WESTERN GATEWAYS
January 1969 - stories and articles
Golden Circle - Grand Circle "Grand Canyon" Country Issue
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• White Mesa by Mike McKelvey -
  The monoliths and arches of White Mesa stand silent and unexplored in this modern age of travel and vacation byways. Blanding sits on White Mesa near Blue Mountain. Anasazi occupation occurred here as early as 600 AD. Utes and an occasional Navajo camped in this area because of the water from local springs.
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• Trip Out to Paradise by Doug Warner -
  For a low-pressure vacation in paradise, take a trip into Havasupa Canyon. The author has lived with the Supai people for nearly six years and has some interesting thoughts on the famed canyon and its people. Havasupai Canyon created by a tributary of the Grand Canyon. "Havasupai" in Mojave means "the land [people] of the blue-green water".
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• Sedona, Arizona and Oak Creek's Lost Canyon -
  Hidden in the heart of Oak Creek Canyon is a relatively unknown canyon of surprising beauty.
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• Powell's Adventures "John Wesley Powell" - by Gaylord Staveley -
  Modern river runner recounts the experiences of the first expedition to run the Grand Canyon with John Wesley Powell.
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• Pipe Spring National Monument by Scott Cameron -
  Build as a fort by Mormon settlers, Pipe Spring is steeped in history and follklore and is a fasinating place to visit.
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• The Most Moon-Like Place on Earth by Quanah Parker -
  Off Highway 66 between Flagstaff and Winslow, Arizona is Meteor Crater formed 22 thousand years ago.
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• Grand Canyon's Forgotten Corner by Tony Gauba -
  Toroweap is the forgotten corner of Grand Canyon National Monument. Some of the Canyon's most spectacular views await you in this out-of-the-way place where few visitors come.
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• Wet Beaver Creek - Red Rock Oasis by Clarice Covert -
  There is a certain feeling about this red rock oasis south of Flagstaff that brings campers back year after year to enjoy Northern Arizona's four seasons Four major canyons cut the Coconino National Forest and this is the smallest -- The Wet Beaver Creet carved into the Colorado Plateau's southern face quite steeply and it is a remote trip where few people venture into the inner depths.
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• Map of Grand Canyon Country
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• Arizona's Desert Niagara in Colorado River -
  Grand Falls of Little Colorado River in the middle of the Arizona desert on the road from Cameron, AZ that leads to the east entrance of Grand Canyon National Park where the Little Colorado breaks off from the main Colorado River, and travels through Navajo country in Northern Arizona. Here you"ll find the falls gushing over the black rocks, surrounded by flat sandstone.
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• Lake Havasu by Carlos Elmer -
  Residents of the Southwest have discovered a new water playground in Arizona's Lake Havasu State Park
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• Camp Robbers - by Naomi Betts -
  

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