What to see in America . Superstition Mountains cool summer climate, and where such wild game is foundas bear, deer, turkey, and mountain lions. The persistentenmity of the Apaches greatly retarded the development ofArizona up to 1886. The Apache chief, Geronimo, withonly twenty warriors, and hampered by fourteen squaws,once held at bay an American force of 2000 soldiers, and aMexican army of several thousand more. He murdered,burned, scalped, and pillaged, and completely terrorized thatentire section of Arizona and Mexico, all without losing asingle man. But in 1886 Gen. Miles and his trooper
What to see in America . Superstition Mountains cool summer climate, and where such wild game is foundas bear, deer, turkey, and mountain lions. The persistentenmity of the Apaches greatly retarded the development ofArizona up to 1886. The Apache chief, Geronimo, withonly twenty warriors, and hampered by fourteen squaws,once held at bay an American force of 2000 soldiers, and aMexican army of several thousand more. He murdered,burned, scalped, and pillaged, and completely terrorized thatentire section of Arizona and Mexico, all without losing asingle man. But in 1886 Gen. Miles and his troopers fol-lowed Geronimos band into the mountains, giving them norest and forcing them to keep moving until even their doggedendurance could endure the strain no longer, and they sur-rendered. The Apache Trail has been converted into a road gradedand smoothed to as near perfection as a mountain roadcan be. The Indian moccasin trail is followed of it is through a wonderful realm of crags and turreted. 444 What to See in America heights dyed in tints of red, purple, green, and blue. At oneplace are cliff dwellings. The Indians speak of the pre-historic inhabitants of these dwellings as the Little People,and such they must have been, for the ceilings are only fourfeet high, and the doors are only two feet high. You passthe great Roosevelt Dam and Lake, and go on down the turbulent Salt the featuresof interest here areFish Creek Canyon,the beetling CapeHorn, the Old Wom-ans Shoe, Nigger-head Mountain, andSuperstition Moun-Casa Grande Ruins tains. Near the Sum- mit of the last is ahorizontal line of white rock which the Indians say marksthe height reached by the waters of an ancient flood thatcovered almost the entire world. One of the strangedrought-resisting growths along the way is the weird giantcactus. It sometimes stands singly, and sometimes ingroves that spread over plain and mountain side. Thirtyfeet is no uncommon height for it to attain, and somerise
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