Sources

Brimhall and Merritt, "Geology of Utah Lake: implications for resource management," Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 5 (1981) (remnant of Lake Bonneville, about 8,000 years; Utah Lake more than one fourth of Utah Valley); Utah Geological Survey and Wikipedia, "Lake Bonneville" (size near Lake Michigan, shorelines, named by G. K. Gilbert for Benjamin Bonneville; Great Salt Lake, Utah Lake and Sevier Lake as remnants); Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 5, Utah Lake fisheries chapter (cutthroat of 15 to 16 pounds); Provo historical marker "Carp Not Native to Utah Lake" (thirteen native species); U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (June sucker found only in Utah Lake; Provo River main spawning site); Utah Lake history timeline (Jordan River, the only outlet).

Utah History to Go, "Ute Indians" (bands, Timpanogos around Utah Lake, Uintah Valley reservation 1861, relocation of Utah Valley Utes in the 1860s); Utah Humanities, "From the Earth into Bellies: Timpanogos Utes" (spring fish runs at the Provo River mouth, foods and seasonal round); Holzapfel p. 68 (Lake View 1855); Dominguez and Escalante journal, 1776.

Provo historical marker "Carp Not Native to Utah Lake; Introduced in 1882" (13 native species; trout reduced within thirty years); Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 5 (1981), Utah Lake fisheries chapter (cutthroat of 15 to 16 pounds; fishing companies, seines and traps; introductions); Utah Humanities (carp considered a superior food fish, soured on by the 1890s); utahlake.gov, "How are carp removed from Utah Lake?"; Utah Lake history timeline (1930s drought; last Bonneville cutthroat captured 1932). Sources disagree on the year carp arrived (1882, 1883, 1886), so the story says the early 1880s. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, June 2020 (groundbreaking, nearly 260 acres); KSL, Oct 2024 (March 2020 start, 2023 diversion, 150,000 native plants); U.S. Department of the Interior, Oct 25, 2024 (downlisted Jan 4, 2021; 3,785 detected spawning); provoriverdelta.us, 2022 Year in Review (139 adults in 2002; over 5,000 in 2022).

Utah Division of State History, "1776: The Domínguez-Escalante Expedition" (ilovehistory.utah.gov: entered Utah about Sept 11, Diamond Fork and Spanish Fork canyons, Joaquín traveled on to Santa Fe, route south); Utah America 250 story slides (Sept 23, 1776, the Timpanogos Utes, the lake named Timpanogo); Historical Marker Database, Spanish Fork markers "The Lush Valley of the Timpanogotzis" and "Dominguez y Escalante Expedition" (Sept 23, valley name, the fish quotation); BYU Religious Studies Center, "The Place Which God for Us Prepared"; University of Utah, Utah Historical Quarterly excerpt (Fish Eaters); Wikipedia and Legends of America (ten men, July 29 departure, casting lots, return to Santa Fe January 1777); KSL, "1776 expedition set Utah stage for Mormon pioneers" (traders, Frémont); Library of Congress (Miera map, 1778); Wikimedia Commons (Capitol mural by Lee Greene Richards, 1934). Arrival day: Utah State History gives Sept 22 for reaching the valley; markers, BYU and the state's America 250 materials give Sept 23 for emerging from the canyon. Sept 23 is used.

Wikipedia, Fort Utah (March 12, 1849, John S. Higbee, about 150 people sent by Brigham Young; measles winter 1849 to 1850; February 1850 battles; flooding moved the settlement in 1850); Utah History to Go, Ute Indians; Holzapfel p. 68 (Lake View 1855, the pioneers named, floods of 1861 and 1862, the Sunday School of July 17, 1877, Peter Madsen). Photo: a wagon train; not identified as a Utah scene.

Wikipedia, "Fort Utah" and "Battle at Fort Utah" (Old Bishop killed over a shirt and hidden in the river; Jan 31, 1850 council; Brigham Young's authorization; Feb 8, 1850 militia surrounded the camp at Old Elk's; two days of fighting; dozens of Utes and one settler killed; prisoners taken to Salt Lake City; Walker War); Intermountain Histories, "The Provo River Battle" (BYU Charles Redd Center); Utah Humanities Beehive Archive, "Massacre at Table Point" (pursuit to Rock Canyon and south); KUER, March 2, 2026 (Old Elk's death; peak renamed Kyhv Peak in 2022); Utah History to Go, "Ute Indians" (Uintah reservation).

A History of Utah County (Holzapfel, 1999), p. 68 (Lake View 1855, the settlers named, July 17, 1877 Sunday School, Peter Madsen bishop fifteen years); Wikipedia, "Fort Utah" (March 1849); Voice of Sharon, Dec 4, 1941, p. 1; Orem-Geneva Times, Dec 26, 1946, p. 4 (Utah Digital Newspapers); Deseret News, Aug 27, 2004 (Gammon's mission); general Latter-day Saint migration history as told in the pioneer story.

Holzapfel p. 68 (Lake View 1855, the pioneers named, the floods of 1861 and 1862, the Sunday School of July 17, 1877, Peter Madsen); Orem-Geneva Times, February 1946 (Sgt. Wayne Gammon); Deseret News, April 25, 1989, "Utah's newest small town is Vineyard" (the petition, Rulon Gammon as the residents' spokesman, the $80,000 a year, the advice to wait); Deseret News, Nov 12, 1991, "Community profile: Vineyard" (costs far below $80,000, the park paid by Geneva's taxes); Deseret News, April 27, 2000, "Pupils get a look at farm life" (sixth Farm Field Days, 3,800 children); Deseret News, Aug 27, 2004, "Vineyard losing an icon: 151 its mayor" (the sale of the 94-acre farm, born in the farmhouse, resigning, the mission, PacifiCorp). Rulon Gammon's health is not told. Deseret News, June 26, 2016: the J. Rulon Gammon Vineyard Heritage Park (and the town's plan to add the Robins family's last 11 acres to it).

Holzapfel p. 133 (1888); Lindon City historic marker text for the Geneva Resort (2130 W 600 S, Lindon: named for Captain John Dallin's daughter, harbor, wells, pavilion, hotel, concessions, springs under the dance floor, open walls, two pools, hamburger 10 cents, root beer 5 cents, swimming 20 cents; the marker says building began in 1890 and the book says 1888, so the story gives no building date); a Utah County local history of the resort (Utah Digital Newspapers, OCR text): land bought March 26, 1888, hotel, saloon and pavilion, excursion trains from Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo, Eureka, Manti and Nephi, 1907 Utah Lake Club, 1917 electric plant, 1920 Hebertson brothers, about 1935 end, Utah Power and Light plan dropped, buildings torn down about 1939; the 1921 bootlegger complaint (earlier V10 research); KSL, resort closed 1935; Deseret News, 2010: the mill was named for the resort; T.C. Hebertson's column "Geneva Steel Named After Resort" (the dream, the artesian well, the Hebertsons and band dances); Springville collection record for John Hafen's 1896 painting. The resort's wartime store is not told here: it is not about the resort's own story.

Holzapfel, A History of Utah County (1999), pp. 198 to 200: Rex Blake's own account (farm bought with few improvements, milking at eight in 1922, milk by wagon to the milk house and by rail to Clover Leaf Dairy, chilblains, the walk to Vineyard School, the tin tub, the 1928 Model A at fourteen, "We just grew up"); p. 198 (prices fell after the war); p. 199 (1924 Pleasant Grove Canning Company notice naming Vineyard and Lake View; 1928 Springville Herald on dairying). Nothing added beyond the book.

Holzapfel pp. 246 to 247 (more than 10,000 workers, $200 million, November 1941 to December 1944; resources and site; ads for 2,000 laborers, machinists and millwrights; the recruiter at the Provo employment office on October 26, 1944; farmers promised time off for farm work); Deseret News, March 9, 1992, "Geneva Steel filled critical role for U.S. in WWII" (1936 proposal, November 1941 approval, land bought by March 1942 from J.O. Stone, fires, ads nationwide, first order April 1944); Deseret News, 2010 (4,200 workers, pay above the area average, 634,000 tons of plate and 144,000 of shapes); Utah Humanities (30% of the county's workers by 1960); Intermountain Histories, "United States Geneva Works" (Ken Jolley's paper route; Mark Johnson, Daily Herald, 2015); Deseret News, Dec 22, 2002, "Families of steel" (the Miller family: Dean Hardy joined the builders in 1942; Wendell Watkins, 36 years, candy in his daughter's lunch box; Gwen Miller's cruise-ship view; about 160 years combined); Utah History to Go (shortages of workers, equipment and materials); Deseret News, 2010 (the 1943 help wanted ad, the August 21, 1945 county meeting); Utah History Encyclopedia and Wikipedia (the 1946 sale, the $144 million estimate); a railroad history of the mill (about 900 workers on standby after the war). Left out on purpose (Jacob, Nov 2026): a story that turns on who the workers were instead of the work.

Holzapfel p. 236 (George Blake); Voice of Sharon, Dec 4, 1941; Voice of Sharon, April 16, 1942, "Wider Vineyard Highway Asked"; Orem-Geneva Times, 1945 and 1946 Vineyard columns (the names and notes already shown on the page under Vineyard in the war; Orem-Geneva Times, April 4, 1946 and Dec 26, 1946); Deseret News, March 9, 1992 (farmland bought by March 1942; the airmen's letters of February 25, 1945). Newspaper names on Utah Digital Newspapers are the ones listed on the page, text only.

Holzapfel pp. 355 to 356 (the 1984 warning, the BYU study, Joe and Chris Cannon, the investors from the BYU law school, Senator Hatch and the $100,000 a day month, midnight on August 31, 1987, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes); company history of Geneva Steel (funding universe and reference for business, from the 1990s): Robert Grow, the Texas lender, the gas to the coke ovens, 33 days to the first shipment, the wage package, ten days of inventory, the furnaces from near Chicago (five barges, 92 trucks, 67,000 man-hours, batch 45 minutes against 5.5 hours); Deseret News, Dec 22, 2002, "Families of steel" (Gwen Miller, the Geneva Wives, Donnie Cook's 1987 ad, the cakes on September 1). The price of the 1987 deal is not given: sources differ ($40 million, $44 million).

Deseret News, Dec 31, 2003, "Geneva gets Chinese offer" (the $35.3 million offer, the four pieces of the core line, Ken Johnsen, Carl Ramnitz, used equipment); Deseret News, Feb 5, 2004, "Chinese firm gets OK to buy Geneva assets" (Judge Glen E. Clark, Nanjing's $41.5 million bid without a letter of credit, the Bank of China, Shandong, Qingdao's 7 million people, George He's 18 to 24 months, Johnsen's bittersweet); Deseret News, July 9, 2004, and Recycling Today (Tetra Tech's $27 million contract, about two years, three other international clients); Deseret News, July 1, 2005, "Razing of old mill signals end of era" (the July 2005 implosion, 5,000 pounds of explosives, more than 300 drill holes, two stacks, nine stoves, three blast furnaces, four stoves left standing, Michael Curtis, Jim McClure); Geneva Steel company history (the Chicago furnaces of 1991, to tie the story to The miracle mill: Geneva's Q-BOP line); Wikipedia, "Geneva Steel" (the 2005 land sale to Anderson Geneva for $46.8 million). Washington Post: no article about Geneva Steel was found.

Deseret News, Nov 12, 1991, "Community profile: Vineyard" (population 151, Utah's 211th largest, about 75 percent of residents related, Holdaway households, median age 24.5, household 4.19, median home price $83,900, costs below $80,000, the $400,000 park, library cards, crime, no presidential vote yet); Holzapfel p. 406 (about 155 in 1998; the park's courts); Wikipedia, "Vineyard, Utah" (2010 and 2020 counts). The racial breakdown in the profile is not used. Deseret News, June 26, 2016 (the Holdaways, Margaret and David Robins, the Clegg Farm).

Wikipedia, "Geneva Steel" (2005 land sale to Anderson Geneva, $46.8 million); Wikipedia, "Lake Side Power Station" and Industrial Info (construction began April 2005, completed 2007, 22 acres of the Geneva site); Deseret News, Aug 27, 2004 (Gammon and PacifiCorp); UVU Review (@Geneva, Gerald Anderson on the name); BYU Universe, Feb 28, 2020 (UVU 125 acres, 2014); Deseret News, June 26, 2016 (417 percent); utahtheaters.info and BYU Daily Universe (Megaplex, March 13, 2015); Salt Lake Tribune, Aug 13, 2022 (FrontRunner); Daily Herald, Aug 29, 2023 (Utah City name, 700 acres, Flagship and Woodbury); KSL, April 2026 (Greenline); Daily Herald, Feb 12, 2025 (Bella's groundbreaking, 875 N. Main St.); Utah City, Nov 18, 2025 (opening).