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Arizona is full of fascinating and often humorous stories of strange places, bizarre events, intriguing history and colorful characters:
- The highest temperature ever recorded in Arizona was 128˚ F at Lake Havasu on June 29, 1994
- Humphreys Peak, the highest point in the ridge of volcanic San Francisco Peaks, is also the highest point in Arizona at an elevation of 12,633 feet
- Lake Havasu boasts more than 400 miles of stunning coastline and more than 300 days of sunshine a year
- About 50,000 years ago, the Barringer Meterorite hit a section of the Colorado Plateau creating a depression measuring about a mile in width and 570-feet deep and surrounding the area with about 30 tons of meteoritic iron
- Agate House, a building constructed out of petrified wood by the Puebloan people, is an eight-room home with squares or cubes of petrified wood stacked from ground to ceiling, containing Puebloan artifacts dating back to A.D. 1150
- More than five million tourists visit the Grand Canyon each year
- Cochise County is home to Tombstone’s OK Corral
- The northeast corner of Arizona is the only place in America where four states nestle together to make a perfect corner with Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
- The first movie filmed in Sedona was a screenplay of Zane Grey’s Call of the Canyon in 1923
-The oldest, continuously inhabited community in the entire country is Oraibi, thought to have been founded around 1100 AD by the Hopi Indians
- The Grand Canyon’s Skywalk, hailed as an engineering first, cost $40 million and took more than a year to build; it can withstand the weight of 71 fully loaded Boeing 747s and winds in excess of 100 miles per hour from eight different directions
And so much more…
| Price: |
$18.95 
$14.95 |
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| Format: |
Paperback |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-897278-49-9 |
| ISBN-10: |
1-897278-49-7 |
| Page Count: |
240 |
| Dimensions: |
5.25" x 8.25" |
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