Off the San Juan River
We got off the San Juan River on Wednesday the 13th of May, and this is the only photo I've had time to prepare. It's a tree near Johns Canyon, just below the mouth, between there and our camp. The background is the far side of the river canyon.More photos and a bit about our trip will be forthcoming in a few days. I'm leaving for the weekend in a couple of hours and it always takes a couple of days after a trip to get everything reorganized.
Johns Canyon was named for a rancher named John. I've never seen it spelled with an apostrophe, though that would seem more correct.
Labels: Tree near Johns Canyon
posted by Tom Rampton @ 1:42 PM
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For what little it's worth, historically, geographical place names used to officially be spelled with the apostrophe only while the person is still alive. After their demise, the official spelling dropped the apostrophe.
Back around 1890, at least for the US, the rule was formalized as never use the possessive, although there are exceptions to this day. Since then the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has only allowed 5 exceptions.
A brief blurb can be found at Wikipedia.
Just in case you needed some more random info in your life,
reinharden
Thank you. I'd long wondered about this particular point though I'd certainly noticed the usage, probably doing it wrongly now and then. Now I know, and I appreciate it.
Just an FYI, your link to the Mendenhall info is incorrect. You show 02-20, it should be 02_20
Thank you. I just fixed the link.
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