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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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sion and direction. A portion of theshore line is to be leased for summer cottage rights, andcamping privileges are open to all. Another delightful camping-out resort will ere longbe developed in Sycamore Canyon, already referred to.Of course the self-dependent have been camping therealready for years, and few spots in Arizona are morehistorically romantic, ruggedly wild, grandly picturesque,and yet pastorally attractive. After an eighteen-mileride one reaches the rim of this miniature Grand Canyon.It is here in the neighborhood of six miles wide and twothousand feet deep. The canyon really heads in the SanFrancisco Mountains and runs its tortuous and windingway for about thirty miles, where it joins the VerdeRiver. The road strikes it about midway of its length.Here one takes the trail to the bottom. This trail isabout a mile and a half long, and it passes through a for-est of beautiful trees that grow straight and about twentyfeet tall, with a shiny bark almost like the manzanita, a
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Williams 389 nut about as large as a walnut, and a leaf like the westernjuniper. In the walls of this canyon hundreds of cliff-dwellings may be seen and on some of the salient pointsare buildings that appear to be fortresses, or buildingserected for defense. There are several forms of prehis-toric dwellings in this region that are different from thosefound elsewhere in the State, and their origin and purposeare still considered a great mystery. At one point, sevenor eight miles before reaching the Verde River, threegiant sandstone rocks stand out somewhat detached fromthe main wall, and on the summit of these dwellings canbe discerned, though he would be a daring climber who,to-day, would attempt to reach them. On nearly all therocky-shelves where the cliff-dwellings are found, rockpockets for the holding of water for a few days are tobe found. Some of the dwellings have been excavatedand arrow points, spearheads, stone-axes, ropes made ofthe fibre of the bear grass, or amole, sandals

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