Episode 137- Images of America Price

Todd is joined this week on the show by Bobcat and Kitty, owners of The Eastern Utah Tourism and History Association, the sponsor of My Side of the Universe. Bobcat and Kitty join the show to talk about their latest book: "Images of America Price". Founded by Mormons and settled by immigrants, Price, Utah, is a city of contradictions. Settled in the late 1870s, it was not until the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad discovered coal in the surrounding mountains that the town bloomed. Nearly overnight, trainloads of coal and other merchandise made Price into the commercial center of eastern Utah. As one of the safe havens for Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, it was their outlaw gold that funded the city's continued growth. With one of the most outspoken mayors the city ever had, Price fought the State of Utah for the right to maintain its saloons, gambling halls, and bawdy houses.