Item Detail
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30537
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1
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English
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Cowboys, Indians, and Conflict : The Pinhook Draw Fight, 1881
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Winter 2001
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69
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah State Historical Society
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4-28
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"The La Sal Mountains sit astride the Utah—Colorado border, dominating the skyline over the canyons and mesas of southeastern Utah. For thousands of years these mountains have been important in diverse ways to the changing peoples of the region. In the late 1800s, as a dramatic change in regional human occupation was solidifying, the La Sals became the site of an incident that symbolizes the shifting of power from one group to another. Here, on the northwest slope of the range, a group of Utes/Paiutes and Anglo cowboys engaged in a gunfight. The skirmish, fought in what is today called Pinhook Draw, was a bloody consequence of the struggle of two groups to maintain incompatible lifestyles on the same land." [Author]