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Early Residents:
Standing here 10,000 years ago you might have watched a hunter collecting material to make arrowheads. The gray-green rounded slopes and hilltops across the canyon contain quartzite, a mineral prized by the early people of this area for tools and weapons.
Other early residents included the Fremont people of a thousand years ago, whose rock art still adorns canyon walls. Ute people frequented these mesas and canyons until the 1880s, when the pressures of Euro-American exploration and settlement drove them from their ancestral homes. |