Talk:Moab, Utah

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After the article says "The city got its name from the Mormons who named the town from Genesis 19:37"The first born gave birth to a son and named him Moab. He is the father of the Moabites of today." Someone's put down "This is one of many Bible terms that they have stolen". This sentence is neither helpful nor polite to the Mormons. The first sentence already mentioned that the name is from the bible, and to say that someone's "stolen" it... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 204.50.116.10 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Weird sentence

Moab farmers who had formerly traded with passing travelers changed to do business by rail.

"By rail" implies that they travelled around on trains. If they started selling their produce at train stations, it should say that instead. If they sold produce on the trains, it should say that. Unless they started farming on the trains, this sentence doesn't make much sense. Kafziel 12:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

-- I added most of the history section, and the sentence you mention with the words "by rail". Feel free to revise. When I first started contributing to this page the history section was VERY inaccurate (note the above discussion paragraph as one example). So I rewrote the history section and at the time was researching railroads for another project. So railroads were on my mind. I now regret putting so much railroad content to the history section and am considering removing it myself. My intent was to state that soon after Moab was established some major changes were made in the U.S. trade routes. This changed Moab from being a strategic trade city to being a very remote place. I think I did that successfully but may also have left the impresion that Moab is a railroad city, which it is not. Railroads were just the medium of change of the day. I was also loosly paraphrasing a book called "Grand Memories" and the following website: http://www.moabcity.org/general/history.htm. Again feel free to clean up the words, I'll admit I'm not the best writer. Davemeistermoab 20:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)