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The Sleeping Ute Mountains viewed from ~20 miles east northeast. Readily recognized from many spots up to 50 miles (80 km) east or west (e.g. the Four Corners Monument and parts of Mesa Verde National Park), the profile is best seen from 15 to 25 miles (24 to 40 km) somewhat north of east of the mountains as in the accompanying photograph.
Ute Mountain, of the Sleeping Ute Mountain range Map of Ute Mountain Ute, Southern Ute and Navajo reservations in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. The Adams–Onís Treaty of 1819 established an official boundary line between Spanish and United States possessions in the southwest. Spanish territory included the southern plains, a ...
Towaoc is located east of Sleeping Ute Mountain, a sacred mountain of the Ute people, and northeast of the Four Corners Monument.. Old Towaoc, located at the base of Ute Mountain, is approximately 2 miles (3 km) west of US Highways 491-160, and includes various tribal and BIA governmental buildings and housing areas, including the tribal offices of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
Yucca House National Monument is located in the Montezuma Valley at the foot of Sleeping Ute Mountain, called "mountain with much yucca growing on it" by the Ute people, and inspiration for the name of the national monument. [3]
Jeremiah Hight, 23, of the Ute Mountain Tribe, was arrested on Christmas Eve on top of a mesa, west of Oljato, by the Navajo Police Department after more than a week on the run, authorities said.
Apishapa River – Ute word for "smelly". [2]North Fork Apishapa River; Arikaree River – named after the Arikara people. [2]North Fork Arikaree River; Arkansas River – named after the state of Arkansas.
The Story City library originally hoped to build a two-story addition, adding another 10,000 square feet to its current 8,200 facility. But, the project hit a barrier when bids came in at roughly ...
The community was the first in Iowa to have a “great big” municipal Christmas tree, according to the Dec. 17, 1914 edition of the Story City Herald. “Story City’s municipal Christmas tree ...