As winter snows cover the Grand Canyon’s North Rim, there’s a herd of animals living there well adapted to the cold, but they do not belong in canyon country. In 1800, as many as 37 million bison roam.
Erastus Benson platted the Benson addition in 1887 along the Military Road leading west. The road was a supply route to western frontier forts and was laid out in 1857