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Show HORIZONS anything really special about the From 1E cowboys? Probably not. Some were this land. REPUBLICAN SENATOR (pressing in earnest): What about And speaking of the judicial system, let’s get in a plug here for a worthwhile charity fund-raiser coming up this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday. the Wesiern photographcollections. cowboys for Beckstead. He settled into a reg- imen of weekend trips, , visiting small towns in Utah and stopping in at the local barbershop or drug store to ask after old-time residents. He’d spend hours in rural living rooms, searching through ashamed to wear a cowboy hat in pictures of babies for the “gold” of Utah, like we don’t have a right to,” he says. “I want people in Utah to be able to wear cowboy hats and feel it’s part of their heri- old-time cowboy photos. The result is a visual testament to the cowboys who rode Utah's ranges. Their faces are captivating: A cowboy in Ogden, straight-backed atop his horse, peers out inscrulably above a pipe. A smiling teenager, freshly pressed, sits elbow-to-elbow with a long-haired lass in an Orangeville photo studio. A Salina cowboy, circa 1890, mugs smugly just after roping a calf. Tough, hardy, ready to fight, but who recalled the days when their own daddies rode the range. Over the years, he has taken notes during cattle drives, asked questions as he peered over the shoulders of cowboys checking tage, and not have people look at them and say, ‘You're not a real cowboy.’ “Everybody in Texas wears cowboy hats, and probably very few of them are cowboys; people in Wyoming don’t have any compunction about wearing cowboyhats. “It’s our heritage. This was the Most Wanted,” “Top Cops” and “Rescue 911.” Perhaps next season the March of Dimes’ fight to prevent birth defects. one of the networks will offer And if, for example, this coming Tuesday afternoon around 2-isi or so some of us were hauled off to “America’s Most Pompous,” fea- turing chilling re-enactments of the best Congressional hearings of the last half-century. Already, these Thomas hearings have the feel of a TV show. While CNN has broadcast the hearings live, it still cuts to commercials regularly. Meaning, one minute you can be listening to our owa Sen. Hatch asking deep, probing questions — “How do you feel about liberty and justice for all?” open range.” vives to this day is Cross Western Store, founded in i876 as a saddlery. The Browning Arms Co. also owned a saddiery and tannery; it closed in 1926. century was Mormon. ... When, in fact, it (the cattle industry) was started by the Mormons, wrestle4 away by the gentiles and taken back over by the Mormons. That’s the history.” Those years between 1865 and °95 saw the same colorful characters and frontier towns we identify Brigham Young was quick to reccattle. The early Mormons gained success in exporting their cattle to California during the post-Gold Rush years, said Beckstead. But with Indian wars and the arrival of large amounts of immigrants a few years later, the people, and beganto slaughter their stock for food. rustling to bank robbery fame, had by age 11 earned a reputation as “one of the best bronc riders in central Utah,” said Beckstead. (After an uncomfortable stini in an Ogdenjail, Warner turned straight, serving for years as a sheriff in Car- for cattle. Moving to fill the gap, bon County.) “I don’t mean to make heroes out of outlaws,” says Beckstead. But in the 19th century, “there was Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon, forming the 300,000-acre Nutter Corp. The ranch was operated by the Nutter such a fine line between right and wrong, and law and order and what wasn’t. If you choose to be a crimi- family until 1986. w Ogden, known as “Queen of nies. Between 1865 and 1895, these Utah's ranges. By 1895, sheep began to nudge out cattle and cattle prices fell, all nal today, you’re making a clear-cut choice. But most of these Cow Towns.” Beckstead said Ogden was not only a primary guys were unemployed cowboys.” stopping point for cowboys work- gifts weren’t properly matched, the colonists decided the native Americans were bums. By now, of course, an “Indian giver” is anyone who gives you By LYDEL SIMS Scripps Howard News Service Q. Where did the term “Indian giver” originate? — Audrey T. A. That came from the early Lydel Sims of The Commercial The two cultures clearly didn’t understand one another’s ways, and naturally, in such cases, the Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., writes this column weekly. Send questions to Watch Your Language, you expected to get one in return; reputation of the more primitive culture suffered. 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Aw c'mon, it’s for a good cause. 472 4>] /4t) thins 5 -_ : S | PATTERNS| Va Ae ing to Beckstead, owner Pat Ryan Colorado beginnings to Moab and With the conclusion of the Civil War and the arrival ofthe railroad in Utah, the demand exploded, and suddenly there was again a clamor aah@0)a our drift. In other “ords, you'd better pony up thz cash if you ever FLORAL PRINT FLANNEL worked off and on with cattle. Butch Cassidy, for instance, got his cowboying start with the Ryan Ream Cattle Co. of Frisco. Accord- his cattle business grew from its “Beauty: Lines could get making bail, if you catch 45 INCH...100% COTTON FLAT FOLD the lawmen. Both types, he says, either got their start as cowboys or bought his first horse in 1863 and branded it with a “63.” That was to remain his brand through the years ing marijuana once in college), us thee Ait}) ye a8 a eee e we'd really appreciate ary help we «Ae In “Cowboying,” Beckstead de- a Mississippi riverboat. Nutter Mormonranchers could not keep up with the demands of their own . votes a chapter to the cowboy outlaws and another to their nemesis, with the Wild West, said Beckstead. Consider: @ Preston Nutter, one of the best-known cattle barons in Utah. Nutter was orphaned at age 9; two years later he ran awayfrom relatives and worked as a cabin boy on ognize the territory's potential for Naya One of those suppliers that sur- are owned by Mormons.So, therefore, the whole history of Utah from 1847 through the turn of the When the Mormons descended into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, controlled was also a major supply center. ranches we know about — (such as) Deseret Land and Livestock — ON RS From 1E father and unwilling to share her photographs. “I told her, ‘This is the greatest cowboy book ever in the state of Utah, and your father would want to be in it.” She relented, and Gordon now stares timelessly from the page, mustachioed and strong-jawed. Gordon is representative of a slice of Utah history that Beckstead believes has been overlooked. Beckstead describes the course of events this way: @ Gordon companies ing the outlying cattle country, but aiso for Texas cowboys working their way to Oregon in the 1880s. Twenty-fifth Street, known as “Two-Bit Street” was renowned for its opium dens, saloons, brothels and gambling holes. But the city combining to “drive out the big catile companies,” he said. Into their place stepped Mormon ranchers. “So what happensis people look at Utah history and they say, ‘OK, the Mormonssettled here, and the SERVING UTAH SINCE 1977 jail on some trumped-ur charge (perhaps something to do with try- — and the next minute you've got % cows for pregnancy, mentally filed snatches of conversation overheard above branding-time chaos. Seven naturally reflect that old-time image, some don’t. Says Beckstead, “Nothing disappoints me more than to see a guy out herding cattle with a baseball cap on and on a 4-wheeler.” The author hopes “Cowboying” may change our image of our Utah heritage. “It's almost like we're The search became an obsession 393-8618 1-800-541-1172 March of Dimeswill be holding its annual “Jail and Bail” at the Ogden City Mall. The way it works, rea!. live police officers apprehend “criminals” in the community and haul them off to a makeshift “jail” set up in the mali. These criminals must then contact friends and acquaintances, hitting them up for “bail” money, which is donated to E i x a = of cowboys, hats and guns cocked. It’s still the case today — some UTAH’S LOW PRICE a LEADER CALL AND COMPARE! en tions, including the Denver Public Library, which houses, Beckstead says, one of the world’s largest Rights? And baseball and the flag and Mom and apple pie? JUDGE THOMAS:I favor them all. REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Good enough for me. Let’s vote. You can see how with snappy, pathos-filled dialogue like this, it won't be long until these hearings makeit into reality-based television series, similar to “America’s i a a a f 1890s perpetuated — witness the many stylized studio photographs of the plains.” Much of it is an image that many cowboys of the 1880s and the Constitution? Axdthe Bill of §6OLD WEST MORTGAGE 60. ‘“ inch to % inch. $1 Satin, Feather-Leok. 39 19° POLKA DOT GROSGRAIN RRR story was the sameat otherinstitu- that cowboyswerethe real knights —) who might haveset us straight — the cowboys themselves — just aren't a talkative lot. “It’s really a lost history,” says Beckstead, who lives in Orem, “because people didn’t write it down.” Beckstead began interviewing Utah cowboys while a psychology student at Brigharn Young University in the mid-1960s. One summer, he took a ranch job at a spread in Southern Utah’s Koosharem, figuring he'd try his hand at his lifelong love. But instead of spending weekends “riding my horse into the sunset,” Beckstead found himself in his car, motoring to surrounding ranches to collect snippets of color and history from grizzled cowboys great businessmen, some were lousy businessmen; somehonest, some not. But the image emerged f way we wantto see it.” And those “I said, ‘Do you have photographs of cowboys?’ They said, ‘Sure we do, lots of them.’ ” When he began to search through the university’s archives, he indeed found photos of cowboys — in Montana, Wyoming. Few were from Utah. The ' 4 hole” in the West, says Beckstead. He’s not sure of the reason, other than “over the years it’s the way Utah has been perceived; it’s the a se = these men unheeded byhistory. He began with Utah State University. 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