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Camelback Mountain and
Hole-in-Rock
(Little Colonel sites in Arizona)
View
selected by Annie Fellows Johnston
Annie Fellows Johnston spent
nearly a year here near Camelback Mountain in 1902/3, near Phoenix, Arizona, at the real
Lee's Ranch with her ailing son. It was the setting for
The Little Colonel in
Arizona, and In the Desert of Waiting. While she was here, she
wrote most of The Little Colonel at Boarding School.
The
view above was the one selected by Annie Fellows Johnston, and we're
not sure exactly how close this view was to Lee's Ranch, but we
think, with good evidence, that it's
probably taken from the same area if not from the ranch itself.
 Lee's Ranch
was probably in the vicinity
around what is now East McDowell Road
in Phoenix, possibly near the 5300 block which today is in the vicinity
of the Phoenix Military Reservation
and Papago Park, and between Camelback Mountain and Squaw Peak. See
our Lee's Ranch page for more on
this. Another interesting connection is that
Papago Park (a bit southwest of where we think Lee's Ranch was
located) is the site of
Hole-in-Rock (photo on left from 1909)!
Modern photo's we've found on the
Internet taken from Papago Park shows the same view of
Camelback Mountain as the vintage photos above. For example, see:
http://www.azjoad.com/azjoad2003/Papago_Park_Clean-up.htm
View out of hole-in-rock (postcard sent in
1913) (enlarged)
A Google
search for Papago Park will yield many pages with photos, maps
and descriptions of Hole-in-Rock and this area, but for some
quick views of the formation from many angles, including the
rear, we recommend this
link:
http://www.arizonainformation.freeservers.com/phoepic.html
We also remember "Phil Tremont" who erred
with his forays in Phoenix. At the time Annie Fellows Johnston
stayed near here, Phoenix had a population of somewhere around six
or seven thousand souls, but could still be a pretty wild place.
(Photo from 1909)
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