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Glimpses of our National Monuments

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  • OUR NATIONAL MONUMKXTS 65 Dakota was hugely instrumental in having the monument established to commemorate the Verendrye expedition to the upper Missouri. The new and growing town of Sanish, which adjoins the monument, is the terminus of a branch line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. Sanish may be reached by motorists from the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway crossing the northern part of the State by a side trip from Stanley, N. Dak. Adolph Larsen, of Sanish, is custodian of the monument. WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT The Wupatki National Monument, in Arizona, contains two tracts of land lying west of the Little Colorado River, 32 miles northeast WnpAtkl Pueblo mini of Flagstaff. Here are located interesting ruins of prehistoric red sandstone pueblos built by the ancestors of one of the most picturesque tribes of Indians still surviving in the United States—the Hopi, or People of Peace. Some of these ruins contain 20 or more rooms. The buildings were constructed by the Snake family of the Hopi in their migration from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, where, according to their mythology, their ancestors came upward from the Underworld. The ruins in the Wupatki Monument were abandoned as the Snake families traveled east and, before the days of the white men,
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