A History of Southern Utah and Its National Parks (Revised)

When Jacob Hamblin led a third expedition across the Colorado River to reach the Moquis in the fall of 1860, he was met by a band of unfriendly Navajos who would not let the mis...

The inhabitants are principally foreigners, and mostly Englishmen from the coal districts of Great Britain. At the time of our visit, the place was crowded with the people of th...

Their wickiups were made upon a framework of poles lashed together at the top in such way as to leave an opening for smoke to escape. The poles, tied with sinew in the conventio...

Smith called the Virgin the Adams River in compliment to President John Quincy Adams, although it was in territory then claimed by Mexico. At the mouth of Santa Clara Creek, he...

Mrs. Eunice Munk of Manti, who as a girl of 12 or 14 spent more than a year in Springdale, recalled that in the summer of 1864 the Behunins told her that in Zion Canyon the chic...

Captains J. D. L. Pearce and James Andrus were at Harrisburg on the evening of December 29, when an express carrying instructions to Colonel Winsor at Rockville arrived. Upon re...

While southern Utah was thus growing, a new movement was developed. In 1879, the Mormon Church leaders called for eighty men from the Southern Mission to establish an outpost fo...

This failure did not kill the idea of raising cotton in Dixie, but further experiments were necessary before the industry could properly expand. In January, 1857, a small compan...

One of the interesting characters among these hunters was “Uncle” Jim Owen, who with his hounds took about six hundred cougars from the Kaibab and one hundred and thirty from re...

During the next winter in Washington, D.C., Albright toyed with the idea of changing the name of the monument from Mukuntuweap to Zion and was urged to do so by Douglas White. S...

The Indian Heritage 111-118 Habits and Customs 118-122 Early Explorations 123-130 Early Mormon Settlement 130-138 Pushing south into Dixie 138-150 Settlement of Zion Canyon 150-...

The next year saw the official opening of the Zion-Mt. Carmel highway, one of the most spectacular engineering feats in the history of road-building. From the canyon floor the r...

A Adams, Nate, 179, 180, 189, 190 Orza, 190 River, 127, 128 Adventure, Utah settlement, 148, 150, 151, 153 Affleck, D. A., 193 _Agave_, (yant), food, 119 Agriculture, 138, 148 I...

S Salina Canyon, 128 _Salt Lake Tribune_ sponsors auto pathfinding tour to Southern Parks, 195, 197 San Juan, County explored, 183 River settlements, 183 Santa Clara Creek, 127,...