Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
The Ancestral Sonoran people known as the Hohokam once numbered as many as 50,000 people around what is now Phoenix. With this large population came expansive civilization with multiple large […]
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Flagstaff’s Three National Monuments part 2
Continued from Flagstaff’s Three National Monuments part 1 posted 25 Nov. 2014 Sunset Crater National Monument One hypothesis of why the people of Wupatki left almost 1,000 years ago is […]
Flagstaff’s Three National Monuments part 1
When most people think of North American civilization, they often think in terms of the last few hundred years when the pilgrims settled Plymouth or the Spanish conquered Mexico and […]
Phoenix’s Sophisticated Primitive People
Phoenix’s Sophisticated Primitive People Arizona and Phoenix are relatively young as entities. Any passerby would probably ask, why would anyone settle in the desert? That’s a good question, but not […]
Montezuma’s Arizona – an adventure to three Arizona national monuments
Arizona is home to 22 national parks properties. Those include national parks like the Grand Canyon and small national monuments like the places I explored last Saturday, Montezuma Castle National […]
Adventure Patches 