Earlier this summer, two horsemen traveling with pack animals appeared in the northern corridor of Highway 191. As artistic silhouettes, the riders commemorate the history of the Old Spanish Trail and the cultural, social and economic situations that brought more people to the Moab area during the mid-1800s. The trail snaked roughly 1200 miles from California to New Mexico and Moab’s geology provided an important river crossing. Plus, Utah is suing the Biden administration over its expansion of national monument boundaries for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante.

// Show Notes:

// Photo: Stephen Schultz, president of the Canyonlands Backcountry Horsemen, with his favorite artistic silhouette. Dressed in spurs and outfitted with an embroidered blanket, Schultz says this rider truly has ‘style.’ KZMU/Molly Marcello

// Utah Gov Spencer Cox 8/24 Press Release on Monument Lawsuit

https://governor.utah.gov/2022/08/24/utah-challenges-unlawful-designation-of-national-monuments/

// Canyonlands Backcountry Horsemen

https://www.bchutah.org/bch-canyonlands.php

// DOE: Commemorating the Old Spanish Trail in Moab

https://www.energy.gov/em/articles/commemorating-old-spanish-trail-moab

// Epicenter Green River: The Old Spanish Trail

https://ruralandproud.org/epicenter_blog/ost/