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>Monday May 06, 2002
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>NEW MEXICO
>
>http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=856367&pic=none&TP=getentertainment
>Las Vegas has 918 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic
>Places, with examples ranging from Spanish adobe to Victorian mansions.
>For those interested in history before settlement by the Spanish, a
>half-hour's
>drive from the city is the Pecos National Historical Park. Located 28 miles
>from the town is the Fort Union National Monument. Established in 1851,
>the fort was built to protect wagon trains on the Santa Fe Trail. It now
>serves as a museum about life in the 1880s.
>
>http://www.sarweb.org/staley/description.htm
>The J.I. Staley Prize is presented each year by the School of American
>Research to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding
>scholarship
>and writing in anthropology. The prize carries a cash award of $10,000.
>A a book must have been published at least two years before it is nominated.
>Nominations received by October 1, 2002 to be considered for the next J.I.
>Staley Prize. Nominations should be mailed to: The J.I. Staley Prize, School
>of American Research, PO Box 2188 (660 Garcia St.), Santa Fe, New Mexico
>87504-2188. For information, call the coordinator at 505.954.7201 or E-mail
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>UTAH
>
>http://www.sltrib.com/05052002/utah/734207.htm
>Thousands of railroad buffs will gather for the 133 anniversary of the
>joining of the rails at Promontory Summit, where the Union Pacific and
>Central Pacific met on May 10, 1869. And, thousands of dedicated railroaders
>owe thanks to a persistent woman, Bernice Gibbs Anderson.
>
>Request for Assistance
>From: W.Y. Tollette (via fax)
>[Black American West Museum & Heritage Center, 3091 California Street,
>Denver Co 80205; 303.292.2566, F 303.382.1981;
>www.coax.net/people/lwf/bawmus.htm]:
>I'm looking for information on a William Gran(d)staff for whom a canyon
>in Utah is named. Can you provide whatever information you have on him?
>PS: Is there a photograph of Mr. Grandstaff and the canyon. How may I obtain
>copies?
>
>Editor's Reply:
>Best bet is to contact local museums or the BLM in the Moab UT area. These
>links may help:
>
>http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:YypbP-KaUzsC:www.sltrib.com/04102002/utah/727080.htm+%22negro+bill+canyon%22&hl=en
>Edward Robinson is a member of a small group leading the latest attempt
>to eliminate the racial reference from the name of the canyon east of Moab.
>Robinson has started calling the canyon "Brother Bill Canyon." Granstaff
>grazed sheep and cattle there from about 1877 until he left the area in
>1881, shortly after being charged with selling whiskey to American Indians.
>He fled to Colorado, where he died at his home on Red Mountain near Glenwood
>Springs in 1901. Ronald Coleman, who teaches African-American history,
>is convinced that the historical significance of Granstaff's presence would
>be lost if the racial reference was eliminated. "The average person would
>not know Granstaff Canyon from any other place unless [the BLM] includes
>a significant historical marker." While Negro Bill Canyon may be Utah's
>best-known geographic place using the word "Negro," six other places --
>located in Beaver, Iron, Rich, Millard, and Summit counties -- also contain
>it. Nationwide, 563 place names in 48 states include the word. The exceptions
>are Hawaii and South Dakota.
>
>http://www.swanet.org/zarchives/gotcaliche/alldailyeditions/00apr/myj040700.txt
>http://www.sltrib.com/04072000/utah/39289.htm Despite criticism, the Grand
>County Historical Society says it won't change the name of a canyon five
>miles northeast of Moab, even though some say "Negro Bill Canyon" has racial
>overtones. The society stands firm that the present name should stay because
>William Grandstaff, the first person to run cattle through the canyon,
>was a black man and the canyon should reflect his heritage.
>
>http://www.moabtimes.com/issues/2002/020321/pages/comments.html
>When the first permanent settlers arrived just before 1880, they found
>two men living in the fort. One was a French-Canadian trapper, known only
>as "Frenchie." The other was William Granstaff, a black man. Granstaff
>later built a cabin in Negro Bill Canyon where he lived for some time before
>disappearing. He was later seen operating a small business in Denver. He
>died in 1901, having starved to death in a mining cabin near Glenwood
>Springs,
>Colo.
>
>http://olympics.hiasys.com/olympics_main/news/ap_olynewsscene02132002.htm
>John W. Van Cott (author of "Utah Place Names") is a 91-year-old retired
>Brigham Young University professor. He first began to study place names
>in the 1941. As a field worker for the now-defunct United States Grazing
>Service, he trekked into the wilds of southeastern Utah and came across
>what was then called "Nigger Bill Canyon." He discovered it was named after
>William Granstaff, a black cowboy who ran cattle in the desert canyon in
>the 1870s with a Canadian trapper named "Frenchy." Granstaff fled the area
>after being charged with bootlegging whiskey.
>
>http://www.utahtrails.com/NegroBill.html
>Negro Bill Canyon was named after William Granstaff, a black prospector
>and rancher who grazed his cattle here during the late 1800s. In 1979 Negro
>Bill Canyon gained a great deal of notoriety over an action of the so called
>"Sagebrush Rebellion". The Bureau of Land Management, wanting to study
>the canyon as a possible wilderness area, placed a barrier at its entrance
>to keep out recreational vehicles. This infuriated a group of local
>anti-wilderness
>activists who, with the help of the Grand County commissioners, bulldozed
>down the barrier. The county commissioners then publicly declared that
>the county, not the federal government, owned the canyon, and when another
>barrier was erected it was again bulldozed down. The conflict was resolved
>only after a lawsuit was filed against Grand County in the U.S. district
>court.
>
>PRESERVATION
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20020505_545.html
>If successful, the restoration by the St. George Reef Lighthouse Preservation
>Society could create a tourist attraction in a forgotten corner of California
>whose logging and fishing industries have long faded. When it's done, the
>society will have turned the St. George Reef Lighthouse into the only one
>of three offshore lighthouses in the world that will be open to the public.
>http://www.northerncalifornia.net/culture/lighthouses/sgrlps/
>
>http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/home/exclusives.nsf/Bill%20McClellan/33A8BA7B2C98BCEB86256BAF006D824B?OpenDocument&Headline=%20Court%20may%20decide%20who%20will%20be%20guardian%20of%20Jesuit%20legacy%20
>The guardians of the old Jesuits are feuding with the descendants over
>who has legal control of the artifacts - the museum board or the Jesuits.
>The latter has now sued the former, and the former has responded with a
>motion to dismiss. That motion will be heard Tuesday. There is, however,
>a stickier issue. In addition to the museum, there is an old cemetery with
>approximately 100 graves. According to the museum staff, the hill was an
>Indian burial ground before becoming a Jesuit cemetery, and in the true
>Catholic tradition, the Jesuits literally built on top of the old religion.
>Hence, the cross. If the Jesuits win their lawsuit, they not only get the
>artifacts, they get the bodies. They have said they will move the bodies
>to the Jesuit plot in Calvary Cemetery.
>
>http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,395007406,00.html?
>A proposal in Congress to sell a historic site to the LDS Church was praised
>Saturday by some people as an effort to boost understanding of pioneer
>history but criticized by others concerned the church would put its own
>spin on history. State Sen. Keith Goodenough, D-Casper, said he was concerned
>about selling historic ground to a special interest group.
>
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