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Peniocereus Greggii) Arizona Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus Wizlizeni) Bea Vertail Cactus ( Opuntia Basilaris)

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Peniocereus Greggii) Arizona Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus Wizlizeni) Bea Vertail Cactus ( Opuntia Basilaris) $5.oo ) . This novel is a coloi-ful scory of the (Hastings House, New York, $5.00) , is unique Navajos. The setting is panoramic Navajoland. and interesting. Miller spent long hours reading The University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, old Arizona newspapers (some as old as the Oklahoma, ·whose titles are alwavs distinctive, 'Sos ) . From these ancient and musty files he has published Ramon F . Adams' "Come an' Get selected stories that proved to be Arizona his­ It" ($3-75 ) and Oi-err Arnold's "Thunder in the tory "when she was being w1·it' ." "The Arizona­ Southwest" ($3-75 ) . "Come an' Get It" could Story" is illustrated by Ross Santee. be described as a gall9ping cook book, telling, as it does, the story of the old cow boy cook and STATISTICS IN T HE SUN: Ari;;ona Prog­ some of the things he cooked co keep the boys ress, the statistical journal of the Valley Na­ happy. Arnold's bqok, 'lvhich carries the sub­ tional Bank, passes on this interesting informa­ title Echoes from tlie TV itd Frontier, retells true tion from the Census Bureau: Arizona is n ow NOTE S FOR BOOKWORMS: There has been stories"of the West when it w as really the.W /')s t. the fastest growing state in the good old U.S.A. som~ migli'ty interesting i-eading coming off the The author pr oves his point that "the facts 9f in percentage of population, with California and pi-esses lately w hich we think worthy of men­ ,vestern histo}y are wilder than any yarns the Florida second a11d third. We have had a gi-ow th tion. Yon,will like Earl Haley's "Revolt in the fictioneers can concoct . ." 9f 61.2 per cent since the 1940 census, ,vhile Pat11ted, Desert" (House-Warven, Hollywood, "The Atizona Story," edited by Joseph !Vliller , Calif9mia has grown 59.6. Our Indians, so close to Nature, are apt and earthy iu so nmch to lessen the danger of scorpion sti11gs. He is one describing the months. February, to the Hopis, is "powa of those dedicated scientists who is being so helpful to man­ muye," or the month of the Quiet Moon. The Havasupais kind. The other is W. Roy Wayland, 1.::ho has dom as much call the month "madigimaia," or Bean Dance Moon. The as any man to advance the development of our state, and Pimas, down in the desert country, refer to the month as whose story is an Arizona saga. "aufpa i-ivakitak," month of the Cottonwood Flowers or Roy Wayland has devoted a long life to this state; rmd Big Wimer Moon. You can almost see the cottow..v·oods yet today he is one of the youngest, gayest, friendliest a11d down 011 the Gila sprouting their young, tender leaves. The most interesting people we kno--.t·. A11d 7.t'e are glad to Navajos, aristocratic and poetic by nature, describe Febrzt­ acknowledge 1.ve 01.ve him a suit. It happened this way: In ary as "the month of Young Eagles," which reminds one of December, 1945, --..ve and about 200,000 other G.l.'s just soaring clouds, high cliffs and unfettered distances. No mat­ released from the service were scrambling through all the ter how you describe it, February is a grand month. stores in San Francisco trying to buy a suit. (Suits were few Well, any how, in this month of the Quiet Moon and and far between, if you remember.) After a lo ng, 1.veary Bean Dances when the Cottonwood Flowers sprout and and apparently hopeless day we arrived at the suit depart­ Young Eagles come forth from their eggs ( what the heck ment of Hastings, a splendid store. The salesman ·who does "February" mean, anyway?), we like to blossom out in greeted us asked .-,L'earily: "Where you from, Sarge?" We cactus fiowers to point the way to spring, and that --u:e have replied, "Arizona." He perked up. "Do you lmo·w 'Cream. done this isssue. We just never can get over the fact that of TVheat'?" he asked. "You mean Roy TVayland's beautiful those quite ordinary-looking cactus plants always --..vear the Palomino? TVhy, of course! We've see11 him a11d Roy lead gayest of bonnets and corsages when spring caresses the a dozen parades." That did it. Apparently 1.ve spoke the land. · same language because he had a suit under the counter, We present two interesting and outstanding Arizonans which he was saving, but which he sold to ZLS for $40; a in this issue, and we think you will like them. O11e is Dr. honey of a suit, perfect fit and one, by the 1.vay, 1.ve're still Stah11ke of Arizona State College at Tempe, 1.vho has done 1.t·eariug. Tha11ks, Roy! .. R.C. OPPOSITE PAGE. FRO~T COVER "G0LD.EI'N HILLS" BY FRED RAGSDALE. Apache Lake, reflect­ ''CRIMSON HEDGEHOG'' BY CHUCK A BBOTT. Echinocereus in g the blue · sky, and the surrpunding hills covered with Encelia trigloc.hidiatus Englm. is not the most beautiful of the family of farinosa make a,right handsome picture for the passing photogppher. Cactaceae, but when it busts all out in blooms it i:, perfectly lovely. LEGEND ARIZONA'S VENOM M AN . "CRIMSON HEDGEHOG" . FRONT COVER FAMED STATE COLLEGE PROFESSOR AT CHUCK ABBOTT FOUND THIS BEAUTY UP TEMPE rs NOTED FOR S.ERUM FIND. ON SYcAM~: E RrM,6,;60 TT.ELEVATION. YoURS SINCEREL y WEI..L OF SACRIFICE 2 NOTES FROM READERS WITH COM MENTS ESTHER H ENDERSON RELATES THE STORY ON THESE PAGES . .. AND SOME VERSE. Vor.:: cXXIX No. 2 FEBRUARY 1953 OF AN OLD PAPAGO LEGEND AND RITUAL. RAYMOND CARLSON., Editor ARIZONA HIGHWAYS is published monthly by the Arizona Highway Department a few miles north GEORGE M. AVEY, Art Editor . lVlAN WHO LOVES HORSES 4 of the confluence of the Gila and Salt in Ari­ HOWARD PYLE JERRY McLAIN TELLS us ABOUT ONE oF Governor of Arizona zona. Address: ARIZONA H1GHWAYS, Phoenix, Ol.JR LEAD):NG SJ[I'lZEl'{S, l3:-0¥ WAYLA'ND, Arizona. $1.00 per year in U.S. and possessions; ARIZONA HIGHWAY COMMISSION $3.50 elsewhere; 35 cents each. Entered as sec­ Louis Escalada, Chairman . Nogales Moo AND THE H ELL's HoLE ToM 6 ond-class matter Nov. 5, 1941 at Post Office in C. A. Calhoun, Vice-Chairman . Mesa A PRETTY EASTERN VISITOR GOES A­ Phoenix, ·under Act of March 3, 1879. Copy­ John M. Scott, Member . Show Low HUNTING FOR A BAD MOUNTAIN LION. righted, 1953, by Arizona Highway Department. Fred D. Schemmer, Member . Prescott Frank E. Moore, Member . Douglas DESTINATION: SPRING 14 Allow five weeks for change of addresses. Be Glenn E. King, Exec. Secretary . Phoenix sure to send in the· old as well as new address. R. C. Perkins, State Hwy. Engr. Phoenix SPRING RAINS AND A WARM SPRING SUN R. G. Langmade, Special Counsel Phoenix SURE CAN PRETTY UP THE LANDSCAPE. Beneath slabs of granite is the sacrificial 'well; fence openings are Discarded ocotillo sta·ves form a huge 11101111d for souls of the Papago children, who were buried there, to depart. 11ot far from e11clomre of W ell of Sacrifice. BY ESTH ER HENDERSON P H OTOGRAP H S BY T HE AU TH OR ?lJt:~0 tt;;~\t0€ct;f here in the Papago reservation where the chiefs, two from each village, to debate an emergenc!· T he c ustom is to pull up the stalks, lay them aside, and '\:·:· · ·,' > desert rolls away to nowhere and the measure. After a solemn all-night conference, the chiefs form a new fence each year. The old branches are never ~;~/tt· , . ,:.,:J:~z greasewood bends with the wind w hip­ decreed that human sacrifices were necessary to appease destroy ed and the stalks a t t he bottom of t he pile are so }\; · }tt{i~ ping in over the fl ats; w here a buzzard the a ngry gods. Accordingly, from e ach village one chil d ,rithered as to seem t o have been there hundreds of years. f:\\:,. ; ..:R~~ rides high on a current of the gale and a was taken: two girls and two boys. T hey were robed in There are now two great piles o f discarded branches, lying c-;&:t:.-~(i;,,;::;</:-'S:- dust devil spins his column of tan smoke their finest ceremonial garments and told they were to go in a semi-circle, one on each side of the well, each p ile skyward; there, the granite slabs sparkle in to a more beautiful land w here all their wishes w ould be being at least five feet high and twenty-five feet long. the bright sun and the dead ocotillo stalks harden and whiten ful filled. The children were then thrown alive into the well O cotillo branches w hen cut are known to either rot like old bones. It is the Shrine of Alihihiani, meaning "Ceme­ and earth and heavy stones w ere heaped upon them. or sprout in time if stuck into the earth. T hose a t the vVell tery of the Dead Child" and site of the Well of Sacrifice. Today there are s till the eight stone seats where the of Sacri fi ce have neither rotted nor sprouted ; they are Legend has it that in prehistoric times a hunter, trailing chiefs sat during t heir night of council, and, close by, a " ·ind and sand polished to a smooth, gray, spineless fi nish a badger, watched it dig into the earth and attempted to mound of heavy granite slabs three feet high, surrounded as hard as bone.
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