but tourism did not flourish until better transportation ended Utah's isolation. Once the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, even the less adventurous traveler took to the rails to see what lay between New York and San Francisco, and Salt Lake City required a special excursion. Before Ogden was established as a railroad town, the westbound tourist left the train at Uintah, journeyed by stage to Salt Lake City, Mrs. Rhodes-Jones is exhibit coordinator for the Interpreting Local History project. Special thanks goes to Craig Fuller, field coordinator for the project and now with the U t a h State Historical Society, who located and compiled the valuable collection of Ogden photographs from which the ones published here were taken.
