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| Title: | Along the Beale Trail |
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Southwest as well as any man of his day, was commissioned by the War Department to survey a wagon road from Fort Defiance, Arizona, to the Colorado River. The Beale party, using camels for the first time in the United States as beasts of burden, left San Antonio, Texas, June 25, 1857. They drank from the waters of the Colorado River January 23, 1858. Lieut. Beale's day-by-day account of the westward trek was entered in his diary. He knew the importance to early-day travel of grass, water, wood and game, and his description of the country was so vivid that it is possible 81 years later to retrace the footsteps of Beale. "You will find by my journal," writes the lieutenant, "that we encamped sometimes without wood and sometimes without water, but never without abundant grass. . ." Today much of the Beale Trail is obscured by the shifting sands of the years—years which have taken their toll of the grass, water, wood and game of which he wrote. W i t h cameras to record the contrast, Navajo Service photographers recently followed the route of the trail-blazer, photographing identical areas which his diary describes as lush with vegetation, where clear narrow streams abound with fish and "grass is belly high to the mules. . ." The pictures tell a story of wasted rangeland, crumbling walls of mud, and nature thrown out of balance by man's wanton misuse of his resources. The photographs in this booklet record conditions along the Beale Trail from the lava beds near Grants, New Mexico, to Flagstaff, Arizona. This segment was chosen because of its close association with the Navajo and his conservation problems. As the Trail crosses range in the vicinity of San Francisco Peaks, where grazing has been controlled for many years, the magic of proper land use becomes evident. This is graphic proof that no cycle of drouth, but man's stupid misuse of nature's resources, made the Beale Trail what it is today. H. C. Lockett. Window Rock, Arizona. 1938 |
| Original Filename: | Along the Beale Trail.pdf |
| Country: | USA |
| Date Created: | Tue Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 1939 |
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| Categories: | Documents/ Publications |
| Photographer/Author/Videographer: | H. C. Lockett |
| Copyright Status: | Public Domain |
| Internal/External: | External Use |
| Rights Usage Terms: | Public Domain, Please credit author |
| Added By: | Karen Wattenmaker ( karen@kwphoto.com ) |
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| Orientation: | Landscape |
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| ID: | 4727 |
| Size: | 68.20 MB; 648 x 468 pixels; 2.2 x 1.6 inches (print at 300 DPI); 57 layers; |
| Provider: | Black Hills National Forest |
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