Park City’s Growth from Mining to Today

Dalton will discuss the development of Park City into a mining community, including some of the larger mines and life for residents. He will continue into Park City’s transition to the skiing industry and all of the growth that has come with that.

Dalton Gackle is the Research, Digital Services, and Social Media Coordinator at the Park City Museum in Park City, Utah. An American West and Pop Culture historian by way of the Midwest, Dalton manages the Park City Museum’s Hal Compton Research Library. He is responsible for all research, historic photograph orders, oral histories, and the Museum's weekly Way We Were articles and social media. He is also an archivist, processing and digitizing the Museum's manuscript and visual collections to make them available to patrons and researchers. He is a graduate of Iowa State University in journalism and history and of Indiana University Purdue University of Indianapolis (IUPUI) in public history.