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Show 56 The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey • ~ - : 7 » - - • / ;• 7 Valison Tanner-Max Tanner ranch, site OGC 23. The core of the house shown here is a log structure built by Valison Tanner in about 1900. It is hidden beneath several generations of railroad tie and frame additions and an outer layer of aluminum siding added in 1962. The corrals and outbuildings, typical of the area's ranches, were mostly built in the late ninteenth century. (Carl Fleischhauer; GCCS CFB-231196-11/24) Grouse Creek lies on the boundary between the land of the buckaroos on the west and the Mormon empire to the east, and life in the community is shaped by the interplay between these two cultural traditions. The buckaroo style informs the occupational approaches and techniques on Grouse Creek ranches, while Mormon values and beliefs guide most other aspects of life. This cultural interplay is suggested only in the most subtle way by the architectural evidence; to the casual viewer, Grouse Creek buildings resemble farm buildings in many other parts of Utah. The buckaroo influence is more strongly felt in their use, and in their relationship to intangible aspects of culture. |