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Author: Roger Naylor Publisher: University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 0826364586 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 191
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Which state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona, Roger Naylor, “the Dean of Arizona Travel Writers,” has amassed 200 amazing facts and fascinating commentary about his beloved state. This is the fast-paced, funny encyclopedia that lovers of Arizona have been craving. Awesome Arizona captures the essence of the sixth-largest state, from its rowdy past to its epic landscape bulging with mountains, slashed by canyons, and blown apart by volcanoes. Learn about trees that once shaded dinosaurs, the West’s most legendary gunfight, the world’s largest antique, the best-preserved meteor crater on earth, where the post office still delivers mail by mule, the longest poker game in history, how Arizona saved the unicorn, and so much more.
Author: Roger Naylor Publisher: University of New Mexico Press ISBN: 0826364586 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
Which state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona, Roger Naylor, “the Dean of Arizona Travel Writers,” has amassed 200 amazing facts and fascinating commentary about his beloved state. This is the fast-paced, funny encyclopedia that lovers of Arizona have been craving. Awesome Arizona captures the essence of the sixth-largest state, from its rowdy past to its epic landscape bulging with mountains, slashed by canyons, and blown apart by volcanoes. Learn about trees that once shaded dinosaurs, the West’s most legendary gunfight, the world’s largest antique, the best-preserved meteor crater on earth, where the post office still delivers mail by mule, the longest poker game in history, how Arizona saved the unicorn, and so much more.
Author: Publisher: Big Earth Publishing ISBN: 9781565795235 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 172
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In Awesome Arizona Places for Curious Kids, authors Diane T. Liggett and James A. Mack reveal the most interesting and unusual kid-friendly destinations in the Grand Canyon State. This guide features 20 destinations for family fun, adventure, and learning. Visit the still-active 1990s Hubbell Trading Post, watch condors ride warm thermals at the rim of the Grand Canyon, or walk among more than 250 of history's most important aircraft at the Pima Air & Space Museum. Colorful photographs illustrate what awaits at your destination. With spectacular scenery, including the largest American Indian reservation, and a history that goes back thousands of years, Arizona is filled with awesome places to visit. User-friendly symbols introduce you to facts about geology, ancient history, wildlife, and more, making your vacation a fun learning experience. As you travel Arizona's unforgettable roads of exploration, Awesome Arizona Places for Curious Kids is your ultimate family adventure-planning guide. Book jacket.
Author: Linda Gordon Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674061713 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child."
Author: Carole Marsh Publisher: Gallopade International ISBN: 0635083914 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 28
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The reproducible coloring book includes pictures of characters, places, facts, and fun. The kids can color their way around your state while learning new facts. Great for school, home or on the road.
Author: Boye Lafayette De Mente Publisher: Cultural-Insight Books ISBN: 0914778714 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 280
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Arizona is unique among American states, not only in its geography and geology but also in the diversity of its climate, in its indigenous animal and plant life, and in the history of its first inhabitants-communities of Indians whose ancestors arrived on the scene more than 20,000 years ago. Arizona is also the youngest of the contiguous mainland states of America...precisely because of these very same factors. Its climate, geography and Indian tribes were major barriers that prevented the territory from becoming widely populated by the Spanish, Mexicans and early European-Americans, and from being used as a cross-roads by American fur/pelt trappers, gold prospectors and settlers who began pushing west in the mid-1800s. Now, it is exactly these same factors that make Arizona a great place to live as well as a world-famous travel destination. The stories of how Arizona finally became what it is today are as amazing as the lay and the beauty of the land. Great background reading for residents and visitors alike, and an ideal gift.
Author: J. Jefferson Reid Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 9780816517091 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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Carved from cliffs and canyons, buried in desert rock and sand are pieces of the ancient past that beckon thousands of visitors every year to the American Southwest. Whether Montezuma Castle or a chunk of pottery, these traces of prehistory also bring archaeologists from all over the world, and their work gives us fresh insight and information on an almost day-to-day basis. Who hasn't dreamed of boarding a time machine for a trip into the past? This book invites us to step into a Hohokam village with its sounds of barking dogs, children's laughter, and the ever-present grinding of mano on metate to produce the daily bread. Here, too, readers will marvel at the skills of Clovis elephant hunters and touch the lives of other ancestral people known as Mogollon, Anasazi, Sinagua, and Salado. Descriptions of long-ago people are balanced with tales about the archaeologists who have devoted their lives to learning more about "those who came before." Trekking through the desert with the famed Emil Haury, readers will stumble upon Ventana Cave, his "answer to a prayer." With amateur archaeologist Richard Wetherill, they will sense the peril of crossing the flooded San Juan River on the way to Chaco Canyon. Others profiled in the book are A. V. Kidder, Andrew Ellicott Douglass, Julian Hayden, Harold S. Gladwin, and many more names synonymous with the continuing saga of southwestern archaeology. This book is an open invitation to general readers to join in solving the great archaeological puzzles of this part of the world. Moreover, it is the only up-to-date summary of a field advancing so rapidly that much of the material is new even to professional archaeologists. Lively and fast paced, the book will appeal to anyone who finds magic in a broken bowl or pueblo wall touched by human hands hundreds of years ago. For all readers, these pages offer a sense of adventure, that "you are there" stir of excitement that comes only with making new discoveries about the distant past.
Author: Publisher: Golden West Publishers ISBN: 9780914846000 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 0
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Great keepsake cook books featuring favorite family recipes from each state! Specialty and signature dishes reflect historic, cultural and regional influences.Each book is liberally sprinkled with fascinating state trivia. Books are 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 and comb-bound for lay-flat ease of use.
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