Giants of San Juan

GIANTS OF SAN JUANby Buckley Jensen Mortals do not seriously ponder the ramifications of poor health until old age or bad luck or both force them to confront it. On the other hand, few of us are called upon to endure a lifetime of pain. Harold Muhlestein started life with all the vigor...
LIFE IS GOODby Buckley Jensen Fifty six years ago on the 24th of August, Monticello suffered the most horrific, painfully haunting event of its 124 year history. In a single second, an enormous explosion leveled the Lariat Café, killing 16 people, severely injurng more than 50 others...
LIFE IS GOODby Buckley Jensen The Class of l962 celebrated its 50th anniversary of graduation from Monticello High School during the Pioneer Days celebration on July 21. The 19 graduates of the class who came back are from as far away as Amarillo, TX. This class, whose incomparable...
GIANTS OF SAN JUAN Karl Lyman was born on New Year’s Day, 1913, eight years after his father and mother had left Bluff and pitched their tent on White Mesa on the south end of the Blue Mountains. Little Karl was the seventh child of 15 children born to Albert and Mary Ellen (Lell)...
GIANTS OF SAN JUAN The two million motorists who traverse US Hwy 191 between Monticello and Moab each year pass one of the most unique and interesting places in the Western United States. Whether they top the highway at Kane Creek from the south or come around the sheer cliff from the...
GIANTS OF SAN JUAN Both of George Hurst’s grandfathers moved from Utah to Mexico to avoid persecution and prosecution for having multiple wives during the period that polygamy was practiced in the LDS Church. They and many like them had built several thriving towns and productive...
GIANTS OF SAN JUAN Frost Black’s life covered almost all of the 20th Century. He helped his father build roads with horses as a boy. He traveled by horseback or buggy for decades before there were motorized vehicles in the county. He witnessed both of the Great Wars. He saw men land...
GIANTS OF SAN JUAN Grant and Josephine Bayles were some of the most successful cattle ranchers in San Juan. But it is their service to family, church and community for which they will be long remembered. Both Grant and Jo (as Josephine was affectionately called) were born in Bluff, UT...
GIANTS OF SAN JUAN On July 2, 2011, hundreds of the more than 1,600 descendents of Willard Richard and Hattie Black Guymon will gather in Blanding to celebrate the passage of 147 years since their common Grandfather and Patriarch, “Will” (as he was known) was born in l864. Will and...
LIFE IS GOOD Marcia and I met Danny Temkin in a building which covers eight football fields. His office in that building had a stunning view of the snow clad Wasatch Moutains east of Payson, UT. Before we met Mr. Temkin, we were taken on a tour of his manufacturing facility just west of...

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