What Has Passed and What Remains

Oral Histories of Northern Arizona's Changing Landscapes

Peter Friederici

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780816528660
• eBook ISBN: 9780816536627
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Ferrell Secakuku remembers the ancient farming rites of his Hopi people but saw them replaced by a cash economy. Sheep rancher Joe Manterola recalls watching hard scrabble farms on what is now tree-studded grassland on Garland Prairie. Navajo Rose Gishie once saw freshly dug holes fill with clean, drinkable water where none rises today. All over northern Arizona, people have seen the landscapes change, and livelihoods with them. In this remarkable book they share their stories.

Thirteen narratives—from ranchers, foresters, scientists, Native American farmers, and others—tell how northern Arizona landscapes and livelihoods reflect rapid social and environmental change. The twentieth century saw huge changes as Arizona's human population swelled and vacation-home developments arose in the backcountry. Riparian areas dried up, cattle ranching declined, and some wildlife species vanished while others thrived. The people whose words are preserved here have watched it all happen.

The book is a product of Northern Arizona University's Ecological Oral Histories project, which has been collecting remembrances of long-time area residents who have observed changes to the land from the 1930s to the present day. It carves a wide swath, from the Arizona Strip to the Mogollon Rim, from valleys near Prescott to the New Mexico line. It takes readers to the Bar Heart Ranch north of Williams and to the Doy Reidhead Ranch southeast of Holbrook, to the forests of Flagstaff and the mesas of Indian country.

Enhanced with more than fifty illustrations, this book brings environmental change down to earth by allowing us to see it through the eyes of those whose lives it has directly touched. What Has Passed and What Remains is a window on the past that carries important lessons for the future.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• The Ranching Life: Cherrie Blair. Valle
• "The Last Remaining Place": James Byrkit. Verde Valley
• Working the Woods: Raymond Flemons. Flagstaff
• "Now We Don't Have That No More": Rose Gishie. Indian Wells
• Taking the Long View: John Hays. Peeples Valley
• Seeing the Forest Through Its Trees: L. J. "Pat" Heidmann. Fort Valley
• "Don't Build Good Roads": Edwin Donaldson Koons. Toroweap Valley
• The Last Sheepman: Joe Manterola. Garland Prairie
• Among Pronghorn: Don Neff. Anderson Mesa
• "Growin' Up Down This Canyon": Tom Pendley. Oak Creek Canyon
• "If You Don't Use It, It'll Go Away": Bennjamin Pikyavit. Pipe Spring
• Between the Rim and the River: Doy Reidhead. Holbrook
• "That Was a Different Kind of Life That We Lived Then": Ferrell Secakuku. Second Mesa
• Notes
• About the Editor
• About the Photographers
• About the Interviewers
• Index