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ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

JUNE, 1936

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS

Are Calling

Fe direct to Prescott, or the Southern
Pacific to Phoenix and thence Santa Fe
to Prescott. Via air, the Ernest A. Love
Municipal Airport. Via bus, excellent
bus service operated by Santa Fe rail-
road from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Pres-
cott, with Phoenix, Tucson, and California
connections.

Things To Do.

Golf, at the Hassayampa Country
Club; Tennis, at the Municipal Courts;
Baseball; Track; Swimming; Dancing;
Boating; Fishing; Horseback Riding;
Cowboy Dinners; Camping in the hills;
cottages in the Pines; Hunting, large and
small game in season, with trained Gov-
ernment hunters and guides for moun-
tain lion and bear. Clubs, Resorts,
Churches, Schools, modern accommoda-
tions of all types, Guest ranches and
Hot Springs.

What To See.

The Point of Rocks, Granite Dells and
the Gardens, miles of marvelous granite
formations, far more wonderful than the
famed Garden of the Gods in Colorado;
Smoki Public Museum; Old Governor's
Mansion and Museum of early day
Arizona; Old Fort Misery; the New
Sharlot M. Hall Museum; Pioneer Home;
Hassayampa Mountain Club; Iron
Springs; Groom Creek; Crown King;
Senator Mountain; Northern Arizona
State Fair Grounds and Recreational
Park; Inscription Canyon; Montezuma
Castle; Montezuma Well; Oak Creek
Canyon; Tuzigoot Ruins and Museum at
Clarkdale; the marvelous Verde District
with the great Mines and Smelters at
Jerome; Clarkdale and Clemenceau; Old
Camp Verde; two and a half hours' mo-
toring over marvelous scenic highways
to and from the Grand Canyon.

Seenic U. S. Highway 89 from Salt
Lake City to the Mexican border,
through Prescott, connecting with the
Sunkist Trail, U. S. 60, best route to
and from California. Santa Fe railroad
bus line from Salt Lake City to Prescott,
Phoenix, and Coast points, the Verde
District, and Flagstaff.

The Smoki Ceremonials.

Once seen! Never forgotten!
That tersely describes the marvelous,
weird, fascinating, and spectacular dances
which are presented annually in Prescott
by the Smoki People. Truly this is Ari-
zona's most famous and spectacular

Frontier Days and Smoki Dances
Will Lure Thousands To
Pine Country

pageant. June 14th, the second Sunday
in June, has been set aside for their six-
teenth annual appearance. That will be
a day long remembered in Arizona. The
dance starts promptly at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, with 300 taking part.

These Smoki People are white business
men and women of Prescott, who are
banded together for the dramatic pre-
sentation of the dances and ceremonials

of Arizona's earliest residents. They
have now become world-renowned, and no
vacation trip in the Southwest is com-
plete without a visit to Prescott for this
unique event.

With sincere intent and appreciation
for the deep religious significance of the
majority of the ceremonials they repro-
duce from year to year, the Smoki Peo-
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