Show Canyon Country is the Subject Of Beautiful New Illustrated History The Colorado river canyon r.- r. r southeastern Utah is ls the subject of a new Illustrated Illus fUus Crated history Standing UpCo Up UpCo UpCo Co n nt 11 I J II by Dr C. C Gregory 1 r Crampton professor of ot history history hist ory at the University of Utah Dr Crampton has written a biography of a region I adding to his vivid and de des I t Lye a M. M 1 7 i 4 y Photograph from Irom Standing Up Country by C Co C. C Gregory Crampton U. U of U U. professor The book jointly published publish publish- ed by Alfred Knopf U. U of U. U Press and Amon Arnon Carter Museum gives vivid pictures and text of Utah-Arizona Utah regions tailed tatted descriptions with photographs 16 of them in color He tie began collecting data dato da ta to in 1957 as supervisor of or ofa a 1 project to salvage historical cal remnants from the area I which has since been flooded by Lake Powell His research then extended to a wider arM area ar ar- area ar- ar ea M covering the Colorado its canyons and tributaries from Dook Book Cliffs Utah to White Mesa Arizona and from Bryce Canyon to the Four Corners Many groups of people who have helped write the history o of the area receive Dr Campton's Campton's Camp Camp- tons ton's attention Indians prehistoric and modern early Spanish explorers Mexican traders fur trappers Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon settlers cattlemen rustlers rust rust- lers and outlaws miners scientists t government surveyors surveyors survey survey- ors and explorers and in recent recent recent re re- re- re cent years the reclamation reclamation- I ts and dam builders Many of the historical events of the canyon country receive special treatment often often often of of- ten being described in the words of people who actually experienced them and left records behind Dr Crampton t tells of the ancient Indians who inhabited the area and then mysteriously disappeared of the mythical San Buenaventura Buenaven Buenaven- tura river placed on the map by Father Escalante's cartographer cartographer cartographer carto carto- grapher and not erased until John C. C Fremont and others began vegan surveying for the United United United Uni Uni- ted States government in the J of of- the Indian slave trade carried on during the time Mexico controlled the area of the founding of the first white settlement at Moab in 1855 by Mormon colonizers of the crossing of the Colorado by pioneer scout Jacob Hamblin at the very place which a Franciscan friar and his party had discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered a few years before where they had celebrated ed rd with thanksgiving and afew a afew i few Jew musket shots of the founding of Lees Lee's Ferry an important new crossing point by a refugee from the law Jaw of the daring Mormon party I which blasted the famous Hole in the Rock and descended descended descended des des- J 1 with their wagons to the river bed 1000 feet below below below be be- low on their way to found the town of Bluff of the cattle cattle cat cat- tle tIe boom that came carne with the railroads bringing range warfare rustling and conflict conflict con con- with the Indians of prospecting for the source of Navajo silver and finally the gold rush to the San Jim m river A itA few made thousands thousands ands more than hundreds of dollars The majority as Inmost in inmost inmost most mining rushes obtained for their pains an exhilarating ing life in the open air of the ambitious but largely un unsuccessful successful attempts of Robert Robert Rob ert Stanton to dredge the Colorado for its fine gold The dredge and the gold is now beneath the waters of Lake Powell of the later booms of coal oil copper radium vanadium and uranium of the establishment of Utah's first national national national na na- na- na parks of the harnessing harnessing harnes harnes- sing Ing and apportioning of the river waters and the signing ot of the Colorado River compact compact compact com com- pact in 1922 and finally o othe of t the coming corning of ot the tourists the river runners and the dam builders all aU keys to the future of southeastern Utah Standing Up Country is 11 being published by Alfred A. A Knopf and the University of Utah Press In cooperation with the Amon Arnon Carter Mu Mu- reum of Western History at Fort Worth Texas |