| | Abstract: | These interviews mention issues concerning Walnut Canyon,
including cliff dwellings, Santa Fe Dam, trips, picnics, hiking and camping, vandalism,
wildlife, Hopi and Navajo's departure from the area, hostilities between Indains and
Anglos, and Native artifacts. Interviews also include the following topics: Indian
trade, attitudes towards Native Americans, Northern Arizona Normal School, Lake Mary,
the Grand Canyon and uranium mine, pictographs at the Grand Canyon, visitors from the
1915 San Fransisco world fair to the Canyon, diminishing diversity of the people,
Babbitt and Riordan families, climate change, tourism, tunnel for Arizona Central
Railroad, early Catholic schools and churches, Mormon settlement in Tuba City, early
downtown Flagstaff, lumber and ranching business, and Chinese and African-American
families in early Flagstaff, as well as Oak Creek Canyon. People discussed include the
Babbitt family, Riordan family, Eldon family, John Clark, Bob Chamber, Sheriff Pulliam,
Sheriff John Francis, Dr. Martin Fronske, and Teddy Roosevelt. | |
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