Journey through the human history of Bryce Canyon, from the ancient peoples to the pioneers and the park's founding.
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Ten Thousand Years of Bryce Canyon
This series, Echoes of the Past: Bryce's Human Story, traces the people who shaped and were shaped by the Bryce Canyon region across ten millennia.
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Legend People Frozen in Red Stone
The Paiute name for these hoodoos translates to red painted faces — Anka-ku-was-a-wits.
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Ancient Cultures on the Colorado Plateau
Woven sandals and split-twig figurines — some several thousand years old — have turned up in archaeological surveys across this landscape.
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Ebenezer Bryce and His Terrible Canyon
Ebenezer Bryce reportedly described the canyon that now bears his name as a terrible place to lose a cow.
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From Monument to National Park in Five Years
Bryce Canyon holds a peculiar distinction — it went from national monument to national park in just five years, one of the fastest transitions in the history of the…
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Building Roads Through a Stone Labyrinth
During the Great Depression, young men of the Civilian Conservation Corps carved a road along the rim of Bryce Canyon, completing the scenic Rim Road in 1934.
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