Posted on 06/24/2004 7:04:48 PM PDT by Dog Gone
Someday you will have to take me and the Mrs for a drive to see this stuff.
Sure, from here, it's a hop east over the Wasatch into the Uintah basin, a couple hours drive both ways.
Looking at the drawings, I just can't help wondering what the original artist was like... what he was thinking about... and what in the world those symbols mean. The critter and people drawings are intuitively obvious, but some of the common designs are just curiosity provoking. There are lots of spirals... some small, hand sized, some huge - like 8 feet. Maybe it's the key to the universe, or maybe they were just scribbling :o)
I've got pics, but the CD is at work. I'll try to remember to fetch it and post some on Monday.
Great country in the Wasatch Mountains GR ! I really loved wheeling in that area when I was at Hill. Hated walking the salt flats on ordnance clearance missions at Eagle Range and Bendover Wendover........:o) I use to live at the state line casion for months when Uncle Sugars Wind Force invited us to assist in surface clearances on the bombing ranges. It was tough. Walk all day on the salt flats blowing stuff up then standing in the buffett line at the casino and losing all my TDY pay on the craps table , titty bars etc etc etc
Ahhhh Youth !
Stay safe !
Ugh. I hate the salt flats too. There's alot of interesting desert between Dugway and the bombing range (we once found a - ready? - volcano cone out there, whoda thunk). Burnt up a lota fuel, rounds, and brain cells out there many years back. Wore out a couple Yamahas, too. Wendover was always the reward for eating dust all weekend.
Maybe all that game scared them away 1,000 yars ago... Or else they picked the area clean and it couldn't sustain a human population anymore, y'know.
I don't get where people think that the American Indian was such a conservationist society. They killed as much as they could at one time, the easiest way they could do it. Like running entire herds of buffaloes over a cliff when the tribe was hungry and the herds were near, or setting fire to the prairie to drive the game toward the hunters.
Now that the government owns the property it will be looted. They should have left it in private hands.
Thanks for the ping. Nice!!
Great photo!
No wonder people get lost.
Thanks for the ping. Amazing story.
The archaeologists soon will (at home too).
If wonder if the Indians will try to claim it by saying their arrowheads are sacred.
It would be cool to see it. Ride up into the mountains to the ranch and go from there.
It would be cool to see it. Ride up into the mountains to the ranch and go from there.
I am encouraged to hear that your wife felt the connection to the past so strongly. There is something mystical about being confronted with an actual home in which some ancient people lived where you can touch one woman's hand through eons of time. Or hold in your hand a shard of pottery shaped and painted by another's long ago hand.
My grandmother in law once gave me a piece of 3000 year old cloth from the middle east. I could not touch it enough, or look at it often enough. Such a treasure. It disappeared with that husband. The cloth as a loss.
I am a history nut, but came to be a nut by wanting to know what sort of person, what kind of people, what could one person possibly do, think, come from, envision that would empower him, her to change the world? After 40 years of reading history I have broadened my interests, but am no less curious, insatiable actually. One thing they all seem to share. They all seem to know who they are and to have absolute convictions, good or bad. Wishy washy does not cut it then or now.
Ping.
The patrol records are in the UNM library in Albuquerque. I keep thinking that I will stop by there and spend a day or two researching but I always forget or don't have the time.
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