Table of Contents
How Moab Got Its Name 1
Mosquito Bite 3
A Town by Any Other Name 5
The Magic Water of Matrimony Springs 8
Moab Fever 9
Anasazi Ancestral Puebloans 11
The Moki Scream 15
The Earliest Artists of Moab 17
Trailing Through Moab 21
Trading Gone Wrong 25
Called to the Land 27
Building on Shaky Ground 31
The Decline and Fall of the Elk Mountain Mission 34
"Negro Bill" and Frenchie 36
Modern Moab Takes Shape 40
Home, Sweet (?) Home 42
The Marlboro Men of Moab 45
A River Runs Past It 50
A Ferry Good Idea 53
The Pinhook "Massacre" 57
Outlaws and In-Laws 67
Gunsmoke in the Canyon 73
And just Who Was This Matt Warner? 75
The Ghost Wolf 79
The Killing of Flat Nose George 81
The Dubinky Ghost 84
Bank Bandit Follies 87
A Town is Bom 90
When Bears Ran in Packs and Nobody Danced with Wolves 93
The Real Effects of Climate Change 96
The Earliest UFO Cover-Up? 100
Moab: Uranium Capitol of the World 103
The Yellow Circle Dream Mine 106
The Atomic Age Comes to Moab 108
Charlie Steen, the Uranium King 114
Leave it to Beaver at Ten Thousand Feet 118
The Ecstasy and the Agony 120
Give Me a Home Where the Millionaires Roam 123
An Atomic Legacy 125
National Parks and National Treasures 130
An Arch, a Bridge, or a Hole in the Wall? 135
The Name is Wilson Arch-Damn It 136
The Real Faux Falls 139
A "Point" of Politeness 141
Moab Goes to the Movies 143
The Worlds Most Scenic Garbage Dump 149
H-Bomb at Church Rock? 151
Murder and Mystery 154
The Rocket's Red Glare 157
The Mother Of All Bombs 160
Marijuana Mesa 162
Something in the Water? 163
Wilderness for Fun and Profit 165
A Day in the Desert 169
The Secret Name of a Utah State Treasure 173
A Red-Rock Field of Dreams 175
Rocks That Might Kill You and Dirt That's Alive 184
The Long Shadow of Edward Abbey 186
One Hundred Years on the Sandrock Trail 189
