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Terry L Carter	Vernal captian hook bird man	Lead	[-]
Posts: 172 (06/22/09 9:23 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	Tags : None Can anyone tell me the story about the life size painting on a cliff wall, of a round bodied man with a bird head, wearing a black hat has a peg leg, hook for a hand and wearing a pistol in a holster. This peglegged captian hook bird man is also next to a life size painting of an Indian with a black head band and black belt. the bird man is looking at a round red circle probably the sun he is also nealing on his good leg. I wouldnt have thought anything about it except I just learned that there is another one of these paintings exactley the same except it has a human head instead of a bird head. I am counting on you ptcarrol and the rest of you Vernal boys to fill me in on the local story.
roughrockxxx		#1	[-]
Posts: 191 (06/23/09 7:01 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	The way I remember it, a local man named george long painted it. He is, if still alive quite a historian of the local area. He used to write articles in the vernal express about local history
Terry L Carter	peg legged birdman	#2	[-]
Posts: 173 (06/23/09 5:46 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	roughrockxxx I just got off the phone with George, we had a nice long talk about the local history of Vernal. He said he didnt know anything about the bird man and had never heard about it from anyone. When I was in Vernal last week end I stopped into the bitter creek book store and was thumbing threw an interesting book about the history of vernal and the local old timers. I was going to buy the book but didnt have enough money on me at the time, it turns out that george is the author of that book. I will have to pick it up when I go back out there in a few weeks. Any other suggestions on who may be the author of the peg legged big bird?
roughrockxxx		#3	[-]
Posts: 192 (06/23/09 8:57 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	humm. Now i guess i am getting senile. I noticed that peg legged man quite a few years ago and always wondered about it. I would have swore I read an article in the express about it and who painted it. I was almost sure it had to have been one of georges articles he posts every once in a while. And it was either him or his brother denver who painted it. This would have been back in the 70 or 80s. Glad you called him and set the record straight. Too bad because george seems to know more people and history than about anyone alive around the area. I guess i got it confused with something and someone else. Will keep it in mind and try and ask around. Maybe steve warby knows about it. Im sure hes seen it. PT would be a good source too I dont know where to go from there.
Terry L Carter	The other captian hook	#4	[-]
Posts: 176 (06/23/09 9:45 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	roughrockxxx Have you seen or heard about the other painting of the peglegged hooked hand man? supposably it has a date painted underneath it. The date is 17?? something they say you cant tell for sure because people have been shooting at it. I'll go see it next time I'm out there.
Terry L Carter	Bird man video	#5	[-]
Posts: 177 (06/24/09 10:11 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	OK lets see if this works video of the peg leg bird man and his side kick tonto
ptcarroll		#6	[-]
Posts: 588 (06/24/09 1:52 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	I don't think I've heard of anyone getting credit for painting those pictures. My first experience with them was over 5 years ago, when I was following some geocache directions to get to some petroglyphs. It was in December, with a bit of snow on the ground and some fog. I started off by going to a sheep dip and finding directions to the petroglyph site. The hike was to the North. On the way, I could see some kind of faint forms up on the cliffside. I was still some distance away, but I was thinking I had made one of the greatest discoveries in Vernal history. I continued on to the petroglyph GPS cache and then went on to what was called Baby Arch. After that, I headed back to those figures. I fought my way up the hillside through the snow and made it to the top. And found it was those two figures. Well, all I could do was drag myself back through the snow to my SUV... It is possible that Doris Burton could know something about them. I don't think I ever asked her. And I suppose George would be a good source. Aren't those books by Myke Hall? If not, he still might be a source as well.
kanabite		#7	[-]
Posts: 1525 (06/30/09 7:51 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts Report Post	how old would you dare guess that paintings is ? would be interesting to see if any of the early settlers made note of it . hmmmm very strange thing you got going on there TLC....got any mystery glyphs up there too?

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