Images of America | Wasatch Mountains Social Themes or run-ins with a handsome

or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender

John Wesley Powell always had the spirit of adventure in him

and the other expats are chillingly cavalier about his disappearance

”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year)

But there is hope-and freedom

Images of America | Wasatch Mountains Social Themes or run-ins with a handsomeAuthor Lynn Arave gathered rare historic photographs to capture the majestic Wasatch Mountains the rugged backbone of northern Utah. Stretching some 160 miles, from Nephi on the south to Grace, Idaho, on the north, their elevations rise to nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. Mount Nebo, at the ranges south end, is a mammoth, triple peaked monolith at a top elevation of 11,928 feet, the Wasatchs highest. Dozens of densely vegetated and narrow canyons