Mill Creek and Neffs Canyons, Mount Olympus, Big and Little Cottonwood and Bells Canyons
Northern Utah's Wasatch Mountains are popular destinations for outdoor enthusiasts in every season. These mountains rise spectacularly from the relatively flat valley floor to thirteen peaks over 11,000 feet in elevation. An additional nineteen peaks rise more than 10,000 feet in elevation. Although many hiking guides exist for the Wasatch ......
Mesoamerican Ingluence in the Greater Southwest, A.D 1200-1500
For decades archaeologists insisted that southwestern cultures such as the Anasazi, Hohokam, and Mogollon had little or no relation to peoples south of the 'border'' Now American archaeology is beginning to take seriously the notion that goods, gods, and even humans may have passed with some frequency between the high cultures of Mexico and the ......
First published in 1910, The White Indian Boy quickly became a western classic. Readers fascinated by real-life 'cowboys and Indians' thrilled to Nick Wilson's frontier exploits, as he recounted running away to live with the Shoshone in his early teens, riding for the Pony Express, and helping settle Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The volume was so ......
'Romney's unique vantage point is the strongest draw of this narrative: Romney and his family lived much of their life in the Mexican Mormon colonies. But the narrative's value is much broader and deeper than just that. Romney's insights into Mexican politics and personalities, and his view of the course of history from inside rather than from ......
Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mysteries
In more than a dozen novels set in the American Southwest, Tony Hillerman's heroes, Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee, travel the mountains, deserts, and towns of the Four Corners tracking wrongdoers. In
"If Nationality means anything-and in [the American] case it couldn't mean race-it must mean the unconscious response of a people to their natural environment."-Mary Austin Celebrated and controversial author Mary Austin (1866-1934) lived in and wrote about her beloved Southwest, a place that has shaped and been shaped by three distinctive ......
The Personal Correspondence of David Oman McKay to Emma Ray McKay
12 June 1906 Love feeds and grows on love, and while it grows, it increases the capacity of the soul for loving. So our love was perfect when I kissed you at the altar; it is perfect to-day; it will be perfect when the century strikes half-past; it will be perfect eternally. - from the book David O. McKay served as president of the Church of ......
University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 124 Buzz-Cut Dune is an important Fremont-culture village site located on the western margin of Dugway Proving Ground near the Utah-Nevada border. It was discovered during construction activity in 2000. Initial descriptions noted at least five structure floors apparently dating to the Fremont period ......
A Guide to the Backcountry Hiking Trail on the Colorado Plateau
Traversing six national parks (Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Zion), a national recreation area, a national monument, and various wilderness, primitive, and wilderness study areas, the Hayduke Trail is a challenging, 800-mile backcountry route on the Colorado Plateau. Whimsically named for a character in Edward Abbey's The ......
