WESTERN GATEWAYS
November 1968
Winter Navajo Sun Country Issue

A delightful vintage magazine for a look into Native American Indian history

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Table of Contents:

• Meet the Arizona Winter Sun Country - by Thelma Honey -
  Our Arizona Winter Sun Country is rich in places to go and things to do. Here is a travelog jam packed with vacation information on our great Southwest. Ride the Nation's highest and longest tramway. Roswell, Cloudcroft, White Sands, Las Cruces, El Paso, Deming - Silver City - Lordsburg, Arizona's Copper Horseshoe
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• San Diego 200th Anniversary -
  The biggest birthday party yet is planned for 1969 in San Diego, California, there is so much planned that the celebration is going to last all year. San Diego 200th Anniversary. History of half-starved Franciscan monk, Father Junipero Serra and Mexico's Governor Gaspar de Portola
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• Old San Diego - by Manuel Mismo (himself) Mosely -
  Turn back history by visiting Old San Diego. Old San Diego is approximately in the geographical center of metropolitan San Diego.
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• Christmas in New Mexico - by T.E. Gary -
  Luminarios lead the way to Nacimientos (Nativity scenes) which are everywhere. Los Matachines, a dance-play of the struggle between good and evil.
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• Arizona Sonora Desert Museum - by Mike McKelvey -
  One of the most unusual museum-zoo combinations is located in Southern Arizona. Its collection of desert critters make a day thee well worth while. Natural history of American Native Indian as well as living exhibits of plans and animals of the Southwest.
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• The Don's Club Trek - by Naomi Betts -
  It's been a good many years ago that an old Dutch miner secreted the entrance to his fabulously rich gold mine in the Superstition Mountains (40 miles east of Phoenix). The legend of the Lost Gold Mine began in South Phoenix in the early fall of 1891.
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• Map of the Arizona and New Mexico - Winter Sun Country - -
  This map designates points of interest in the land surrounding the Native American Indian Tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. National Monuments included in this map are: Organ Pipe Cactus, Tumacacori, Saguaro, Casa Grande, Tonto, Gila Cliff Dwellings and more
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• Conversations with Tom Bahti - -
  Anthropologist and expert in Native American Indian Jewelry, Pottery, Weaving and culture--He discusses Navajo Indian, Papago Indian art and more. His book--Southwest Indian Tribes--as well as his book--Southwest Indian Arts and Crafts--have been the "Bibles" for understanding Native American Indian ceremonies and culture
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• Last Stop for the Lawless - by Joe Kraus -
  In the southwestern corner of Arizona stands an imposing collection of buildings that struck fear into the hearts of every "bad guy" in the Southwest. The Yuma Territorial Prison in Arizona was the last stop for bank robbers, cattle rustlers and gunfighters. Above the entrance are big bold letters which read "Territorial Prison," but throughout the early West it was known simply as "the hell hole.".
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• La Laguna Grande - by Sandra Tarner -
  The beautiful valley of Lake Elsinore, once inhabited by a group of Native American Indians--the Shoshones called Luisenos, is now the most popular inland aquatic park in all of Southern California.
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