by Dan Grenard | Aug 1, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
The Uintah Basin In 1908, Sarah and her husband Charles Zimmerman loaded up all their belongings, five young children, a host of farm animals, and moved from southeast Colorado to the Uintah Basin in northern Utah. The Uintah Basin ranges from about 4,500 to about...
by Dan Grenard | Jul 4, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
Capt. Felch Sarah and her brothers Emerson and Ned grew up hearing the story of Dead Man’s Cañon, an amazing story of her father Marshall, the heroic Capt. Felch in the story. As a mother, she in turn told it to her and Charles’s children;...
by Dan Grenard | Jul 3, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
Sarah’s Descendants First off, we will call Sadie her official name starting in this chapter because that is what her family and descendants did. In 2006 the hundred year anniversary of the Antiquities Act of 1906 was planned in Canon City and the focus on...
by Dan Grenard | Jun 10, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
The Women’s Relief Corps and the Grand Army of the Republic Marshall’s legacy as an important dinosaur excavator is a story that we can tell because of the paleontology work he did for Othniel Marsh also for Charles Gilmore who took Marshall’s...
by Dan Grenard | May 24, 2019 | Marshall & Amanda
The image above by Dr. Kenneth Carpenter is a scientific view of what the Marsh Felch Dinosaur Quarry looked like about 152 million years ago. It is shown in comparison to what it looks like today. The quarry site today represents layers of inter-bedded...
