WESTERN GATEWAYS
Summer 1967
Four Corners - Pueblos - Indian Ceremonial - Grand Circle Issue

A delightful vintage magazine for a look into history

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Table of Contents:

• Swinging Around the Four Corners -by Weldon F. Heald -
  One of the nation's best known travel writers takes us on a thousand miles paved circle tour of some of his favorite country. Monument Valley, Rocky Mountains, Mesa Verde National Park, Window Rock and the Navajo Tribal Council Building, Moenkopi, Old Oraibi, Ganado and Hubbell Trading Post... more
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• Colorado's Topless Mountain - by Frank Jensen -
  Grand Mesa is for all season. it's fishing, hunting, skiing and cooling off country. Best of all it's a mountain you can climb in your car. Grand Mesa is he largest flat-top mountain in the world, sprawling across nearly 400,000 acres of national forest land in west-central Colorado.
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• Where Four States Meet - by Weldon F. Heald -
  On a lonely desert plateau at an elevation of 5,200 feet, is the only point in the country common to four states. "Four Corners" marks the spot where a dime may be laid down to cover parts of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. The huge Navajo Indian reservation and Ute Mountain Indian Reservation also touch at four corners.
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• From Pits to Pueblos - Mesa Verde people - by Gaylord Staveley -
  The Mesa Verde people had begun as homeless nomads and in ten centuries had evolved themselves into talented apartment dwellers. Then time ran out..
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• The Gallup Indian Ceremonial - -
  Each August, the Indian Capitol of the world hosts this all-Indian event, which brings tribes and spectators rom all over the west. The Mountain spirits Dance of the Apache is one of the many dances presented each night. Indian people rom just about every point of the Southwest. Apache, Crow, Hopi, Jemez, Kiowa, Laguna, Navajo, Papago, Pima, Quechan, San Juan, Santa Ana, Seminole, Taos, Ute-Ouray, and Zuni
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• Obscure Arch in Navajo Land - by Stephen C. Jett -
  Persistence pays off with discovery of an unmarked arch - - and a bonus discovery - - just off the beaten path in the heart of the Navajo Reservation. "No, I'm afraid I've never heard of Hope Arch, or Ednas Needle either." The negative response of he Ranger at Canyon de Chelly National Monument was discouraging.
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• Navajo Lake
  Navajo Lake State park is located in Northwest New Mexico. Navajo Dam site is in a deep canyon at the confluence of the San Juan and Pine Rivers.
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• The Golden Circle (Grand Circle) Concept - by George B. Hartzog, Jr. Director, National Park Service -
  No ordinary campfire gathering - - included in the group were a U.S.; Senator, two members of the House of Representatives, and two members of the president's Cabinet -- Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall and Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman. Secretary Udall, squatting before the ire . . . "Surely," he said to his friends, "The boundary of this remarkable region is a golden circle". Thus the establishment of Canyonlands, Glen Canyon at the center of the circle. Free Grand Circle Map
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• Map of the Four Corners Area - by KC DenDooven -
  Colorado, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico including Moab, Monticello, Ouray, Cortez, Durango, Kayenta, Gallup, Flagstaff, Holbrook and Albuquerque. Includes all major paved highways, main graded roads and state lines as well as points of interest and National parks: Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Natural Bridges, Mesa Verde, Canyon de Chelly, Petrified Forest, Wupatki, Walnut Canyon, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Colorado National Monument and Chaco Canyon. Free Four Corners Map in PDF to download page 1 and page 2
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• Conversation with Milton Wetherill - by gaylord Staveley and KC DenDooven -
  Recollections by a man whose family explored Mesa Verde before the turn of the century, and went on to become widely known Indian traders.
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