Wednesday, December 17, 2008

#27 Pipe Spring NM

Pipe Spring National Monument in Southern Utah was set aside in the 1920 as a memorial of western pioneer life, but the spring and surrounding area have been important to the Native population for hundreds of years before the first settlers from the East. The ancestral puebloans and the Paiute Indians were the first to count on the spring. Later, the Spanish and Mormon settlers also relied on the spring for fresh water in this arid region.

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