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Sowing Clover: Blindness in a Border Town…by Tonya Stiles
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The summer after the second grade, my best friend told me the truth. “You know, you aren’t supposed to be here,” she said. We were wandering the streets of Sturgis, South Dakota, as one did in those days, looking for…
January 1931: The Strenuous Life…by Harvey Leake
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…the highest form of success… comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate…
REUBEN SCOLNIK–THE ORIGINAL ARCH HUNTER (1917-2015)…by Jim Stiles
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I learned recently that my old friend Reuben Scolnik had died. He was one of the original “Arch Hunters” at Arches National Park and his efforts are remembered in a permanent display at the park’s visitor center. We were also…
DEPUY: From the Great Southwestern Artist’s Online Gallery
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Click Here to Visit John’s Website In 2001, the Zephyr interviewed John Depuy. Here’s an excerpt… Jim Stiles: Where did you grow up? John DePuy: My grandfather’s buried in New Mexico. But unfortunately he lost everything in the Depression,…
Homestead Days, Part 1…by Maxine Newell
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NOTE: Maxine Newell was a life long resident of the Colorado Plateau. She was born in Dove Creek, Colorado and lived in Monticello and then Moab until her death in 2015. Maxine and I worked together at Arches NP in…
An Excerpt From ‘LAST OF THE ROBBERS ROOST OUTLAWS: Moab’s BILL TIBBETTS’, PART 12…By Tom McCourt
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THANKS to Tom McCourt & the Tibbetts Family. For years, I have been watching Moab move farther and farther away from its roots, to the point where it seems few people even know the history of the place anymore. Some…
BARBARA EKKER: She “Knows Where the Bodies are Buried” in Wayne County…by Barry Scholl
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(From the 1998 Zephyr Archives) “When people ask whether I’m an expert on this area, I tell them I know where the bodies are buried.” -Barbara Ekker, unofficial historian of Wayne County “It’s terrible that we don’t teach more…
‘THE NINE(TEEN) LIVES of TOM WESSON’ …by Jim Stiles
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The phone rang. I looked at the ID and saw it was Wesson again. We’d spent most of the last two hours on the phone, though it was, by necessity, a one sided conversation. He talked and I scribbled furiously.…
Herb Ringer’s American West: FAMILY PORTRAITS (AND FRIENDS) #1…
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HERB RINGER came West from his home in New Jersey in 1939. Camera in hand, Herb captured the American West, from the Canadian Border to the Rio Grande and from the Big Sur coast to the High Plains. We believe…