The resources of Arizona; a description of its mineral, farming, grazing and timber lands; its rivers, mountains, valleys and plains; its cities, towns and mining camps; its climate and productions; with brief sketches of its early history, pre-historic ruins, Indian tribes .. etc . passed their destruction. But it could hardly be possiblethat a people, so numerous as those ancient dwellers in Arizonaundoubtedly were, and so far superior to the savage Apache,would allow themselves to be overmastered by the latter. Theyhave been called Toltees and Aztecs, and many learned theorieshave been adva
The resources of Arizona; a description of its mineral, farming, grazing and timber lands; its rivers, mountains, valleys and plains; its cities, towns and mining camps; its climate and productions; with brief sketches of its early history, pre-historic ruins, Indian tribes .. etc . passed their destruction. But it could hardly be possiblethat a people, so numerous as those ancient dwellers in Arizonaundoubtedly were, and so far superior to the savage Apache,would allow themselves to be overmastered by the latter. Theyhave been called Toltees and Aztecs, and many learned theorieshave been advanced as to their origin and history, but all is 264 THE RESOURCES OF ARIZONA. conjecture and speculation, and nothing is yet absolutely knownof one of the most remarkable pre-historic races of the westernworld. They lived and labored and away, and a newand more vigorous civilization has redeemed the land ; butthere will always be a glamour of romantic interest attached tothose early Arizonans, which the mystery that enshrouds themhelps to intensify. There is here an interesting field for the savant who desiresto trace the growth of a civilization whose origin is shroudedby the mists of time, and whose crumbling monuments yetproclaim its ancient vigor and wide WHAT CAN I DO ?
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