Three Gossips

by Shirley Mangini

Title

Three Gossips

Artist

Shirley Mangini

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Photograph - Photograph

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The Three Gossips by Shirley Mangini
***Award Winning Image***

Located near Moab, Utah The Gossips can be found in Arches National Park, which is a part of an area designed Canyonlands.

Humans have occupied the region since the last ice age 10,000 years ago. Fremont people and Ancient Pueblo People lived in the area up until about 700 years ago. Spanish missionaries encountered Ute and Paiute tribes in the area when they first came through in the late 1700s, but the first attempt settlement in the area were the Mormon Elk Mountain Mission in 1855, who soon abandoned the area. Ranchers, farmers, and prospectors later settled Moab in the neighboring Valley in the 1880s. Word of the beauty of the surrounding rock formations spread beyond the settlement and it became a popular tourist destination.

The Arches area was first to the National Park Service when Frank Wadleigh, A Passenger Traffic Manager of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. He accompanied by a photographer named George L. Beam, visited the area in September 1923 at the invitation of Alexander Ringhoffer, a Hungarian-born prospector living in Salt Valley. Ringhoffer had written to the railroad in an effort to interest them in the tourist potential of a scenic area he had discovered the previous year with his two sons and a son-in-law, which he called the "Devil's Garden" (today the area is called "Klondike Bluffs"). Wadleigh was impressed by what Ringhoffer showed him, and suggested to Park Service director Stephen T. Mather that the area be made a national Through a series of miss communications even though designation of the area as a national monument was supported by the Park Service from 1926, but was not agreed upon President Calvin Coolidge's Interior Secretary, Hubert Work. Finally in April 1929, shortly after his inauguration, President Herbert Hoover signed a presidential proclamation creating Arches National Monument, consisting of two comparatively small, disconnected sections. The purpose of the reservation under the 1906 Antiquities Act was to protect the arches, spires, balanced rocks, and other sandstone formations for their scientific and educational value. In late 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a proclamation which enlarged Arches to protect additional scenic features and permit development of facilities to promote tourism. A small adjustment was made by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1960 to accommodate a new road alignment.In early 1969, just before leaving office, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a proclamation substantially enlarging Arches. Two years later, President Richard Nixon signed legislation enacted by Congress which significantly reduced the total area enclosed, but changed its status to a National Park.

Currently over a million visitor find their way to visit these unique formations caused by millions of years of geographic upheavals and changes.

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