Last chance byway the history of Nine Mile Canyon /

"Nine Mile Canyon's role in the Old West--a story of fur trappers and miners, ranchers and homesteaders, cattle barons and barkeeps, outlaws and bounty hunters Nine Mile Canyon is famous the world over for its prehistoric art images and remnants of ancient Fremont farmers. But it also teem...

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Main Author: Spangler, Jerry D.,
Other Authors: Spangler, Donna Kemp,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]
Physical Description: vii, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
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520 2 |a "Nine Mile Canyon's role in the Old West--a story of fur trappers and miners, ranchers and homesteaders, cattle barons and barkeeps, outlaws and bounty hunters Nine Mile Canyon is famous the world over for its prehistoric art images and remnants of ancient Fremont farmers. But it also teems with Old West history that is salted with iconic figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Last Chance Byway lays out this newly told story of human endeavor and folly in a place historians have long ignored. The history of Nine Mile Canyon is not so much a story of those who lived and died there as it is of those whose came with dreams and left broke and disillusioned, although there were exceptions. Sam Gilson, the irascible U.S. marshal and famed polygamist hunter, became wealthy speculating in a hydrocarbon substance bearing his name, Gilsonite, a form of asphalt. The famed African American Buffalo Soldiers constructed a freight road through the canyon that for a time turned the Nine Mile Road into one of the busiest highways in Utah. Others who left their mark include famed outlaw hunter Joe Bush, infamous bounty hunter Jack Watson, the larger-than-life cattle baron Preston Nutter, and Robert Leroy Parker (known to most as Butch Cassidy)"--Provided by publisher. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index. 
505 0 |a The conundrum of Nine Mile -- Beaver fever : William Ashley and the discovery of Nine Mile Canyon -- A "worthless mineral" : Sam Gilson and the Gilsonite Rush -- Soldiers, schemers, and a road to riches -- Squatters, freighters, and barkeeps : on the Nine Mile Road from 1886 to 1901 -- Hellfire and gunplay : law and lawlessness in eastern Utah -- The Cattle King : the myth and legacy of Preston Nutter -- A perfect storm : from boom to bust on the Nine Mile Road -- A genealogy of place : the farmers and ranchers of Nine Mile Canyon -- Postscript -- Biographical register. 
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