Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
I. From the grand old mountains, Capped with purest snow -- From the burning deserts, Where the sagebrush grow Comes a mighty volume Ringing thru the air Of some hundred voices Free from every...
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...
It was a cold and unpleasant place and had been rejected by others who had gone to more favorable locations south of here. My previous years had been associated with pioneer life in Iron County in the interest of building and Military duties. In...
strand twine about the size of a mason's chalk line. (The McGuay lasso rope, somewhat popular in the 90's, was made of oose.) The little spinning machine was very simple, being made of two sticks. The handle was about five eighths of an inch in...
Indian situation. It was decided to call all the Beaver Indians together and feed them at the Tithing Office yard and there hold sort of a "Pow-Pow," and appoint a recognized Chief from among them. Beaver Adz was chosen Chief and all the Indians,...
Thurs. April 7 Commenced breaking the road through the sagebrush: reached Cane Springs-ten miles. Friday, April 8 Traveled about five miles, camped without water. Sat., April 9, 1859 Reached the cottonwoods on the Beaver late after traveling about...
reason for the growth of the valley, but it hardly would be correct to say that the railroad with its people have had less than a major part in bringing the town up from the size of a spot on the map to the present city that it now represents with...
fit for habitation." The desert he traversed was named after him, Escalante." Another wise man said, "The old desert takes its toll of everything you get out of it." But another man, whose life was more closely linked with the desert, said, "I...
Vegetation on these arid ranges is composed chiefly of low shrubs and grasses belonging to what is known as the salt-desert shrub plant association. Most of these ranges are used by sheep and cattle during the winter when other ranges are covered...
Old Irontown (Iron County, Utah); Dwellings--Dixie National Forest (Utah)
Ruins of dwellings at Irontown. Note the fireplace and remaining "plaster" on the interior. A rank growth of sagebrush is brying to cover this old home, while junipers stand guard nearby.
Range management--Dixie National Forest (Utah); Grazing; Enterprise (Washington County, Utah)
Range studies of grazing areas, Enterprise addition. Shows the heavy wooded pinon pine-cedar hills on the norhtern exposures of this proposed Enterprise addition. The foreground shows a lack of top soil due to sheet erosion, lack of grasses and...