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The Bryce Canyon area was settled by Mormon pioneers in the 1850s and was named after Ebenezer Bryce, who homesteaded in the area in 1874.
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The film made extensive use of authentic locations, filming in Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion National Park in Utah and the San Fernando Mission and the Mojave Desert in California.
The major feature of the park is Bryce Canyon which, despite its name, is not a canyon but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern side of the Paunsaugunt Plateau.
The area around Bryce Canyon became a U. S. National Monument in 1923 and was designated as a national park in 1928.
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah about northeast of — and higher than — Zion National Park.
The weather in Bryce Canyon is therefore cooler, and the park receives more precipitation: a total of 15 to 18 inches ( 38 to 46 cm ) per year.
Bryce Canyon was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream, meaning it technically is not a canyon.
Archaeological surveys of Bryce Canyon National Park and the Paunsaugunt Plateau show that people have been in the area for at least 10, 000 years.
Small groups of Mormon pioneers followed and attempted to settle east of Bryce Canyon along the Paria River.
Other settlers soon started to call the unusual place " Bryce's canyon ", which was later formalized into Bryce Canyon.
At the same time, conservationists became alarmed by the damage overgrazing and logging on the plateau, along with unregulated visitation, were having on the fragile features of Bryce Canyon.
A movement to have the area protected was soon started, and National Park Service Director Stephen Mather responded by proposing that Bryce Canyon be made into a state park.
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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 completion of a railroad connection to Cedar City in 1923 established the area as a tourism gateway to nearby Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, and Grand Canyon National Park, in addition to Cedar Breaks National Monument.
In fact, the youngest formation seen in the Zion and Kolob area is the oldest exposed formation in Bryce Canyon — the Dakota Sandstone.
This formation is the youngest one exposed in the Zion area but the oldest exposed in Bryce Canyon to the northeast.
The colorful Claron Formation that forms the delicate hoodoos of Bryce Amphitheater and Cedar Breaks was then laid down as sediments in cool streams and lakes ( see geology of the Bryce Canyon area for details ).
The Bryce Canyon area to the northeast continues where the Zion area leaves off by presenting Cenozoic-aged rocks that are 100 million years younger.
In fact the youngest formation seen in the Zion area is the oldest exposed formation in Bryce Canyon – the Dakota Sandstone.
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Later, this formulation was popularized and renamed many-worlds by Bryce Seligman DeWitt in the 1960s and 1970s.
The phrase " many-worlds " is due to Bryce DeWitt, who was responsible for the wider popularisation of Everett's theory, which had been largely ignored for the first decade after publication.
The current Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, who was sworn in on 5 September 2008, is the first woman appointed to the post.
Avinash Gupta was the first leader of the project, followed by Bryce Harrington, but more recently developers have chosen not to select a leader,
The last of the land in the proposed park's borders was sold to the federal government four years later, and on February 25, 1928, the renamed Bryce Canyon National Park was established.
Administration of the park was conducted from neighboring Zion Canyon National Park until 1956, when Bryce Canyon's first superintendent started work.
The USS Bryce Canyon was named for the park and served as a supply and repair ship in the U. S. Pacific Fleet from September 15, 1950, to June 30, 1981.
Following the death of Prince Albert in 1861, the architect David Bryce put forward a proposal for a keep as a memorial, although Queen Victoria objected, and the scheme was not pursued.
Bryce R. Blair was named superintendent, and proceeded to construct a coal breaker and a shaft, said to pass through of quicksand on its way to the coal beds below.
Glass manufacturing was a foundation of the local economy, with Bryce Brothers commencing operations in 1850, and L. E. Smith Glass in 1907.
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