There’s nothing left to show for it today, but one time the Escalante in Ash Fork, Arizona was billed as the best Harvey House west of Chicago.
The name was in keeping with the Harvey tradition of naming their establishments after Spanish explorers. Silvestre Escalante was an eighteenth century Franciscan padre-explorer who first journeyed into Arizona in 1776.
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe began building its mainline west from Albuquerque in 1880 and by 1883 had stretched its steel r
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