by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the fifth and final page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 A couple of miles further along, the floor of the canyon widened significantly,...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the fourth page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 After our long, leisurely break, parked by the Antelope House, we climbed back into my...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the third page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 The canyon was quite lovely in this area. Wind-sculpted sandstone cliffs rising eighty to...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the second page of a longer article about Canyon del Muerto. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 We drove another mile or so, traveling slowly. The canyon would widen for a bit, and...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
Famed photographer Ansel Adams once described Canyon de Chelly as the most beautiful place on earth. After his first visit to the area in 1937, he wrote to his wife Virginia, that “The Canyon de Chelly exceeds anything I have imagined at any time!” And he was...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the fifth and final page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 CASTLES IN CAVES IN THE CLIFFS! (OH, MY!) FIRST RUIN We skirted around the end...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the fourth page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 DUCK ROCK We got back in my Jeep and drove for a bit, though not too far. It was a...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the third page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 PETROGLYPH ROCK A short distance from Newspaper Rock, just a few steps away along the base...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
This is the second page of a longer article about Canyon de Chelly. If you’d like to begin at the beginning, click the button to return to Page 1: Click to return to Page 1 I’m an Arizona native with a background in anthropology, and I’ve always been fascinated...
by Richard Quinn | Dec 2, 2023 | Arizona and New Mexico, Travel, Tribal Lands
The high desert of the Colorado plateau is a vast territory, an all but empty landscape edged by sere, weathered mountains. There are few towns, but there are many lonely homesteads, tiny communities of doublewides and ramshackle prefabs, some with a six-sided hogan,...
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