Identifier: arizonawonderla00jame (find matches)
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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her wonderfully archedcliff-ruin; similar in all its details to the generality ofsuch ruins. Both Kitsiel and Betatakin may be seen ina two days* camping-trip from the Wetherill and Cole-ville trading-post at Kayenta, where everything neces-sary for the trip, including a white or Navaho guide,may be secured. Here, then, we are at the northern limit, in Arizona,of the cliff-dwellings, but as I have fully described inmy larger work on this subject, there are more ruins inSouthern Utah, and the most interesting and importantof all — the Mesa Verde ruins — in Southern Colorado. It is now generally accepted that the people who in-habited these dwellings came from the South, thoughthey had no relationship with the Aztecs, as has beencommonly supposed. Their first stopping-place in Ari-zona territory was in the Salt and Gila River Valleys,where Frank Cushing, near Tempe, exhumed overtwenty thousand articles of domestic, social, hunting,war and religious usage, all of which showed kinship
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Cliff- and Cave-Dwellers 63 with the present day Pueblo Indians. Whether thesepeople came at the same time, or later, than those whobuilt the Casa Grande is yet a matter of study. What drove them from these valleys is not definitelyknown, yet it is more than probable that one or twoseasons of drought led them to hunt for new homes.Their next steps brought them into the Tonto and VerdeValleys, in the Red Rock country, where they built inthe cliffs, on the river banks, or the near-by mesas, inaccessible and inaccessible places. It was then thatMontezumas Castle was built and the homes aroundMontezumas Well — in none of which, however, wasthe name of Montezuma ever heard. Then they moved on, and the base of the San Fran-cisco Mountains, Oak Creek, Walnut Canyon, and theValley of the Little Colorado were next the scene oftheir activities. Some of the richest finds of the archae-ologist have been in Homolobi and other excavated vil-lages on the Little Colorado, and thousands of visitorsh

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