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English
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The "Honeymoon Trail" : Link to Community and a Sense of Place in the Little Colorado River Settlements of Arizona, 1877-1927
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University
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Master's thesis
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After Brigham Young began colonizing Arizona in 1873, all travel into Arizona from the north crossed a hazardous stretch of road from Kanab, Utah to the settlements on the Little Colorado in northeastern Arizona. Because Mormons blazed the trail, it was called the Mormon Wagon Road. After completion of the St. George Temple in southern Utah in 1877, Arizona colonizers traveled the Mormon Wagon Road to St. George to be married in the temple. Engaged couples traveled together, chaperoning each other. So many wedding groups made the trip to St. George that Arizona locals began calling the road the "Honeymoon Trail," and today it is known only by this name. The Honeymoon Trail tradition hastened the process of community and established a sense of place for the early settlers, resulting in a strong sense of community that endures into the present. [Author's abstract]