The current issue of "Blue Mountain Shadows" ‒ No. 37 ‒ is now on the newsstands, the magazine's publishers have announced.

    The issue highlights the agrarian community of La Sal in the northeast quadrant of San Juan County, and its surrounding area. The cover features a color photograph of Dark Canyon Lake with a snowcapped Mount Peale towering majestically above, and reflected on the lake's surface.

    Lifelong La Sal resident C. Hardy Redd, whose family was among the original LDS pioneers to settle in southeastern Utah, edited the most recent issue.

    Over the decades, the sprawling community of La Sal has witnessed colorful decades of outlaws laying low, gold mining, cattle ranching and rustling, and separate copper mining and uranium mining booms.

    A variety of events shaped the history of the region. The magazine includes tales of the earliest of the Wilcox ranchers, and the shepherding families who struggled to build solvent enterprises from a foreboding land, the insights of schoolmarms, and those of the students they educated, and stories of the logging industry, and a related historical pictorial.

    Additionally, La Sal's recent past, including the development of the contemporary "downtown" section, is documented. To order copies, send $12 by mail to LaVerne Tate, 362 West 400 South, Blanding, Utah, 84511.