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Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d bands. From this region they swept northward into the landof the Ute — the Mesa Verde country of southernColorado — where the migrations ended, and fromwhence the remnants of whatever clans there were cameand settled in the pueblos of the Hopi, the Zuni, and theregion of the Rio Grande. It must not be inferred that all the cliff-dwellings ofArizona have been discovered. As recently as the sum-mer of 1916, Wesley Hill, the owner of the automobilestage line that is now conveying so many thousands ofdelighted tourists over the Apache Trail between Globeand Phoenix, went up into the Sierra Ancha, the rangethat one sees to the northwest from the Roosevelt reser-voir, and found a number of dwellings that, as far as isknown, had never before been visited by white men. Inthe White Mountains, too, new dwellings are often dis-covered, and to one of exploring disposition Arizonaundoubtedly affords a rich field for adventure and happyoccupation in this particular, as well as in many others.
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S 81 en cO o W Qi o CHAPTER VI THE INDIANS OF ARIZONA I once heard a gentleman, in characterizing theacts of another gentleman, say something to this ef-fect : In your association with the Indian you have ab-sorbed all of his vices and none of his virtues. You areas treacherous as a Navaho, as vindictive as an Apache,as cowardly as a Mohave, as dirty-minded as a Wallapai,and as contemptibly sneaking as a Havasupai. Certainly that characterization did not partake offriendliness to the Indian. Governor Safford used tosay that Arizona afforded every type of Indian, morethan could be found in any other portion of the publicdomain. To the old-time Arizonan there was only onegood Indian, and that was the dead one. Except for thepeaceful Pimas, Maricopas and Papagoes, the ArizonaIndian was universally execrated, hated, despised,shunned and feared. The very names Navaho andApache were used by Mexican parents, long before thegringoes came, to scare naughty children, and the whit

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