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From the 1930s through the present day, Blanding has remained a staunchly dry town, in which you can’t buy a single can of 3.2 percent beer in either a restaurant or a convenience store. Monticello has a minuscule liquor store not much bigger than a phone booth, but nothing remotely resembling a bar. But Bluff has had a series of bars and saloons over the years. None survives today, but three of the four restaurants serve beer and
the Mormons would culminate in the dramatic denouement of “Posey’s War”—that tragicomic campaign, more than eight years in the making, that has earned the dubious laurel of our country’s last Indian war. And it would be Jim Mike who supplied a key to the puzzle of Posey’s last stand west of Comb Ridge in 1923, with a claim that, like the vision of Jesus on the road to Bluff, now lies
The San Juan Paiute tribe, of which Posey and Jim Mike were members, have never had a lasting reservation, their homeland having been folded into the Navajo Reservation, and not until 1980 were they even officially recognized as a tribe.
denouement
It’s also worth reflecting that Utah, in the guise of the New Zion, was founded in 1847 with the Mormon exodus under Brigham Young in a messianic quest to escape forever from the leaden grip of the American fist. Total independence from Washington was what Young’s Mormons dreamed of, and for decades they believed they were on the verge of realizing it. Accepting statehood in 1896 was a sour compromise, not the joyous embrace that was shouted through the streets of Denver in 1876 or San Jose in 1850 (Sacramento becoming the capital of California only in 1879.)
cryptobiotic
Of the 1.3 million responses available for tally, a remarkable 99 percent voted in favor of retention of the full Obama monument.
The greatest conservation battle in the United States in the twentieth century was waged over the construction of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River, which created the gigantic reservoir of Lake Powell even as it drowned what many regarded as the most beautiful canyon in the country and obliterated thousands
The greatest battle of the twenty-first century so far is the struggle over the Bears Ears monument (as well as over Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, which Trump slashed by about 50 percent).
kiva
Perfect Kiva,
sybaritic
Grand Gulch,
Government Trail
and exiting at Kane Gulch.
Miniature Panel,”
Kent Frost. My Canyonlands,
Grand Arch is what came to him. (Almost surely, earlier
Doris Duke Oral History Collection is the
Procession Panel on the Comb.”
along the twenty-mile stretch between Routes 163 and 95, but the Anasazi, always impatient with circuitous detours, had crafted a series of hand-and-toe trails from Comb Wash up to the crest of Comb Ridge. I’d downclimbed the steps by the Procession Panel myself.
Todie Canyon.
For example: at Moon House, where one of Lipe’s teams got the latest tree-ring date of all on Cedar Mesa (AD 1268), an in-depth study came up with a surprising truth. Everyone who visits that unique ruin in McLoyd Canyon, with its delicate inner rooms hidden by its windowless façade,
then there’s no way the rangers will allow them to visit Moon House or the Citadel on their own.
