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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rdrivers sought them in the morning they found the camelshad traveled such great distances that the day was goneere they were able to capture them and return to theirstarting points. Then, second, they so dreadfully scaredthe mules of the rest of the train that they would runaway, scatter the contents of their peaks over the des-ert, and generally cause demoralization on every hand.Hence the experiment was denounced as a failure, andLieutenant Beale was sent with the camels to see if theycould not be used somehow on the Pacific Coast. Thesame objections held here, and the animals were finallysold or turned loose, a solitary creature even to-day nowand then being seen by hunters in the remoter corners ofthe Colorado Desert. Travelers, therefore, whether riding on the trains orcoming in their own automobiles are on an historic andfamous road. And at Flagstaff they find a suitable radi-ating spot for a large number of the wonders of ourmarvellous Arizona. The chief drawback is that Flag-
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Coconino County and Flagstaff 373 staff has no first-class tourist hotel, and until this greatneed is supplied the city must naturally suffer. Yet thosewho are prepared to care for themselves should not failto enjoy what this region affords. For instance, who canresist the temptation to ascend the San Francisco peaks?One may drive half of the eleven miles to the summit,and then ride or climb the rest of the way. On the sum-mit, on a clear day,— and most days are clear here —one sees two hundred miles in every direction, to the far-away Buckskin Mountains of the Kaibab Plateau, northof the Grand Canyon, over the Lava Fields to the PaintedDesert of the east, into the Tonto Basin and Red Rockcountry and the Verde Valley to the south and southwest,while to the west are the wonderful miles of pine-trees,comprising the greatest untouched yellow pine forest inthe United States. Nine miles to the east are the Cave-dwellings, wherethe ancestors of the Havasupai Indians used to live,and fro

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