Gunnison

Gunnison is a city in the Sevier Valley in southwestern Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,285 at the 2010 census. The city was named in honor of John W. Gunnison, a United States Army officer who surveyed for the transcontinental railroad in 1853.

After the Rifts
Gunnison is one of the three cities of the Sanpete Valley. Since the time of Rifts, however, knowledge of whats outside the valley was lost. What's interesting is the appearance of about 200 Space Minotaurs in the city (see Rifts Dimension Book 5: Anvil Galaxy, pages 46 and 47). The population keeps to themselves and basically leaves the humans alone. Some of the young space minotaurs want to see what is outside the area, although they find that the herding of cows to be distasteful, a few have become cowboys and herd a different herd animal, the duckbilled honker (see New West, page 141). Humans typically leave the Space Minotaurs alone. however, but there has been problems with the new neighbors.