WESTERN GATEWAYS
Autumn 1967
Canyonlands Highway Issue - stories and articles

A delightful vintage magazine for a look into history
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Table of Contents:

• The Friendship Cruise - by Gaylord Staveley -
  This annual pleasure boating event on the Green and Colorado Rivers is drawing more family boaters to the canyon country every year.
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• Behind the Rocks - by Jim Guier -
  Here's a chance to venture into a little known area of the canyonlands, where many of he formations are still begging to be named.
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• Drive through the Ages -
  About a canyon road where four hundred milion years of geological time are exposed in the rock layers seen from your car.
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• Canyon Rims Recreation Area -
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• Land of the Ute - by Lynn Crmbo -
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• Canyonlands Country Guides -
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• Bonus in Bones - by Gaylord Staveley -
  Would you believe 20,000 dinosaur bones from a pit half the size of a football field?
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• Rangely College - by Kenneth Bailey -
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• Poncho House Ruin - by KC DenDooven -
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• The Map Gap -
  Here's a time and mile saving route between Canyonlands and Flaming Gorge that is a better route than most of the maps indicate.
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• Map of Flaming Gorge
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• Map of Canyonlands National Park
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• Canyonlands Highway Map -
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• Here and There in the Land of Canyons - by Robert and Ann Case -
  A family of back country buffs from New England returns again to roam their favorite kind of country--the remote parts of canyonlands.
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• Conversations with Bates Wilson -
  The Superintendent of Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Monument discusses the past, present and future of the canyonlands.
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