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 appendices: 1. Expeditions, Missions, Surveys, and Wars, 2. Trails, 3. The Old Spanish Trail, 4. The Hole-in-the-Rock Expedition.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 873-979).
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