Red Mesa : $b A tale of the southwest

Miller, Warren H. (Warren Hastings) · 1960

[Illustration: NILTCI GOT ONE GLIMPSE OF VASQUEZ, STANDING WITH HIS RIFLE POISED.] Above a timbered valley in the southwest rises a towering wall of gorgeous cliffs such as only Arizona can produce. Their rock pinnacles are banded with color--red strata, ochre, blue, green, and white--all in wavy horizontal lines like layer cake. These long walls were scoured clean and smooth long ago by prehistoric water action. They were broken with deep fissures--fissures that now cleave the cliff from top to bottom--“chimneys” that mean seven hundred feet of sheer ascent to him who would dare scale these heights.…

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