Julius Taylor, the editor of Salt Lake City’s African American newspaper, The Broad Ax, had not been in Utah long when he was invited to attend Old Folks’ Day in 1896. He wrote the following account. . . C. R. Savage, Esq., in 1874, twenty-two years ago, conceived the idea of giving the Old Folks of Utah (Utah the imperial and the matchless new State of the intermountain region), a grand, free excursion annually, and during all of the in...
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