One Book One Community - Dalton Gackle Author Visit

This event is part of One Book One Community. After reading The Cold Millions by Jess Walter, come learn about Park City's own rich history and labor struggles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with historian and author Dalton Gackle.

Settled after the Civil War, and incorporated in 1884, Park City grew into one of the world’s most prestigious mining camps. Known primarily for its richness in silver, Park City miners also extracted, lead, zinc, gold, and copper from the surrounding hills. As the mines grew, so too did the town, attracting businesspeople, grocers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and more to the area, in addition to miners and prospectors seeking to strike it rich. From mines large (like the Silver King and the Ontario) to small (like the Nelson Queen), Park City’s early history is that of the triumphs and tragedies of mining, the ebbs and flows of the community, and the metals that made it all happen. Dalton’s book Images of America: Park City covers an overview of this history, and this presentation will look briefly at Park City’s mining days, labor struggles, and general life.

There will be a book signing after the event with copies of the book available to purchase from the author.

Dalton Gackle is the Research, Digital services, and Social Media Coordinator at the Park City Museum (Park City, UT). An American West and Pop Culture historian by way of the Midwest, Dalton manages the Park City Museum’s Hal Compton Research Library. He is responsible for all research, historic photograph orders, oral histories, and the Museum's weekly Way We Were articles and social media. He is also an archivist, processing and digitizing the Museum's manuscript and visual collections to make them available to patrons and researchers. Dalton is the author of Images of America: Park City (Arcadia Publishing and The History Press).

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