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  1. Interesting stuff, to which I can contribute a bit: In the context of archaeological survey of the Comb Wash-Comb Ridge-Butler Wash area for University of Colorado and BLM, I and my crews have recorded a number of historic roads in this neighborhood, including successive realignments of the old road through the Navajo Spring notch on Comb Ridge. The route taken by the Hansen-Herricks-Andrus parties in 1916 and 1917 is close to the one you show, but not exactly. The alignment that you show actually dates to a little bit later period after it became a state road and was realigned. Between about 1909 and about 1927, it was a county road that followed a slightly different route, coinciding in some places with the later state road version, but varying significantly in some sections. See attached map. The 1917 route is shown in red and purple. On a related note, there is a great set of photos from the 1916 trip, donated by Hansen, at the Utah State Historical Society library in Salt Lake City, showing the Maxwell car being pulled back up the Comb Ridge dugway with the help of a team of horses. Some of them may be viewable online. Winston Hurst
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