A hundred years ago The Apache Trail from Globe to Roosevelt Dam and down Salt River Canyon to The Valley was considered a World Class Tourist Attraction. Southern Pacific R.R. promoted a "detour" from Bowie to Maricopa that became immensely popular. This...
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A hundred years ago The Apache Trail from Globe to Roosevelt Dam and down Salt River Canyon to The Valley was considered a World Class Tourist Attraction. Southern Pacific R.R. promoted a "detour" from Bowie to Maricopa that became immensely popular. This is a 1922 marketing brochure for the "detour." The full provenance of this document is unknown. However, it is clearly out of Copyright and in public domain. We found it on the server of UA's University Analytics and Institutional Research. It's address is here:
http://uair.library.arizona.edu/system/files/usain/download/azu_c9791pam5_1922_w.pdf
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