A Visit to the Past
by Sharon Williams Eng
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A Visit to the Past
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Sharon Williams Eng
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Photograph - Photography
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An oasis in the arid American southwest, Pipe Springs, Arizona, became a resting place for many who traveled through the area to explore and settle the western frontier of the United States. It was home to the Mormons and is maintained now as a National Monument. Pipe Spring was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Pipe Spring was named by the Latter-day Saint missionary expedition to the Hopi mesas led by Jacob Hamblin in 1858. In the 1860s Mormon pioneers from St. George, Utah, brought cattle to the area, and established a large cattle ranching operation. In 1866 the Apache, Navajo and Paiute tribes of the region joined the Utes for the Black Hawk War, and, after they raided Pipe Spring, a protective fort was constructed by 1872 over the main spring. The following year the fort and ranch was purchased by Brigham Young for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The LDS Bishop of nearby Grafton, Utah, Anson Perry Winsor, was hired to operate the ranch and maintain the fort, soon called Winsor Castle. This isolated outpost served as a way station for people traveling across the Arizona Strip, that part of Arizona separated from the rest of the state by the Grand Canyon. It also served as a refuge for polygamist wives during the 1880s and 1890s. The LDS Church lost ownership of the property through penalties involved in the federal Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887.
Although their way of life was greatly impacted by Mormon settlement, the Paiute Indians continued to live in the area and by 1907 the Kaibab Paiute Indian Reservation was established, surrounding the privately owned Pipe Spring ranch. In 1923, the Pipe Spring ranch was purchased and set aside as a national monument to be a memorial to western pioneer life.
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