Big Rock Candy Mountain!

What do Haywire Mack, Burl

Ives, and the movies O

Brother Where Art Thou and

Runaway Jury have in

common? The song “Big

Rock Candy Mountain!” The

lyrics of the song describe a

traveling hobo who comes

down the tracks to find peace

and perfection at the BRCM.

According to the song, Big

Rock is a place where the

handouts grow on bushes,

the cops all have wooden

legs, and you sleep all day

next to a spring of lemonade.

Big Rock Candy

Mountain!

Circleville

Circleville boasts of their infamous Robert Leroy Parker, better known as Butch Cassidy, who spent his youth there during the 1870s and 1880s.

“You can’t believe the movies! Butch Cassidy died in bed… (not) with his six guns blazing in a murderous shootout with soldiers in Bolivia… (He) was using the alias William Philips when he died of cancer in 1937.”

Panguitch is a Native American word meaning big fish.

PanguitchThe pioneers first settled the valley in March 1864.