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HCR 2, Box 6500
Willcox, AZ 85643
520-824-3560
The people of eastern Arizona have elevated understatement to an art form. Chili peppers that could burn a whole through galvanized steel are referred to as a little hot. Cripplingly beautiful sunsets that light the western sky on fire are nice. You get the feeling that they might refer to the Grand Canyon as the big hole northwest of here if given the chance.It is possible that the roots of this minimalist style of speech extend all the way back to Arizona's original inhabitants. The Chiricahua Apache, who claim the Chiricahuan Mountains as their ancestral land, referred to Chiricahua National Monument in eastern Arizona — an awe-inspiring collection of precariously balanced stone monoliths, deep canyons, sky-high spires, and colossal columns — as the Land of Standing-Up Rock. The Europeans who first came here added their special brand of flair by calling it Wonderland of Rocks. These names hardly do justice to the diversity of topography, wildlife, and foliage in the area, but maybe that's as it should be. Even the most vivid and evocative words fall short of being able to describe this spiritual place of geologic wonder.
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