Sterling D. Sessions is professor emeritus and former business school dean at Weber State University. He was also a faculty member at the Stanford Business School and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Gene A. Sessions is professor of history and department chair at Weber State University. He is the author of numerous books, including Prophesying Upon the Bones: J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933-39.
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List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Prologue I. Utah Construction Company 1. The Brothers Wattis 2. Steeling the West 3. Tepic to La Quemada 4. The Dam Builders 5. A Changing Company in a Changing World II. Utah Construction and Mining 6. Strategic Initiatives 7. A Change of Course 8. Land Development 9. The Peruvian Odyssey 10. Black Gold and Yellowcake III. Utah International, Inc. 11. Utah Down Under 12. The Multinational 13. Merger Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix A: Senior Management Biographical Sketches (as of 1967) Appendix B. Financial Summaries Notes on Sources Selected Bibliography Index About the Authors
"With a history beginning with railroad construction and spanning over a century, Utah International ventured into varied major construction projects before switching to large-scale mining. The authors have woven a fascinating story of this remarkable enterprise."--David F. Myrick, author of Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California and Railroads of Arizona "Writing corporate history requires a delicate equilibrium. Sterling D. and Gene A. Sessions (no relation) have managed to strike that balance by not only illuminating the history of Utah International, but by also casting it in a favorable light."--Western Historical Quarterly