Studies of "The People of the Sun"

Of The Sun”

"Every tenth person living in Arizona is an Indian—one of the People of the Sun. Fifty thousand of them, representatives of fifteen tribes, live on seventeen reservations throughout the state. Some live in valleys, others on the mesas, in the canyons and in the high country. Many are agriculturalists, others are stock-raisers. “Then follow short descriptive paragraphs on each of the tribes. This little book by Joseph Miller, carefully gathered and carefully presented, is something to have and preserve. Fortunately the photographer deliberately sought the Indian in his work-a-day world. Not one study looks like a press agent's version of Sitting Bull. Here you see the aged and the very young, you see the nobility and the great patience of a race who have suffered and to whom the buffets of the elements or the folly of the White Man have left their marks but also have left them unbowed and unbeaten.

If there is any omission in the book, it would be an account of the photographer's experiences in taking his pictures. That, indeed, would be a story in itself.

"Arizona Indians" is offered for sale at bookstores for One Dollar. Anyone interested in the Old West and in Arizona will enjoy Joseph Miller's “The People of the Sun.” . . . R. C.

SUMMERTIME IS TRAVELTIME

It's summertime in Arizona. The aspen leaves are green and silver in the sunlight and a late summer sun dropping to rest after a good day's work behind the cathedrals of stone in Monument Valley cast cool shadows that are thirty-five miles long. Along the Coronado Trail summer showers wash the dust off the pine needles, and in the Kaibab Forest the deer come out into the meadows to leisurely browse and enjoy an unhurried dinner. The waters of Lake Mead are blue and deep and clear, shimmering in the sunlight, and over the Chiricahua range the lazy summer clouds just loaf along. In the great White Mountain region of eastern Arizona the streams chatter merrily and where the pools are deeper the dark shadows are not shadows at all but trout taking life easy as all things and people should do in the summertime.

Summertime is traveltime in Arizona, too. Visitors come by car, by train and by plane for a rendezvous with summer in the most colorful land of all. They find everything they are looking for and the many unexpected things and surprises that make traveling in this land such an adventure.

They find good roads and room to travel and move about in. Here they find themselves away from the crowds and that does so much to make traveling in this land such a pleasure. . R. C.