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Sunset Crossing

Navajo County · South side of U.S. 66 about six miles east of Winslow, on rise or hill overlooking river · location approximate

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SUNSET CROSSING on the Little Colorado River This was the crossing for Beale's Camel Expedition in 1858 on the military road from Fort Defiance to Fort Mohave. A rocky ledge through a river bed filled with dangerous quick- sand, it was used by military travelers and the Mormon immi- grants who arrived in Northern Arizona in 1876. Main crossing of the river until the railroad was built in 1882.

Cast and erected in 1957 by Arizona Development Board, before this book went to press.

1958 text, presented as a historical document.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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