Show THIS THAT AT and I Ithe the OTHER by Mack Turner We often remarked here on one of our chief Interests the true story of the colorful history of the Four Corner states We have often oCten said there Is no states history more colorful and with so must of It still untold Uranium has focused the spot light on the area and brought national fame to a sector that heretofore was noted for only Its scenic beauty and vacationland vacation vacationland vacationland land to much of the nation More and more It has been coming com come ing big out new chapters being written writ ten that have revealed a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more of ot the real history behind the southwest The area has become become be be- come aware of ot Its Us history in the past few years almost too late to capture some of It In recorded stories There Is a project underway down In New Mexico and Arizona to o find these old pioneers still left eft and tape record their story telling their own little part in that history One of the latest being interviewed interviewed inter inter- viewed by our old friend Lou Blachly Is Wayne Wilson of ot Silver Silver Sil ver City N. N M. M father of Bates Wilson superintendent of the Arches National Monument Over our desk last weekend came two letters both telling of new chapters being written in the area history One letter from Doubleday company book pub pub- ushers lishers told of the republication of the David lavender book One Mans Man's West It will be due out April 5 It was first published in 1943 but has been brought up to o date and reissued The other was a letter loUer from Leondine M. M a resident rest resl dent of Denver who recently turned out a novel Four States Corner She informs us that a alft gift of the book has been sent to the he Grand County library so that people here can read about them them- selves elves In her own words of ot the book I she he says Many of the characters are re young people struggling to tomake tomake tomake make their own way an influential influential character is a editor named Joseph Brigham emphasis Is s on the need of brotherhood be between between tween neighboring states stales and people peo- peo ples les No real place names are arc used but the canyons the fantastic fan fan- mesas the Easter processions lons of Indians carrying crosses Confusion mine and No Drouth ranch anch are all there The writer has spent a very full ull life and has extensively exten throughout the west the east coast coast a and d deep into Mexico But she says her favorite land landis is the southwest's Four Corners Comers states She Is familiar with the Indians and has spent much time among them Her father came west in 1872 to trade with the Indians She has visited their villages today and ruins of earlier times and has a large collection of tools pottery and Indian artifacts For years she has written about the glorious scenery of ot the Corner Cotner Cor Cot ner Its wealth of minerals need of roads and other development Quoting from the title page of Four States Corner she pens Around that Babel Corner where Indians Padres Puritans Mormons Mormons Mor Mor- mons Faced away from each other Grew up this legend The greatest task In gaining the history of that magic land is that of separating the truth from the legend Those legends that have been handed down from the early pioneer days have too often been proven far from fact But Out the Interest that has been centered on the area in the past few years has revived interest in th that thai l area and It its history If enough I continue to dig for tor the truth the Whole story will someday be told But Out m more re than once we have been surprised at how little has been uncovered on a number of areas within those state bound cries arles We have personally started our own search for those elusive facts and have b been en very surprised at athow athow athow how mi much h we we h have ve been able to learn seam that was not too generally known Ichabod the office boy says you make a man out of a boy when you make him earn half the he money he spends n r |