Research Catalog

Title

A trail of many tales : the discovery of the Fish Lake Cutoff along the Old Spanish Trail / Robert W. Leonard, Jr.

Author

Leonard, Robert W. Jr 1949 - 2021

Publication

[Denver, Colorado] : Outskirts Press, 2020.

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Details

Description

ii, 163 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm

Subject

• National Register of Historic Places
• Spaniards > Discovery and exploration
• Mexicans > Discovery and exploration
• Fishlake National Forest (Utah)
• Old Spanish Trail
• Fish Lake (Sevier County, Utah)
• United States > Old Spanish Trail
• Utah > Fish Lake (Sevier County)
• Utah > Fishlake National Forest

Note

• "The Fishlake NF became involved in "The Search for the Old Spanish Trail" in 2008 with the encouragement of BLM archaeologist Chris Horting-Jones. In the process, we have involved the expertise of many people and have expended many person hours in the field and in the office. In 2011, we nominated to the National Register of Historic Places a segment of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail and the Fish Lake Cutoff. Both were listed by the Keeper of the National Resister. Due to a wealth new information gathered between 2012 and 2017, the National Resister listing will likely be revisited with the assistance of the Utah State Historic Preservation Officer (USHPO). These new discoveries revolve around the themes of tree blazes, the linear alignment of cairns, the presence of pollen and spores in relation to subsurface deposits of livestock dung, LIDAR imaging, and the re-examination of the landscape and trail corridors. With this data we are absolutely certain of the routes and herd types meandering along the Old Spanish Trail (OST) and the Fish Lake Cutoff (FLCO) through the Fishlake NF. We were also supervised at the emergence of another secret that surfaced concerning early trail travelers and their missions. Nineteen years after the passage of the Dominguez and Escalante party through the area of the trail, later called the Cutoff, we found a conduit used by the Spanish to harvest slaves at Fish Lake and in Grass Valley, the home of a people without horses. The same trail probably experienced uninterrupted use after Mexican independence in 1821 and will into the 1840s, when the trail had been pushed into California. Now Los Angeles-bound travelers and pack trains laden with trade goods hurried west, and caravans of horses and mules went east. The presence of traders and travelers and their animals on the Cutoff can be assumed by opening a history book. However, we must rely on oral histories and scientific methods of investigation such as tribal lore, LIDAR, dendrochronology, satellite imagery, archaeological survey, excavation, and the analysis of geomorphic processes to determine the exact corridors." Page ii

ISBN

• 9781977223944
• 197722394X

OCLC

• on1273207790
• 1273207790
• SCSB-14322183

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library