Becky Bartholomew History Blazer, June 1996 In Utah’s Mineral Mountains, overlooking the west desert, is the entrance to Wildhorse Canyon. Here the terrain is rough, blanketed with pinyon and juniper forest underlain by sagebrush, cacti, and grasses. The canyon has no year-round stream. Above its mouth, Wildhorse forks into a small side channel and the main canyon. Lying between the …