Welcome to Southwest Back Country established to be an informative source for those who appreciate the beauty and history of the west. This site is established to documents our travels through out Utah and Arizona and the western states. It is my intent that this site will act as a place of information, depicting images, maps and information about this country’s National Parks & Monuments, National Forests & Wilderness Areas, Ghost Towns & Anasazi Ruins as well as the State Parks and other protected landmarks. Please return often as it is my intent to update this on a regular basis with both our current and previous travels.
Thank You For Visiting,
Bill, Teresa & Jack Kettler
Recent PostsShauntie was a boom town during the years 1872 to 1877 . There were over 40 houses of various types, several businesses including a hotel, several saloons, a post office, two stores and a smelter. When the mines gave out so did the town. Shauntie wa...
Use this guide to locate dinosaur tracksites and trails in Utah. This information is not updated regularly; therefore some tracksites may not be on this list. St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm 2180 East Riverside St. George, UT 8...
Ancient Pueblo People, or Ancestral Puebloans is a preferred term for the cultural group of people often known as Anasazi who are the ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples. The ancestral Puebloans were a prehistoric Native American civilization cen...
Natural Bridges National Monument is located in a desolate area in southeastern Utah, where the White River Canyon cuts entrenched runs through the sandstone rock. Three natural bridges have been formed here some of the largest in the world...
South Camp 1800s Mining Ruins – The remains of these rock cabins are some of the last vestiges of “South Camp”, one of the leading mining camps in the Star Range, which was active in the late 1800s. More than a hundred years...
located in the Pioche Hills located in eastern Lincoln County, Nevada near the historic mining town of Pioche is a formation known which creates The Lower-Middle Cambrian boundary interval within the southern Great Basin and Mojave Desert region. ...
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ericI see you are just getting started and wish you the best of luck. Readers may be interested in a couple more sites:
www.AnasaziAdventure.com and
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=775294
both are stocked with information about the Ancestral Puebloans and aids in planning trips to the four corners area.
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