atdtda:31 pgs 887-888 Reef's dream

[Michael Bailey]

Thanks for the refs.  It's an interesting area.  Didn't you
say that you `had been to that area at one time?

What I meant, though, was who was the McElmo dude it
seems to have been named after.  I get a mild cognitive
dissonance from an area filled with Native American (or earlier?)
relics being named after a Scot.

google answers has this:
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>From Basin to Peak: An Explorer's Companion to the Colorado-New Mexico
San Juan Basin
by Wesley M. Howe

pg 117-118:

McElmo Canyon -- A gulch on the west edge of Montezuma County that
extens into Utah.  The site of a 1911 basin oil strike, it is named
after a white pioneer prospector who stopped at a spting in the canyon
to get a drink and died there of tuberculosis.  His partner buried him
in the canyon.
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The reference for the above information is given as:

Freeman, Ira S.  A History of Montezuma County, Colorado.  Boulder:
Johnson Publishing, 1958



Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> McElmo was the area of Colorado where the Pueblo Indians lived (before the
> Utes and Navajos).  It's the "McElmo Watershed" now.   This is where Reef
> traveled bringing Webb's body back to Telluride from Jeshomon.
>
> "During the ride back up to  Telluride, among tablelands and canons and
> red-rock debris, past the stone farmhouses and fruit orchards and Mormon
> spreadds of the McElmo, below ruins hauntd by an ancient people whose name
> no one knew, circular towers and cliffside towns abandoned now for reasons
> no one would speak of."   (pg 214)
>
> a couple sites with some drawing from the Grand Gulch area
> http://www.utah.com/playgrounds/grand_gulch.htm
> http://www.gdargaud.net/Climbing/GrandGulch.html
>
> Bekah