Arizona

Fort Apache Cemetery, Whiteriver, Arizona

November 8, 2011

During the military period 1870-1922, soldiers and their family members as well as Apache scouts and their families were buried in the post cemetery. Following the Army’s abandonment of the fort, the remains of most non-Apaches buried there were removed to the federal cemetery at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Apache burials were not disturbed and the [...]

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Hubbell Trading Post

November 2, 2011

In 1876 John Lorenzo Hubbell began trading with the Navajo in Ganado, Arizona.  After the Navajo’s “Long Walk” in 1864 and their subsequent imprisonment for four years at Bosque Redondo in New Mexico, they returned to their homes to find widespread devastation of their homes, crops and animals. 

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Homolovi Petroglyph

November 1, 2011

Taken at Homolovi, located North of Winslow, Arizona. Petroglyph panel is in a box canyon south of Homolovi II

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Ft. Bowie NHS, Arizona

September 28, 2011

For all of you who grew up in the 1950s, if you are like me you couldn’t wait for your favorite Western show to come on TV.  Being a century removed from the stories of the Wild West just made them more captivating.  I was particularly a fan of Broken Arrow and loved the Tom [...]

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Visiting Arizona’s Kinishba Ruins . . . an Ancient Puebloan Structure

February 16, 2009

On a February day in 2008, the Frontier Travelers headed south from Winslow, Arizona to visit the Kinishba Ruins, located on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. Kinishba Ruins is the remains of a village built by ancestral Pueblo people between about AD. 1250 and AD. 1400. The site is approximately seven miles southwest of Whiteriver, [...]

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History Finds a Home at National Wildlife Refuges

January 6, 2009

National wildlife refuges are considered home to more than 700 species of birds, 200 species of mammals and more than 280 species that are endangered or threatened with extinction.  Yet, they also reflect America’s history, and the historic homes found on some refuges are an intriguing part of that past. A Native American Plankhouse on [...]

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