Butch Cassidy was here : historic inscriptions of the Colorado plateau / James H. Knipmeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knipmeyer, James H., 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inscriptions.

Historic sites.

Colorado Plateau--Antiquities.

Colorado Plateau.

Historic sites--Colorado Plateau.

Inscriptions--Colorado Plateau.

Colorado Plateau--History, Local.

Colorado Plateau--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 160 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2002]

Summary:

From overpass walls to bathroom stalls, we humans can't seem to pass up an opportunity to leave some evidence of our passing by. But this urge is hardly a contemporary phenomenon. In 1976 author James Knipmeyer set himself the "modest" goal of locating and photographing all of the old, historic inscriptions to be found in the Colorado Plateau region of southern Utah and northern Arizona dated prior to 1900. More than twenty-five years and almost 1,600 inscription images later, his work has resulted in Butch Cassidy Was Here, a fascinating and vivid memento mori of Spanish missionaries and colonizers, Mormon pioneers, amateur archaeologists, outlaws, miners, and pack mail carriers who left their mark on southwestern history.

Contents:

A beginning: 9000 B.P.-A.D. 1538

The Spanish period: 1539-1820

The Mexican period: 1821-1847

Enter the Americans: 1848-1864

Mormon expansion: 1847-1868

Exploration of the Colorado River: 1869-1873

The Grand Canyon region: 1870-1899

South-central Utah: 1870-1883

To the Little Colorado: 1871-1899

The four corners region: 1873-1897

The Mormon settlements of San Juan: 1879-1887

Moab and Green River: 1874-1897

Silver and gold: 1879-1899

Artifacts and relics: 1888-1897

The rivers: 1879-1897

Filling in the corners: 1884-1899

Full circle: 1909.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-149) and index.

ISBN:

0874807360

OCLC:

49903441