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Who are these guys? MAIN ST, MOAB, UTAH, late 1940s?

If you have an idea who these fellas are, let us know.

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SEDONA, ARIZONA…’BEFORE & AFTER’. photos by HERB RINGER in the 50s and Google in 2014

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VOLUME 1 NUMBER 1…MARCH 14, 1989

First issue of THE CANYON COUNTRY ZEPHYR.
Twenty-seven years ago. How is that possible?

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Ray Garner Still Image: Camping at Arches…

A still image from a documentary film by RAY GARNER
“The Desert”…Camping at Arches National Monument,
at the Devils Garden…and COMING SOON…
Many more video clips from this film:

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TAPESTRY WALL in GLEN CANYON. Oct 1962 by EDNA FRIDLEY

for more: http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/…/last-float-down-glen-…/

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(Raw Story) GOP congressman furious after sacred Apache land in Arizona is designated a historic place

“Republican Congressman Paul Gosar had joined forces with Democratic U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in an effort to sell off the ancestral Native American land, known as Oak Flat or Chi’chil Bildagoteel to the Apache community, to mining firm Resolution Copper, owned by an Australian-British corporation. According to the New York Times, it would have been the first time in history Native American lands would have been handed over to a foreign company by Congress.”

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Coming in the Next Few Months…

The Story of Moab’s “HOTEL OFF CENTER.” & its Creators—
THE AMAZING KNOUFF FAMILY..
(no…the hotel’s not there anymore.)

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The April/May Zephyr is Online!

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In this issue…

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles
RESTORE GLEN CANYON?
OR KEEP IT IN ‘LIQUID STORAGE?’

SOWING CLOVER…Tonya Stiles
How to Fight a Fire’

BEFORE & AFTER
US 191 AT ARCHES NATIONAL PARK
1940s &  TODAY

GROUND ZERO with KARA DOHRENWEND
They’re BAAAAAAAACK…..!!!
What does Federal Land Management
have to do with Gun Control?

An excerpt from:

LAST OF THE ROBBERS ROOST OUTLAWS
Moab’s BILL TIBBETTS…PART 5 “Making A New Start”
Tom McCourt

“more poets. fewer lawyers…” —Amy Brunvand
‘Your Old Canary is Obsolete’ & ‘Hiking to Delicate Arch’

HERB RINGER’S AMERICAN WEST…
Camping with Herb

C O M M E N T S
from Zephyr Readers RE: “WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”

From The Zephyr Archives
MY OLD MAN…THE ‘URANIUM KING’”

Charlie Steen’s youngest son ‘sets the record straight’ about the life and times of Moab’s most famous prospector
Mark Steen
DePUY! 
The Life Work of John DePuy is now on exhibit
at the Harwood Museum in Taos.

From the 2004 Zephyr Archives
Last Days of Glen Canyon
And the ‘Greatest Story Ever Told’
Tony van Renterghem

Latigo Wind Project:
Terminal Pragmatism Writ Large
By Scott Thompson

‘THE MONKEY WRENCH GANG’ MOVIE?
Forty Years Later,  Would the ‘New West’ of 2016
even ‘get’ Ed Abbey’s Classic Novel?

Jim Stiles

A Story of Two Prairie Graves
Jim Stiles

Arth Chaffin & Cass Hite
The Adventures of Two Colorado River Pioneers
By Barry Scholl

V L A C H O S’   V I E W S
America through the lens of PAUL VLACHOS


Poking Through the Ruins #1

THE  THOMPSON  SPRINGS RR  DEPOT

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CONOCO ROAD MAP ca. 1947

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“BRAVE NEW MOAB” from the ‘Brave New West’ cover by Jim Stiles

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