{"id":13155,"date":"2015-03-06T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2015-02-19T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T04:28:47","slug":"from-the-zephyr-archives-the-professor-of-professor-valley-by-lloyd-pierson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/from-the-zephyr-archives-the-professor-of-professor-valley-by-lloyd-pierson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Zephyr Archives) The Professor of Professor Valley\u2026 by Lloyd Pierson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was known as an eternal optimist, a wanderer, dreamer and sometime impractical pioneer. His name was Sylvester Richardson. The west of the post-Civil War era was filled with ambitious men out to conquer the west, get out of the congested east and make a fortune or at least settle down on some fertile acres and lead a better life. Richardson was one of these and despite his sometimes ineptness and over-blown dreams, he left his mark on several parts of the west\u2014the last being the country to the northwest of the La Sal Mountains in Utah. <span class=\"il\">Professor<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Valley<\/span>, Richardson Amphitheater, <span class=\"il\">Professor<\/span> Creek and the Richardson Post office were all named after him. His nickname, \u201c<span class=\"il\">Professor<\/span>,\u201d was given to him early in life because his peers recognized his apparent encyclopedic knowledge based on a lifetime involvement in many endeavors. It was said that he always had a book under his arm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more about the Professor of Professor Valley, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/from-the-zephyr-archives-the-professor-of-professor-valley-by-lloyd-pierson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13064\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/profvalley.jpg\" alt=\"profvalley\" width=\"549\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/profvalley.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/profvalley-300x131.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/from-the-zephyr-archives-the-professor-of-professor-valley-by-lloyd-pierson\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/from-the-zephyr-archives-the-professor-of-professor-valley-by-lloyd-pierson\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: He was known as an eternal optimist, a wanderer, dreamer and sometime impractical pioneer. His name was Sylvester Richardson. The west of the post-Civil War era was filled with ambitious men out to conquer the west, get out of the congested east and make a fortune or at least settle down on some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13156,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}