PRESCOTT... Past, Present and Future

Prescott is still properly traditional yet as modern as the space age. Residents are still as proud of the clean air and vistas of grandeur as they were 100 years ago. At the same time "clean" industry exists to supply a limited number of jobs for the growing, yet stable, population. No high-rise structures appear in smog-filled air, for neither exist in the community nestled among the pine-covered hills. Industry is clean - plastics, sportswear, electronics, navigational equipment, aquarium pumps - all modern in production and usefulness, yet keeping the natural environment clean and unharmed.

The mile-high salubrious climate with days of cloudless skies makes Prescott a haven for people from other climes. Camps of all kinds exist in its dense forest, summer homes abound, especially at Iron Springs, Groom Creek and the Mountain Club. Excellent camping sites are available, ample fishing at Lynx, Watson and Willow Lakes, golfing at a choice of fine golf courses, horse racing during the summer season, dog racing nearby, gold panning, soaring, historic sites, theatre, Smoki, rodeos, square dancing on the plaza, art shows it's all included!

While newly constructed modern homes continue to creep up the sloping hills, often snugly tucked away in granite fastness, there are nearly 75 historic sites which can be visited in and immediately adjacent to Prescott. These include the first Capitol and the Old Governor's Mansion, Sharlot Hall Museum, Smoki Museum, Citizen's Cemetery, homes of Governors John Fremont and Richard Sloan, residence of early settler, Judge and author Edmund Wells, and the Injun' tree on South Cortez. The Court House of classical Greek design and built from locally quarried granite dominates the shaded plaza where the Rough Rider statue stands in permanent repose. It was from the north steps of this edifice that Senator Barry Goldwater made the first speech launching his 1964 presidential campaign.

The surrounding country of forested mountains, stark rock formations, grassland valleys and wide-open range lands is still the home of mule deer, antelope and many other forms of wildlife. Many of these areas evoke interest by their names, such as Skull Valley, Lonesome Valley, Chino Valley, Thumb Butte and Lynx Creek. Some place names relate to pioneer people who were the frontiersmen taming a wild land, i.e., Williamson Valley, Peeples Valley, Kirkland Creek and Walker. Names given mines often have unusual significance and whimsical purpose, as the Perhaps Mine, and the Spanish and native Indian cultures linger by such names as Agua Fria, Verde and Yavapai. History here is still so near the surface of life that one becomes intrigued to query for explanation. However, the name Prescott has a different origin and honors William Hickling Prescott, early American historian whose major works dealt with the era of Spanish conquest in America.

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Prescott offers many attractions and diversions for the visitor, many of them right in town, others to be found in the surrounding hinterlands. Individual interests and time will determine one's choices. Many areas offer attractive opportunities, and while not all of these can be given and reference must be made to information available through the local Chamber of Commerce, we seek to motivate the interest of those who come to this area by telling you about some of our favorite places.

One loop trip which we have enjoyed over the years takes one from Prescott by way of Miller Valley, over the summit of the Sierra Prietas to Iron Springs. Since 1890, long before modern air conditioning came into the Salt River Valley, this has been a summer retreat for people from Phoenix who began to build their summer cottages and where, now that no building sites remain, the treasured cabins are handed down from one generation to the next. The name derived from the taste of the water of the spring, a welcome water source which served as a station on the freight road from Phoenix and Wickenburg to Prescott in earlier days. At one time the line of the Santa Fe Railroad from Phoenix to Prescott passed here, the trains of which slowly crept upward through the winding canyon.

On down grade from Iron Springs one drives through wide open ranch country into Skull Valley, a beautiful, well-watered valley, now peacefully occupied by numerous small cattle ranches. The name was given by the first white man who entered the area and found piles of bleached Indian skulls, remnants from a bitter battle between Apaches and Maricopas. Here is located the Phippen Studio and Museum where the works and reproductions of this well-known Western artist can be seen and purchased. One goes quickly from this area to Kirkland but will notice in passing some strange rock formations which are outcroppings of tufa. The nearby quarries supplied the stone for building the Arizona Capital and Trinity Cathedral (Episcopal) in Phoenix. Those interested in modern day mining and mining methods may be lured from Kirkland to visit the Bagdad Mine where the latest in smelting methods and emission controls are in operation.

Kirkland Creek and Valley take their name from early settlers in the area, the William H. Kirklands. The first American couple married within the confines of Arizona (he is also reputed to be the first man to raise the American flag in Tucson), they established a stage station and farming and mining enterprises in the valley in 1863. One of the most bitter legal battles of Arizona history arose over the rights to the water of Kirkland Creek. The original ditches of the irrigation system may still be seen on the Square M Ranch.

Almost 100 years ago the intrepid pioneer, Jefferson Lee, built this sumptuous home and stage stop at the base of Granite mountain in Williamson Valley near Prescott. Although it was probably the finest house in the Arizona Territory, today only a few bleached boards and weathered adobes remain.

Only a few minutes elapses in the journey from the Kirk-land area to the junction of Highway 89 where one can turn north back to Prescott through the Prescott National Forest, affording many beautiful vistas of grandeur along the way. If time permits the trip could well be extended for a few miles south on 89 to include Peeples Valley and Yarnell near the top of the rim overlooking the vast sprawling Sonoran Desert. At Yarnell is the Shrine of St. Joseph where life-sized statues placed in a natural setting depict the "Station of the Cross." Roads and trails lead in all directions from Prescott into interesting places and landmarks beckon exploration. Visible from all points is Granite Mountain which stands as sentinel over a vast area, always a landmark and likely soon to be preserved as a "wilderness area." Driving in that direction, one travels into both the spell of the past and reality of the present. Modern subdivisions reach out in the area of the old Burnt Ranch, so named from an Indian raid, where numerous western movies were made. Forest land suddenly breaks forth into a wide reach of range land to look out upon an exciting panoramic view extending more than 100 miles to the towering San Francisco Peaks. The remains of the American Ranch can still be viewed along the road but the few remaining timbers are no more than reminders of the glories that once were when the stage coaches and freighters stopped here and settlers from surrounding ranches gathered for dances and gala occasions. The present road still follows part of the old wagon road which was used a century ago to bring goods across from the Colorado River to Prescott.

It was in Williamson Valley where Harold Bell Wright found his main characters as well as the challenging setting for his novel When a Man's a Man, and the robust spirit of those days still lingers in the Valley. At a ranch here cowboys pitted their skills in contest prior to Prescott's first organized rodeo in 1888, perhaps as "warm-up" for that Independence Day contest. Today some of the finest lines of Hereford cattle are bred at the Long Meadow Ranch. Beyond Williamson Valley in the foothills of the Camp Wood Mountains are the distinct remains of old Fort Hualapai maintained as a historic site by the United States Forest Service. In this area, too, is the 92,000 acre Louis Baca Float, one of two such Mexican grants ever established in Arizona.

Northward from Prescott, traversed by Highway 89 is the Point of Rocks, now called Granite Dells, still as magnificent and stately as when Apaches and Yavapais climbed these rugged formations to hide from and spy upon the white invaders of their lands and where they skirmished with the soldiers from Fort Whipple. The man-made lakes, running streams, and large cottonwood trees make this a popular locale for picnics and leisurely outings as it has been for the last century. Numerous movies have been made in this lovely setting, including westerns and such productions as "Leave Her to Heaven." Two interesting opportunities await visitors in the direction beyond the Dells. If one should continue to follow Highway 89, he passes the Prescott Municipal Airport and Golf Course, to arrive amidst the irrigated farm land of Chino Valley. A state highway marker identifies Del Rio Springs, former site of Fort Whipple where the first Governor's party encamped before locating at the eventual site of Prescott.

On the first Saturday night in August Prescott business and professional men authentically recreate these ceremonies.HERB & DOROTHY MC LAUGHLIN Once a roaring mining town, Jerome now boasts of being the "world's largest Ghost Town" with its artists' colony, Mine Museum and Douglas Mansion State Historic Park. From Jerome one almost literally drops down the hillside to the former smelter town of Clarksdale with its nearby Tuzigoot Indian ruins, and the Verde Valley. Here, one again has an option of continuing through the Red Rock country and Oak Creek Canyon, or turning back to Highway 69 (the Black Canyon) and moving south through the country of Montezuma's Castle and Well, old Fort Verde State Park, and the opportunity of viewing the spaciousness and abundant color of the Verde Valley. East from Prescott is another area rich in past lore and presently being altered in land use and appearance by rapid subdivision development. There is still much open range land where cattle graze, antelope still play, and cowboys ride horseback along the fences bounding the highway right-of-way and wave in friendliness to the traveller. Basically, this region reaching up the slopes of the Bradshaw Mountains is mining country, and old abandoned mines with their shafts and tailing dumps abound. On Lynx Creek is the community named for Joseph Redeford Walker, the mountain man who guided the group of prospectors into the area in 1863. They discovered gold along Lynx Creek and the Hassayampa River, which fact greatly influenced the establishment of Prescott as the Territorial Capital. Now a dam across the Lynx impounds the water for Lynx Lake, one of the most attractive camping and fishing locations here about.

Another point of interest on Lynx Creek, which may soon be open to the public for viewing, is the site of early placer mining carried on by a group of English investors under the direction of T. B. Barlow-Massic who built a four-story Victorian home, quite a feat due to the isolation at the time. On the high plateaus above Lynx Creek and the Agua Fria River the now burgeoning Prescott Valley is building, and near Dewey is being developed, with very adequate design, the Prescott Country Club Properties which include an excellent 18 hole golf course and attractive clubhouse, surrounded by view lots for homes and a controlled commercial area. Humboldt and Mayer are the remaining towns of the earlier mining activities which came to a rather abrupt halt with the panics in the late '90's. Gold and silver mines have not been particularly attractive for investment because of the low pegged price of these metals. Many old mining camps which roared in the past decades, such as McCabe, Arizona City, Poland and Blue Bell, rest in the dust of a bygone era, with little remaining to identify them. Until recently the Iron King Mine near Humboldt was operating and was one of the largest lead and zinc producers in the United States. Mayer today is becoming a community of retirees.

Special attractions during the summer season are increasing, as the old traditional ones continue and newer ones emerge with changing times. The July 4th weekend annually hosts the Frontier Day celebration, thus continuing the observance of American Independence begun in 1864. With the addition of rodeo events in 1888, Prescott's rodeo is the oldest and most continuous in Arizona. Here may be seen both local and R.C.A. cowboys pitting their skills not only against each other but the agility and ferocity of horse and beast. A festive parade with pageantry and features indigenous to the Southwest preceeds the rodeo. On the first Saturday night in August, the Smoki People, white business and professional men, present the annual Smoki Indian Ceremonials and Snake Dance at their plaza in west Prescott. For 52 years these dances, as

Historical Forts of Yavapai County include Fort Verde, Fort Whipple and Fort Misery.

The photos on this page are of the old Command Building and historical exhibit at Fort Verde. Page 23 upper is Del Rio Springs, site of the original Camp Whipple established in December 1863. Offices of the Territorial Government of Arizona were operated from tents and log cabins here, before being moved to Prescott on May 18, 1864. Page 23 lower is the first house built in Prescott, old Fort Misery. So called because Judge Howard held the first court here to dispense justice. Or as the people of Prescott felt... "Misery."

Authentic as research, costuming, and make-up can create them, are colorful, dramatic and expressive of the native Indian culture of the Southwest. This is honestly an experience once seen will never be forgotten. Proceeds from these ceremonials maintain the Smoki Museum, thus preserving many unusual artifacts from ruins of extinct cultures and of local extant Indian tribes, and a large collection of Hopi Kachina dolls.

Another activity of interest to many is a series of summer weekly ranch tours sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and Yavapai Cattle Growers. Yavapai County is a large producer of "feeder cattle" and these tours give visitors insights, not only into problems of range and cattle management, but an idea of the quality of range cattle produced here.

The Court House Plaza is not only the county governmental center, but its wide malls lend themselves to open air art shows and square dancing during the summer months. Square dance participants from far away places join with Prescottonians, and the dances are colorful and exciting whether one dances or merely observes. A weekly event of long standing is the Community Sing where real community singing of many old and familiar songs are sung with gusto, creating a bond between residents and visitors. Interspersed are special numbers by both amateurs and professionals. These are great fun and afford unforgettable experiences for many Prescott visitors.

Prescott has become a capital for soft ball and over 60 teams of various ages play games on several diamonds many afternoons and evenings. Golf and golf tournaments go on with regularity year round at Antelope Hills, the municipal course adjacent to the airport, and bring golfers from other communities daily. Recently an adult center has been opened in the National Guard Armory, affording fellowship and recreation especially to the older adults in the community, and the facilities at the Yavapai Youth Center offer opportunities for swimming, roller skating, and numerous other activities to the younger set. Art exhibits at several galleries display fine exam-ples of Western and Indian art, and there are Little Theatre activities, and many other avenues for the expression of one's skills and interests.

Prescott has often been chosen the locale by movie producers for filming since the days of Tom Mix's silent Westerns. During recent months city streets and various areas round about have been photographed in "Junior Bonner" and "Bless the Beasts and the Children." Watching the action on location or being a bit player is an interesting diversion for most people and many Prescottonians have had the pleasure of seeing themselves in a 5 second flash on the screen.

A variety of motels and restaurants serve Prescott's visitors. Some too, are historical. The well-known Palace Bar on the famed "Whiskey Row" still operates and displays the beautiful mahogany back-bar which made its way "around the horn" before locating in the Palace. Restaurants include the typical family type, or for truly western treat, you can enjoy a "cowboy" steak cooked over an open fire.

Certainly there is more to tell about this our favorite city and the countryside we love so well, but something must be left for the visitor to discover for himself. Every visitor comes with some predispositions of his own and will somehow find that which interests him in particular. We hope you all find some particular place or activity which we have overlooked. In that event you will be most satisfied with your visit. You are now on your own. Come and look for that which is your thing and we doubt that you will be disappointed. Prescottonians are friendly people. Most of them are very satisfied that they have found this place which many consider a pleasant Shangri-La removed from smog infested regions and turbulent urban areas. If we appear pleased with our way of life and the beauty of our clean countryside and clear skies from which stars hang low at night, we are. We aren't disdainful, we are simply pleased with our own well-being, content to sit on our porches and patios and enjoy the vast vistas of majesty and serenity which we look upon.

The Prescott Institutions

THE TASK of any valid educational organization worth its own survival is to work for the return of intelligence to a position of status and authority. Further, the style in which this should be achieved is that of civility. A society which cannot attain these goals ceases to be civilized. The talent to achieve these goals abounds around us--at the production line, in the professions, among the young, in the various levels of corporate executive structure-but it is being stifled by those very organizations which need it most. Something new is needed, a new vehicle through which this presently frustrated talent can address itself to the process of civilization-a vehicle which provides an educational process for a lifetime. Our vehicle must be financially solvent and therefore must operate in new and imaginative ways. The Prescott Institutions provide such a vehicle, as the following pages will describe. Besides engaging men and women in vigorous intellectual endeavors, the Institutions look to other aspects of the human condition to reinforce and buttress growth of the total man: We use the magnificent environment of the Southwest for field programs, challenging body and spirit in stimulating outdoor action--here, action comes first, analysis later; We offer programs abroad, where we may be linked in a special way with a different culture-and perhaps find a mirror for ourselves. All these varying enterprises are designed to serve the young and the not-so-young, the dreamer and the realist, the experienced and the novice. They are designed to warrant financial support by virtue of the worth of what they are doing, to engage participation because they are valuable, not because they are sentimental. Education is a journey, not a destination, and the Prescott Institutions are designed to provide a proper, continuing passage.

THE PRESCOTT INSTITUTIONS are three organizations

Of higher learning located on a 600-acre campus an educational park in the Arizona Highlands and which are administered jointly by a not-for-profit educational corporation.

Officially incorporated in 1971, the Institutions evolved as a result of new needs being identified by Prescott College, a young, four-year, highly innovative, liberal arts college. The college became, in fact, the base of the Institutions and lends its academic excellence to the entire concept.

The Prescott Institutions are:

Prescott College serving the young

This new school; which accepted its first students in 1966, has already earned national recognition for its educational concepts and the responsibility it places on its students.

The Schole serving the experienced As part of the concept of education for a lifetime, The SCHOLE is designed to provide educational opportunities for adults, and is oriented specifically to the business executive. The Institute extending opportunities for experiential involvement.

This new, four-year, degree-granting college incorporates Prescott's highly successful Outdoor Action program as its primary vehicle. It involves itself and the other Institutions in areas and concepts of education which being action oriented and based upon real life situations go far beyond traditional opportunities.

Together, the Prescott Institutions provide an educational vehicle which nurtures creation of a new kind of intellectual climate which will, indeed, provide education for a lifetime. It will point to new social goals for American energies; allow people of all ages and experiences to relate intellectually and in common action a technique which will provide students with models of adult capability beyond those currently available in this country's educational organizations.

To accomplish this, the Institutions have made, and will continue to make, maximum use of the human resources and materials already available, and they are operating under a plan of fiscal management which has as its goal the sound financing of the Institutions from private sources.

As the educational and financial plans of the Institutions operate, as their performance continues to provide those educational and personal opportunities not found within other organizations, the reputation and experience of the Prescott Institutions may stimulate other private colleges to address more effectively those problems and issues which currently threaten their very existence.

The Prescott Institutions believe that if the very concept of private education is a valid one, then private education must be capable of private survival.

IN MID-1966, Prescott College was an idea and a bare tract of earth in the Arizona Highlands.

In 1970, from out of a multi-million-dollar plant, the college graduated its first class.

During those first years, Prescott College was given national acclaim for introducing enterprising academic programs, recognized for its boldness in embarking on new organizational and teaching methods, and publicized widely for providing unique and relevant student experiences such as the college's freshman orientation program, Outdoor Action. At the same time, the college was working quietly and diligently with its most difficult task the reaffirmation of some old truths.

As a college which was new in every sense of the word, Prescott took this opportunity to define itself, with the aid of a Ford Foundation-sponsored symposium, a set of needs which it proposed to fill, including the need for: a college which could identify with the great traditions of the past, but which could remain unfettered by any philosophy which would limit its

ability to address the needs and opportunities of the 21st Century; informed, creative individuals who, in the 21st Century, will be able to take responsible action appropriate to the times;

the integration of sciences and humanities;

exploration of human cultures without discrimination; refut ation of the notion that a liberal arts curriculum is a refuge for persons and concerns out of touch with reality; A liberal arts concept which includes an understanding of science and technology as a basic requirement of intelligent leadership; a college which can help each person develop his own strategy for his intellectual and personal life style; promotion of that sense of cultural, moral and intellectual identity which enables a person to make choices and take actions which are rational and responsible within contemporary society.

Prescott College continues to meet these needs. At the same time, as the first of the Prescott Institutions, it provides the foundation for a new, lifetime, educational process a totally new enterprise for education.

Learned DISCUSSION in an intense and sustained search for truth - this is what "schole" meant to ancient Athenians. Education was transmitted freely between younger and older men in an effort to make man free, to use his own intellect to liberate him.

It is appropriate that SCHOLE was selected as the name of the institution which presents the Prescott Seminars, seminars organized around the essences, the basic issues, of the human spirit and condition.

The Prescott Seminars are directed toward the mature intelligence of any age, but are especially oriented toward the needs of America in relation to this country's top business executives. Our culture demands, cries for, effective leadership at every level of our society, at the same time recognizing that a mass of serious and influential leadership exists among this country's corporate executives. These men frequently have underestimated their capacities to intellectualize beyond their jobs, to give their enormous talents to our civilization. The values, the permanent things by which men live, must become their intellectual concern.

There is a definite need, both nationally and personally, for America's executives to extend their capacities beyond their work, to rejuvenate themselves both mentally and physically.

It is the task of The SCHOLE to meet this need. It is a crucial task in this contemporary world.

The SCHOLE Offers eight basic seminars. Each seminar has a permanent faculty, including as director a dedicated scholar who has devoted a major portion of his life to the study and understanding of his subject.

Seminar participants deal with the fundamental aspects of the human condition, aspects which have permanence over time and place: the difficulties of today, if dealt with as basic issues, show us the worth of the past and lead to a more understandable and perhaps more predictable - future. Participants include executives from business, industry, philanthropy and government, and potential leaders who are drawn from the Prescott Insti-

Examples of Prescott Seminars:

tutions.

These are perhaps man's most frequent mass pastimes. The issue of non-violence, evolution and peace can hardly be approached outside this context.

The SCHOLE also offers field programs, many times the best way to relate directly to an issue, and will conduct international seminars designed to have the foreign cultures speak for themselves.