Travel Modes of Yesterday

WELCOME TO ARIZONA

ANOTHER summer travel season is beginning. Thousands of people throughout the United States will take to the open road following the broad highways of America east and west, north and south.

Thousands of these travelers will visit Arizona, will travel the highways of Arizona for the first time. We join with all citizens of this state in issuing an invitation to America to travel the open roads of Arizona for a restful vacation in one of the most beautiful states in this country.

We wish to call attention to the perfect travel conditions of northern Arizona in the summer time. Often people associate Arizona with a desert which should be avoided in the summer. As a matter of fact, travel in northern Arizona is through a mountainous region where cool, comforting summer breezes delight and refresh. Even travel over the severest Arizona desert in the hottest part of the summer holds no discomfort to the modern traveler. Whereever you go you encounter air-conditioned hotels, restaurants, auto camps, shows, and business houses, where air-cooling has been developed to such an extent that travel is as comfortable and secure as anyone could wish.

The people of northern Arizona will be hosts to thousands of visitors for the big summer shows at Prescott and Flagstaff. There is also the Pioneers celebration at Snowflake and many others.

On June 12 the world-famed Smoki Dances will be held at Prescott, and during the Fourth of July holidays the Frontier Days celebration and rodeo will be staged at Prescott and the All-Indian Pow-Wow will take place at Flagstaff. These shows are among the outstanding staged in the southwest and visitors will find much of the amusing, the educational and the recreational.

The mountains of Arizona invite you to linger for a week or two, to camp beside a mountain stream, to give combat to the wily trout, to enjoy life and above all to rest. If you are the type of person who enjoys the hidden nook, the lessbeaten trail you can find what you are looking for in Arizona. If you enjoy friendly resorts you can find them; if you are looking for wonders to behold, Arizona can indulge your every whim and wish. Arizona has something else to offer, too, to the visitor from other states. They call it western hospitality. It means that we are happy to have you with us, not because you may have a dollar to spend but because we are proud of our state and proud and happy to have you to visit it. We have something else to offer other than honky-tonk commercialization. "Howdy, partner!" is a symbol of the west. It signifies a warmer handclasp, a warmer welcome. Your money will not buy it. Your clothes or position will not command it. You get it when you come simply because you are another stranger coming to visit us. And it will echo after you leave, remain with you to draw you back again some day.

The cover page is by W. M. Tillery, who captions it "The Boss." Bill Tillery has caught the beauty of horse and rider, the gorgeous cloud formation, and the expansive Arizona rangeland. The inside cover by Wallace, we believe, is one of the most striking pictorials we have run in months. The wild horses of Navajoland are difficult of approach and the unusual view is doubly attractive for that reason. Tom Imler, Jr., contributes another fine Imler study on page two. The pictorial was taken in Papago park near Phoenix.

We are especially proud of the air photos of Grand Canyon illustrating Jim Kinter's article. We point with considerable pride to the pictorials of the contest winners in this issue, four beautiful Arizona scenes.

By way of postscript, may we add that the interesting information compiled in "Arizoniques" (back cover) is the work of that very careful writer, Joseph Miller.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESENTING, REG MANNING 4 IN PRESCOTTSMOKIS DANCE AND COWBOYS RIDE EARLY 18th CENTURY ARIZONA ALL INDIAN POW-WOW AT FLAGSTAFF. "I TRAVEL THE SKYWAYS OF THE GRAND CANYON" ARIZONA THE ENCHANTING PRIZE-WINNING ARIZONA PICTORIALS. ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS ROAD MAINTENANCE PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION NOTES GENERAL OFFICE FIELD ENGINEERS