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Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to its charms. Harry Cassie Best, who, yearsbefore, had deemed the sunset glows on Mount Shastaincomparable, saw them on the San Francisco Mountainsand other peaks of Arizona and surpassed himself in hiscolorful canvases. The color plate opposite this pageis of one of his pictures. His brother, Arthur, dean ofthe Best Art School of San Francisco, has felt the samecolor allurement, both on plain, desert, mountain, canyonand Indian camp, and the spirited picture opposite page148 is from his brush, showing the Apaches in their dar-ing rides over the rocky slopes of the Arizona mountains. J. Bond Francisco, the musician-artist of Los Angeles,whose canvases are prized in European galleries as wellas in those of our own land, confesses to thrills of de-light as he finds he can portray, with more or less fidelityand power, the glorious lights and shades, colors and San Francisco Peaks at Sunset, from near Flagstaff, Arizona. From a Painting especially made for this work byHarry Cassie Best.
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The Literature and Art of Arizona 277 tones that flood mountains, foothills and desert at cer-tain times. Evelyn Almond Withrow meets the Indians,Hopis, Navahos, and others, and at once falls a victim,not to their warlike powers, but to their captivatingqualities to the artistic eye, and the picture of the Hopipriest at his sunrise devotions on his Kiva overlookingthe Painted Desert is a fine sample of the faithful powerof her work. Mrs. J. W. Estill, of Tucson, a lover offlowers, came in contact with the desert flora of Arizona.The vivid and brilliant cactuses, with their wide gamutof colors and shades, so entranced her that she began topaint them. Her collection now is one of the most com-plete and remarkable in the country, and by her kindfavor I am permitted to reproduce her painting of oneof these brilliant though thorny and unfriendly specimensof desert growth. These are but a few of the many illustrations thatmight be given of the attractive and beautiful picturesproduced under

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