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Since 1989"

This is for all you fluviophiles out there.
24/06/2026

This is for all you fluviophiles out there.

Uncategorized REMEMBERING GEORGIE (WHITE) CLARK— “Woman of the River” by Anne Snowden Crosman (ZX #22) by stiles • August 21, 2022 • 14 Comments Georgie Clark is single-minded. “The Colorado River is my life, always has been,” she says in a high, squeaky twang. “The Grand Canyon i...

Charlie Redd is a legend in these parts. His eldest son, Charles Hardison "Hardy" Redd, who is mentioned in the opening ...
19/06/2026

Charlie Redd is a legend in these parts. His eldest son, Charles Hardison "Hardy" Redd, who is mentioned in the opening sentence, recently turned 90. Hundreds of Redd descendants continue to wield great influence in southeastern Utah and western Colorado. This article was researched and submitted by Ken Sleight, one Jim Stiles' many contributing authors.

December/January 2022 Ken Sleight Remembers: CHARLIE REDD & HIS TIMES by stiles • November 30, 2021 • 0 Comments (From the 1995 Zephyr archives) Charlie Redd. Years ago, when Hardy Redd, my neighbor friend across the mountain, told me that the Mormon historian Leonard J. Arrington was to wri...

Jim Stiles' relationships with loved ones were often complicated, but his love for travel and fascination with exploring...
11/06/2026

Jim Stiles' relationships with loved ones were often complicated, but his love for travel and fascination with exploring new places and meeting new people was engendered when he was a boy, traveling the country with his family.

Uncategorized THE GREAT AMERICAN VACATION—‘OUT WEST’: June 1966 — Another Ancient Stiles Family Album (ZX #70) by stiles • July 9, 2023 • 20 Comments THIS EDITION OF THE ‘BLUE MOON ZEPHYR EXTRA’ IS MORE FOR ME THAN FOR ZEPHYR READERS, THOUGH I HOPE YOU’LL ENJOY THE RIDE. IT WAS ...

With recent government disclosures, people around the world are taking notice of UFOs or more accurately, Unidentified A...
22/05/2026

With recent government disclosures, people around the world are taking notice of UFOs or more accurately, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP). Many of us are just now paying attention to these mysterious objects, but Jim Stiles was obsessed for decades.

October/November 2021 Take it or Leave it: I Miss Art Bell, Bigfoot, and the Alien Abductors …by Jim Stiles by stiles • September 30, 2021 • 15 Comments If there were ever a time when we needed an interesting and truly escapist diversion from the realities of 2021 (or 2020 Part B, as it’...

A monument to national unity, and a federal government hellbent on destroying it. Stiles' article offers insight, surpri...
30/04/2026

A monument to national unity, and a federal government hellbent on destroying it. Stiles' article offers insight, surprises, and patterns of government abuse that seem eerily familiar.

This is a great read!

Uncategorized ALBERT CHRISTENSEN’S TRIUMPH & HEARTBREAK–THE 1941 ‘UNITY MONUMENT’ by Jim Stiles (ZX #78) by stiles • September 3, 2023 • 7 Comments His “Hole N’ the Rock home was a great achievement… But Albert had even bigger dreams to chase. Albert Christensen loved stone, Jes...

Jim Stiles often hoped that in his lifetime Glen Canyon would be restored to its former glory. Few, however, are aware t...
15/04/2026

Jim Stiles often hoped that in his lifetime Glen Canyon would be restored to its former glory. Few, however, are aware that its former glory included orchards, ferries and remarkable and resilient families.

Uncategorized GLEN CANYON’S NIELSEN RANCH at HITE—The Untold Story Pt. 1 —Jim Stiles (ZX #51) by stiles • February 26, 2023 • 8 Comments “A LITTLE HEAVEN ALL OUR OWN” The Beth & Ruben Nielsen Ranch—a Panoramic View. Mt Holmes in the distance In the summer of 1957, the most remote ...

We've had a spate of dry winters in southeastern Utah, interrupted by a couple of "normal" seasons with average to above...
26/03/2026

We've had a spate of dry winters in southeastern Utah, interrupted by a couple of "normal" seasons with average to above average snowpack. But precipitation is a fickle friend in Utah's high desert and once again Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam are facing an uncertain future. Jim Stiles never took his eye off this region and its unceasing controversies. Stiles wrote this prescient peace two months prior to his death in March of 2024.

If you didn’t live through the 1950s, there’s a commonly held but false impression that ‘nothing happened’ during the decade... But the decade of the ‘50s initiated the groundwork, literally, for what was to come. After a decade of the Great Depression and four years of world war. Growth w...

In recent decades, national monuments have grown to astonishing sizes, and have been established using criteria far outs...
08/03/2026

In recent decades, national monuments have grown to astonishing sizes, and have been established using criteria far outside the Antiquities Act of 1906. With a new administration in D.C., Utah's monument controversies are once again at the forefront. Jim Stiles wrote prolifically about these political ping pong balls. In fact, he has an entire bibliography dedicated to "Bear's Ears." Here's a good place to start.

In December, Jonathan Thompson, the roving contributor and former editor for 'High Country News,' offered his latest musings on the Bears Ears controversy from his home in Bulgaria. Responding to an op ed in 'The Deseret News' by Utah's Governor Gary Herbert, Thompson concluded that: "(the go

Jim Stiles had a close, though often tense relationship with rebel, "barbarian," environmental crusader and author Ed Ab...
28/01/2026

Jim Stiles had a close, though often tense relationship with rebel, "barbarian," environmental crusader and author Ed Abbey. Stiles could be portrayed as Abbey's biggest fan and was often dismayed by those whose understanding of this 20th Century icon was shallow or distorted. Here he writes frankly about the Ed Abbey he knew and loved.

He once said, “ If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule. That was the American Dream.” Many of the older New Westerners love Ed Abbey but ha...

Jim Stiles had an uncanny knack for tracking down and documenting the recent history of the West. Hearken back to Januar...
06/01/2026

Jim Stiles had an uncanny knack for tracking down and documenting the recent history of the West.
Hearken back to January 1942 with Hank Schmidt's Arches National Monument Report

Hank Schmidt. Arches National Monument. c/o NPS January 22, 1942 By Henry G Schmidt, Custodian Moab, Utah Travel this month, 63; Travel year to date, 625 Weather The new year of 1942 brought us zero temperatures and cold winds, lasting for 6 days and an abrupt change of weather

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