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Show r i- 1 Decenber 25 9 1959 , OUTLOOK for tourists sod Mesa, Wooden camping ground tie Vest are Dry a cabin for its oustodian, who Shoe Butts and Wood Shot Canyon - km The San Country Writer Hates Wiley Hedd Top Host for Region the Oat in the Natural National Monument country, fifty lies west of Blar.ding, Utah, is a terrain as rugged, if not the oat rugged of any part of the j Is the last United States stronghold of the once numerous wild cattle, brought to this part of the oountry by the early turn pioneers and the Texas Co,, themsel-ves, ed loose to forage for 'Twas only natural that they should take advantage of oonditlons that were so ideal in for every way to make it tough the cowboys when call' brand lng time and beef roundup came around The cattle have didn't take finally don't think and o&ptured some doing of Venus at the left of read a little beyond Cottonwood Canyon, makes a nioe ploturo fo let Bridges doesn't lie, but there is something in the atmospheric conditions .of camera fans. The camera this oountry that makes a camera not only want to bs truthful, but it brings out el early all the trifling details that go to make good photography, the road approaches Kigalia pj.'iZ' Station area you begin to fonderosa pine and Quaken At the south, looking Aspens, over the rim from the road is irch Canyon, spectaeular beyond description. To gain aoosss to been It one must approach it from its It by cow 3 mouth which requires some and expense, consequently it a doer country if there ever was The Tee Vye oow outfit one. hose hoe ranch is on Indies Creek and a few less outfits case is J, Wiley Redd sf Blending, Wiley has beta riding herd on this bridge work during in this . the past five years, and it is as picturesque as the oountry he lave cow camps scattered pretty been at home in for the last well over this area, whioh are fiaj years. issd during the summer season forty If it is the oountry you want Along in July the cowboys throw to see via horse back or pickup a party that uses up the best as truok, to look at some ossified jart of three days and twice bones of petrified tress, or aqy beefs, baby beefs, and h Just sandstone, or If you would or she who is fortunate enoigh like some historical faots he to be invited never ceases to has at hand to or the relate, brag about it. fiction of his imagination to From the Bear's Ear's the rest regale you, see Wnqy of the way to the Bridge 1 In the season thereof, he oen down grede. and a comparative take you to a plaae where buok road, away mule deer are sure to get right straight T the Owachomo Bridge, the TJRN TO PAGE 12 COL, 1 a parjc Service has established . tine has not been explored to any oxtent. boys and horses whose natural North cf Kigalia is Kigalia ability and trained skill made Canyon which is a tributary of a combination the wild Dark one of the least Canyon, bunch couldn't cops with, areas in this or any I remarked to a cowboy of the explored old school reoently, that the AUTHORITY ON SCENIC SAN JUAN ... horse of today didn't learn cow , r'v. sense as readily as they did He replied fifty years ago. . that fifty years ago . . 'ypr-'y.'vi- , ,i- a cowboy out and stayed for months at a time, during which time he lived with his horse day and They worked together night. with the cattle during the day and slept together at night. The eowboy talked to his horse, and . having nothing else to do the horse listened. Today's doesn't stay out on the oowboy range long enough to let his sourdough get to working, as how went doss his horse know he is posed to be a oow pony? - . supXX X of these wild cattle had Some ! A as calves, but had between roundups. strayed Others, born of wild parentage had grown to maturity without J. WILEY REDD having heard the hies of the It is five to hard twist rope or felt the bite other oountry. hundred six feet deep, as vividof the hot iron of the sharp as colored an ly Aurobortalls, pain of the marking knife, Plnons and whore ever As I say, Junipers the wild cattle are o&n a root or two, cling by gone, but the country is still they Ansel Hall Mesa of Verde fane, out there. Just as rugged. Just and Rcndall Henderson, Editor of as scenic, just as colorful, and the Desert Magazine, sponsored a traces of the old blind corrals a by party last August, of or traps at the water holes, or trip which Henderson was a meMr, at the mouth of a box' canyon, mber. I should have said a sue Mute testimoan still be seen. been branded 7: away cessful trip, and my hat is off nlles forever. The road from Blending to them. For forty-thrdown Dark Canyon to where it ento the Bridges is not bad as it traverses its way with a pretty ters the Colorado River, these ony of an epoch that has gone ee and boys went where few, if of Little ary huuans had ever trod, Between Kilgalla and. Baar'i mile frem is a Jcb- - Ear's, looking North and a good grade along Elk Ridge, A West Ute Indian Water, Blending, village a Then half there men lit HOLIDAY BEST WISHES May the spiritual glow of this glorious season remain with you and bless you through the coming year. 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