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Vol. XXXIII APRIL, 1920. No. 4. 
THE NAVAJO NATION. 
BY JAS. H. FERRISS. 
Sixty miles west of the corner post of Arizona, New Mexico, 
Colorado and Utah, the 1919 summer clase in archeology, 
Arizona University, encamped at the foot of Navajo Mountain. 
Here is the greatest number of ancient cliff cities and villages 
and the greatest of known natural bridges. In scenery, colors, 
heroic size and architecture, it is Grand Canyon in character. 
Navajo Mountain astraddle the Arizona-Utah line stands on the 
south rim of the Grand Canyon, a short distance above Marble 
Canyon and Lee’s Ferry. 
In reality the region from the Mesa Verde National Park, 
Colorado, on the east, to the Zion National Park, Virgin River, 
Arizona, on the west, it is something of a wonder-spot of the 
world, and all of it astonishing. The greater cliff ruins, Mesa 
Verde, Keet Seel, Betatakin and many others as interesting; the 
Monument Park, a plateau of natural pinnacles and steeples, 
and the Chinle and Canyon de Chelly valleys are along the 
eastern border. Then westward lie the painted deserts, petrified 
forests, the Grand Canyon, the Kaibab forest, underground 
lakes of Kanab, lava cones of Mount Trumbull, Hurricane 
Fault, Grand Wash, canyons of Virgin River, plains of wild 
horses and the largest Indian population in the United States 
still living in the Indian way. Except to the explorers, arche- 
ologists, geologists and mineralogists it is the great unknown of 
America, and the farthest from a railway. 
Dr. Byron Cummings, dean of archeology, Arizona Univer- 
