Note: A much shorter version of this article first appeared in the June/July issue. After that piece was published, I was contacted by the granddaughters of Charles Boothroyd and the surviving daughter of Jeannette Sullivan. The information that Carolyn Boothroyd,…
Click Here to Read Part One… THE SEARCH From the moment Leonard Brown passed Aragon on the road on Tuesday evening, no one had seen a trace of the 1955 Ford or Aragon or Dennise. Despite multiple roadblocks and alerts…
Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, Herb Ringer set off for a solitary drive in the back country south of Reno, Nevada. The day, which would prove to be one of the most painful and well-remembered days in…
(From the 1995 Zephyr archives) Years ago, when Hardy Redd, my neighbor friend across the mountain, told me that the Mormon historian Leonard J. Arrington was to write a biography of Hardy’s father, the legendary Charlie Redd, I was quite…
Without fanfare, it was reported in 2016 that the Union Pacific railroad had torn down the old depot in Thompson Springs, Utah, 35 miles north of Moab. The station hadn’t been used in years and had fallen into disrepair, though…
Our regular readers know that we began a new project at the Zephyr last year–called “Zephyr America.” We’ve been slowly wading through the massive Zephyr archives of historic photos and digitizing them to share with our readers. To keep up…
December 22, 1941 Travel this month, 174 Travel to Date, 562 General I returned to duty December 1, after a months vacation in California. [I commend] Relief Ranger Russ Mahan on his work, during his short period of Duty at…
…and on writing a significantly expanded update of that story. Last April, after a year trying to collect as much publicly available information as I could find, I started to write what ultimately became a 10,000 word account of one of Grand County’s most brutal crimes,…
Yet another local landmark was recently torn down and wiped from the face of the Earth. Recently, for me, at least. In August, Tonya and I were driving to Moab from Monticello, on US 191, for the first time in a few…
October 22, 1941 Travel this month, 234 Travel to date, 234 Weather Local weather records show this October to have been the wettest in more than 40 years. Precipitation since October 1st is 3.78 inches. This is compared to 2.18…