Pioneer Cabins

Traveling north through the Rocky Mountains, I started to see these old cabins in Southern Utah, where the Ponderosa pine grew tall and straight. These relicts of our pioneer past are sprinkled throughout the West and remarkably, they are often still occupied. In the dry desert climate of Southern Utah, they are often in remarkably good shape even without a proper roof. They are typically one room usually smaller than a two car garage. They are often accompanied by log barns. The oldest cabins probably date to around 1850 while the later ones seen further up North could be around 1900. Like so much of our past, these Pioneers relics will probably slowly disappear, today they are living reminders of the toughness of those first settlers .