Bears Ears

Andrew Gulliford is professor of history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is an award-winning author whose books include Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale; Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions; and The Woolly West: Colorado's Hidden History of Sheepscapes.

Acknowledgments Introduction: Bears Ears and a Deep Map of Place 1. Hunter- Gatherers and Deep Time: From Pleistocene Mammoths to Archaic Rock Art 2. From Basketmakers to Ancestral Puebloans, ad 50 to 1150 3. Into the Cliffs, 1150-1300 4. Navajos, Utes, and Canyon Exploration, 1300-1859 5. "The Fearing Time" and Mapping Ancient America, 1860-1875 6. "We Thank Thee, Oh God": Mormons Settle Bluff and Cattle Come to the Canyons, 1876-1890 7. Cowboy Archaeology, a Lady Botanist, a Failed Indian Reservation, and the Antiquities Act, 1891-1906 8. The US Forest Service, Natural Bridges, and the Last Indian War, 1907-1923 9. Lost in Bears Ears, Murder in Johns Canyon, and a Failed New Deal National Monument, 1924-1944 10. Yellowcake, the Atomic Age, and a Golden Circle, 1945-1970 11. U-95, Nuclear Waste, Deadly Daughters, and Pothunting Raids, 1971-1986 12. Tribes Come Together for Bears Ears National Monument, 1987-2016 13. Resistance and Challenge to Bears Ears and the Antiquities Act 14. Tiny Tubers, Dark Skies, and the Future of a Sacred Native Landscape 15. Bears Ears Restored?: Coming Full Circle in Canyon Country Notes Bibliography Index

"This is a significant contribution to a current controversy. It presents multiple sides of questions fairly. In the ongoing arguments over Bears Ears, Gulliford's book will be a resource and a reference. It presents an excellent history of Bears Ears and surrounding southeastern Utah."-Steve Lekson, author of A Study of Southwestern Archaeology "Andrew Gulliford's long experience with the lands and people of Utah's San Juan County is apparent in this fair-minded, richly informative historical account. He shows how the Bears Ears National Monument became such a charged public issue and what can be learned from the ongoing struggle to protect it."-John D. Leshy, author of Our Common Ground: A New History of America's Public Lands