Snazzy Stories

Tales of the Mountain Men who explored the West.

Eliza R. Snow was a powerhouse in the LDS faith and took action for what she believed. How will you use your voice?

If we don’t tell our stories they will be forgotten. But those stories are a part of who we are, and have made an impact on our lives even if don’t recognize it right away.

Stories of bravery and selflessness will always rise through the fire.

The Bear River Massacre story has fallen through the cracks of our history, but even the dark stories in our history deserve to be brought into the light.

How the most colorful park in the world came to be.

Sometimes we think that our lives will fade, but we will make our mark on this world because we exist. Mysteries and Legends New England: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained by Diana Ross McCain

Christmas Eve used to be filled with tales of those who have passed. Enjoy this Christmas haunt.

A Dixie Christmas by Lyman Hafen

https://historybecauseitshere.weebly.com/americans-and-britons-celebrated-thanksgiving-1942-in-war-weathered-england.html An American Feast: Six Memorable Thanksgivings Thomas Fleming

Mormon Pioneer Trail coming down into Emigration Canyon Top of Big Mountain looking to the Salt Lake Valley Mormon Flats

Halloween has had many faces throughout the years, but the Celtic traditions of Samhain is where it began. And some of those ancient traditions are still around today. https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween https://www.druidry.org/druid-way/teaching-and-practice/druid-festivals/samhain/deeper-samhain

The world view of the Mormon people has made huge leaps forward from where it was when the LDS church first began.

The Fremont people are one of the most enigmatic groups in the United States, one day we will hopefully know why they disappeared.

Adolph Hitler posed as the protector of the traditional family, but was actually projecting his racial views on the Germanic nation.

WWII may have been fought on foreign soil, but blood was ran on the grounds of Utah too. ttps://www.utahhumanities.org/stories/items/show/15 https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/53

WWI was devastating because of the new technology in weaponry produced in the 2nd Industrial Revolution, and the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest battle in Military History due to these new weapons. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/battle-of-the-sommehttps://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-battle-of-verdun

It is the 172nd anniversary of the Mormon Pioneers arriving in the Salt Lake Valley on July 24th, 1847. This episode consists of three interesting journal entries from three pioneers. I Walked to Zion: True Stories of Young Pioneers on he Mormon Trail by Susan Arrington Madsen