Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
Making do with limited resources, pioneers built rip-gut fences. After cutting hundreds of junipers, they laid the "riders", the longer pieces of timber, against the "stakes", the shorter pieces that hold the "riders" up. They didn't need nails or . . . — — Map (db m286059) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
Before pioneers dug irrigation ditches to reach houses and gardens, they used horses to haul their water from the nearby muddy Paria River - 400 pounds at a time - in a water lizard, a barrel on skids like the one behind you. One household needed . . . — — Map (db m286122) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
"This was the country the Mormons settled. Its distances were terrifying, its cloudbursts catastrophic, its beauty flamboyant and bizarre and allied with death. Its droughts and its heat were withering. Nobody else wanted it, nobody but a . . . — — Map (db m286123) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
To the Paiute, home was not only a shelter made from juniper, but the entire landscape. Through this immense place the Paiute moved as if from room to room, gathering a certain plant here, another there. Lingering where the land offered its precious . . . — — Map (db m286066) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
In the winter, settlers went without fresh fruits and vegetables for months at a time, surviving on buckwheat as they worked in the fields, dug miles of irrigation ditches by hand, or traveled a week by wagon to get salt, cloth, or nails. In the . . . — — Map (db m286125) HM
Near West Center Street near Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
It is as if each human culture is a translucent veil draped across the landscape. Each can be seen through the other, but each changes the color of he whole. Each culture found something different to value in this landscape.
- Thomas Lowe . . . — — Map (db m286061) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
One horticultural technique the Paiutes handed down through millennia was "coppicing", a form of pruning that encouraged the re-growth of young branches that were straight, long, and flexible - properties they valued highly for basketry, . . . — — Map (db m286126) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
From dripping seeps to flash floods, water shapes landscape and all life. The Paiute tuned their lives to its music, moving from sandstone seeps to springs in a complex seasonal rhythm.
The Paiute possessed an intimate knowledge of plants, . . . — — Map (db m286069) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
Archaeology reveals that the Southern Paiute, a Numic-speaking people from the Southern Great Basin, arrived in this region about 800 years ago. The Southern Paiute say they have always been here. They call themselves Nuwuvi, or The People, meaning . . . — — Map (db m286064) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
In 1876 Cannonville was settled by Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS), who came to the Utah Territory in 1847 seeking religious freedom. Most towns in southern Utah were colonized by missions directed from . . . — — Map (db m286124) HM
Near West Center Street at Main Street / Kodachrome Road, on the right when traveling west.
Dependent on food plants brought from the wetter eastern United States and Europe, pioneers established a different lifestyle than the Paiute Indians. Rather than moving between water sources, pioneers moved water to their crops. Settlements like . . . — — Map (db m286121) HM
