Arizona and The Grand Canyon Eyewitness Travel Guides

6 6 6 64 666 1 60 160 1 6 3 1 91 1 91 26 4 264 2 64 87 6 191 The Guides that show you what others only tell you a ncient site s e yewitness travel guides A CTIVITIES History ma p s O O a riz o na & the g rand c any on E YEWIT N ESS TRAVEL GUIDES [...]... outlaws and the Earps as the forces of law and order In 1881 Virgil Earp was the town marshal, and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt were temporary deputies The showdown on October 26 had the Earps and their ally Doc Holliday on one side and Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers, Tom and Frank, on the other Of the seven combatants, only Wyatt Earp emerged untouched by a bullet Billy, Tom, and Frank were all... million years ago, rivers and rainfall eroded the rock layers and formed the deep canyons and arches that distinguish Arizona s landscape The central geological feature of the region is the Colorado Plateau, which covers some 13,000 sq miles (34,000 sq km) It is cut through by many canyons, including the Grand Canyon (see pp48–55) A Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park’s shimmering pink sand dunes cover more... A ARIZONA THROUGH THE YEAR in the state of Arizona during spring and fall This Arizona is well known for part of the world is particularly its extremes, ranging from beautiful in fall, with an astounding the heat of the desert to the ice array of golds, reds, and yellows and snow of the mountains in the forests and national Temperatures vary according parks Besides Arizona s to altitude, and so the. .. companies and ranching corporations Remington lamented the passing of these heroes: “Cowboys! There are no cowboys anymore!” One of the most famous tales of the Wild West is the Gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona ( p98) This (see 8 struggle pitted two clans against each other, the Clantons and the Earps The usual, often disputed, version features the Clantons as no-good outlaws and the Earps... here for thousands of years Over the centuries, they have adjusted to the Hispanic colonizers of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Anglo-Americans of the 19th and 20th Each of these has molded the state’s history baskets they wove Part of the Long before the appearance of early Ancestral Puebloan, the Spanish in the 1500s, the or Anasazi, culture, these people Southwest was inhabited by a are thought... mammoths and other large which is still used today by the Pleistocene animals, the Paleo-Indians descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans roamed the area in small groups to hold religious ceremonies By AD 700, there were three main between 10,000 and 8,000 BC As the large mammals died out, they turned cultures in the region: the Hohokam, to hunting small game and gathering Mogollon, and the Ancestral roots and. .. 15 Lake Powell (see pp62–3) was formed by the damming of Glen Canyon in 1963 The creation of the 185-mile (300-km) long lake was reviled by environmentalists, and celebrated by watersport enthusiasts and parched farmers and city dwellers Antelope Canyon, in the Glen Canyon area, is n the most famous of Arizona s narrow “slot” canyons The canyon s rose-colored sandstone chambers, sculpted into sensual... offices, and his home Constructed from desert stone and sand, the expansive proportions of the complex reflect the vastness of the Arizona Desert Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (1870–1958) was one of the most influential architects in America at a time when women architects were virtually unknown At the turn of the 20th century, the Santa Fe Railroad hired Colter to design several buildings in the Grand Canyon. .. the Grand Canyon They trace their ancestry to the ancient Hohokam people and share similar languages The only town on the Havasupai reservation is Supai, 8 miles (13 km) from the nearest road The reservation is the gateway to the beautiful Havasu Canyon and emerald green Havasu Falls (see p48), a popular destination for hikers T Young Hopi Rainbow dancer T HE U TE tribe Most Pueblo tribes trace their... found in this area G EOGRAPHICAL R EGIONS Arizona s prominent features are the r Colorado Plateau and the Sonoran Desert, n which is divided into Colorado Desert and Arizona Upland The High Country mountain ranges are surrounded by desert, e creating the “Sky Islands” (see p16) K EY Colorado Desert Arizona Upland Colorado Plateau High Country Sky Islands Grand Canyon A P O R T R A I T O F A R I Z O N . 6 6 6 64 666 1 60 160 1 6 3 1 91 1 91 26 4 264 2 64 87 6 191 The Guides that show you what others only tell you a ncient site s e yewitness travel guides A CTIVITIES History ma p s O O a riz o na & the g rand c any on E YEWIT N ESS TRAVEL GUIDES