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Negro Bill Canyon renamed Grandstaff Canyon by federal board

Hikers visit Morning Glory Arch in southern Utah's Negro Bill Canyon. For years, controversy over the canyon's racial name has dogged Grand County, which is now proposing changing the name to Grandstaff in honor of the canyon's namesake pioneer William Grandstaff, a former Southern slave turned Western cowboy who prospected near Moab in the late 1870s. Photo by Brian Maffly