Ogden (Images of America) snowboard alpine meadows

alpine meadows

offering valuable insights into the state's mining heritage

and new technologies are discussed

By: Michael O'Reilly

With more than 50 new photographs and updated illustrations

Ogden (Images of America) snowboard alpine meadowsBy John Sillito and Sarah Langsdon In 1845, Miles Goodyear founded a settlement at Fort Buenaventura, located near the confluence of the Weber and Ogden Rivers. The area was renamed Ogden in 1851 by Mormon Church president Brigham Young after Peter Skene Ogden, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trapper. Ogden prospered as an agricultural town and then thrived with the arrival of the railroads, when the growing community, often referred to as "Junction City,"