The Bighorn

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"TOROWEAP POINT" BY MARTIN LITTON. "To stand at Toroweap Point is a requisite for anyone who wants to qualify for the degree of Grand Canyon graduate. It is the last and highest class that the school has to offer." So writes Edwin Corle in his Story of the Grand Canyon. The Point is in the Grand Canyon National Monument, reached by a fairly good dirt road from Fredonia. 3,000 feet below is the cantankerous Colorado and the notorious Lava Falls. It might be interesting to note that practically all the "rules" of color photography were violated in this study in which the subject is harshly backlighted, with strong highlights and large areas of deep shadow. Burke & James Press camera, 135mm Busch Glyptar f4.5 lens in Compur shutter, f.20 at 1/10th second, 4x5 daylight Ektachrome, no filter.

"THE BIGHORN" BY MARTIN LITTON. This is the desert Bighorn, also known as Nelson's mountain sheep, or ovia canadensis nelsoni. Most zoologists agree that it is the same animal as the Bighorn of the Rockies, somewhat altered in size and color by its comparatively arid environment. In Arizona the Bighorn inhabits almost all of the principal desert mountain ranges, being found in considerable numbers in the Castle Dome and Kofa Mountains, where there is a protective refuge of about one thousand square miles. Exposure was 1/50th second at f6.3, daylight Ektachrome. A 7½-inch lens was used with the 4x3 camera, giving a slight telephoto effect. Camera: Burke & James Press, Wollensak lens in Betax shutter. The photographer spent many a morning near desert waterholes waiting for the perfect picture.

Up and Down Country

Doggone, it's a pretty country, big and rough 'n' full of color 'n' sun 'n' wind 'n' sharp edges 'n' shadows blue with mystery, not placid like a hillside in New England, nor mannerly like the corn country of Kansas, nor freshly barbered like the blue grass meadows of of Kaintuck, but kind of unruly 'n' sometimes frightening and never the same so it is always new and full of challenging talk and it is the kind of country your soul can expand in 'n' your heart can get as big as a bucket just thinking about it and dreaming about it. No man knows its secrets, and its story is as old as time itself. It is country made for roaming, and in it every man can find his own path and his tracks won't clutter up tracks made by those who passed before him. It is country to lose yourself in, and if need be to find yourself in, depending upon the state of your nerves and your outlook on life at the moment. It can be wild as the vulture's cry, as gentle as the soft chitchat of a spring breeze, for the moods and tempers of our up and down country are many and unpredictable. It's awful trying country when you try to wrap it up every now and then between the covers of a magazine. Ansel Adams, one of America's truly distinguished photographers, will be with us quite regularly from now on to interpret and help us wrap up our country with his camera. Nancy Newhall, whose husband is curator of the George Eastman House at Rochester, N.Y., and in her own right a recognized authority on photography, will supply interpretative texts with the Ansel Adams portfolios which we will present. Mrs. Newhall was Acting Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art from 1942 to 1945 and has collaborated with several noted photographers on studies of this land of ours. Adams, educated in music and a now gifted pianist, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1946 and 1948, was appointed photomuralist for the Department of Interior in 1941, and has written, illustrated and edited sixteen books on photography and related subjects, several of which are regarded as landmarks in their field. His book, Ansel Adams with His Camera in Yosemite, is one of the notable achievements in photography of the West. We hope you'll like the Adams-Newhall studies of our big, old rough country in these and other pages to come in this magazine. . . R.C.

WHAT'S NEW UNDER THE Arizona SUN

READING IN THE SUN: The University of New Mexico Press at Albuquerque, N. M., has just reprinted Traders to the Navajos ($3.50). This book by Frances Gillmore and Louisa Wade Wetherill tells the story of the Wetherills of Kayenta, pioneer Navajo traders. In this book, one learns much of the Indians, their country, and one learns also of the lives of the pioneers, their joys and sorrows. New Mexico Artists ($3.00) is another worthy publication by the U. of N. M. Press. The book contains eight important critiques, with reproduction of each artist's works, of Sloan, Blumenschein, Baumann, Adams, Yunkers, Jonson, Hurd and Cook. Unfortunately, none of the paintings reproduced are in color. Even so, however, one can readily see how the New Mexico and western scene has influenced the work of these and other major artists.

NEIGHBORLY NOTE: Josef Muench, one of our important photographers, is now en route "THE BIGHORN". . . . FRONT COVER MARTIN LITTON GOES A'HUNTING WITH HIS CAMERA AND BAGS A FINE PRIZE.

LEGEND

THE FRIENDLY HUACHUCAS . . . . . . 2 CLOSEUP OF A MOUNTAIN RANGE DOWN IN COCHISE COUNTY YOU'LL ENJOY.

HOST TO THE WORLD. . . . . . . . 8 JUST LOTS OF FOLKS IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE FIND WAY TO GRAND CANYON.

CANYON DE CHELLY NATIONAL MONUMENT, ARIZONA. . . . . . . 18 ANSEL ADAMS EXPLORES WITH CAMERA NOTED SCENIC LANDMARK OF STATE.

GARDEN IN THE DESERT. . . . . . . 28 A VISIT TO THE FAMED ARBORETUM, EXPERIMENTAL GARDEN, AT SUPERIOR.

JEFF DAVIS AND OPERATION CAMEL 36 AN ACCOUNT OF THE USE OF CAMELS IN EXPLORATION OF THE WESTERN LAND.

YOURS SINCERELY. . . . . . . . . 40 WHEREIN WE LEARN THAT WE SPAN THE MILES TO VISIT IN DISTANT PLACES.

"RIBBON FALLS". . . . . . BACK COVER PHOTOGRAPHER JACK WHITE FINDS A SCENIC JEWEL IN THE GRAND CANYON.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS is published monthly by the Arizona Highway Department a few miles north of the confluence of the Gila and Salt in Arizona. Address: ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, Phoenix, Arizona. $3.00 per year in U. S. and possessions; $3.50 elsewhere; 35 cents each. Entered as secondclass matter Nov. 5, 1941 at Post Office in Phoenix, under Act of March 3, 1879. Copyrighted, 1952, by Arizona Highway Department.

to his native Bavaria. He is paying his first visit there since he came to this country 24 years ago. As you might imagine he'll bring back a number of photographs. Where Joe goes, there goes his camera.

INDEX NOTE: The Cumulative Index of these pages, 1925-1951, is selling like hotcakes. ($1.00 plus 10 cents postage in the paper-bound cover.) Many readers have inquired whether it would be possible to get this index in the leatherette binding, same style, same material as the binding for our bound volumes. Our bindery has produced this index in the heavier binding to fill this demand. The price is $3.50. Now we can offer our Cumulative Index with two different covers, at two different prices.