Hole In The Rock Author:David E. Miller 1879-1880 mission that took the first permanent settlers to San Juan County from Utah by way of Hole In The Rock. — The story of the December, 1879, Hole-In-the-Rock Expedition, when 250 men, women, children, with 80 wagons and many cattle and horses, passed through 200 miles of "impossible" country to lay foundations for a Mormon settl... more »ement in the Four Corners Area.« less