This page features an abstract of a paper from STC-Link's Materials Archive . To view the entire paper, click here . The geologic quirk that named this western Colorado Valley may inspire non-conformity in the human inhabitants as well. In 1875, surveyor A.j. Peale noted that the Dolores River ran across the midsection of the flat rangeland valley near the Utah border.
Conventional rivers flow down a valley's length.
Hence the name Paradox. And perhaps that landscape peculiarity has influenced more than a century of unconventional life in the valley's two outposts, Paradox and Bedrock.