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Desert Magazine 1961 June
Desert Magazine 1961 June
40 Cents
agazine of the
OUTDOOR SOUTHWEST
photographed the old Hopi chief a few
years back. He did not look like clay as
in the McGrew cover painting.
LETTERS Tewa-quap-tewa was 106 years old when
he died.
FROM OUR READERS RUSS GRESSER
Los Angeles
Recalling the Wrong Turn . . . My wife and her father had a store in
To the Editor: I read with interest the Leadfield all during the boom days.
story, "The Wrong Turn," by Arthur R. Benton was lucky that the road out of Artist McGrew's Prose . . .
Benton (April Desert Magazine). I know Leadfield to Rhyolite was in passable con-
every foot of the country Benton went over. dition. We had to haul all our Leadfield- To the Editor: For Brownell McGrew to
In fact, I remember seeing his outfit when bound supplies around through Titus Can- take two full pages of valuable space to
he drove through Beatty, Nevada. I was yon from the Death Valley side. It didn't tell how he came to paint the portrait on
working at the depot there at the time. seem too bad then for all the roads were your May cover is going too far. I am in
about the same. full accord with earlier letter writers who
took McGrew to task for his "yawning so
The worst part of the road Benton fol- what" attitude on the Rainbow Bridge scene.
THE LAPIDARY'S lowed, in my estimation, was the stretch
down the floor of Death Valley. That road E. M. VAUGHAN
STANDARD OF VALUE Yucaipa, Calif.
BUY THE BEST
went down through the middle of the Valley
FOR LESS where the silt ran down in front of the
Congo Dia Blades wheels, and the hot dust was so thick we
Sizes range from had to roll up the car windows to breathe.
4 to 24" We'd have to stop every few feet to try to War Pony . . To the Editor: Your
determine where our road had disappeared April cover brought
to. a dream to life for
W. H. BROWN my eight - year - old
Beatty, Nev. son, born and bred
A LEADER
a desert rat. To me
and you, your cover
IN ITS FIELD is as a l l a d u l t s
Highland Park
Power-feed would see it: sky,
Slab Saws The Leadfield Hotel . . . rocks, c a c t i a n d
Sizes range from 12" .1-2 & .1-3 To the Editor: Despite the sign hanging flowers. But, B o b
to 24". Metal or Lu- Slab Saw
cite hood. over the door, the building in the photo- spotted something
graph accompanying A r t h u r Benton's m o r e : an Indian
"Wrong Turn" article is not the Leadfield chiefs war pony.
Hotel.
MRS. CLAIRE
The hotel sign was found approximately GILMORE
100 feet north of the building shown. BOB'S PONY (CIRCLED) Hinkley, Calif.
There were some foundations near there
that probably marked the site of the hotel.
Two C.C.C. boys nailed the sign to the
Highland Park Combination Unit shack as a practical joke. I know this for
Available in all sizes. Perfect combina- a fact, for these boys were part of my crew Prosperity Comes to Harry . . .
tion unit for Lapidary work. Handles saw- while we were maintaining the Leadfield-
ing, grinding, sanding, and polishing. Ex- Titus Canyon Road. We occupied the To the Editor: I want to tell you how
ceptionally quiet operation. wonderful Desert Magazine has become.
Arbors of All Sizes—Tumblers, Belt Sanders, "hotel" while working in this vicinity.
Trim Saws — 41 Models to Choose From But, there is one thing in your publication
The most complete line of lapidary ma- ARCHIE L. MERRILL I miss: Harry Oliver's Almanac. Is Harry
chinery offered by any manufacturer. See Bellflower, Calif. still around?
these at your local Highland Park dealer
or send fifty cents for beautiful illustrated VIRGINIA M. MAXWELL
catalog today!
HIGHLAND PARK MANUFACTURING CO.
Costa Mesa, Calif.
Department "D" Titus Canyon Adventure . . . (We haven't seen Harry since he raised
1009-1011 MISSION STREET To the Editor: The experience of Arthur
SOUTH PASADENA, CALIFORNIA the price of his Desert Rat Scrapbook
Benton and his friend, who made "the from "one lousy thin dime" to 25c.—Ed.)
wrong turn" in Death Valley in 1925, re-
minded me of the time my husband and I
Keep your had a very difficult trip going down Titus
Canyon.
DESERT MAGAZINES Entertainment, Education . . .
in attractive loose-leaf We traveled amid the heavy sand and
sharp rocks washed down in rains the win- To the Editor: As an oldtimer who lived
ter before. I know just how Benton and and worked in eastern Utah and western
BINDERS his companion felt when they looked up
at the crack of sky between those awesome
cliffs, and saw heavy clouds gathering. I
Colorado around the turn of the century,
and who, since the '90s, has wandered over
most other parts of the West and South-
Gold embossed on Spanish salute them for accomplishing the trip up west, I think Desert is a magazine people
Grain Imitation Leather the canyon. everywhere should read.
Space for 12 magazines MARGARET E. SUMNER You are doing a good job in a way that
Chula Vista, Calif. is both entertaining and educational. Even
Easily inserted an oldtimer like myself can learn many
A BEAUTIFUL AND PRACTICAL ADDITION things from your pages.
TO YOUR HOME BOOK-SHELF
Tewa-quap-tewa Is Dead . . . "TUMBLEWEED" TOM MOSS
Mailed Postpaid Los Angeles
To the Editor: Tewa-quap-tewa—the sub-
$3 ject of R. Brownell McGrew's brush and
pen in your May issue—passed away re-
Send orders to:
cently. McGrew's article on the old chap
DESERT MAGAZINE was in poor taste, anyway. Erratum . . .
PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA
I say this advisedly because 1 met and To the Editor: I am most sorry to report
He Worked at Calico . . .
To the Editor: I was very much interested
in Lucile Weight's article on Calico in the
May issue—especially her mention of Her-
man Mellen who, in 1882, was hired by
the Silver King Company to construct
works for handling the ore at the mine.
Volume
24 Contents for June 1961 Number
"Wild Horse Annie" Reports . . . 16 DRIVING: Auto Breakdown: What to Know, What to Do
To the Editor: Since the passage of the bill J. A. THOMPSON
in 1959 prohibiting the pursuit and capture
of wild horses by airborne and motorized 19 INDIANS: The Morning Star
vehicles on Public Lands, I have been on
LAURA ADAMS ARMER
"rest" orders from my doctor, due to ex-
treme physical and emotional exhaustion 22 IMPRESSIONS: An Eastern Artist Discovers the Mojave
from the long years of day and night work
that went into the project. HENRY MOCKEL
I had planned to follow up the passage 24 LOST MINE: Sullivan's Lost Ledge of Gold
of the law with a movement to establish HAROLD O. WEIGHT
protective areas for the animals here in the
West. Such areas would assure these ani- 31 NATURE: The Golden Bush Called Rabbitbrush
mals of adequate feed and shelter, with a
view to restoring them to the physical con- EDMUND C. JAEGER
dition and appearance they should have,
instead of the pitiful condition they are in 40 PHOTOGRAPHY: Favorite Pictures
as a result of the pursuit and harassment CHARLES W . HERBERT
over the years of commercial exploitation.
It is still my hope that some organization BACK COVER: Henry Mockel's painting of Thistle Sage
or individual will take this on as another
step in the preservation of some of the DEPARTMENTS: Readers' Letters 2 29
wonderful things we have in the West to Southwest Books 5 Utah Travel 34
pass on to future generations. Hard Rock Shorty 21 Arizona Travel .- 36
June Poetry 27 37
My mail still contains letters from all Classified Ads .28 Editorial 39
over the world from individuals interested
in our wild horse population, as articles
about the fight for the legislation appear in The Desert Mogazine, founded in 1937 by Randall Henderson, is published monthly
publications in exotic corners of the world. by Desert Magazine, Inc., Palm Desert, California. Re-entered as second class
matter July 17, 1948, at the postoffice at Palm Desert, California, under the Act
I appreciate the publicity you gave to the of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U.S. Patent Office, and contents
horses in your magazine ("Wild Horse An- copyrighted 1961 by Desert Magazine, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents must
nie Fights to Save the Mustang," June '59 be secured from the editor in writing.
Unsolicited manuscripts
p and
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SHORT-CUT
TO CANYONS AND COLOR...
HOUSANDS OF ACRES of spec- side of the Paria River Valley and This splendid example of concerted
T tacular desert scenery, hitherto
accessible only by four-wheel-
drive vehicle or horseback, were open-
through Cottonwood Canyon to the
damsite. When highway engineers re-
jected this proposal as infeasible be-
community effort had come to my at-
tention through the columns of several
weekly newspapers published in that
ed to automobile travel by completion cause of asserted high cost of construc- section of Utah, but my own acquain-
of the 40-mile Cottonwood Short-Cut, tion and other factors, and settled upon tance with the Short-Cut was not made
a road built in its entirety by funds and the now-paved route leading easterly until last autumn when my mother and
labor supplied gratuitously by a small from Kanab, advocates of the so-called I were traveling Route 89 between
group of southern Utah citizens. Cottonwood Short-Cut stubbornly set Page, Arizona, and Kanah, Utah, with
out to build their projected road at our sights set on the cool pine timber of
In 1957, when the Utah State High-
way Department was considering which the expense of their own labor and Bryce Canyon. At a point 26 miles
of several potential routes would be contributed funds. Under the chair- northeast of Glen Canyon Bridge, we
most feasible as the main access high- manship of 72-year-old Sam Pollack glimpsed a small signboard lettered,
way to Glen Canyon Dam, residents of the small village of Tropic, and "Cannonville," with an arrow point-
of several Utah counties proposed and some $5000 in cash raised by public ing to the right along the course of a
strongly advocated a road to diverge subscription and through b e n e f i t sunswept graded road. Distance cited
from State 54 at Cannonville, in the dances, box socials and ballgames, the on the board was, I believe, 47 miles.
shadow of Bryce Canyon National road was pushed through to comple- The fact that this byway would
Park, thence proceeding down the east tion in the summer of 1958. carry us to our destination some 80
,-->.• •-*• si*--
To NORTH RIM
14 /
road to Grosvenor Arch, we turned
upon a marked trail leading to Ko-
dachrome Flat—a name that irks me
terribly. From the time this region
was first settled by pioneering Mor-
mon cattlemen, this lovely hidden val-
ley had been known to all as "Thorny
Pasture," a nomenclature as rustic and
guileless as the men who bestowed it.
But due, presumably to high coloring
of the formations studding and ringing
the valley, the aforementioned party
of National Geographic explorers had
seen fit to discard that time-honored
designation in favor of a copyrighted
tradename of the Eastman Kodak
Company.
But whether you call it Kodachrome
Flat or Thorny Pasture, it is a spot
that embraces some of southern Utah's
most colorful and spectacular scenery.
» * V Reached by two miles of good dirt
road, the little "lost" valley is a place
bristling with pinnacles and towers in
* -^r--^., «tfc gray and brownish-red sandstone, with
1000-foot snow-white cliffs rising like
a rampart along the north. One of
^ the great brown pinnacles looks exact-
THE ROAD WINDS THROUGH COTTONWOOD CANYON
ly like a fairytale giant, even to the
peaked cap and belted coat. Another,
in grayish-white sandstone, made us
miles sooner than the main route in- turn-off to Grosvenor Arch in Butler think of a medieval tower in which
fluenced our choice far less than did Valley, 1.2 miles east. some story-book princess might be
the element of adventure and chal- awaiting her rescuing knight. When
Time-chiseled through a fin of buff- the turn-around at the end of the auto
lenge offered by a side-road our wheels colored sandstone rising sheerly from
had never traveled, and when Mom road left us with an appetite for more,
the gray-green sea of sage, Grosvenor we spent a couple of delightful hours
said, "Why not?" I turned the car Arch comprises a pair of windows, one
upon it. meandering over the clean sandy floor
large and one small. According to of the valley, photographing its strange
After leading through dry rolling measurements by the U.S. Geological formations and reveling in the peace
hills for a half-dozen miles, the little Survey, the larger of the two openings and quiet.
road dipped into the wide cottonwood- is 152-feet in height, 99-feet wide,
fringed wash through which the shal- and only four-feet thick at the top of Back on the main road we soon re-
low Paria River makes its meandering the span. Cattlemen of the region, entered the Paria River Valley, and
way. who had known of the arch for some began passing picturesque old log
70 or 80 years, were understandably cabins, barns, and corrals built in the
Winding through the narrowing can-
"amused" when the arch was "dis- long ago by strong pioneering hands,
yon that cradles the desultory desert
covered" in 1939 by an elaborate ex- and now all virtually deserted. Early
stream, we found ourselves thrilling
pedition carrying flags of the National in the afternoon we rejoined the pave-
to a land that grew steadily wilder and
Geographic Society and the Explorers' ment at Cannonville, a pleasant village
more broken. In the high sheer
Club of New York City, who thereupon embracing a few nice old homes and
precipices across the wash, we could
named the span in honor of Dr. Gil- a couple of small general stores. Only
glimpse the yawning mouths of oc-
bert Grosvenor, president of the So- a few miles to the northwest rose the
casional caves, and wherever the can-
ciety. orange-red turrets of Bryce Canyon
yon widened briefly there were at-
National Park—our destination.
tractive natural campsites shaded by We found it possible to drive almost
cottonwoods. As we gained elevation to the foot of the arch, where several Including our two side-trips to Gros-
we entered the realm of the junipers pretty campsites are available on a venor Arch and Kodachrome Flat, we
and pinyons, and 25 miles from the juniper-speckled flat. Mom declares had traveled 51.7 miles since leaving
turn-off we were bisecting a region she will never be completely satisfied paved Route 89 nearly 24 hours
of colorful pinnacles and promontories until we can go back to Grosvenor and earlier, making it rather obvious that
and fins in myriad shadings from white camp at its foot at a time when that the Cottonwood Short-Cut had gained
to buff to red. The little dirt road was great picture window is lighted by a us little or nothing in traveling time.
very good, wide enough in nearly all full moon. But time, when Mom and I go brows-
places to permit passing, not even Returning to the Short-Cut, we ing over the desert, is of relatively
very dusty, and without any grades of rambled on through desert-scapes of little consequence. We prefer to gauge
undue severity. most diverse nature—sandstone cliffs, our trips by the meter of fascination,
Twenty-eight miles from the pave- pinnacles, eroded knolls, sage flats, interest, and adventure—and from
ment we camped for the night in a rolling slopes and neat groves of jun- these standpoints we felt much richer
pretty grove of pinyons. Next morn- ipers arranged by nature in almost for having followed that little winding
ing, after driving scarcely more than parklike precision, following one upon road through the Kane County hills.
a mile down our road we came to the the other. Ten miles from the side-
By J. A. THOMPSON
tigi
IT.
RAIBI BOUND, I arrived at the the kiva. These were given to the bearer of gifts, reminding me of the
O Hopi village in time to witness
a bean dance in an underground
kiva. On the morning before that
children of the village along with Kat-
china dolls and toy bows and arrows.
The day dawned still and calm, dis-
children following the Pied Piper,
only this man carried a rattle. It was
dramatic and impressive, a sort of
performance I arose at dawn that I closing bashful little children standing Hopi Santa Claus celebration.
might see the Katchina hand out the in doorways waiting for the presents.
sprouted beans grown and forced in The older ones tagged along after the At night I went down the ladder
June, 1961 / Desert Magazine / 19
into the crowded kiva. A central stove
gave forth heat. I found a seat and
watched the young men descend
dressed in colorful costumes. They
wore enormous conventionalized cow- " ' • * -
By Harold O. Weight
Lonely Market
Half-buried in gray sand it
lies,
Grotesquely angled like a
clowning tire,
And rusted by the elements;
A monument to some brave
soul's desire
To wrest from drifting sand
and mountain cold
The fleeting secret of the
desert's gold.
He sought adventure —
counting not the cost;
Pitted his strength against
the desert's might—
And lost.
GRACE R. BALLARD
Santa Barbara, Calif.
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the detour is relatively short, however, reach Tucson.
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NffiU Indeed, this national preserve is a "must" between Union and Confederate troops—
on anyone's list since its magnets of stone the most westerly engagement of the Civil
trees lying down, banded mesas, and an- War.
cient Indian ruins never seem to get monot- July 15, 1962: Battle of Apache Pass
tmmm
onous even on repeated visits. New roads between Union troops and Apache Indians.
and the relatively recent enlarged Rainbow
i Forest Museum make sightseeing even February 24, 1963: Arizona Territory
more enjoyable. And old favorites like joins the Union (Tucson).
Newspaper Rock, the Agate Bridge, Jasper January 22, 1964: Establishment of the
The White Mountain Apache Indians welcome you. and Crystal Forests and Painted Desert first Territorial Capitol (Fort Whipple).
Come and enjoy the wonderful mountain climate,
seem to reveal new facets with each re-
acquaintance.
the beautiful primitive scenery, clear, cold streams
and the best trout fishing in the Southwest. Holbrook, with its fine motels and res- PLEASE TELL THE MAN . . .
taurants, is a logical stopping point right When you phone or write in response
FOR INFORMATION AND MAPS, WRITE on the banks of the Little Colorado. It's to an advertisement in DESERT MAG-
also a tempting excursion center—for drives AZINE, it only takes a moment to men-
WHITE MOUNTAIN northward into the scenic Navajo and Hopi tion where you saw it. The firm you are
Reservations or southward to Sitgreaves doing business with will appreciate
RECREATION ENTERPRISE National Forest and Mogollon Rim vistas. knowing how you learned of them, and
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WHITERIVER, ARIZONA West of Holbrook, the Little Colorado for your support and friendship thus
parallels U.S. 66 to Winslow where it, too, expressed.
A June Visit to Jarbidge PRINTS
FRAMING
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By PEGGY TREGO SOUTHWESTERN ART
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Desert Magazine's Nevada Travel Correspondent Full-color high-quality reproductions of
outstanding paintings lithographed on
heavy paper.
H I S I S t h e The town itself is a few picturesque • JOHN W. HIlTON's "Whispering Can-
By RANDALL HENDERSON
NE WEEKEND LATE in April I had the privilege verify the source of the money. The father's reaction: "Well,
O of camping in the Sierra Juarez Mountains in Baja
California with a group of undergraduate students in
biology from Southern California colleges. This was Dr.
what of it? Hasn't he got enough?"
What a godsend it would be if there were two or three
Edmund C. Jaeger's first Young Naturalists' Palaver—a sort Edmund Jaegers in every high school and college—not
of campfire seminar attended by 40-odd science majors. necessarily scientists, but teachers of physical education,
domestic science, shop or any subject—who would organize
The students slept on the ground, cooked their own meals, Easter week treks into mountains and desert where the
and—equipped with butterfly nets, snake sticks, plant presses, students could face the challenge of primitive living in a
binoculars, etc.—spent the two days climbing a nearby natural environment. No policemen would be necessary.
mountain peak and combing the pinyon forest for insect, These young people, I am sure, would respond to the
reptile and rodent specimens to be taken to the school disciplines of early reveille and good camp housekeeping in
laboratories for study. Saturday evening we gathered around the right spirit. In close association with the things of the
a campfire and listened to informal lectures by high-ranking natural world they would glimpse a set of values quite alien
scientists in geology, entomology and zoology. to those of the artificial environment from which they came.
Under enlightened leadership they would gain a new rever-
Some of the technology was over the head of a mere ence for life—all forms of life.
journalist—but I understood enough to realize that the
studies and research of these young men, and countless * * *
others in schools all around the world, will have an important Everett Ruess, the nomad artist-poet who disappeared
bearing on the food supply and human survival in the years in the Utah wilderness in 1934 and whose fate remains
ahead as this earth becomes more crowded with men, women a mystery to this day, once wrote: "Where I go I leave
and children, and the depletion of basic natural resources no sign."
continues at an accelerated rate.
This also is the rule of Dr. Jaeger on his camping expedi-
One of the speakers expressed an opinion which I suspect tions. As part of the campfire program, he gave us these
is shared by many other Americans. He questioned the wis- instructions: "This is a magnificent pinyon forest where
dom, as national policy, of spending hundreds of millions of nature is in perfect balance. We want to leave it just as we
dollars trying to put a man in orbit when there are so many found it. Before we break camp, let us bury or take away
critical unsolved problems here on earth. One of these every scrap of paper, bottle or can and even cover the ashes
unsolved problems involves an economical process for the of our fires with sand. If we leave only our footprints, the
de-salting of sea water. wind and the rain soon will obliterate them."
* * *
As I noted the enthusiasm with which these young stu-
dents welcomed the opportunity to flex their muscles on the In her book Our Southwest, published many years ago,
steep face of the mountain, and to explore the rock crannies Erna Ferguson wrote:
in this virgin wilderness, I compared this scene with another "The arid Southwest has always been too strong, too
student gathering I had witnessed earlier in the month. This indomitable for most people. Those who can stand it have
was the annual Easter week influx of vacationing students had to learn that man does not modify this country; it trans-
to Palm Springs. Over 4000 of them came to the desert forms him, deeply. Perhaps our generation will come to
resort city this year. appreciate it as the country God remembered and saved
Amply supplied with money, many of them driving their for man's delight when he had matured enough to understand
own sports cars, they cluttered the traffic, and for seven it. God armored it, as the migrating Easterner learned
days were a headache to the police and a nuisance to the to his anguish, with thorns on the trees, stings and horns
community. Over 100 of them were arrested for petty on the bugs and beasts. He fortified it with mountain
violations and more than 1000 traffic citations were issued. ranges and trackless deserts. He filled it with such hazards
They were not criminals. They were spirited young men as no legendary hero ever had to surmount. Much of the
and women of average intelligence—seeking escape from Southwest can never be made into a landscape that will
the boredom of a week of idleness. produce bread and butter. But it is infinitely productive of
the imponderables so needed by a world weary of getting
It was reported that one young playboy picked up for and spending. It is a wilderness where man may get back
questioning by the police, was found to have $1500 in cash to the essentials of being a man. It has magnificence forever
in his pockets. The police, in line of duty, put in a long rewarding to a man courageous enough to seek to renew
distance phone call to the boy's father in Los Angeles to his soul."
There is a story behind this picture of a man carrying saguaro ribs that makes it
important. Herb Wood came to the desert with a broken back, a family to support, and
ten dollars in his pocket. He set up a tent on a piece of land, built a home out of rocks,
and fashioned furniture out of cactus skeletons. Neighbors admired this
unique furniture, and some asked Herb to make piece s for them. Soon a profitable
home furniture business was launched. This photograph has action, and also
shows the live and dead saguaro so essential to "Cactus Herb's" story. CONTINUED
Here is a forceful story—a Navajo Medicine Man stares at
the magic picture of his patient's broken limb spliced
together with a silver rod. The facial expressions
plus the fact that we can "read" the X-Ray in this photo,
are the essentials for this dramatic presentation
of fact. The young Navajo nurse adds still another
ingredient to the drama captured by the camera.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER:
Charles W. Herbert has been a photographer without plan or schooling since
1924 when he found himself with a newsreel camera after losing his savings
and two months of hard work in an ill-fated Gulf of Mexico expedition. He
started shooting newsreels and was accepted into the fold after Pathe purchased
some of his efforts. Herbert specialized in features, and worked up to staff
cameraman for Magic Carpet of Movietone and The March of Time. He turned
to still photography in 1946, following a stint with the Army, and established
Western Ways Features in Tucson. His work has appeared in most major
American publications.
CONTINUED
I believe
this photo of
a worker
hand-
pollinating
a date palm
has a
news-worthy
angle: Man
helps nature
propagate
healthy
dates
suitable
for Man's
consumption.
The camera i '
angle puts
the picture
in the
out-of-the-ordinary class, and gives the viewer the feel-
ing that he has a front row seat. Shadows add drama
and realism.
These people loading a massive petrified palm trunk
onto their vehicle adds an impressive angle to rock-
hounding. Th<jit's real treasure! Something universally
i understood.
The
setting is
dramatic;
the
people
furnish
life and
action.
But, such
a picture
needed
a lot of
pre-
planning
and staging
before the
shutter
was
clicked.
CONTINUED
Census taking is a monotonous and sometimes unpopular business.
This picture of Mrs. Hurd and old Albert Copelan shows an interesting phase
of this operation. Copelan lives in a prospector's shack in the
Santa Catalina Mountains. Using his home for the background helps
set the scene for this photo. / / /