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#005 - Zion, Part 1: The History | The Virgin River, Navajo Sandstone & the Fight Over the Name
How a thin silver thread of a river carved a canyon 2,600 feet deep through solid sandstone — and how that canyon went from an unknown monument with an unpronounceable name to one of the most-visited parks in America. This kicks off the Wildlands Zion trilogy, built the way the land was built: stone first, then the people.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, traces the full arc — the 180-million-year-old Jurassic dune field that hardened into Navajo Sandstone, the uplift and flash floods that let the Virgin River cut the canyon, and 8,000 years of human history layered on top…
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