Ashley National Forest

Heritage

Histories

Northeastern Utah was one of the last areas in the continental United States for Euro-American settlement. Ashley was part of a Forest Reserve (soon to become an “official” National Forest) during the heyday of Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. Read about the local stockmen, lumberjacks and miners, the Army, early Forest Guard Stations, and the first Ashley Forest Supervisor, William M. Anderson.

Autobiographies

William Anderson, taken in the fall of 1952.
Ashley National Forest

• William Anderson - Autobiography [PDF, 13 pages, 82KB]
  William Anderson – Ashley National Forest first forest supervisor
  William Anderson

• William Anderson - Biography [PDF, 41 pages, 998KB]
  WILLIAM MITCHELL ANDERSON, FIRST ASHLEY NATIONAL FOREST SUPERVISOR
  Cristina Bailey, Tami Merkley, and Byron Loosle, April 2003

• Charles DeMoisey, Jr. [PDF, 6 pages, 42KB]
  HISTORICAL FILE - Early History of Ashley National Forest
  Charles DeMoisy, Jr., Ranger, 1910-17; Supervisor, 1921-25

• A. R. McConkie [PDF, 9 pages, 54KB]
  Ashley National Forest, Historical Information (1958-1973)
  A. R. McConkie, Supervisor 1958-1973

Guard Station Histories

• Ranger Stations and the Forest Service
  • Colton Guard Station
  • Paradise Park
  • Trout Creek

Lookouts

• Ute Mountain Fire Lookout

Dry Fork Flume

• Why this interest in an old flume? People of the Uinta Basin have been trying to figure out the mysterious sinks in Dry Fork Canyon for over 100 years. Read more about the Dry Fork Flume »

Swett Ranch

• Life On The Swett Ranch Homestead

Carter Military Road

• Passport in Time: Carter Military Road Winter Lab 2007

• Passport in Time: Carter Military Road Winter Lab 2006

• The Carter Military Road was built by the military to move supplies between Fort Bridger and Fort Thornburgh in the 1880's. Read more about the history of the road and view photos of artifacts »

• A Look Along the Uinta Mountain's Carter Road [PDF, 9 pages, 343KB]
  A Look Along the Uinta Mountain’s Carter Road:
  A History, the Development of the Region, and Current Research
  Rocky Mountain Anthropology Conference 2005, Park City, Utah
  D. Andrew Stertz, Ashley National Forest

• Connecting Artifacts and Behaviors: Period Photos [PDF, 19 pages, 679KB]
  Connecting Artifacts and Behaviors: Period Photos
  and the “Tin War” Site in Northwestern Utah
  Paper Presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the
  Society of American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri
  April 15, 1993
  Charmaine Thompson

Moon Lake 1950’s
(Photo courtesy J.Kemp)

Other History

• Moon Lake [PDF, 14 pages, 981KB]
  History of Moon Lake
  Cristina Bailey, Ashley National Forest

• Men on the Mountain [PDF, 74 pages, 395KB]

• Lime Kilns [PDF, 4 pages, 34KB]
  LIME KILNS: Evidence of Industry in the Uintah Basin
  Robyn Watkins

• Preston Nutter [PDF, 18 pages, 683KB]
  Preston Nutter
  Cristina Bailey, Ashley National Forest, August 2004

• Myths and Legends [PDF, 29 pages, 289KB]
  MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE UINTA’S
  Cristina Bailey and Tami Merkley, August 2002

• Brief Ashley History

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