WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington County, Utah)
ZION TRAILS RADIO PROGRAMS
Produced by the Southern Utah Power Company
HISTORY
"Zion Trails" was a series of radio programs that was produced by the Southern Utah Power Company andwas broadcast in 1937 and 1938. The scripts included here are only some of the programs and dramatize
some southern Utah history.
These plays were written for radio and narrated by Allen Cannon from historical material furnished by
William R. Palmer, Mabel Jarvis, Newell R. Frei and others.
While settling the estate of her parents, Joni Butler Payne found these scripts in an old steamer trunk belonging
to her grandfather, Ray Hatch Butler. In an old Pembroke's ream-size box was a triplicate set including an
original and two carbon copies on onion skin paper. Joni donated the original document to the L.D.S. History
Department in Salt Lake City. She kept the second copy and donated the third copy to the Washington County
Historical Society.
PROGRAM SCRIPTS
| 3 | The First Settlement in the South | ??? |
| 4 | The Founding of Cedar City | Sunday, December 12, 1937 |
| 5 | The Settlements of Harmony and Kanarra | ??? |
| 6 | The Founding of Santa Clara | Sunday, December 19, 1937 |
| 7 | Washington -- A Textile Town | Sunday, January 2, 1938 |
| 8 | Cities of the Virgin | Sunday, January 9, 1938 |
| 9 | St. George -- The "Temple City" | Sunday, January 16, 1938 |
| 10 | The Silver Grindstone -- Silver Reef | Sunday, January 23, 1938 |
| 11 | Frontier Outposts -- Kanab | ??? |
| 12 | Building the St. George Temple | ??? |
| 13 | The Hole in the Rock | ??? |
| 16 | Veyo, Gunlock, Pine Valley, Enterprise | ??? |
PHOTOS
WCHS-05302 "Zion Trails" radio program scripts as they were discovered (Click here to enlarge)