Butch Cassidy Campground, Salina, Utah
A new Butch Cassidy link has been added below as of Fri afternoon, 13 Apr 12.
It is appropriate to use the photos I took on Monday 9 April while driving from Bryce Canyon Natl Park to Panguitch. Red Canyon is adminsitered by the U.S. Forest Service and lies to the west of the entrance to Bryce Canyon.
One of the first plaques in Red Canyon had to do with Butch Cassidy.
Here's the text. "Butch Cassidy: Legend of the Wild West.
"Fact and Fiction. Truth mingles with fiction in stories of Cassidy's colorful life. No aspect of his life has sparked more debate than the circumstances of his death. Some believe he was shot in Bolivia in 1908, but many local residents recall seeing Cassidy years after that. Their stories lend credibility to a different ending to Cassidy's story -- that he gave up crime, changed his name, and died in 1937.
"Outlaw or Hero? 'My father, he carried the mail, and he always stopped and had dinner at a certain place [in Red Canyon]. While he was having dinner Old Butch Cassidy came to his camp. He told about these fellows following him. He got up on this ledge, and when they got close, he shot right between them. Well, those old fellows spurred their horses and went back. Butch started to eat, and then he would just keel over laughing....' Thomas Richards, Topic resident, Southern History Oral Project.
"This rugged and remote country has attracted many characters, but none so legendary as Butch Cassidy. Born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, Cassidy was the oldest of 13 children of Mormon immigrants. While still in his teens, Cassidy took up cattle rustling, then armed robbery. In the 1890s he formed a gang, The Wild Bunch, which included Harry Longabaugh, best known as The Sundance Kid. Though an outlaw for most of his life, Cassidy's charisma and a reputation as a champion of the common man have built his heroic stature in American folk [history]."
More columns and hoodoos -- tho not as numerous as in Bryce Canyon.
Another formation in Red Canyon, which, since it is lower and dryer than Byrce Canyon, has sagebrush, Utah junipers, and a few ponderosa pines.
More Red Canyon formations. And, yes, that's snow on the east side of the formations on top of the ridge.
A "zoomed" photo of the formations in the above shot.
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Links:
- Wikipedia article on Butch Cassidy
- More on the "supposed death" of Cassidy in Bolivia
- Info on Red Canyon in Dixie National Forest
- Butch Cassidy Campground website
- Nine-part monograph titled Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" by Douglas MacGowan
- Wikipedia article on Salina, UT
Because I could not find the hours for the Salina, UT, Library on-line, here they are: M-Th: 11-7, F: 12-5.
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Su 8 Apr Actual Route: Kodachrome Basin State Park - Cannonville - Bryce Canyon Natl Park
M 9 Apr Actual Route: Bryce Canyon Natl Park - Panguitch - Paradise RV Park
T 10 Apr Actual Route: Paradise RV Park - Panguitch - Circleville RV Park & Country Store
W 11 Apr Actual Route: Circleville RV Park - Marysvale - Monroe - Richfield - Salina
W 12 Apr Actual Route: Salina - Gunnison - Manti - Ephraim - Fountain Green - Nephi
Finding Campgrounds:
- RV Campgrounds from TrailerLifeDirectory.com
- Family Camping Directories from Woodalls.com
- Free campsites website
- Info on finding BLM Campgrounds
