[ePub] The Complete Annotated Gilbert Sullivan: 20th Anniversary Edition by Ian Bradley in Arts-Photography

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Coronado scorned this region as unpopulated when he labored through southeastern Arizona in 1540; but he could have found 12;000-year-old spear points in the remains of giant bison near Cave Creek Cienega; grinding hollows in boulders; and shamanic figures in high caves of the Chiricahuas towering above valleys and grasslands. Searing drought forced people to abandon their villages by 1400; but Apaches wandered down from Canada about the time Spaniards passed by. Thousands of forty-niners traveled in sight of the mountains on their race to California. The Chiricahua Apaches were exiled to Florida in 1886; even earlier; their lands were opened to settlement. Portal began in 1902 as a rest stop between the railroad and the boom town of Paradise. Since 1956; the Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History has attracted countless researchers. The present community is a vibrant mix of biologists; birders; astronomers; writers; artists; and ranchers; united by love for this unique canyon.