For a land-locked state, it is rather odd that the Utah State Bird is the California Gull (or common sea gull), but there’s a very good reason for it. In the summer of 1848, swarms of crickets attacked the pioneers fields and food supplies. Attempts to drown, burn, bury and club the infestation were unsuccessful, [...]

The Old West has been romanticized in story and song, movie and book … cowboys, good guys versus bad guys, heading west to make your fortune in gold and so much more. In truth, while the scenery is beyond compare, there really wasn’t much romantic about the West. For most people, it was a tough [...]

Table of Contents for the Haunted Southwest Series: Haunted Hotel: The Stanley Hotel, Colorado The Vulture Mine, Wickenburg, Arizona Haunted Hotel: The San Carlos, Phoenix, Arizona The Haunted Shores of the Great Salt Lake, Utah Haunted Tombstone, Arizona Haunted Mines: Ghost, Goblins and Tommy Knockers, Southwest Ghost Camels of the Southwest Haunted Dawson Cemetary, New [...]

Utah has a unique history when many memorable moments. It was first explored on behalf of Spain by Franciscan friars Escalante and Dominguez in 1776. In 1824 the famous American frontiersman Jim Bridger discovered the Great Salt Lake. The Mormons arrived in 1847 and became the construction of what is now modern day Salt Lake [...]

Around the year 1,000 A.D., Native Americans known as the Fremont, gathered on a hilltop in what is now Fremont Indian State Park and Museum in Central Utah. More than 100 structures dot the ridgeline and the people decorated the area with more than 690 rock art panels. Life wasn’t easy here though as each [...]

{openx:6}In southeast Utah, huddled high up on the Colorado Plateau, there’s an elevated swath of land known as Cedar Mesa. This high desert is rife with cliffs and canyons, and contains a concentration of ancient Native American sites—the cliff dwellings of the Ancient Puebloans, the Anasazi. Cedar Mesa recently made headlines as one of two [...]

Anasazi Indian State Park is an intriguing place to visit to learn the history of the early dwellers of the Canyon Country of Utah. Located near Boulder, Utah, Anasazi Indian State Park is home to a pueblo village that was probably occupied from A.D. 1050 to 1200. [ad#Google Adsense]No Native American tribe ever referred to [...]

Nine Mile Canyon in Southeastern Utah is actually a canyon 40 miles long stretching through the counties of Carbon and Duchesne. It has been nicknamed “the world’s longest art gallery.” The canyon is known for its extensive rock art, most of it created by the Fremont culture and the Ute people. It has been estimated [...]

Once upon a time, a husband and wife bought an out-of-the-way 4,200-acre ranch deep in the Book Cliffs region of Utah. As three generations of family lived on and worked the land, they also kept an amazing secret. The ranch snaked for 12 miles along Range Creek, where rock walls towered over the creek bottoms [...]