Grafton: Ghost Town on the Rio Virgin

Authors Lyman and Karen Platt, both descendants of Grafton pioneers, have painstakingly researched the extraordinary story of one of the West's most picturesque ghost towns. Set beneath Zio Canyon's towers of stone, the townscape of Grafton has been immortalized in such movie classics as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, yet the true stories of its actual inhabitants are more compelling and heartrending than any dramatic production. In these pages you will learn the names and experience the triumphs and tragedies of the remarkable Mormon settlers and native Piutes who built a community on the banks of the Virgin River