Turret Arch 75 41. Parade of Elephants 76 42. Suspension foot bridge across Salt Wash 78 43. Delicate Arch 78 44. Fiery Furnace 80 45. Trail to Sand Dune Arch 81 46. Sand Dune Arch 82 47. Tower Arch 84 48. Skyline Arch 85 49. Campground in Devils Garden 86 50. View north from campground 87 51. Southeastern part of Devils Garden trail 88 52. Pine Tree Arch 89 53. Landscape Arch 91 54. Navajo Arch 92 55. Partition Arch 93 56. Double O Arch 93 57. Dark Angel 94 58. “Indian-Head Arch” 95 59. Geologic time spiral 96 [Illustration: Petroglyph figure] Beginning of a Monument According to former Superintendent Bates Wilson (1956), Prof. Lawrence M. Gould, of the University of Michigan, was the first to recognize the geologic and scenic values of the Arches area in eastern Utah and to urge its creation as a national monument. Mrs. Faun McConkie Tanner[1] told me that Professor Gould, who had done a thesis problem in the nearby La Sal Mountains, was first taken through the area by Marv Turnbow, third owner of Wolfe cabin. (See p. 12.) When Professor Gould went into ecstasy over the beautiful scenery, Turnbow replied, “I didn’t know there was anything unusual about it.” Dr. J. W. Williams, generally regarded as father of the monument, and L. L. (Bish) Taylor, of the Moab Times-Independent, were the local leaders in following up on Gould’s suggestion and, with the help of the Moab Lions Club, their efforts finally succeeded on April 12, 1929, when President Herbert Hoover proclaimed Arches National Monument, then comprising only 7 square miles.[2] It was enlarged to about 53 square miles by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Proclamation of November 25, 1938, and remained at nearly that size, with some boundary adjustments on July 22, 1960, until it was enlarged to about 130 square miles by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Proclamation of January 20, 1969.