![]() ![]() So far, archaeologists have documented nearly 300 Fremont sites at Range Creek (none of which has been excavated). 200 to 1300 before disappearing-like the cliff-dwelling Anasazi, their contemporaries farther south. The researchers soon realized they’d lucked into a constellation of 1,000-year-old hamlets that belonged to the enigmatic Fremont people, highly mobile hunters and farmers who lived mostly in Utah from around A.D. where the sites haven’t been picked over and vandalized to a great extent," says Kevin Jones, the state archaeologist for Utah. "There are few places left in the continental U.S. ![]() Scientists wasted no time in setting up a research camp. The ruins were not only extensive but well preserved: the pit houses were intact, no graffiti or bullet holes marred the petroglyphs, and granaries were stuffed with corncobs a thousand years old. Archaeologists called in to visit the site were flabbergasted. Then, in 2001, Wilcox, entering his 70s, quietly sold the property for $2.5 million to the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, and then federal and state agencies helped arrange for the land to be deeded to the State of Utah. Waldo in particular became a zealous guardian, chasing off curious locals who got wind of all the artifacts. The family kept mum about this mysterious world. Human bones poked out of rock overhangs, and hundreds of bizarre human figures with tapered limbs and odd projections emanating from their heads were chiseled on the cliff walls. Arrowheads, beads, ceramic shards and stone-tool remnants were strewn all over. Pit houses dug halfway in the ground, their roofs caved in, dotted the valley floor and surrounding hills. All of that time, they tried hard to ignore the prehistoric Indian ruins that lay everywhere across their land. Waldo's parents, Pearl and Ray "Budge" Wilcox, bought the property in 1951, and three generations of Wilcoxes would endure Range Creek Canyon's frigid winters, scorching summers, periodic droughts, and bears. The ranch snaked for 12 miles along Range Creek, through scrubby foothills, lush meadows and alpine forests. He had a 4,200-acre spread deep in the Book Cliffs region-a wilderness with rock walls that rise to 10,000 feet. Black Mesa Research Facility, a fictional scientific research complex in New Mexico that forms the setting for the video game Half-Life and the game with the same name.Until he got famous, Waldo Wilcox spent most of his life moving cattle through a remote valley in Utah, 150 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.Black Mesa (Warm Springs, Arizona), a southern section of Black Mountains (Arizona) containing the Warm Springs Wilderness, and setting for the 1936 film The Petrified Forest.Black Mesa (Navajo County, Arizona), in the White Mountains.Black Mesa Peabody Coal controversy, the controversy surrounding a Peabody Coal mine in the Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona). ![]() Black Mesa (Apache-Navajo Counties, Arizona), an upland coal-bearing mesa, mountainous area in Navajo and Apache Counties, Arizona.Black Mesa Test Range, a United States Army rocket testing facility in Utah.Black Mesa (Oklahoma), in Colorado, New Mexico, and the highest point in Oklahoma. ![]()
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