“This is a country of magnificent distances. I stood high up on one of the many teeth of Comb Ridge, and looked – looked again and then round a wonderland unveiling itself before me.” So wrote Burl Armstrong in 1907, introducing readers to landscapes most would never see first hand.

Armstrong, a newspaperman, accompanied Professor Byron Cummings of the University of Utah on the first expedition to map the pueblos and rock art of the ancient civilization commonly known today as Anasazi, in the twisted, broken canyons of San Juan County. Continue reading “A Country of Magnificent Distances” (Utah history) →