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Show men. Color! ui Ifamss Abound Almost as intriguing as the scenic interests in the Canyonlands country are the inclonifying names. Some are seif-explanatory. Anglo. Arch is unquestionably unquestion-ably a 190-foot replica of a winged angel standing with bowed head and folded fold-ed hands. Others are not so obvious ob-vious such as dead Horse Point. Visitors always fail to connect the beautiful vista view of the Colorado river canyon with its name. Dead Horse point was named during the early livestock-raising days in Southeastern Utah. True or not, a colorful tale contributing con-tributing to its name is an accepted legend.. It concerns con-cerns a pair of ruslers who penned a group of horses on the little island of land left standing hundreds of feet above the Colorado river canyon as the water cut its deep channel over the years. The rustlers " 'fenced off the narrow access, ac-cess, and then spent considerable con-siderable time trying to keep ahead of a local posse. pos-se. By the time they had shaken the posse and ' majde their way back to the point, so the story goes, the horses had grown so thirsty on their hot, dry island, that one by one they had jumped toward ' the river far below. A more logical answer is .' told by old livestock raisers rais-ers who referred to large, . natural water holes found near the Point, which collected col-lected rain and snow during dur-ing the winter and provided provid-ed water for stock in the spring. As the hot season progressed, water levels dropped in the pot-holes, until they became death traps for animals attempting attempt-ing to reach water. The pot-holes, because of the hazard, were filled in years ago, but the name stuck. "Nigger Bill Wash" on the eastward drive up the Coloraido river bears another an-other interesting legend name. "Nigger Bill," a mulatto by the name of William Granville, along with a frenchman were the first civilized men to settle set-tle in Moab valley. By the lime other settlers arrived they had a flourishing business going. They trapped trap-ped farmed and traded with the Indians. Grah-ville's Grah-ville's homestead was up-river up-river in the canyon named for him. In the middle 1800's, after troubled times with the Indians, both men disappeared. Granville was later seen in Denver working, work-ing, but the , wash . stiil bears his name. Poverty Flat is another' legendary name, dubbed with typical pioneer humor hu-mor after presistent winds blew the homesteaders off the once flourishing farms in upper. Moafo Valley and forced them to re-establish 1 in the valley below. Officially Of-ficially the acreage has been renamed Spanish Valley, Val-ley, after the old Spanish Trail that crosses it, but" to most area old-timers, it will always be Poverty Flat. "All American Man", a primative Indian picto-graph picto-graph in Canyonland National Na-tional Park, is one of the areheological mysteries of the area. The figure represents rep-resents a man dressed in a breach clout, with feelers feel-ers on top of his head. The picfograph has been identified ident-ified as 800 years old, centuries cen-turies older than our National Na-tional colors. Yet the breech clout is painted red white and blue. |
