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Brighton Ski Resort records, 1915-2000

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Brighton Ski Resort
Title
Brighton Ski Resort records
Dates
1915-2000 (inclusive)
Quantity
0.5 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 1838
Summary
The Brighton Ski Resort records (1915-2000) contain a master plan, brochures, season pass forms, trial maps, posters, articles, news clippings, ski passes, and typescript histories detailing the development of both Brighton, Utah and Brighton Ski Resort. The first serviced ski area in Utah was created at Brighton in 1936. The resort area has been expanded to cover 850 acres today.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Brighton, Utah first gained notoriety on 24 July 1857 when Mormon pioneers convened there to celebrate the tenth anniversary of their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. Nearly eighty years later, in 1936, the Wasatch Mountain Club built a rope tow in Brighton, thus creating the first serviced ski area in the state of Utah. Improvements continued in 1946 when Brighton Recreations built, on the slopes of Mt. Millicent, the first chairlift in Brighton. Responding to Brighton Recreation's developments, a competing lift company in Brighton managed by Zane Doyle and Willard Jensen built, in 1956, a double chair lift, the first in the intermountain region. Seven years later Doyle and Jensen bought out their competitor and created Mt. Majestic, Inc., which added two new chairlifts and night skiing facilities at Brighton. In 1986, Boyne USA, a family-owned corporation headed by John Kircher, purchased the ski area and proceeded to build two additional lifts which today allow a skier at Brighton to access 850 acres of terrain. Additional items of interest in this collection include a history of Brighton's Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association Girls Camp, a history of Butlerville, Utah, a history of the Alpine Rose Lodge, and a report on the construction of both the Twin Lakes and Phoebe-Mary dams in 1915.

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Content Description

The Brighton Ski Resort records (1915-2000) contain a master plan, brochures, season pass forms, trial maps, posters, articles, news clippings, ski passes, and typescript histories detailing the development of both Brighton, Utah and Brighton Ski Resort. This collection was photocopied and the originals were returned to Brighton Ski Resort in November 2000.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Brighton Ski Resort in 2000.

Box 1, folder 20 was donated by John Clark in 2008.

1965/1966 ski pass purchased from Ken Sanders Rare Books in 2020.

Separated Materials

Photographs transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0379).

Processing Note

Processed by Dylan Esson in 2000.

Addendum processed by Betsey Welland in 2014 and 2022.

Related Materials

Forms part of the Ski and Snow Sports Archives (S.J. Quinney Outdoor Recreation Archives).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • General Materials

    • Description: Brighton Master Plan
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
    • Description: Brighton Time Line
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
    • Description: Brochures and Trail Maps
      Dates: 1987-2000
      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
    • Description: Season Passes and Receipts
      Dates: 1987-1996
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
    • Description: "Brighton Ski and Snowboard School Yearbook"
      Dates: 1999-2000
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
    • Description: Logo Designs
      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
    • Description: Brighton Ski Bowl
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7
    • Description: Mount Majestic Manor and Lodge-Motel

      This folder contains Mount Majestic Manor and Lodge-Motel place mat picturing a stylized map of the Brighton.

      Container: Box 1, Folder 8
    • Description: Henry S. Florence, "Ten Years at the Alpine Rose Lodge"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 9
    • Description: Dixie B. Conger, "William Stuart Brighton"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 10
    • Description: Twin Lakes and Phoebe-Mary Dams
      Dates: 1915
      Container: Box 1, Folder 11
    • Description: Philip M. Howard Jr., "From Pioneer to Powder"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
    • Description: Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association Girls Camp
      Container: Box 1, Folder 13
    • Description: "'Brighton' A Special Feeling That Stays in Your Heart Forever"
      Container: Box 1, Folder 14-15
    • Description: "Communities of Jordan School District"
      Dates: 1945-1946
      Container: Box 1, Folder 16
    • Description: Merlin A. Butler, "A History of Butlerville"
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 1, Folder 17
    • Description: News Clippings
      Container: Box 1, Folder 18
    • Description: Display Items
      Container: Box 1, Folder 19
    • Description: Ski Passes
      Dates: 1967-1969
      Container: Box 1, Folder 20
    • Description: Brighton Ski Resort Trial Maps
      Container: Map case folder 1