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
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
na million showed any distinct departure from the present type, athousand may now be made to possess new attributes. Mankind hassuddenly acquired a new and untried weapon which may be of incal-culable importance, not merely for good, but for ill. Poor judgmenton the part of some experimenter may allow the evolution and es-cape of some useless grass of stunted growth and low food value,so hardy as to drive the valuable grasses from the hay fields of a 328 Arizona, the Wonderland state. The risk, of evil, however, is far out-balanced by the possi-bilities of good. 1 These, then, are some of the problems the Desert Lab-oratory has set itself to solve. The conquest of the des-ert has but just begun. The methods of the past are tobe reinforced and enlarged by the research of the chem-ists, the biologists and the new science of this new day.That in this work Dr. MacDougal and his associateswill have an honored, important, and primary place isalready assured. 1 Harpers Magazine, April, 1911.
Text Appearing After Image:
H 5 CHAPTER XXIV THROUGH APACHE-LAND OVER THE APACHE TRAIL Most people never saw an Apache, singly or with hisband, ride over the rugged mountains, mesas, desertsand up and down the canyons of Arizona, as I havedone. It is almost impossible for the ordinary mind toconceive that a horse, carrying a human being, can per-form such feats as were the every-day experiences ofthese Bedouins of the American deserts. Reckless ? —they knew not they were reckless; dare-devils ? — it wastheir habitual mode of riding; exhausting? — they weretireless, Natures perfect instruments of action, muscularas a grizzly, persistent as a panther following his prey.Well might they keep the whole of Sonora, Mexico, andArizona, U. S. A., in terror for centuries — as they actu-ally did — until they were hunted down and properlypacified. The landscape they rode over, trampled under theirhorses feet, was befitting their own nature. It was wild,rugged, desolate, awe-inspiring, weird, mountain-sur-rounded,

Note About Images