Bryce Canyon Historic Resource Study

COVER

ILLUSTRATIONS

MAPS

EPIGRAM

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREHISTORY

INTRODUCTION
GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY--A SKETCH
FLORA AND FAUNA
ABORIGINAL OCCUPATION
     Paiute Place Names

MODERN DISCOVERY

EXPEDITIONS TO THE THE BRYCE CANYON REGION
MORMON SETTLEMENT NEAR BRYCE CANYON
     Attitude Toward Natural Phenomena
POPULARIZATION
     Zion and the North Rim
     Forest Service
     Private Party—the Syretts

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CONCEPT—ORIGINS
     Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
     Lund-Cedar City Spur
     Cedar City Complex
     Incorporation of Utah Parks Company
     Section 36, Bryce Canyon
     Syrett Camp
     Water Supply for Section 36
     Reconnaissance for Bryce Canyon Lodge
     Construction Program's Organization
     Materials for Bryce Lodge
     Transportation Franchise
REGIONAL ROAD DEVELOPMENT (1923-25)
     Zion-Mt. Carmel Road (1927-30)

NATIONAL MONUMENT STATUS

LEGISLATION (1919-24)
FOREST SERVICE ADMINISTRATION (1923-28)
EARLY ACTIVITIES OF THE UTAH PARKS COMPANY AT BRYCE CANYON (1924-29)
     Absence of Contractual Agreements
     Initial Construction Phase at Bryce Canyon

NATIONAL PARK STATUS

CREATION OF BRYCE CANYON
LAND ACQUISITION
     Boundaries — Marian Frost Settlement
     Abbreviated Grazing History
PARK ESTABLISHMENT (1929-56)
     Joint Administration with Zion
     Separate Administration for Bryce Canyon
OPERATIONS OF THE CONCESSIONER
     Contracts
     The Middle Years
     The Road to Liquidation
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
     Park Roads — Rim Road
     Park Roads — By-Pass Road
     Rapid Construction Phase
     The Civilian Conservation Corps in Bryce Canyon
     Establishment, Administration, and Contribution of NP-3
     Trails
     Liquidation of Camp NP-3
     Recent Construction Phase — Isolated Construction
     Recent Construction Phase — MISSION 66 Construction

APPENDIX A

ENDNOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Illustration No. 1 - Ebenezer Bryce and his wife

Illustration No. 2 - Ebenezer Bryce cabin beside the Paria River, near Tropic, Utah

Illustration No. 3 - Tourists' Rest, c. 1920-23

Illustration No. 4 - Site of Former Denver & Rio Grande Depot

Illustration No. 5 - Lund, Utah

Illustration No. 6 - Lund, Utah, 1/4 mile

Illustration No. 7 - Union Pacific Depot

Illustration No. 8 - Chauffer Lodge

Illustration No. 9 - Commissary Building (Union Pacific)

Illustration No. 10 - El Escalante Hotel in Cedar City, Utah

Illustration No. 11 - Bryce Canyon Lodge, 1924

Illustration No. 12 - Concrete walks connecting Standard Cabins to Bryce Canyon Lodge

Illustration No. 13 - Interior of a Standard Cabin, Bryce Canyon or Zion

Illustration No. 14 - Construction of Deluxe Cabin No. 3 at North Rim. October 30, 1927

Illustration No. 15 - Construction of Deluxe Cabin No. 3 at North Rim. November 13, 1927

Illustration No. 16 - Construction of Deluxe Cabins North Rim. November 19, 1927

Illustration No. 17 - Deluxe Cabins at Bryce Canyon

Illustration No. 18 - Interior of a Deluxe Cabin, Bryce Canyon or North Rim

Illustration No. 19 - Utah Parks Company Shelter at Bryce Canyon Point, July 1945

Illustration No. 20 - Maurice Cope supervising trail repairs

Illustration No. 21 - Par view of custodian's residence under construction

Illustration No. 22 - Near view of the custodian's residence under construction

Illustration No. 23 - Custodian's residence, showing detail of rock corner

Illustration No. 24 - Bryce Canyon's comfort station No. 1 under construction, summer of 1929

Illustration No. 25 - Comfort station No. 1 after completion

Illustration No. 26 - Comfort station No. 2 under construction, late summer of 1929

Illustration No. 27 - Comfort station No. 2 after completion

Illustration No. 28 - Checking kiosk, completed on August 28, 1928

Illustration No. 29 - Checking kiosk, near view

Illustration No. 30 - UPC cafeteria building completed in 1932

Illustration No. 31 - UPC cafeteria building subsequent to 1937 remodeling

Illustration No. 32 - Bryce Canyon employees cabins (2) WPA project F.P. 8

Illustration No. 33 - Bryce Canyon comfort station - WPA project F.P. 11

Illustration No. 34 - Bryce Canyon museum-overlook at Rainbow Point

Illustration No. 35 - Bryce Canyon's CCC Camp, NP-3

Illustration No. 36 - CCC crew hauling logs in Bryce Canyon

Illustration No. 37 - CCC enrollees loading logs along rim road

Illustration No. 38 - Standard Oil Service Station

Illustration No. 39 - Placement of exterior walls for residence No. 134

Illustration No. 40 - Residence No. 129 after installation of interior and exterior walls

Illustration No. 41 - Installation of forms for foundation walls on equipment storage buildings

Illustration No. 42 - installation of canopy on extension to utility building

Illustration No. 43 - Campfire circle at North Campground prior to modernization

Illustration No. 44 - Modernization under construction at North Campground

Illustration No. 45 - Completion photograph of modernization campfire lecture facility at North Campground

Illustration No. 46 - Staging for campfire circle under construction at Sunset Campground

Illustration No. 47 - Completion photograph of campfire lecture facility at Sunset Campground

Map No. 1 - Regional Road System, c. 1922

Map No. 2 - Bryce Canyon National. Monument, June 8, 1923

Map No. 3 - Bryce Canyon National Monument, October 1, 1927

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