| Summary: | ARIZONA HIGHWAYS, JANUARY 1998 CONTENTS: 04 TRAILING HACKSAW TOM "There was something wild and unpredictable about a mystery man who could rob stagecoaches and elude capture- even definition- for so many years. He marked edge of civilization. So I resolved to retrace his steps in the Superstition Wilderness" 12 THE FIRST MOVING PICTURE SHOW The flickering pictures were "a kind of magic, a wonder to behold. The year was 1897, and motion pictures had come to Arizona. The new technology was so real that at one showing the pictures caused a panic" 16 TORTUROUS TREKKING IN THE SIERRA ESTRELLAS High winds plus the treacherous folds and twists of every canyon make the Estrellas the most challenging mountain hiking in the state, says our author. "On some days, I had to bushwhack along the crest above some great canyon only to find at nightfall that the 10 miles hiked resulted in almost no forward progress” 20 THE GOLDEN EAGLE, MONARCH OF THE WEST A magnificent creature with a six-foot-plus wingspread, Aquila chrysaetos is not as flashy as the bald eagle, but it has had, over the ages, a special presence among Native American tribes. In medieval Europe, it was the pride of emperors and kings 22 ARIZONA’S OLD GROWTH FORESTS "The old growth forest ecosystem has flourished in diversity and flux since the retreat of the last ice unique forests scattered I its path," says author Peter Aleshire. Most of them are gone now; remnants exist only on mountain heights or in deep canyons 34 DEATH KNELL FOR A GREEN SHREDDER A "shredder" is a snowboarder. If you're cool, you know. Our author, a diminutive but athletic skier, a "two-planker" in the lingo, was bound to give snowboarding a try at the Sunrise ski area in the White Mountains. All did not go well, though, and she had to refrain from hurling her "stick" into a nearby garbage can 38 GHOST TOWN TRAIL The trail passes through the eroding memories of Gleeson, Courtland, and Pearce. The ruins crumble without ceremony or regret, says author Lawrence W Cheek. "Over another 100 years, they will go gently into the good night of ancient history”
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