Tag: migration

The Slovenly Wilderness: Pioneers Old and New …by Stacy Young

by stiles • August 1, 2021 • 5 Comments

St. George, ~1930-1940. Note the farm village development pattern is still evident. Photo credit: Utah State Historical Society.

There were a number of well-considered reader responses to the essay I wrote a couple of issues ago about the accelerating effect of Covid on growth in southern Utah. Some of the comments extended the conversation in new and interesting…

Sand Canyon Blues: How the Hisatsinom Voted With Their Feet…by Scott Thompson

by stiles • April 1, 2012 • 2 Comments

“After several centuries of experiments and false starts, the foundations of modern Puebloan society emerged from the crucible of post-Chaco chaos: egalitarian, ritually based, anti-hierarchical.” – Archaeologist Stephen Lekson, 2008 It was one of those old motels, shaped like an…