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Captain Matrimony
Captain Matrimony is a book that is fun and funny.It is light reading with a mystery to solve.I beleive it is out of print and so I was glad to find a source to purchase it. I love to share this with others as you find your self just laughing out loud as you read this book.

Very Funny
I found this book to be a very good family book.I don't usually read books writen for LDS audiences.However, Robert is one of my favorite authors.He is funny and has a way of capturing the audience with his story lines.We read this book as a family.My children loved it.During dinner they would quote parts of the book we read the night before.Having chicken at our house will never be the same.

The story is based on a fictional town in southern Utah which hires a new math teacher from Charlotte.Upon entering the town you begin laughing with the cast of lovable characters.

If you are looking for an enjoyable read this book will give you what you are looking for.My kids loved the book as much as I did. ... Read more

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Publisher: Salt Lake City, The Deseret NewsPublication date: 1908Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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The tortuous canyon country of southeastern Utah conceals thousands of archaeological sites, ancient homes of the ancestors of today's Southwest Indian peoples. Late in the nineteenth century, adventurous cowboy-archaeologists made the first forays into the canyons in search of the material remains of these prehistoric cultures. Rancher Richard Wetherill (best known as the "discoverer" of Mesa Verde's Cliff Palace) and his brothers; entrepreneurs Charles McLoyd and Charles Cary Graham; and numerous other adventurers, scholars, preachers, and businessmen mounted expeditions into the area now known as Grand Gulch.

With varying degrees of scientific rigor, they mapped and dug the canyon's rich archaeological sites, removing large numbers of artifacts and burial goods to exhibit or sell back home-whether "home" was Durango, Chicago, New York, or Helsinki. During a trip in the winter of 1893-94, Richard Wetherill unearthed convincing proof that a previously unrecognized group of people had lived in Grand Gulch before the so-called Anasazi, or Cliff Dwellers. Wetherill named these people the "Basket Makers" and inaugurated a new era of understanding of the region's prehistoric past.

Almost one hundred years later, the modern-day adventure that became known as the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project began. Intrigued by the poorly documented history of the Gulch, a group of avocational archaeologists launched a grassroots effort to recover that history and locate the many artifacts that had been extracted from southeastern Utah's arid soil. The Gulch, they found, contained its own invaluable clues in the form of dated signatures left on canyon walls by the Wetherills and others as they made their way from site to site. An effort to track the original explorers in the Gulch ultimately led the team to Chicago's Field Museum and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

In this book, Fred M. Blackburn and Ray A. Williamson tell the two intertwined stories of the early archaeological expeditions into Grand Gulch and the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project. In the process, they describe what we now know about Basketmaker culture and present a stirring plea for the preservation of our nation's priceless archaeological heritage. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs. ... Read more

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Great read
This is a great read for anyone familiar with the the Four Corners area and its history. Well written, interesting insight into the Cowboys who explored the ancient ruins in Utah's Grand Gulch area.

Cowboys and Cave Dwellers
A superb book.Very informative, well written, and filled with great photos.I recommend this book, for what that's worth.

A great book
Grand Gulch country is some of the best in the Southwest.A unique canyon that winds its way down to the San Juan river it also boasts an amazing array of cave sites of ancient Native American dwellings.Some are larger than others, containing houses and artifacts.Many have been harmed by exposure to people. Nevertheless because many are far up into the cliffs they have been well preserved.This book tells the tale of a numerb of items taken from the caves that then became useless to archeology because people did not know from whence they came.THe story examines the history of the attempt to reconnect them to their origins and thus help archeology understand the history of the American SOuthwest.It is both the history of early American archeology and this unique canyon and its off-shoots.A wonderful book.

Seth J. Frantzman

Vindication for Wetherills
I appreciated this book, not just for the fantastic illustrations and stories, but for improving the reputation of the Wetherills, longconsidered no-good cowboy pot hunters. A great companion to this books isIn Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts, in which Fred Blackburnfeatures largely as a revolutionary who shapes Roberts' thinking about themess each generation of southwestern archeologists passes on to the next.

Detective story on finding "lost" archaeological collection
Undoubtedly the popular book of the year in Southwest archaeology, "Cowboys and Cave Dwellers" tells how a group of talented and dedicated "amateurs" found the missing links between nearly forgotten collections of artifacts stored in museum basements and their original sites in Utah's spectacular Grand Gulch. In the process they unearthed valuable information about the people called Basketmakers, the first farmers of the Colorado Plateau. The first explorers and untrained archaeologists who dug sites in Grand Gulch removed thousands of artifacts, often taking little care to record their locations. By carefully matching old photographs, diaries, newspaper articles and the signatures those adventurers carved on the canyon walls, the authors of this book, the members of the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project, were able to locate many of the caves and cliff dwelling where the treasures were originally found. They solved one of the most puzzling mysteries of Southeastern Utah archaeology: the location of long lost Cave 7, where Mesa Verde discoverer Richard Whetherill dug up dozens of skeletons that seemed to show evidence of a massacre.A good story with extensive historial and archaeological background and beautifully illustrated, this book is essential for anyone interested in Southwest archaeology. A good companion piece is William Ferguson's "The Anasazi of Mesa Verde and the Four Corners Region," which gives a broader view of the entire Mesa Verde-San Juan region. ... Read more

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A history of the team that began in New Orleans and was moved to Salt Lake City in 1979. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Utah Business, published by Utah Business Publishers LLC on December 15, 2009. The length of the article is 1263 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 498 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more

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Announcing the second book in a series about an RV living homeschooling family. Each month brings the Wright family to a new state with a new educational theme to explore and play with. They prove that learning can happen all the time, anywhere, and that being with family is fun! Meet Aidan Wright, age 7: Boisterous and joking all the time, this sporty boy knows how to have fun! Meet Nadia Wright, age 11: Curious and fiery, this intellectual girl can always find out answers to even the most difficult questions. Meet their parents, Harrison and Stephanie: Ready to take their kids on adventures of a lifetime. Meet Prince Pumpkin III, turtle extraordinaire: This 50 year old little guy is holding on tight, as the family RV and mysterious device take him on an adventure no turtle has ever gone on before. Explore a dinosaur dig with the Wrights as they roadschool in Utah. What will Aidan and Nadia discover about the mysterious device they found in Arizona? This series is Wright on Time. ... Read more

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The annual yearbook for Bingham High School, Copperton, Utah...1938. ... Read more

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Coppertonian 1967 Year Book for Bingham High School Copperton, Utah. ... Read more

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The annual yearbook for Bingham High School, Copperton, Utah...1969 ... Read more

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