During the summer of 1999, Ellen Sue Turner visited Waldo Wilcox for a tour of Range Creek Canyon and all its Fremont artifacts. She wrote an essay about her experience in this remote corner of Utah and some history of the Fremont people who lived there long ago. The Fremont people have a distinctive art style, but a lot of what they depicted is open to interpretation. They used natural clays, charcoal and ochre to make pigments to paint the pictographs, and some petroglyphs are etched into the rock.

This photo essay features photographs of Fremont rock art that Ellen Sue Turner took during her tour of Range Creek Canyon. Click through this photo essay and see the wide array of subjects these artists portrayed. Some are quite obvious but others are mysterious. Decide for yourself what these images show. What parts of their natural environment and everyday life did these people draw? What could some of these geometric patterns mean?

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