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“My journey to Utah’s Redd Ranch takes place the day before Thanksgiving. The drive northward through Monument Valley and along the edge of Canyonlands National Park takes my breath away. These kinds of spectacular views don’t encourage a photographer to be in a hurry. In fact, the landforms are so amazing that I have to pull over time after time, and begin to wonder how late it’ll be when I finally arrive at the ranch headquarters.” – Jim Read More ...]]> 2885 https://competitivemarkets.com/la-sal-cattle-co-ut-great-ranches-of-the-west-35/ Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:30:04 +0000 http://www.competitivemarkets.com/?p=2695

“John Hardison Redd freed his slaves in 1850 and moved from his Tennessee plantation to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah. His son, Lemuel, married two wives and eventually had twenty children. He left both families in the town of New Harmoney and joined a Mormon mission group traveling to establish a community called Bluff. This party of 70 families, 400 horses and oxen, and 1,000 head of cattle incredibly trekked a virtually impossible route 150 miles across Read More ...]]> 2695