UTAH POSTEN, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1, 1885

• Rare Scandinavian newspaper from Utah

Here is a quite unusual and scarce newspaper from Utah, printed entirely in the Swedish language. And this is the volume 1, number 14 issue of a newspaper that would exist for only 15 issues.
There was a large number of Scandinavian emigrants to Utah in the 1850's - 1880's, and while most were Mormon many were not, drawn to the employment opportunities in Utah mines, mills, and smelters. This title is quite rare, printed in the Danish language and existing for just over 3 months. Gregory notes only one institution has issues of this title. It would be another 15 years in 1900 before another newspaper with the same title, 'Utah Posten', would be printed in the Swedish language.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, very nice condition.

Background: This exceptionally rare April 1, 1885 issue (Vol. 1, No. 14) of the short-lived Salt Lake City Utah Posten represents a crucial artifact of 19th-century Westward expansion, capturing the cultural footprint of Scandinavian immigrants who flocked to Territorial Utah between the 1850s and 1880s to work in regional mines, mills, smelters, and agricultural communities. The publication's extreme scarcity is defined by its fleeting lifespan—folding after just 15 issues across a three-month run—and its institutional rarity, as Winifred Gregory's canonical American Newspapers 1821–1936 records only a single institution possessing surviving issues. Serving a diverse enclave of both Mormon converts and non-Mormon laborers, it stands as an ephemeral predecessor to the second, better-known Utah Posten launched 15 years later in 1900, while surviving today in extraordinary four-page, unbound, and untrimmed original condition.