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By Boye Lafayette De Mente on Mar 12, 2010 |Travel
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Five new books on Arizona provide in-depth details about the state’s most spectacular geological feature (the great Grand Canyon), its first inhabitants (the state’s 17 Indian tribes), the coming of the Spaniards in 1540, and the first Americans who arrived in the 1820s as fur trappers and went on to sow the seeds of the 48th state in a remarkable saga that included cowboys, gold-seekers, gunslingers like Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday of “Shootout at OK Corral” fame, and rogues like “the Baron of Arizona.”
The series includes AMAZING ARIZONA – Fascinating Facts, Legends and Tall Tales!, Visitor’s Guide to Arizona’s Indian Reservations, The Grand Canyon Answer Book, Cultural Code Words of the Hopi People and Cultural Code Words of the Navajo People ... which use key terms in the Hopi and Navajo languages to reveal their history and culture.
Two of the most amazing revelations about the Hopi Indians: their oral history tells them they were the first human inhabitants of the North and South American continents, and that they arrived on large rafts island-hopping across the Pacific Ocean...not by the land bridge that once connected Alaska and Siberia...and the astounding predictions of their seers who foresaw the coming of white men, guns, cattle, railroads and telegraph wires centuries before these things occurred.
The books are available to consumers from Amazon.com, and to booksellers and libraries from Createspace.com, a book publishing operation owned by Amazon.com.
The books are described in detail on my blog: www.arizonaguidebooks.blogspot.com
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About Boye Lafayette De Mente
I am the author of 70-plus books on the business practices, cultures and languages of China, Japan, Korea and Mexico; with 5 new tourism-related titles on Arizona.
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