Format:
Book
Author:
Allen, Steve, 1951-
Title:
Utah's canyon country place names : stories of the cowboys, miners, pioneers, and river runners who put names on the land / Steve Allen.
Publisher, Date:
Durango, Colo. : Canyon Country Press, 2012.
Description:
2 volumes : illustration / 29 cm.
Subjects:
Names, Geographical -- Utah.
Utah -- History.
Mountains -- Utah.
Canyons -- Utah.
Plateaus -- Utah.
San Juan River (Colo.-Utah)
Utah -- Geography.
Notes:
Volume I: [ A- L ] (pages 1 - 466) -- Volume II: [ M - Z ] (pages 467-985)
More than 4,000 place name derivations, including early descriptions and stories told by the explorers, pioneers, cowboys, miners, and river runners who put names on the land. (Southern Utah area).
Utah's Canyon Country place names for canyons, mountains, mesas, plateaus, points, peaks, passes, meadows, ridges, rocks, reservoirs, troughs, washes, creeks, basins, springs, lakes, flats, gaps, desert, overlooks, reefs, parks, falls, arches, cliffs, buttes, towns, rocks, valleys, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 873-979); Appendix One: Expeditions, Missions, Surveys, and Wars (pages. 849-859), Appendix Two: Trails (pages 861-865), Appendix Three: The Old Spanish Trail (pages 867-868), Appendix Four: The Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition (pages 869-871).
ISBN:
9780988420076
0988420074
9780988420083
0988420082
Other Number:
828944421
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
1
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
349631
Call Number:
917.92 A429 utc
Course Reserves:
0
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