Download or read book The Awkward State of Utah written by Charles S. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics at the turn of the century -- Politics in the progressive era -- Agriculture in the new state -- Industrial development in the progressive era -- The formation of the wageworkers' Frontier -- The torturous maturation of an industrial workforce -- At the whiplash end of pluralism: Indians in the new state -- Changing federalism: the outdoors and its management -- Water for an arid state -- Utah in the 1920s -- Hard times: weathering the Great Depression -- Utah encounters the New Deal -- Simply revolutionary: Utahns confront the Second World War -- Conclusion.