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Describes Monument Valley, a huge triangle in the Navajo Indian Reservation of northern Arizona and southern Utah. Relates the legend of the Navajo silver mine, chronicles the arrival of traders John Weatherill and Harry Golding, and tells of the strange disappearance of Everett Ruess who often traveled through the area. The history of the valley includes stories about Spanish explorers, Mormon settlers, prospectors, Hollywood filmmakers, and the...
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"The gripping true story of three young people who went missing at the same time in the same tangle of canyons and slickrock expanses of the American Southwest. In 1935, during the wind-swept years of the Dust Bowl, three people went missing on separate occasions in the rugged canyon country of southeastern Utah, a place 'wild, desolate, mysterious.' A thirteen-year old girl, Lucy Garrett, was tricked into heading west with the man who had murdered...