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    SHOOTING IN NINE MILE CANYON

    Mar 01, 2022 5 minutes
    BY CHUCK ZEHNDER

    Nine Mile Canyon is a serene, beautiful place that draws curious locals and tourists alike to northeast Utah. It is best known for having been home to the pre-Columbian Fremont culture, which left scores of ruins and more than 10,000 rock art images on its walls. Archaeologists have pored over those sites, and National Geographic and Smithsonian have featured the canyon in their pages. Yet for a time in the Old West the canyon was better known as a den of violence.

    In 1886 soldiers improved a rough road through the canyon from Price (more than 40 tortuous miles to the southwest) to Fort Duchesne (some 50 miles to the northeast), and telegraph crews followed in their wake. At the heart of the

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