RRIZONR HIGHWAYS ., JANUARY • 1951 THIRTY-FIVE · cENTS -One ... S WE survey the bright and shining pages of a new volume and consider what might or might not be the bright and shining days of a new year, we would like to start off by ex­ mpressing to old friends and new our wishes for sunshine and happiness in Nineteen Fifty-One. May we face the year with HIGHWAYS courage, dignity and high resolve and may the year turn out well for our beloved land. May we all strive to be worthy of the bless­ VoL. XXVII No. 1 JAN. 1951 'ings that have been bestowed upon us, grateful and humble that we­ RAYMOND CARLSON, Editor our people-are among the favored of the e arth. GEORGE M. A VEY, Art Editor Our state starts off the new year with a new governor. Gentle readers, we introduce to you Howard Pyle a nd we are pleased to give LEGEND you a short sketch of the life and achievements of this interesting and "GRAND CANYON" . FRONT COVER pleasant man. It was not in the cards that h e should have been elected NOTED ARTIST, SwINNERTON, FINDS IN GRAND C ANYON FAVORITE SUBJECT. because : 1. he is a Republican and Arizona is an overwhelmingly Democratic state; 2. he is not a politician iri the respect that he has "BEYOND THE RANGE" 2 A POEM ABOUT A PROSPECTOR BY ONE ever b een actively engaged in political matters; and 3. he defeated WHO KNEW WELL WAYS OF THE WEST. one of the most popular office holders in the history of the state, State HowARD PYLE, GovERNOR . 4 Auditor Ana Frohmiller. That he was elected in spite of the seemingly I NTRODUCING NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE unsurmountable obstacles that confronted him speaks eloquently of WHO GUIDES STATE FOR NEXT TEHM. his popularity and his ability. W e think you'll like him and be just as DESERT NESTS 8 impressed with him as.we are. I N WHICH WE VIS IT DWELLINGS OF The portfolio of paintings in the center of this book are by the noted 50ME OF OUR FEATHERED VISITORS. landscape artist Jimmy Swinnerton. Perhaps we should be more re­ BUFFALO ROBES ON THE HOOF 12 spectful and say "Mr. Swinnerton," but where ever you go in the PART OF HousE RocK VALLEY H ERD desert country, deep in Hopiland and the land of the Navajos, his IS NOW LIVING IN LUSH H UACHUCAS. friends refer to him in the familiar manner and with such affection SwrNNERTON 16 that it doesn't sound right to refer to him otherwise. He's along in PRESENTING LIFE & PAINTINGS OF AN years but wonderfully youthful. If you had spent the longest part of AHTIST WHO KNOWS ALL OF THE WEST. a summer night sitting on the porch of Harry Goulding's place in FORT H UACHUCA E NTERPRISES 28 Monument Valley as we did, listening to him tell his tales of the country PICTURESQUE FORT HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A CENTER OF H01"1ES & BUSINESS . he loves so well, you would know why he is so popular and you would know why we are so proud to have this opporhmity of telling you ARIZONA AND THE CrvrL WAR 34 A CHAPTER FROM A NEW HISTORY OF about him and showing you a few of his paintings. STATE WRITTEN BY NOTED HISTORIAN . Within you will find a chapter from a new history of Arizona written YOURS SINCERELY . 40 by Dr. Rufus Kay Wyllys of Arizona State College at Tempe : "Arizona­ SEVERAL POEMS AND LETTERS DEALING The History of a Frontier State." W e would like to emphasize the im­ WITH TOPICS OF INTEREST TO READERS. portance of this book, which deserves a place on every western book­ HOWARD PYLE shelf. It is also important to us because it marks the first title issued Governor of Arizona by a new Arizona publishing firm, Hobson & H err of Phoenix, an ambi­ tious and aggressive organization which hopes to fill our need for a ARIZONA HIGHWAY COMMISSION Brice Covington, Chairman . Kingman regional publishing firm. H . Earl Rogge, Vice-Chairman . Clifton An unusual civic endeavor is explained this month in our article Louis Escalada, Member . Nogales entitled: "Fort Huachuca Enterprises." Upon the e nding of World War Clarence A. Calhoun, Member . M esa John M. Scott, M ember . Show L ow II the government gave up the training camp at Fort Huachuca. A J. l'vfelvin Goodson, Exec. Secretary Phoenix group of enterprising citizens in Cochise County decided the Fort W. C . L efeb vre, State Hwy. Engr. Phoenix would make a splendid resort and residential center with ample hous­ R. G. Langmade, Special Counsel Phoenix ing at low rates, wonderful climate, fine scenery, and with every pos­ AHJZONA HIGHWAYS is published monthly by the sible convenience for the visitor and even adequate floor space and Arizona Highway Department a few miles north equipment for small businesses and factories. We of the confluence of the Gila and Salt in Arizona. offer it with the Address: AmzoNA I-lIGHWAYS, Phoenix, Arizona. hope that perhaps the Fort might have in its many ramifications some $3.00 per year in U . S. and possessions; $3.50 service or accommodation for which some of our readers might be elsewhere. 35 cents each. Entered as second­ class matter Nov. 5, 1941 at Post Office in Phoe­ looking. Our short article doesn't half cover the subject, but we be­ nix, under Act of March 3, 1879. Copyrighted, lieve we give you enough of a picture of the Fort to indicate what is 1951, by Arizona Highway Department. offered there. To close our pages we take you on a desert jaunt looking for birds' Allow five weeks for change of addresses. Be sure to send in old as well as new address. nests, our guides being Ruth and Harry Crockett. As long as there are JAHN~TYLER birds there will always be music in the world.-R. C. OPPOSITE p AGE FRONT COVER "THE BEAUTIFUL CoLOHADo" BY RAY ATKESON. The Colorado River "GRAND CANYON" FROM A PAINTING BY JAMES SwrNNERTON. Jimmy is seldom referred to as "beautiful," but the adjective aptly describes Swinnerton faithfully portrays the grandeur and majesty of the w estern it in places. The study here was taken in southern Utah one day when scene. His favorite subject h as been the Grand Canyon, which he has the world and the river were in a placid mood. Further south the river been painting for forty years. Primarily noted for his delightful car­ gets riled up as it chews its deep way through the great canyons of toons, Swinnerton is recognized as one of the fi nest landscape artists northern Arizona. in the West. Discussing ranch problems. At a local get-together. Governor and Mrs. Pyle and daughters, Mary Lou and Virginia Ann, live in Tempe, where Mrs. Pyle was born and where the governor's parents settled when they came to Arizona in 1925. Keeping up with his active teen-age daughters is a chore which even his arduous duties as the chief executive will not cause the elevated father to neglect. GOVERNOR PHOTOGRAPHS BY HERB MCLAUGHLIN Arizona starts the brave, new year with a new governor-Howard Pyle-who has, among others, two distinctions: being the youngest governor ever to take office in this state and being a Republican. It is in no way betraying a confidence when we point out that Arizona is a Democratic state, but laying aside all reference to such mundane subjects as political affiliations, whether Republican or Democrat, you have to admit our new governor is a darned nice guy. H e's an easy subject to write about because his private life has been so full of achievements and his own has been such a distinguished career you do not have to dig deep to find nice things to say about him. Our several subscribers who live in Russia ( how such an arrogantly capitalistic journal as ARIZONA HIGHWAYS seeps through the iron curtain is always a source of wonderment to us), our many subscribers in England, India, Australia, Ger­ many, Canada, and our scattered subscribers in such isolated and ~fascinating places as Cyprus, Iran, Ethiopia, Burma, Borneo and the Fiji Islands can hear our governor next Easter morning narrating the world-famed Easter Sunrise Services at Grand Canyon, a beautiful and solemn religious service broadcast throughout the world by NBC. He originated this broadcast seventeen years ago. Each year he produces and narrates it so that it has become one of the major an­ nual world radio presentations. He will continue this program as governor, as he will also continue his vivid descriptions of the Pow Wow at Flagstaff each Fourth of July. H e added to his stature as a personality in radio during World War II. In 1945 he was commissioned to do a series of broadcasts from the World Security Conference in San Francisco, a notable success for himself as an announcer and interpreter of world conditions, and then he served in the Pacific as a war corres­ pondent, interviewing Arizonans in the services, and giving the world dramatic radio coverage of some of the notable events in the Pacific operations. PAGE FIVE • ARIZONA HIGHWAYS • JANUARY 1951 Arizona's new governor was born in Sheridan, Wyoming, Arizona Republic) . In developing literature for his home March 25, 1906. His father, the Reverend T. M. Pyle, who is town, his thoughts turned more and more to advertising and Millions of radio listeners throughout now pastor of the Community Church at Buckeye, was a promotion as a career.