Last chance byway : the history of Nine Mile Canyon
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Author
Contributors
Spangler, Donna Kemp, author.
Published
Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press
Format
Book
Physical Desc
vii, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Status
Uintah County Library - General NonFiction - Second Floor
979.2566 SPANGLER
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979.2566 SPANGLER
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Uintah County Library - General NonFiction - Second Floor | 979.2566 SPANGLER | Available |
Regional History Center - Regional History Center - Regional HIstory Center | 979.2 SPA | Not For Loan |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Duchesne History Center - Special Collections | HIST 979.2 Spang | Not For Loan |
Roosevelt Branch - General NonFiction | 979.2 Spangler | Available |
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Published
Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index.
Description
"Nine Mile Canyon's role in the Old West--a story of fur trappers and miners, ranchers and homesteaders, cattle barons and barkeeps, outlaws and bounty hunters Nine Mile Canyon is famous the world over for its prehistoric art images and remnants of ancient Fremont farmers. But it also teems with Old West history that is salted with iconic figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Last Chance Byway lays out this newly told story of human endeavor and folly in a place historians have long ignored. The history of Nine Mile Canyon is not so much a story of those who lived and died there as it is of those whose came with dreams and left broke and disillusioned, although there were exceptions. Sam Gilson, the irascible U.S. marshal and famed polygamist hunter, became wealthy speculating in a hydrocarbon substance bearing his name, Gilsonite, a form of asphalt. The famed African American Buffalo Soldiers constructed a freight road through the canyon that for a time turned the Nine Mile Road into one of the busiest highways in Utah. Others who left their mark include famed outlaw hunter Joe Bush, infamous bounty hunter Jack Watson, the larger-than-life cattle baron Preston Nutter, and Robert Leroy Parker (known to most as Butch Cassidy)"--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Spangler, J. D., & Spangler, D. K. Last chance byway: the history of Nine Mile Canyon . The University of Utah Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Spangler, Jerry D. and Donna Kemp, Spangler. Last Chance Byway: The History of Nine Mile Canyon. The University of Utah Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Spangler, Jerry D. and Donna Kemp, Spangler. Last Chance Byway: The History of Nine Mile Canyon The University of Utah Press.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Spangler, Jerry D.,, and Donna Kemp Spangler. Last Chance Byway: The History of Nine Mile Canyon The University of Utah Press,
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