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New Arizona Guide Books Cover Legends, Tall Tales and Indians

by Boye De Mente on Mar 12, 2010

Five new books on Arizona provide in-depth details about the state’s most spectacular geological feature (the great Grand Canyon), its first inhabitants (the state’s 17 Indian tribes), the coming of the Spaniards in 1540, and the first Americans who arrived in the 1820s as fur trappers and went on to sow the seeds of the 48th state in a remarkable saga that included cowboys, gold-seekers, gunslingers like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday of “Shootout at OK Corral” fame, and rogues like “the Baron of Arizona.”

The series includes AMAZING ARIZONA – Fascinating Facts, Legends and Tall Tales!, Visitor’s Guide to Arizona’s Indian Reservations, The Grand Canyon Answer Book, Cultural Code Words of the Hopi People and Cultural Code Words of the Navajo People ... which use key terms in the Hopi and Navajo languages to reveal their history and culture.

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