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“My earliest memories of home was a little log cabin, across the road from Grandpa and Grandma Murphy’s Rock House.  There were all poplar trees growing in front of the cabin, a little stream of clear cool water, a trough the water ran through to make it a water fall and a tiny pond.  My older sister, Mary and I waded in the stream and make mud pies and sand castles around the pond.
Mary could do many things I could not do.  In summer she could walk in the hot sand barefoot, she did not cry if she stepped on a sand burr.  I can remember her carrying me piggyback through the burrs and hot sand, a bucket of water or vegetables in one hand.  I do not know why she took me along.  I was a crybaby or so they told me… I do not remember Mary crying about anything…”

To read more of Verona’s journals of life in early Moab, click the image below:

http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2011/10/02/life-times-in-southeast-utah-by-verona-stocks/

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AN EXCERPT:  KIRK DOUGLAS was worried. It was 1961, and this actor-producer had recently gambled on a big history picture, “Spartacus.” He had fired the director — Anthony Mann — after a week of shooting, replacing him with Stanley Kubrick. Mr. Douglas thought the picture had turned out well, but it still hadn’t been released. Meanwhile he had encountered a paperback novel — “The Brave Cowboy,” by Edward Abbey — and optioned it through his production company, Byrna. And Byrna, which had a production deal with Universal, commissioned a screenplay, by Dalton Trumbo. ..Mr. Douglas was gambling again, but playing a good hand. The material — the story of a modern-day cowboy who breaks into jail to rescue his best friend — is original for a western, and gets better as it goes along. Its screenwriter was talented and hard working. (Blacklisted and jailed after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Trumbo had for 10 years written scripts under assumed names, winning an Oscar for one of them as Robert Rich. Mr. Douglas went to bat for Trumbo on “Spartacus,” promising him a screen credit with his real name.) And Trumbo had solved the story’s two biggest problems: Why was the hero’s best friend in jail in the first place? And why wouldn’t he leave?

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“One would expect that reasonable people and reasonable leaders and reasonable land managers should be able to resolve this. I even believe most right wing, God fearin’ county commissions and legislators in Utah are, though not necessarily in favor of, at least willing to acknowledge and accept some wilderness designations in their counties in Utah. I believe most of Utah’s congressional delegation is of the same mindset. Reasonable people are willing to seek and accept reasonable compromise and solution. Most people want this issue resolved so we can all move on to other burning issues, like what really happened to Everett Ruess, or whether Utah can really contend for a PAC-12 football championship…”

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http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/2011/10/02/the-wilderness-quandary-or-does-pretty-make-it-wilderness-by-lynn-jackson/