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NATURAL HISTORY AND EARLY INHABITANTS The Uinta Mountains, some 150 to 160 miles long and 30 to 50 miles wide, run east and west, keen, snow-slashed peaks steeping in the sunlight, unique in their trend among the Rockies.
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— A N N ZWINGER
.t is a land of spectacular redrock cliffs, snowcapped mountains, tall pines, and Whitewater rapids. Daggett County may be small in population, but it has landscape on a grand scale. This rugged countryside, a boon to modern recreationists, has generally made life difficult for the area's h u m a n inhabitants. Moreso than many places, climate and terrain have done much to shape this area's history. Daggett C o u n t y is a n a r r o w strip of land along the n o r t h e r n slope of Utah's Uinta Mountains. Bounded basically by the crest of the Uintas on the south, the Wyoming state line on the north, the Colorado state line on the east, and Summit County on the west, it is Utah's twenty-ninth and youngest county. The east-west-trending Uinta Mountains and the Green River are the county's preeminent geographic features. The Green River generally flows from north to south, but where it strikes the Uintas it makes an abrupt turn to the
