E-mail and Letters

Humorless

I understand you canceled "Legends of the Lost" because you ran out of material. Wonder why the same yardstick was not applied to the humor page? Truly your magazine gets better each issue. I think the September issue is noteworthy - a couple of the jokes in the "Humor" section even deserve the $75.

Author Dorothy Parker once said of humor writers, "Poor dears, the world is stacked against them from the start for everybody in it has the right to look at their work and say, 'I don't think that's funny." Now we can add to that, "Pity the poor old editor, for he has to select the jokes."

Bird Miscue

I must point out a small error on page 50 of your September issue. The bird pictured is a northern shrike, not a loggerhead. The northern shrike is much less common in Arizona than the loggerhead, and his bill is larger with the distinct elongated hook.

No question, our bird is the hooked-beak one. The poor old editor needs a beak chart.

Boots for Britches

On page 37 of the September issue, you have Roscoe Turner wearing jodhpurs with kneehigh riding boots. I don't think so. Jodhpurs are "long breeches for riding, close-fitting from the knee to the ankle." They were worn with short boots. In a photo on the same page, Pancho Barnes appears to be wearing jodhpurs. Turner must have been wearing rid-ing breeches with his knee-high riding boots. Otherwise, as usual, the issue is just short of perfection.

Duking It Out

Shucks, Larry Tritten almost wrote a good story on the John Wayne Room at the Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee ("Along the Way," September '00). Unfortunately, he seems to have a burr under his saddle seemingly because he felt the Duke didn't measure up to "the men who really did win the West." Come on now, Pilgrim, he needs to lighten up a little. Wayne may not have been a Teddy Roosevelt, but, hey, Tritten's no Paul Theroux, either.

Missing Petroglyphs

You really slipped up on your short article on the Rock Art Ranch (September '00). Your cover proclaims "The State's Best Petroglyph Site," and yet there are so few pictures I am highly disappointed. Brantley Baird was kind enough to allow me to visit the canyon. I was dumbfounded at the hundreds of drawings there and anxiously anticipated your article and photographs. What happened?

Our goal was to give an overview of the landscape and show some examples of petroglyphs for those who have an interest in visiting such sites.

Built by Brothers for Brothers

An interesting historical note to the "Taylor Brothers' Cabin" article (September '00) is that the cabin was built by my father-in-law, Glynn Despain, and his brother, Harold. They were both stonemasons in the Chino-Prescott area and were hired by the Taylors.

Misnamed Forest

After reading the "Back Road Adventure" article on Price Canyon-Erickson Peak in the September issue, I noticed the accompanying map showed this area to be in the Chiricahua National Forest. Unless you have the power to create national forests, I believe this area is part of the Coronado National Forest.

That's correct. I guess we couldn't see the forest for the. well, you know.

Bisbee Miners

In your article about Bisbee (September '00), you refer to the ethnic groups that dominated in its heyday, but you forgot some folks: the Cornish hard-rock miners who had not only the best mining expertise but also the machinery that went with it and the Welsh, who also contributed to putting Bisbee on the map.

ARIZONA HIGHWAYS