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Desert Magazine Quiz - July 1950

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If you applied to Uncle Sam for a "Jackrabbit Homestead", your lease would be for

  • Five acres
  • 10 acres
  • 40 acres
  • 160 acres


Going from Tucson, AZ to Guaymas, Mexico, you would cross the international border at

  • Douglas
  • Nogales
  • El Paso
  • Mexicali


The name Peralta is associated with the legends of

  • The Lost Gunsight Mine
  • Lost Breyfogle Mine
  • Lost Arch Mine
  • Lost Dutchman Mine


Prehistoric Americans ground their meal in a

  • Metate
  • Atlatl
  • Mescal pit
  • Kisa


The blossom of the Nolina is

  • Yellow
  • Crimson
  • Blue
  • Creamy white


The Mountain Men, who trapped the Western territory during the middle of the 1800's, derived their income mainly from the fur of

  • Fox
  • Beaver
  • Mink
  • Racoon


For climbing precipitous rocks in dry weather the safest footgear to wear is

  • Leather-soled moccasins
  • Hobnailed boots
  • Leather sandals
  • Rubber-soled shoes


The pass through the mountains of Southern California between San Gorgonio and San Jacinto peaks is properly called

  • Cahuilla Pass
  • San Gorgonio Pass
  • Whitewater Pass
  • Banning Pass


The color of azurite is

  • Blue
  • White
  • Lavender
  • Green


Ganado is a Presbyterian mission on the reservation of the

  • Navajo
  • Apaches
  • Yumas
  • Paiutes


Butch Cassidy, whose name occupied a conspicuous place in the annals of the West between 1822 and 1846, was a

  • Famous sheriff
  • Notorious outlaw
  • Fur trapper
  • Army scout


The Southwestern state having the smallest population per square mile, (remember...1950...), is

  • Nevada
  • Arizona
  • Utah
  • New Mexico


One of the following Arizona towns is not near the banks of the Little Colorado River

  • Cameron
  • Holbrook
  • Ashfork
  • Winslow


Arizona's annual Buffalo hunt is held in/on

  • White Mountain Apache Reservation
  • Chiricahua National Monument
  • Houserock Valley
  • Petrified Forest National Park


One of the main sources of food for early Indians living on the Southern California desert was beans from the

  • Mesquite
  • Ironwood
  • Smoke tree
  • Joshua tree


The approximate age of prehistoric pueblo ruins in the Southwest is most accurately determined by

  • Indian legends
  • Tree rings in roof timbers
  • Pottery shards
  • Petroglyphs


Chief industry of Trona, CA is

  • Milling of gold
  • Recovery of chemicals
  • Mining of lead
  • Processing of magnesium


Most of the flagstone used in the Southwest is produced from quarries at

  • Ruth, NV
  • Ashfork, AZ
  • Daggett, CA
  • Cedar City, UT


The name of the river flowing near the town of Carlsbad, NM is

  • The Rio Grande
  • The San Pedro
  • The Pecos
  • The Escalante


The leader of the first expedition to navigate the Colorado river through Grand Canyon was

  • Fremont
  • Powell
  • Kit Carson
  • John Wetherill

 

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