WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
BOOK
"From the Trench to the Bench ... Dreams Do Come True"
"A History of the Hurricane Valley"
by the Hurricane Camp of Daughters of Utah Pioneers
Published by Red Mountain Shadows Publishing, 2019
ISBN-13: 978-1-709770-975 or 97 817 0977 097 5
AVAILABILITY
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COVER
 Front Cover |
 Back Cover (for an expanded view, click here) |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Our Story Begins - Introduction by Shirlee Last | 1 |
| Before Hurricane Was Founded | 7 |
| Hurricane Canal and James Jepson | 11 |
| Carl Wadsworth - Ditch Rider | 19 |
| Holidays in Hurricane and Area | 25 |
| Doctors of Hurricane | 35 |
| Dr. Priddy Meeks | 37 |
| Biography of Harold Herbert Wilkinson "Hurricane's First Doctor" | 39 |
| Dr. Russell M. Aiken - A Country Doctor | 41 |
| Dr. Clark Mclntire | 47 |
| Dr. Garth Last | 51 |
| Dr. Garth Last's Decision to Come to Hurricane | 57 |
| Cane Beds, Arizona | 61 |
| Upper Smith Mesa - Arizona Strip - Hurricane Mesa Test Site | 67 |
| Alice Isom Gubler Stratton | 75 |
| Education and Schools in the Early Days of Hurricane | 85 |
| Recollections of Early Hurricane Celebrations | 89 |
| Hurricane Business from 1906 to ... "Watch Us Grow" | 91 |
| David Hirschi and Claudius Hirschi | 109 |
| The Mesa That Roars | 115 |
| Hurricane Grist Mill & Flour Mill | 117 |
| Gould's Shearing Corral | 121 |
| The Bridge | 123 |
| Loren's Legacy | 127 |
| Thomas Maurice and Wilhelmina Walker Hinton | 135 |
| Jacob Louis and Mary Catherine Redd Workman | 137 |
| Nephi Johnson and Mary Elizabeth Spendlove Workman | 139 |
| Thomas and Annie Hinton Isom | 141 |
| Amos Jackson and Amanda Jane Burke Workman | 143 |
| Franklin Thomas and Charlotte Matthews Ashton | 145 |
| Charles Adelbert and Josephine Pickett Workman | 147 |
| Erastus Franklin and Harriet Elizabeth Stratton Lee | 149 |
| Ira Elsey and Marion Hinton Bradshaw | 153 |
| James Anthony and Louisa Cox Jepson | 155 |
| Bernard Bulmer and Isabel Hilton Hinton | 157 |
| My Hometown Trivia - Hurricane, Utah | 159 |
| "Hurricane in the Fifties" | 165 |
| Photo Album Begins | 169 |