The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly Author:Brooklyn Museum General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: The Museum Subjects: Art Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com whe... more »re you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Dixieland of the Mormons A Narrative Of The Museum's Expedition To Utah, 1917 IN southern Utah, a hundred miles and more away from railroads, there are regions which have been acclaimed, and justly so, as among the scenic wonders of this continent. San Juan County in the southeastern part of the State, for example, has become famous for its natural bridges -- indeed it is called the home of natural bridges, for in it are found not one but a dozen, any one of which in grace of form, in height and in dimensions excels the well-known natural bridge of Virginia. So remote and so rugged is this land of natural bridges that they were discovered only during the last twenty years and who knows how many more remain still hidden in the rocky fastnesses of mighty canyons into which as yet no traveller has found a way. Another region rapidly gaining in popular recognition is Washington County in the southwestern corner of the State. From its border south and west to Arizona and Nevada, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, this county displays a wonderful series of terraces and cliffs which, like gigantic steps arising one upon the other, culminate in plateaus with elevations above 9,000 feet. Thus within narrow confines Washington County includes three or four very distinct zones and climes, each one eminently suited for agricultural development along certain lines. Of these conditions the thrifty Mormon farmers, who settled here in their pioneer days in the West, have taken full advantage by spreading their holdings over all of the different zones. Guiding the life-givin...« less