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Show m The first Europeans who may have seen the red cliffs where the town of Kanab eventually grew, were members of the Dominguez-Escalant- e party searching for a route through Grand Canyon and across the Colorado River. These Spanish explorers and missionaries passed the future site of Kanab a few months after the thirteen original American Colonies issued their Declaration of Independence from England in 1776. 4 The Kanab Area Vacation Guide Summer 1990 Rambling Continued from Page 1 " century Kanab claimed itself the most inaccessible city in America. Henry Bowman had experience building road grades in Mexico, so he contracted to build the first highway into Kanab over the difficult stretch of sand dunes north of town. This amazing road later became part of Highway 89. But long before then Bowman had sold his beautiful home to Thomas Chamber-lan- . except " Snowing on Jerusalem in Kanab " Canyon", and Kanab' s Undesignated National Park" by Karen Larsen; and "Down The Grand Staircase", by Paul Geerlings i- r IL MS If WS&m Jy W;'M :l i ' IL "v I. Thomas Chamberlain had six wives and 55 children. He moved his first wife, Eleanor Hoyt, and their seven children into the Bowman house. Ramblin through Kanab 50 years ago was much the same as it is today. Chamberlain spent many years hiding issued his Manifesto officially in the Utah underground from U.S. equated with slavery. In 1857 halting the practice of polygamy. But Marshals because he practiced plural President James Buchanan sent the some men and women were not willing Tenth Infantry Regiment under marriage. He also served six months Colonel Albert S. Johnston to prohibit to disassemble their families. Federal in the Utah State Penitentiary for Marshals chased these cohabs all in Utah that relic of barbarism, cohabitation, the legal term applied over the West and into Canada and to men who lived with more than one polygamy. Mexico. Many cohabs were caught and Colonel Thomas L. Kane, a wife. Many prominent Utahns served sent to prison. Others were of friend the Mormons, time in the penitentiary during that helped negotiate a peaceful resolution successfully hidden in the era. to the situation. Because of his efforts, underground network. Thomas Since before the beginning of the was one of these men Chamberlain residents Utah adopted town, Kanab and polygamy have been Southern who became felons because of their Colonel Kanes name for their large related. An 1874 survey showed 25 Kanab the County Seat. religious and familial beliefs. percent of Kanabs residents involved county, with The stories of 16 homes in Kanab in polygamous families. In fact, By 1890, the U.S. Senate was have been collected into a publication Mormons first explored the Kanab considering legislation to completely all funded by a grant under provision of disenfranchise Mormons, whether area when Brigham Young, the the National Historical Preservation Church leader, began looking for practicing plural marriage or not. Idaho had already adopted such a law Act. The Levi Stewart and E.D. escape routes for the Latter-da- y which was upheld by the U.S. Saints as the U.S. Government Wooley House, 101 West 100 North, was started in 1872 by the first mustered an army to attack Utah. In Supreme Court. Wilford Woodruff, then President of the Mormon Church, See RAMBLING, Page 23 Washington, D.C., polygamy was goueton'e Restaurant yfs; J non-Morm- All articles in this publication were written by Neal Ekker J & Mobile Catering on STRICKLERS vWVWV Family Dining in a Western Atmosphere Steaks Sea Food Mexican Food K vAWV vxvv Gems & Crafts Utah's Prettiest and most unusual Rock and Gift Shop We BOX LUNCHES AVAILABLE Lore BUS TOURS WELCOME 8 32 East Center Kanab "We cater food service at any location at any time. 644-248- " fagfe gardens, flowers, rose garden. I I I I SsSSEI cVnV KidSH YVsYV- - WWSW Baaaaa r YSVVSV' The free ice water place!! U. S. Hwy. 89 Orderville, Utah 84758 801-648-21- 79 if VVWW WiNYsVY |