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Reddirtdawg
06-09-2009, 10:09 AM
This may not be the correct category for this post

stefan
06-09-2009, 01:48 PM
thanks for posting this :2thumbs:


http://www.usu.edu/usupress/books/img/7377.jpg

quoted from the Utah State University Press site:
http://www.usu.edu/usupress/books/index.cfm?isbn=7377

[i]West of the Four Corners and east of the Colorado River, in southeastern Utah, a unique one-hundred-mile-long, two-hundred-foot-high, serrated cliff cuts the sky. Whether viewed as barrier wall or sheltering sanctuary, Comb Ridge has helped define life and culture in this region for thousands of years.

Today, the area it crosses is still relatively remote, though an important part of a scenic complex of popular tourist destinations that includes Natural Bridges National Monument and Grand Gulch just to the west, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Powell a bit farther west, Canyonlands National Park to the north, Hovenweep National Monument to the east, and the San Juan River and Monument Valley to the south.

Prehistorically, Comb Ridge split an intensively used Ancient Puebloan homeland. It later had similar cultural

Brewhaha
06-09-2009, 06:35 PM
I work with McPherson and had several conversations with him about the book. I think it will be a great read....