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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s Tertiary History of the Grand Can-yon District, a heavy and ponderous tome, which, how-ever, contains some of the most vivid and enchantingprose-poems of powerful description in the English lan-guage; here Major Powell gained much material for hiswritings on Indians and Cliff- and Cave-dwellings, andhis trip through the Canyons of the Colorado natu-rally brought him directly across Coconino County. Thegreat biologist, C. Hart Merriam, wrote one of his earliestand most treasured monographs on The Biology of theSan Francisco Mountain Region, and to this day this fas-cinating account is referred to and quoted liberally. While the experts of the Forestry Service have foundthe trees of the county a worthy subject for a large andilluminating monograph, Professor F. L. Noble cameand studied the Grand Canyon, in the region of the BassTrail, and wrote his interesting bulletin entitled: TheShinumo Quadrangle, Grand Canyon District, Arizona. One of the professors of the Geological Survey spent
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Copyright by McCullock. Phoenix, Arizona. LAKE MARY, NEAR FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA. Coconino County and Flagstaff 369 some time in the Petrified Forest and has written muchand learnedly upon the Fossil Forests of Arizona. Manyscientists, also, have been interested and have writtenmuch about the wonderful Meteorite Mountain referredto in another chapter, and almost the entire portion ofa large folio volume was devoted by Dr. Jesse WalterFewkes to the Cliff-Dwellings and open ruins of theLittle Colorado River region, most, if not all, of which,are in Coconino County. Nor is this all: Betatakin and Kitsiel — the greatCliff-Dwellings of the Navaho Reservation — have aspecial bulletin devoted to them written by Dr. Fewkes,and Dr. Byron Cummings, the eminent archaeologist ofthe University of Arizona, has a monograph ready forpublication upon these interesting memorials of the past. Then when one thinks of the scientific monographs ofthe U. S. Bureau of Ethnology upon the Hopis and theirceremo

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