WESTERN GATEWAYS
Winter 1965
Northern Arizona- Grand Canyon Issue

A delightful vintage magazine for a look into history of Grand Canyon

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Table of Contents:

• Anasazi - The Ancient Ones - by Keith M. Anderson -
  The story of Navajo National Monument begins seventy years ago, in 1894, when Richard Wetherill, a pioneer explorer of Southwestern Indian ruins, began an expedition to Northern Arizona to search for ancient villages.
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• Buffalo Park - -
  Flagstaff's Buffalo Park is a natural place where wild thins live in peace.
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• How Beautiful Can Life Be? Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon - by Elizabeth Rigby -
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• 1,800,000 People Can't Be Wrong - Grand Canyon is BEST! - -
  Whenever people from other countries are asked what scenic spot in the United States of America they want to see most, the answer invariably is - The Grand Canyon. Imagine the feeling of Don Lopez de Cardensa, the first white man to see the canyon, in 1540, when he walked up to the rim that very first time. The Colorado River is the major "canyon cutter" wearing away the sandstone with its tools of silt and sand.
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• The Bill Williams Mountain Men - by Dennis Donovan -
  Who are you characters? Why the buckskins, rifles, beards, and all? Bearded, buckskin-clad riders -- the Bill Williams' Boys -- The Mountain Men.
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• Trip to the Moon via Flagstaff -by Norman Bailey -
  For those familiar with astronomy, Flagstaff is known for its contribution to the exploration of space -- Lowell Observatory. In 1894, Dr. Percival Lowell, an avid astronomer, founded the observatory on a mesa west of the town of Flagstaff. The area was chosen because of the clearness of the atmosphere and the number of cloudless nights available for celestial observations.
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• Map of Northern Arizona - -
  Kingman, Flagstaff, Winslow, Holbrook, Prescott, Williams. This map includes the overview of where Grand Canyon National Park is located in Arizona. It also includes Glen Canyon National Recreation Area near Page Arizona, the location of Rainbow Bridge National Monument, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Wupatki National Monument, Sunset Crater National Monument and Petrified Forest National Park.
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• People of the Mesas - by Charles Supplee -
  Overlooking the Painted Desert Region of Northern Arizona is a great, irregular plateau known as Black Mesa. Here, on three massive sandstone fingers jutting out from the southern edge, are the pueblos of the Hopi Indians. About fifty miles Northwest are two colonies of Oraibi, Upper and Lower Moenkopi. Hano, on First Mesa, is made up of Tewa speaking people from the Rio Grande pueblo region. This group moved into the Hopi country after the Pueblo Rebellion in 1680 as a protective force for the people of First Mesa. Oraibi, on Third Mesi, is the oldest continuously occupied village in North America.
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• Canyon de Chelly - by Douglas B. Anderson -
  Canyon de Chelly National Monument is located in northeastern Arizona with park headquartes in Chinle. It is also the home of many Navajo Indians, part of a large tribe living midway between a primitive existence and a modern economy. It is also the site of many pehistoric ruins, remains of a pueblo type people who lived in the canyon before the Navajos.
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• A Fish Story
  Lake Powell, America's newest vacation spot. That's the new lake formed behind the Glen Canyon Dam. It starts in Arizona and goes up into Utah.
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