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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent Scottish immigrant Ebenezer Bryce and his wife Mary to settle land in the Paria Valley because they thought his carpentry skills would be useful in the area.

The Bryce family chose to live right below Bryce Canyon Amphitheater.

Bryce grazed his cattle inside what are now park borders, and reputedly thought that the amphitheaters were a " helluva place to lose a cow.

" He also built a road to the plateau to retrieve firewood and timber, and a canal to irrigate his crops and water his animals.

Other settlers soon started to call the unusual place " Bryce's canyon ", which was later formalized into Bryce Canyon.