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Utah cattle at a ford of the Virgin River. USHS collections.
Grazing in Utah: A Historical Perspective BY CHARLES S. PETERSON
is recognizably different from other regions and has left lasting social and natural imprints. Factors that influenced this at the outset included broad geographic influences and the timing and character of settlement. Although Utah is in some ways a transitional region between the Northwest and the Southwest, it was isolated by the great canyons of the Colorado from Hispanic influences, and cattle and sheep did not penetrate into Utah during the Spanish era. Later, when Texas longhorns and Spanish merinos were
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HISTORY OF GRAZING IN U T A H
Dr. Peterson is a Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society. A version of this paper was presented at the 38th annual meeting of the Society for Range Management.
