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In The Sunset, Big Lazy Loops, The West Desert, Part 1
(Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge) May 29, 2000 - June 24th (1827) N E 40 Miles. I started verry early in hopes of soon finding water. But ascending a high point of a hill I could discover nothing but sandy plains of dry Rocky hills...

Dust, Sun and Endless Mountains, The West Desert, Part 2
(Bonneville Salt Flats) May 22, 2000 - Jay Banta says he wouldn't be surprised if his two kids, one a freshman at the University of Utah and the other a sophomore at West Desert High School, grow up to be...

Topaz, Utah's Internment Camp
(Description of Topaz near Delta) December 20, 1999 - This is where we brought the Japanese during World War Two. Surrounded by sand, sage and an immense sky, America brought 8,000 people of Japanese ancestry - even if they were actually Americans...

Head's Up
(Maple Canyon) - April 23, 2001 - Last October, while returning from a bike trip through the San Pete Valley, I left the paved road in a canyon near Moroni and lumbered up through a deep canyon into tall stands of trees.

A Haven For People With Metal Detectors
(The Historic Town of Marysvale) - February 25, 2002 - When Randy and Katie Moore showed up in Marysvale a few years back it's safe to say they had no intention of buying the oldest hotel in Utah. The two were thinking of retiring here and were thinking about buying some property. Then they saw the Pine Hotel...

Gold! By Jennifer Yates
(Marysvale, Utah) - Nuggets and flakes of gold brought enterprising miners with shovels and picks in hand to Marysvale, creating a classic American mining boomtown. Unlike the remnants of any bust and boomtown...

When Days, Piercing and Dry, Become Gifts
(Backcountry skiing in Tushar Mtns. near Elk Meadows Resort) February 14, 2000 - Alec Hornstein may have the greatest job in the world. I asked him flatly if he did and he sort of ducked the question, but regardless: Many adult Americans, I bet, would gladly trade part of their lives for a week or two of Alec's.

Elk Meadows, But Actually A Mountain
(Skiing at Elk Meadows Resort) February 7, 2000 - It's a frosty February morning, and Elk Meadows' five chairlifts hum; Elk Meadows' snow base, a good five feet worth, lies furrowed under tall fir trees.

Safety in High Walls and Civilization
(Cove Fort) - March 12, 2001 - On January 14, 1850, Parley P. Pratt and his band of 50 Mormon men trudged over tall mountains and through deep snow to make camp at what would later be called Cove Creek.

Sun, Sand, Sage
(Little Sahara Sand Dunes) December 13, 1999 - As it was, I found myself atop Sand Mountain, in the heart of the Little Sahara sand dunes, composing a best man’s toast to my brother, who is getting married next week in Dallas...

A Story of Utah
(Fillmore Territorial Statehouse) - October 22, 2001 - In the late 1840s Brigham Young, then the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, found himself governor of what he hoped would soon be the largest state in the Union: the Territory of Deseret.

History Returning as Art
(San Pete County Bike Ride, Part One of Two) - April 30, 2001 - He started the chase when I, on bike, rounded a corner by his house, leaving relatively busy state Route 132 for state Route 117, a quiet country lane that swept up a broad hill toward the hamlet of Wales. The dog started his chase...

History Returning as Art, part 2
(San Pete County Bike Ride, Part 2 of 2) - May 7, 2001 - In his shop on Mt. Pleasant's historic main street, Paul Hart lets me look around while he works and listens to the radio. It is Sunday, and Hart, a violin maker, has a handful of students at work learning to make and restore violins.

On A Hilltop, Traces Of History
(Fremont Indian State Park) July 10, 2000 - Every morning, someone had to begin the process of hauling water up to the village from the river. Hauling water was a constant in life here, as was the struggle to grow enough food during the short frost-free season...

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