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Show 52 years later he expanded his business and built a sawmill. When the occasional tourist came through, Flanigan offered the daring a ride up the cable. Meanwhile, the interest sparked by publications associated with the Powell expedition brought increased attention to Zion Canyon. After Colbum's 1873 article in The New York Times, Powell recounted his journey through the canyon in an 1875 Scribner's Monthly article. 130 In 1904, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, a prominent landscape painter, attracted more interest in the canyon when he published eighteen pages of images and text in Scribner's lauding Zion as "a new valley of wonders." 131 But the most significant factor leading to the canyon's eventual recognition as a national park came from U.S. Senator Reed Smoot, a Utah politician who also held a high office in the LDS church. Smoot's advocacy for conservation in the Senate and his political alliances in Washington earned him connections needed to move Linlc Zion along the national park path. Early in Smoot's political career he supported conservation policies backed by Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. Smoot also aligned himself with John Muir and the Sierra Club in opposition to the dam in Yosemite's H.ctch Hctchy Valley. Although they lost the battle, they strengthened political alliances on conservation issues that carried on throughout Smoot's five terms in the Senate. During those thirty years, Smoot earned a reputation among conservation advocates as someone who would champion land 130 John Wesley Powe ll, .. An Overland Trip to the Grand Canon," Scribner 's Monthly 10 (1875): 659-78. Ill Dellenbaugh. "A New Valley of Wonders," I. |
