Cooley Mountain

Navajo County · At the fork of Arizona Highway 73 at Indian Pine · location approximate

COOLEY MOUNTAIN Named for Corydon E. Cooley, a Virginian who was an officer in the New Mexico Union Volunteers in the Civil War; also a guide, scout and Indian interpreter. He served the U.S. Army in campaigns against the Apaches, yet was respected as a friend by the natives. He married Mollie, an Apache girl and was co-founder of Show Low. Cooley's Cienega Ranch be- came the town of McNary.

Named in the Arizona Department of Transportation's 1997 list of markers standing in its right of way. That 1997 list covers only state highway right of way, so it does not reach markers on city streets, on tribal land, or in state and national parks.

1958 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people. The book proposed 100 markers for Arizona's highways and records 14 as cast when it went to press.

Arizona still marks its history under the same law: the State Historical Advisory Commission approves a marker, the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records certifies that its text is authentic and historically correct, and the Arizona Department of Transportation erects and maintains the markers on state highway right-of-way. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records ↗

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Historical Markers in Arizona, Vols. I-II (Arizona Development Board, 1958), text by Bert Fireman

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