Archive for December, 2007

A Continuing Series
You can sometimes understand Utah by looking at how we act as a state. We’ve been doing it from the very start. For example, Brigham Young … who, for most purposes was Utah for twenty or thirty years starting about 1850 … made Fillmore, Utah (in Millard county, just to make sure nobody […]

Why are people afraid of nature?
I was talking to a neighbor about the chipmunks and squirrels that are all around our houses recently. “They carry Hantavirus, you know.” The neighbor noded wisely. “And Bubonic Plague too.”
I like ‘em. Having a few little furry creatures around is one of the real joys of living here in […]

Introducing “Stories and Essays”
I’ve added a new category to the menu you see above: Stories and Essays. So far, there are two members in the category, my introduction to the places of Color Country, Southern Utah and The Last Mammoth, Hungry Man, and the Short Faced Bear.
The very last Columbia Mammoth may have died in […]




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