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Shumway, like nearly all of the far-scattered 

 hamlets and villages in this part of Arizona, 

 is a Mormon settlement and derives its name 

 from a family named Shumway, who emigrated 

 here from Long Valley, in southern Utah, nearly 

 thirty years ago. To the traveler of to-day, 

 this seems a frontier, far from civilization, but 

 thirty years ago, before the railroad was built, 

 it was indeed a frontier, and the emigrants who 

 came in prairie schooners traversed many hun- 

 dreds of miles of burning naked desert to 

 reach it. 



We drew up before the largest and most pre- 

 tentious of the half dozen cabins that make up 

 the hamlet, and were greeted by Mr. W. G. 

 Shumway, one of the original pioneers of the 

 place. Mr. Shumway knew John and offered 

 us the hospitality of his home and forage for 

 our horses for the night. The open range lying 

 about the settlement gave small promise of pas- 

 ture for the animals, and we were glad to ac- 

 cept. 



That evening Mr. Shumway told us of the 

 privations of the settlers during the first winters 

 — how they had come into the country with de- 

 pleted stores, and hunted deer and antelope 

 while building their cabins, that they might 

 vary with venison an otherwise continuous diet 



