The group was called the Iron Rangers, they were involved with the rodeos in Cedar. Photo taken at Rulan Wood's cabin up Right-hand Canyon. From left: Elias Leigh, J. D. Docksteader, Paul Douglas, Allen Melling (Squirt), Milt Jolley, Cliff...
His Last Ride Into the path of the sinking sun O'er the far horizon's rim He's gone, a smile in his kindly eyes A song in the heart of him. Gone with the friends of his Yesterdays Where the souls of men ride free And the stars look down on a...
The Legion has done justice far and beyond the call of duty to our most sacred of all patriotic holidays.
In the fall of 1926, the Beaver Post of the American Legion, with city and county officials promoted and sponsored the Beaver County Fair and...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Little Grand Canyon; Geology; Castle Valley; San Rafael River, Grimes, Ben
The Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael Swell is seen best from The Wedge Lookout. The San Rafael Swell is an anticline, or a geological uplift, that originally looked like an oval bowl turned upside down. Over time it has been carved into...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Little Grand Canyon; Geology; Window Blind Peak; San Rafael River; Grimes, Ben
The Little Grand Canyon on the San Rafael Swell is seen best from The Wedge Lookout. Window Blink Peak can be seen on the far right horizon. The San Rafael Swell is an anticline, or a geological uplift, that originally looked like an oval bowl...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Cowboys; Camp
Swaseys making camp for the night. Notice the bedrolls. Joe Swasey married Mary Etta McDonald, and they had several children who also spent a lot of time on the Swell.
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Stock Corral; Wild Horses
A mile east of the San Rafael Bridge in a little cove is the Sinbad Cowboys stock corral, built by Paul Judd in the early 1900s. The white rock standing out in the middle of the photo is the area where they stored extra feed for their wild horses.
HISTORY OF IRON COUNTY BY William R . Palmer, 1922 It has been only seventy-one years since the settlement of Iron County (18511, and little more than eighty years since people came to Utah and to the west; yet in that time the western part of this...
This year [1888] Bishop Lunt removed to Mexico and, at a special meeting held at Cedar City on Fnday, December 21, 1888, attended by Apostle John W. Taylor, Wrn. Henry Cony was unanimously sustained as Bishop of Cedar City with Unah Treharne Jones...
country and both Amencan and Bntish companies acquired large holdings in northwestern Chihuahua. Cattle materially aEected the economy of the Mormons and they shipped them to the United States for a good profit. In fact, raising cattle became the...
beef was hidden in thick timber some distance from ramp, while they had been wishing for meat for supper and breakfast, all but one prospector made a hasty getaway before our boys returned from the day's ride." " As I was riding out that morning...
M y Great Ambition
paper written for a freshman college class
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH DECEMBER 18,1924
I was a very young boy when I first began to think of what I wanted to become. My mind was very unsettled. When I attended the County Fair and saw...