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1 comments about Jewel Cave : The Story Behind the Scenery.

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   Rating: "A-" -- beautiful photos, interesting history and people.
   Not to mention a great place to visit.

   Josef Muench smacked Adolf Hitler with a well-aimed tomato back
   in 1927; prudently, he moved to the US the following year. He got a
   job with the Ford Motor Co., kept it until he could afford a new
   Model A ($535), and headed West. His big break came when he met
   Raymond Carlson, the editor who turned "Arizona Highways" from
   an obscure highway-promotion magazine into a world-famous
   showcase for landscape photography. Muench made his first trip to
   Monument Valley in 1935, and by 1992 had made 355 trips there,
   while becoming one of the world's leading landscape photographers
   (his son David may be even better). Josef took the cover photo of this
   little book in 1937, the year they started selling Kodachrome color
   film. You'll recognize many of the classic views here, taken over the
   next 60 years.

   Harry Goulding moved to Monument Valley in 1923 to open a
   trading post, which is still "the place" to stay when you visit. Times
   were tough in the Depression -- no money, no business, no jobs. But
   Hollywood was making Westerns, so Harry decided he'd sell the
   studios on making movies in Monument Valley. Muench made up
   a portfolio of photos for Goulding to bring to Hollywood, still
   considered by some to be his best work. By pure persistence, Harry
   worked his way up to John Ford, and layed out Muench's pictures.
   Ford decided that Monument Valley was *the* location to shoot his
   next big picture, "Stagecoach" (1938). He had to import cowboys, but
   Indians came with the package. The rest, as they say, was history -- if
   you've watched western movies, you've had a preview of
   Monument Valley.

   Monument Valley, a Navajo Tribal Park, straddles the Utah-Arizona
   border in the vast Navajo Reservation. It's still pretty much in the
   middle of nowhere. Gets a little busy in the summer, now. but it's
   still otherwordly. And don't miss Betatakin ruin at Navajo NM!

   This is one of the "Story Behind the Scenery" booklets, of about the
   size and heft of an"Arizona Highways" magazine, that are ubiquitous
   at national-park visitor centers and souvenir shops. I'd always kinda
   looked down my nose at them ("booklike objects for tourists" --
   I know, hopeless snobbery), but the recent ones have truly gorgeous
   photos, so I'm catching up on them. Their website is at
   www.kcpublications.com , or email them for their very
   attractive catalog: kcp@kcpublications.com. A nice feature for
   visitors from abroad is foreign-language editions: most titles are
   available in German, many in French & Japanese, and some in
   Spanish, Italian, Chinese & Korean.

   Happy reading!
   Pete Tillman

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