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Photographer: Bill Kirchner
Taken: August 3, 2010
Caption: Apache Trail - America's Adventure Road
Additional Description: Marker in Ramada at Apache Trail Vista:

Quoted from The Literary Digest, November 18, 1916;

"No traveler to or from California should miss the marvelous trip over the 'Apache Trail'. This magic pathway, which up to a few years ago could be explored only by the hardiest adventurer, now lies open to the casual visitor who may care to spend a day rolling in a luxurious motor-car along one hundred and twenty miles of highway between Globe and Phoenix, Arizona.

"Soon there is no reminder of civilization in sight but the broad, smooth highway which the genius of engineers has flung over seemingly impassable mountains and wound like a ribbon of silver along canyon wall. It is the most marvelous highway in America, this glorified 'Apache Trail'."
Submitted: August 5, 2010, by Bill Kirchner of Tucson, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p121110
File Size: 2.945 Megabytes

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