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Show THE ZEPHYR/OCTOBER-} start adding water, a little drop at a time, and just keep working it with his hand. When he got enough he’d pinch it off and when he was through, you couldn’t find one lump left in that flour sack." Before going to bed at night, they’d always turn the horses loose; they never hobbled them. The horses were sees that Marv Turnbow took great pride in and which Toots always remembered. "He curried and combed his horses and trimmed — tails and manes. he took beautiful care of them...they never looked scroungy, ever." Once, while driving cattle up Salt wash, Toots and Marv came to a place where the horse would have to jump... All of a sudden, he grabbed me. Well...there was a big rattlesnake right between my feet... it had 14 rattles on it. GREAT VIEWS of the LaSals & canyon rims. This lot is 2.5 acres within city limits and animal rights. It contains mature fruit trees. Priced right at $79,000 #3512 TOP OF THE WORLD location with views forever. Adjoins national forest. Two story log home features vaulted open beam Tons== NT RACT eilings, wood tongue UNDER CO "ge stone fireplace, <ciaige wrap around decks and covered balcony off master bedroom. On 27.5 acres. Seclusion and Self Sufficiency. Solar powered with great well. $275,000 #4815 OVER 3000 SQ. FT. majestic SW ranch home on 9.69 acres in the heart of a National Forest. Top of the world panoramic views of Canyonlands & La Sal Mtns. | Featuring 30’ stone fireplace, Saltillo floors, master bdrm suite with exercise room/sauna shower bath, patio w/ hot a & balcony. $695,000 #4769 CHARMING ONE LEVEL CHALE —)n a lovely, quiet tree-lined street close to churches, scho UNDER CONTRACT Irms, 2 baths, workshop for Dad, treehouse for children &|_—--_—== Tor ue KV. Must see at $129,000 #4834 SERENITY & SECLUSION can ie yours from the Top of the Three step in San Juan County. Adjoins BLM & hundreds of acres. Awe inspiring views from this 10 acres reduced to $39,000 #4554 YOU’ VE BEEN ASKING for 10 acres or more & we have it. Spectacular views just 13 miles south of Moab with great access and visibility. Parcels from 10.28 18.29 acres. Great potential for commercial development also. Possible owner financing. prices starting at $59,000. #4757-4762 NORMA NUNN (w) 435.259.5021 - A mile north of the cabin is Delicate Arch, perhaps the most photographed and OI (h) 435.259.7275 visited natural arch in the world. Seventy-five years ago, Toots had it all to herself. “We used to horseback ride up to the arch. We never saw anybody except other cattlemen from time to time. Jim Westwood had some cattle out here someplace and At REDROCK REAL are 505 N. Main St. Moab, UT 84532 Each office is independently owned and operated me I used to mall c the Old Man’s Pants, because it looked to me like they cut off the man off, ad left the feet and legs.” 1 park en ik Servicee needed qocan to ao hired Marv Turnbow. oa an veye on this recent addition to the EDITOR'S NOTE: Two years ago, Edna Fridley's daughter Marti donated thousands of Edna's photographs and many of her journals to The Zephyr. Two of those photos are included with Ken's story on page 18. When The Z can finally afford a slide scanner, | hope we can share a lot more of them with Zephyr readers. And thanks to Marti...JS Grill House MOAB'S STEAK PLACE "In those days they had what they called ‘dollar-a-year men.’ It was sort of an honorary position and so that’s what Dad ee became the first custodian of Arches National Monument." Two years later, in 1940, Marv Turnbow died in an automobile ecadent near the old Pack Creek Bridge. Toots remembered Helen M. Knight coming to the house to tell her mother that Marv was badly hurt. Shortly after Marv’s death, the cabin was sold to Emmet Elizondo: Toots rarely visited the cabin again. We got ready to leave Turnbow Cabin for the 30 minute drive back to town, but Toots wanted to take one last look inside her old home away from home. The walls were a lot dustier than they used to be. Most of the furniture was gone. The floor was covered with dirt and mouse droppings and gum wrappers. But despite the changes they were the same walls, and it was the same floor, the same wind-blasted, sunbaked cabin that Toots looked forward to seeing after a long, hot horseback ride, 65 years before. Toots shook her head and smiled. "I hardly know anybody that’s lived like me." We watched the tourists heading back to their cars and trailers and motorhomes, back to the cities and civilization... "..and I’m the luckiest person in the world.” Toots McDougald died last spring in Moab. Grandpa Buck 1393 N. HIGHWAY 191 SERVING DINNER NIGHTLY (435) 259-5201 STATE LIQUOR LICENSEE www.bucksgrillhouse.com |