TOURING ARIZONA: VOLUME 3 SOUTHERN ARIZONA 2022-23 [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

Arizona is the Grand Canyon State, and we Arizonans proudly state it on our automobile license plates. No other great landform feature defines any region as does this magnificent chasm that rips through the land of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona. It along with the mighty saguaro cacti that grow in our hot deserts of Central and Southern Arizona are the two signature landscape features defining the state. Arizona is so much more than those two iconic features. This is a state of superlatives - giant canyons, towering snow capped mountains, extensive pine forests, vast windswept grasslands and so many other landscape features combine to define the state,Arizona is also a kaleidoscope of cultures. Native tribes trace their ancestry for millennia. The Hispanic cultures date to the first conquistadores. The American period brought the miners and cowboys, and yes even the gunslingers. When people imagine the "wild west," many think of such rough and tumbled towns like Tombstone. These all combine to create an Arizona unlike any other state.This is the third volume in the series Touring Arizona. This volume is devoted to the lands and peoples of Southern Arizona. Traditionally Southern Arizona begins at the Gila River and extends to the Mexican Border. However Pinal County, which although south of the Gila River, is economically and socially now tied to the Salt River Valley and Phoenix. Thus Pinal County is treated as part of Central Arizona. Read more