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Podcast: Speak Your Piece: a podcast about Utah's history
Episode: How Utah's San Juan County Nearly Became a Ute Reservation (Season 1, Ep. 11 - Part 1)
Description: Date: 05.07.2020 (Season 1, episode 11; part one: 30: 41 min., part two 26.50 min.): To read the complete show notes for this episode (including topics in time, photos 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 l...