Values of Northern Arizonans From

Values of Northern Arizonans From the 1890s Through Today

In the course of foreigners embarking on the gold rush and the American Indians being conquered by the Europeans, the lands of Arizona had been caught in the midlle. Attracted by its huge potential, settlers hurried to Arizona dreaming of getting rich over night. Indeed, the land could have given a lot if properly exploited. It could have easily supported large numbers of inhabitants due to the fact that it was a source of income from various points-of-view. As settlers came in great numbers, the Indians, with their native home in Arizona, were forced to make way for the new-comers.

The concern for the environment was no issue back then. Typical for the colonists, the scenery began to suffer irreparable changes because of the methods they used to take advantage of the resources, namely mining and tree-cutting, hardly paying any attention to living place for recovery, as seen in the following picture:

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During the 1890's Arizona was a very welcoming place and settlers were constructing rail-roads to speed up and increase the operation of gaining profits from the land. People were now beginning to upgrade the industry by building dams as the Hoover or the Boulder Dam. http://www6.nau.edu/library/scadb/imagedisplay.cfm?item_num=1874&type=Image

Arizona also had favorable places for agriculture to flourish and crops to grow near its rivers and lakes. http://www6.nau.edu/library/scadb/imagedisplay.cfm?item_num=929&type=Image

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Some of the true reasons for which settlers were coming in large numbers was the rumor that Arizona hold great riches in its soil. The land had a great number of places where gold or coal could be found and mining proved to be an excellent industry for the land of Arizona. http://www6.nau.edu/library/scadb/imagedisplay.cfm?item_num=1865&type=Image