Drove from St. George to Kanab and stopped on the way at the Pipe Spring Memorial (several pictures are included).  This is a fascinating yet sad story of the Western Movement and the encroachment of the white man on the indigenous people.  There was a band of about 1,200 Kaibab Paiute Indians living in this lush valley near a good spring and gleaning native grasses, animals and vegetation as sources of food and material for clothing and shelter.  Then the Mormons arrived in the 1860's,  looking for a productive area to raise their cattle.  A large stone structure was built directly over the Indian spring, and the herds of Mormon cattle essentially destroyed the vast open grasslands that were so vital for the native tribe.  After only about thirty years, the original Paiute tribe was reduced to about 96.  We spent about an hour here listening to a diminutive ranger who spoke with a Tennessee accent, retelling the saga of the west. We then headed for the RV Corral. After a night in Kanab, we push on east to Monument Valley.

Typical Paiute Homestead

Workers lodge on ranch

Whitmore, the longhorn

Our Ranger

Typical Mormon table setting--they kneeled to pray first

Stove first used 1880

Cheese making room

Prairie left from cattle grazing

Winsor Castle--named after early Mormon 

Worker rooms with main "Winsor Castle" in background