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Heritage Histories
Northeastern Utah was one of the last areas in the continental United States for Euro-American settlement. Ashley was part of a Forest Reserve (soon to become an “official” National Forest) during the heyday of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. Read about the local stockmen, lumberjacks and miners, the Army, early Forest Guard Stations, and the first Ashley Forest Supervisor, William M. Anderson.
Autobiographies
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William Anderson - Autobiography (.pdf, 13 pages, 82 Kb)
William Anderson – Ashley National Forest first Forest Supervisor
William Anderson -
William Anderson - Biography (.pdf, 41 pages, 998 Kb)
William Mitchell Anderson, First Ashley National Forest Supervisor
Cristina Bailey, Tami Merkley, and Byron Loosle, April 2003 -
Charles DeMoisey, Jr. (.pdf, 6 pages, 42 Kb)
HISTORICAL FILE - Early History of Ashley National Forest
Charles DeMoisy, Jr., Ranger, 1910-17; Supervisor, 1921-25 -
A. R. McConkie (.pdf, 9 pages, 54 Kb]
Ashley National Forest, Historical Information (1958-1973)
A. R. McConkie, Supervisor 1958-1973
Guard Station Histories
Guard stations were once the seasonal homes and offices of Forest Service employees. More»
Lookouts
Ute Mountain Lookout was the first and is the last standing fire tower with living quarters above ground in Utah. More»
Dry Fork Flume
Why this interest in an old flume? People of the Uinta Basin have been trying to figure out the mysterious sinks in Dry Fork Canyon for over 100 years. More»
Swett Ranch
Imagine a time before electricity when your house is a cabin in the woods; it is heated with wood; lamps are powered by coal oil; your water comes from the creek on your property; your bathroom is an outhouse across the yard; your mode of transportation is horse and wagon. Now imagine that the closest town for supplies is forty miles away, a mere two day journey both ways. Today that would be like driving from Los Angeles to Dallas and back. Your closest neighbor lives about a mile away? How would you survive in an isolated area such as this? What would you do for food, for clothing, for income, for entertainment? The Swett Ranch is one such example of what happened in these exact situations. It is a capsule of frontier life projected into modern times. More»
Carter Military Road
- Passport in Time: Carter Military Road Winter Lab 2007
- Passport in Time: Carter Military Road Winter Lab 2006
- The Carter Military Road was built by the military to move supplies between Fort Bridger and Fort Thornburgh in the 1880's. Read more about the history of the road and view photos of artifacts »
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A Look Along the Uinta Mountain's Carter Road (.pdf, 9 pages, 343 Kb)
A Look Along the Uinta Mountain’s Carter Road:
A History, the Development of the Region, and Current Research
Rocky Mountain Anthropology Conference 2005, Park City, Utah
D. Andrew Stertz, Ashley National Forest -
Connecting Artifacts and Behaviors: Period Photos (.pdf , 19 pages, 679 Kb)
Connecting Artifacts and Behaviors: Period Photos
and the “Tin War” Site in Northwestern Utah
Paper Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the
Society of American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri
April 15, 1993
Charmaine Thompson
Other History
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Moon Lake (.pdf, 14 pages)
History of Moon Lake
Cristina Bailey, Ashley National Forest - Men on the Mountain (.pdf, 74 pages, 395 Kb)
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Lime Kilns (.pdf, 4 pages, 34 Kb)
LIME KILNS: Evidence of Industry in the Uintah Basin
Robyn Watkins -
Preston Nutter (.pdf, 18 pages, 683 Kb)
Preston Nutter
Cristina Bailey, Ashley National Forest, August 2004 -
Myths and Legends (.pdf, 29 pages, 289 Kb)
MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE UINTA’S
Cristina Bailey and Tami Merkley, August 2002 - Brief Ashley History