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Book Title: Uinta County, Its Place In History

INTRODUCTION

    Romancers of the early frontier in western Wyoming have passed. With them
the squawman, the covered wagon and the American Indian, who has whooped himself
into a tame and stupid retreat. Old Fort Bridger is crumbling into ruins. Even
the creek beds, along which the ponies of the cowboys used to splash in low
water, have shifted with the years. The first phase of the great borderland show
is at an end.

    And its record in that part of Wyoming might well be ended, too, were it not
for such a historian as the author of this little volume, "Uinta County, Its
Place in History."

    Elizabeth Arnold Stone came to Uinta County in the early seventies—a tiny
girl. In this state, which she has loved to call her own, she has grown to
womanhood, experiencing in her everyday life some of the romance, the hardship,
the true friendship, which pioneering in an unmade country called for. She has
known in life many of the characters of whom she has written in her history. She
has felt the lure of the open sage prairie, the blue skies and the whistling
gale, which have enticed these characters from more comfortable homes elsewhere
to this high spot in the Rockies.

    Her college training and years of reading have given her a sense of
discrimination and balance, which, added to distinct literary ability, have
furnished fine tools with which to work.

    And now for three years the author has labored conscientiously to make this
work an authentic and attractive record. This as no compilation from the
findings of others. Mrs. Stone has delved into virgin soil. She is a true pioneer.

    To be sure, she has read the few scribbled records, which the cowboys of
that day have left—cowboys well schooled and cowboys unlettered, who rode the
range side by side. She has told of the fossil beds newly discovered, in the
eyes of the archeologist one of the choice finds of the country. These make
tangible food for a history.

    But there is something more in this history—a thrill which fires the blood
at thought of the crumbling walls of old Fort Bridger, long ago the goal of
weary overlanders looking for supplies and shelter from the Indian tomahawk. She
has followed the sheep and cattle trails through the sage and into the timber
and found the deserted trappers' cabins beside old dry creek beds and has
understood. She has listened to the fireside stories which gray-haired men and
women have loved to tell about days when things were "a-doing", and in retelling
them she has preserved the echoes of romance.

    This little volume affords one stirring link in the great panorama of the
shifting borderland. Its merits are manifold, its charm as persuasive and
delightful as the author herself, whom I have loved and prized all my life as "a
dear neighbor o' mine."

                                      MARGUERITE CAMERON.


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UINTA COUNTY ITS PLACE IN HISTORY
ELIZABETH ARNOLD STONE
GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A. 
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

A History of the Original Uinta County, Wyoming, and its Subdivisions

To the dear memory of my father,
Rev. F. L. Arnold


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