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Podcast: Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history
Episode: How San Juan County Nearly Became a Ute Reservation (Season 1, Ep. 11 - Part 2)
Description: Date: 05.07.2020 (Season 1, episode 11; part two: 26:32 min.): To read the complete show notes for thisepisode (including topics in time, photo and recommended readings) click here. Interested in other episodes of Speak Your Piece? Click here for more episodes.Although we marvel at Utah’s San Juan County, with its haunting mesas, buttes, gorges, cliffs, rivers and desert plains, it wasn’t always that way. For most of the 19th century (1847-1890s) occupying white--mostly agricultural based settlers--made this one of the last regions “settled” in Utah...