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Show DDD0gDPD (i d) DECEMBER 19, 2002 local noutsl roalostato real classlfiods e s t a t e Bazaar a big succoss tvouldo crossword Woroscono weekly . . . IFCHIEE Back Issues of Canyon Legacy available at Dan OLaurie Museum The fund rtlaef Chnstmas Bazaar for the Senior Center and R.8.VP. wt an overrtfKJming success this year, thanks to ati 9m cxmcttsiomirm and volunteers who furnished arts and crafts as ws as food. (Photo by John Hagner) The last two issues of the Canyon Legacy, the Dan O'Laurie Canyon Country Museum's magazine, have been very popular and might be just what you're looking for as a holiday gift. The summer issue was Trails to Town, The Cattlemen and Women of Southeastern Utah and had stories about various cattlemen such as Henry Goodman and V.P. Martin, and women such as Florence Fuller and western artist Dot Larsen. In addition to histories of the famous LC Cattle Company and the Cunningham Ranch and tales of Robbers Roost, an interview with Colin Continued on peg I... Whats in a name? Henry Mountains have a close connection to John Wesley Powells Colorado River explorations by Barbara Ekker Hanksvslle Correspondent During the Nov. 1 1 unveiling of the Henry Mountain Project at the John Wesley Powell Museum in Green River, questions were raised about how Mt. Ellsworth was named. (The Henry Mountains ; publications by Dr. Charles Gregory; publications by Grove Karl Gilbert; A Canyon Voyage by Frederick Dellenbaugh; the diary of Aimon Thompson; Bartlett's Great Surveys of the American West, journals of John F. Steward, a geologist who reportedly was the first to approach Mt. Ellsworth during the 1871 second Powell Expedition. I began writing and phoning persons for whom I've done research Antarctia, located in the Sentinel Range, but its discovery and naming date is December of 1 966. Col. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was one of the first Union officers to fall, killed in the act of taking down a confederate flag in (Hillars), maybe 1661. Elliot, according to Christian Hancock it wasn't out of the even and might have been question, sealed in the deal. Five Quail books has listed E. O. Beaman, a visionary robbed of his legacy. But further research finds Beamans first might be Then here is Charles Clinton of the Utah State Historical Society a Republican from MichThen there are towns like were Ellsworth, named Mountains by Henry who served a single Ellsworth, Kansas, a way station John Wesley Powell in 1874 for Prof. igan (1824-189It was a military supply term in the U. S. House of Represen(1864-75Joseph Henry, the secretary of the Instituthe 45th Smithsonian tatives the Indian Wars and later point during during Congress newly organized This C. C. Ellsworth became a railroad and cattle town. tion that financed Powells trips west.) over the years. Many searched (1877-1879- ). could have made or participated in the There is Fort Ellsworth, built there in The other peaks are named Mt. internet sites. The Kolb brothers, Ellsworth and act that created the U. S. Geological 1864 at the junction of the trails to Holmes (named by Grove Kari Gilbert for a fellow geologist), Mt. Hillars (for Emery, ran the Green River and ColoSurvey that year (1879) but a long Santa Fe and Denver and possibly John K. (Jack) Hillars, a photogra- rado Rivers from Wyoming to shot at best. Major John Wesley named for Col E. Ellsworth and was and made Powell was named the first director of renamed Ft. Harker in 1866. When the pher). Mt Ellen was named by Aimon Needles, Calif. (1311-191Union Pacific Railroad arrived it was Harris Thompson for his wife. Ellen, movies of the entire trip which they that agency. One of Powell's photographers formed into a town called Ellsworth, who was a sister of John Wesley showed to tourists at Grand Canyon Powell. Ellen and Powells wife, before their deaths. But Grove Kari was E. O. Beaman and maybe that E Kansas. Then there is a lead in Daggett Emma Dean PoweU, spent consider- Gilbert viewed ML Ellsworth and wrote was for Ellsworth. But more reading reveals Beaman had a parting of the County which was named for able time together in the field and by about it in his reports of 1875. Then there is the Outlaw Connecall accounts, Ellen was a real asset ways with Powell and Powell ac- Ellsworth Daggett and that area of to the scientific work. No one seemed tion. Butch Cassidy's dose friend and quired Beaman's share of the rights Utah is where Powell began his river to know how Mt. Ellsworth was fellow outlaw was Eli Lay, who is le- to Beaman's photos from the 1871 trips beginning in 1869. (This is the named. gally buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery Colorado River run, and since other area that now has Flaming Gorge and in California as William Ellsworth Lay peaks were subsequently for survey only two communities, Dutch John That's why my search began by on Nov. 10, 1934. Then there is Mt. members, including the photograand Manila. I will keep you posted on reading lots of books: Charles B. in H unt's Geology and Geography of the Ellsworth, the highest peak phers who succeeded Beaman what I've been able to discover. non-nati- 2) ve 9) ). |